Alexander Jabbari Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Professor of sundry Persianate things. Tweeting about philology (Persian, Urdu, Semitic), language, literature, history, Muslim and Jewish stuff, Marxism
Temporary People
Deepak UnnikrishnanAlexander JabbariFrom "Temporary People" by Deepak Unnikrishnan. On migrant labor in the Gulf. https://t.co/DRPrEPEFqF
Paperback, 2017
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Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Touraj DaryaeeAlexander Jabbari@nehavermani Sure. Pālūdag is described in the Middle Persian treatise Xusraw ī Kawādān ud Rēdak-ēw. There are a few editions and translations available, also discussed in Touraj Daryaee's <Sasanian Persia>. I think several other of the dishes you mentioned are similarly Persian or Persianate
Paperback, 2013
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Arabic
Karin C. RydingAlexander Jabbari@BurningZ2 Karin C. Ryding, A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic. Its section on prepositions might be helpful for you. You can find it online.
Paperback, 2014
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Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study
John GuilloryAlexander JabbariVery good review of John Guillory's "Professing Criticism" (on literary study in contemporary Anglo-American academia) https://t.co/dZChPzL4Bv
Paperback, 2022
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A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic
Karin C. RydingAlexander Jabbari@BurningZ2 Karin C. Ryding, A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic. Its section on prepositions might be helpful for you. You can find it online.
Paperback, 2005
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Catalogue Of Hindustani Printed Books
Jf BlumhardtAlexander Jabbari@aaronjrferguson @oceans_need Metcalf says it's this one mentioned in J.F. Blumhardt's catalogue of Hindustani printed books https://t.co/ttg4xTd5QZ
Hardcover, 2016
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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Including an Autobiographical Chapter: 1
Francis DarwinAlexander Jabbari"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders. - I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything" (Charles Darwin, 1 October 1861, in a letter to Charles Lyell)
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The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society
Walter G. AndrewsAlexander Jabbari@AegeanNative There are a couple of really great books on the subject: The Age of Beloveds by Mehmet Kalpakli and Walter G. Andrews Producing Desire by Dror Ze'evi
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The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
Adolph L. ReedAlexander JabbariEnglish #etymology of the day: boss, from Dutch baas "master". From Adolph Reed's memoir _The South: Jim Crow and its Afterlives_. Really did not expect to find an etymological explanation in this book of all places, but I looked it up in the OED and it checks out! https://t.co/upvnxc47q3
Hardcover, 2022
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Greek Lessons
Han KangAlexander Jabbari“...A language that would, the moment someone opened their mouth and pronounced it, explode and expand as all matter had at the universe’s beginning.” Han Kang, Greek Lessons https://t.co/Al7hpRPml3
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