10. Elia di Nisibi, «Kitāb Daf‘ al-Hamm». Il libro per scacciare la preoccupazione, 2° tomo, critical edition by Samir Khalil Samir, translation and notes by Anna Pagnini. Indexes by Paola Pizzi and Davide Righi. 400p. €48,00 (ISBN 9788871581552)

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In the Mesopotamia of the XI sec. a muslim visir asks to a nestorian bishop to write for him a spiritual guide for driving away the anguish of the spirit. It is therefore that this book much disseminated in the antiquity and up to now inaccessible to the not Arabist reader is born. " the book in order to drive away the anguish " is a text of sapiential literature, a cultured work but of easy approach, organized like one collection of principles of virtue and defects opposite the ones to the others. They are coming from words of wisdom from Greek philosophers, sovereign Persians, from Christian monks of the east and from muslim traditions and the Bedouins, precious testimony of the medieval Arabic cultural atmosphere in the variety of its roots and in the homogeneity of its language.

 

9. Elia di Nisibi, «Kitāb Daf‘ al-Hamm». Il libro per scacciare la preoccupazione, 1° tomo, edizione critica a cura di Samir Khalil Samir, traduzione, note ed indici a cura di Anna Pagnini. Introduzione a cura di Paolo La Spisa, Davide Righi. 480p. €48,00.

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In Mesopotamia during the eleventh century a Muslim visir asked a Nestorian bishop to compose a book of spiritual instructions which would enable him to drive away the anguish of his soul. This guidebook, widely disseminated in the Medieval period and until now inaccessible to the non-Arabist, orginated from this simple request. The book, “On Driving Away Anguish from the Soul”, is a text of wisdom literature. Organized like a “virtue list” along with the corresponding vices, it is a cultured work but a surprisingly accessible one. It draws from the wisdom of the Greek philosophers, Persian emperors, Christian monks of the East, as well as from Muslim sages and Bedouin folk wisdom. This text is a precious testimony of the Medieval Arabic cultural environment both in the variety of its roots and the homogeneity of its language.

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Abilitazione di Windows Xp e Office 2003 alla scrittura di lingue destra-sinistra

HOW TO ENABLE WINDOWS AND OFFICE FOR WRITING ARABIC OR RIGHT-TO-LEFT LANGUAGES

 

Si devono avere 2 requisiti (two things required):

a) avere disponibile il CD di Windows Xp (having the Windows Xp CD)

b) avere disponibile il CD di Office 2003 (having the Office 2003 CD)

Si devono compiere 4 operazioni (4 operations):

1. Abilitare il sistema (enable the system)

2. Fornire al sistema le risorse necessarie per un imput in lingua araba (giving resourses for arabi input)

3. Abilitare Office 2003 (enable Office 2003)

4. Verificare se il Sistema e Office 2003 sono abilitati. (Verify if the system and Office 2003 are enabled)

1) Abilitazione di Windows alla scrittura con lingue sinistrorse (Arabo, ebraico)