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Rémy Cazals provides a critical edition of this little-known text accompanied by a biography of its author, who became inflamed by the passions of the Revolution, and who was guillotined in 1794.

Michael Cuypers applies the principles of Semitic rhetoric - a method of textual analysis developed in the field of biblical studies – to the thirty-three small suras (81 to 114) of the Qur'an, making it possible to grasp the internal coherence of the suras, and the semantic links between them.

The results of the first season of archaeological excavations at the small port site of Quseir al-Qadim on the Red Sea are presented in this volume. This report presents copious illustrations of the artifacts of daily life in these two periods.

This volume presents the results of the second season of excavations, during which a Roman merchant's 'villa' and part of the central administrative buildings were excavated. A large section of the Islamic town was also cleared, within which were artifacts ranging from China to West Africa.