Matthew K. Gordon Boeken

Introduces one of the most important figures in the early history of Islamic Egypt

Focuses on the socioeconomic, political, and cultural milieu in which a new religious movement was born and has thrived. This work includes a discussion of the origins of Islamic law, spirituality and theology, mysticism, philosophy, and culture, as well as an appendix of individual page-length biographies of important figures.

This book provides an overview of phonological typology: the study of how sounds are distributed across the languages of the world and why they display these distributions and patterns. Matthew Gordon analyses cross-linguistic data from a range of sources to gain insight into the driving forces behind a variety of phonological phenomena.