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Mathematical Philology in the Treatise on Double False Position in an Arabic Manuscript at Columbia University 哥伦比亚大学《阿拉伯语手稿双假位论》中的数学语言学

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Philological Encounters Pub Date : 2020-08-26 DOI: 10.1163/24519197-bja10007

A. Roberts

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Arabic Philology at the Seventeenth-Century Mughal Court. Saʿd Allāh Khān’s and Shāh Jahān’s Enactments of the Sharḥ al-Radī 17世纪莫卧儿王朝的阿拉伯文献学。《萨拉德Allāh Khān》和《Shāh Jahān》的《萨拉德法令》

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Philological Encounters Pub Date : 2020-06-16 DOI: 10.1163/24519197-bja10004

C. Bahl

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Reading the Arabian Nights in Modern Hebrew Literature: Judaism, Arabness and the City 阅读现代希伯来文学中的天方夜谭:犹太教、阿拉伯性和城市

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Philological Encounters Pub Date : 2020-06-16 DOI: 10.1163/24519197-bja10006

Avi-ram Tzoreff

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The Machine in the Colony: Technology, Politics, and the Typography of Devanagari in the Early Years of Mechanization 殖民地的机器:早期机械化时代的技术、政治和Devanagari的排版

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Philological Encounters Pub Date : 2018-11-27 DOI: 10.1163/24519197-12340051

V. Singh

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Historical Technological Impacts on the Visual Representation of Language with Reference to South-Asian Typeforms 从南亚字体看历史技术对语言视觉表现的影响

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Philological Encounters Pub Date : 2018-11-27 DOI: 10.1163/24519197-12340054

Fiona Ross

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Enabling Modernity: Innovation in Original Modulated Greek Typefaces, 1998–2007 实现现代性:原始调制希腊字体的创新，1998-2007

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Philological Encounters Pub Date : 2018-11-27 DOI: 10.1163/24519197-12340055

G. Leonidas

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Facing the World: Towards a Global History of Non-Latin Type Design 面向世界：走向非拉丁式设计的全球史

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Philological Encounters Pub Date : 2018-11-27 DOI: 10.1163/24519197-12340050

Thomas S. Mullaney

引用次数: 3

Philological Reversion in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Sand Writing and Alternate Alphabets of Willem Boshoff 后种族隔离时代南非的语言学回归:威廉·博肖夫的沙书写和替代字母

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Philological Encounters Pub Date : 2018-11-27 DOI: 10.1163/24519197-12340053

K. Campbell

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The Font that Never Was: Linotype and the “Phonetic Chinese Alphabet” of 1921 从未有过的字体：Linotype与1921年的“拼音”

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Philological Encounters Pub Date : 2018-11-27 DOI: 10.1163/24519197-12340049

Thomas S. Mullaney

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Arabic Hot Metal 阿拉伯热金属

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Philological Encounters Pub Date : 2018-11-27 DOI: 10.1163/24519197-12340052

T. Nemeth

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