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General Works

  • Abbé de Saint Pierre, Projet pour rendre la paix perpétuelle en Europe, Utrecht, Antoine Shoute, éd., 1713, réed. Goyard-Fabre, 1981.
  • Chaunu, Pierre, Les fondements de la paix, des origines au début du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, PUF, Histoire, 1993.
  • Duby, Georges, «Les laïcs et la paix de Dieu», Hommes et structure au Moyen-Age, Paris, EHESS, 1973.
  • La Paix, Recueils de la société Jean Bodin pour l’histoire comparative des institutions, Éditions de la librairie encyclopédique, Bruxelles, 1962.
  • Offenstadt, Nicolas, Faire la paix au Moyen Age. Discours et gestes de paix pendant la guerre de cent ans, Odile Jacob, Paris, 2007.
  • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Extrait du projet de paix perpétuelle de M. l’abbé de Saint Pierre (1761), Gagnebin, B., & Raymond, M. (éds), Paris, 1966.

Sumerian - Noémi Borrelli

General Works

  • Cooper J., 1996. “Sumerian and Akkadian” in P.T. Daniels-W. Bright (eds), The World’s Writing Systems, New York-Oxford, Oxford University Press: 37-56
  • Geller M., 1997. “The Last Wedge” in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, vol. 87 issue 1, Berlin-New York, De Gruyter: 43-95.
  • Jagersma B., 2010. A Descriptive Grammar of Sumerian. Leiden. [With a comprehensive discussion about previous grammars].
  • Michalowski P., 2004. "Sumerian", in Roger Woodward (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 19-59.
  • Michalowski P., 1996. “Origin” in P.T. Daniels-W. Bright (eds), The World’s Writing Systems, New York-Oxford, Oxford University Press: 33-36.
  • Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, Berlin-New York, De Gruyter, 1928-.
  • Westenholz A., 2007. “The Graeco-Babyloniaca Once Again.” Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, vol. 97, issue 2, Berlin-New York, De Gruyter: 262-313.

Works on the concept of Peace

  • Fales M.F., 2008. “On Pax Assyriaca in the Eighth–Seventh Centuries BCE and Its Implications,” in R. Cohen, R. Westbrook (eds), Isaiah’s Vision of
    Peace in Biblical and Modern International Relations, New York, Palgrave Macmillan: 17-35.
  • --------- 2010. Guerre et paix en Assyrie: Religion et impérialisme, Les Conférences de l’École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, Cerf.
  • Liverani M, 1994. Guerra e diplomazia nell'Antico Oriente, 1600-1100 a.C., Roma-Bari, Laterza.
  • Neumann H. et al. (Hrsg.), 2014. Krieg und Frieden im Alten Vorderasien. 52e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale. International Congress of
    Assyriology and Near eastern Archaelogy (Münster, 17.–21. Juli 2006). Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Band 401, Münster, Ugarit-Verlag.
  • Oded B., 1992. War, Peace and Empire: Justifications for War in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions, Wiesbaden, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag.
  • Perani M. (ed.), 2005. Guerra santa, guerra e pace dal Vicino Oriente antico alle tradizioni ebraica, cristiana e islamica: Atti del convegno internazionale, Ravenna 11 maggio-Bertinoro 12-13 maggio, 2004, Firenze, Giuntina.
  • Vidal J. (ed.), 2010. Studies on War in the Ancient Near East. Collected Essays on Military History, Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Band 372,
    Münster, Ugarit-Verlag.

Languages of Hittite Anatolia - Alice Mouton

  • Neu, E., 1979, « Hethitisch kurur und taksul in syntaktischer Sicht », in O. Carruba (ed.), Piero Meriggi dicata II, Studia Mediterranea 1, Pavie, Aurora: 407-427.
  • Richter, T., 2012, Bibliographisches Glossar des Hurritischen, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz.
  • Tischler, J., 1991, Hethitisches Etymologisches Glossar (= HEG), Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 20, Innsbruck, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität: 47-49.

Akkadian - Simonetta Graziani

Linguistic tools

Dictionaries
  • CAD. The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of Chicago, Chicago, The Oriental Institute Publications, 1956-2010.
  • CDA. J. Black, A. George, N. Postgate (eds.), A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian (SANTAG 5), Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000.
  • AHw. W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch, I-III, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 1965-1981.
Grammars and linguistic studies
  • Huehnergard J., 1997. A Grammar of Akkadian (Harvard Semitic Museum Studies 45), Atlanta, Scholar Press.
  • Charpin D., 2008. Lire et écrire à Babylone, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France.
  • Cooper J., 1996. “Sumerian and Akkadian” in P.T. Daniels-W. Bright (eds), The World’s Writing Systems, New York-Oxford, Oxford University Press: 37-56.
  • Michalowski P., 1996. “Origin” in P.T. Daniels-W. Bright (eds), The World’s Writing Systems, New York-Oxford, Oxford University Press: 33-36.
  • von Soden, W. 1952. Grundriss Der Akkadischen Grammatik (Analecta Orientalia 33), Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, Rome.

Works on the concept of Peace

  • Fales M.F., 2008. “On Pax Assyriaca in the Eighth–Seventh Centuries BCE and Its Implications,” in R. Cohen, R. Westbrook (eds.), Isaiah’s Vision of
    Peace in Biblical and Modern International Relations, New York, Palgrave Macmillan: 17-35.
  • 2010. Guerre et paix en Assyrie: Religion et impérialisme. Les Conférences de l’École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, Cerf.
  • Geller M., 1997. “The Last Wedge” in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, vol. 87 issue 1, Berlin-New York, De Gruyter: 43-95.
  • Liverani M., 1994. Guerra e diplomazia nell'Antico Oriente, 1600-1100 a.C., Roma-Bari, Laterza.
  • Neumann H. et al. (Hrsg.), 2014. Krieg und Frieden im Alten Vorderasien. 52e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale. International Congress of
    Assyriology and Near eastern Archaelogy (Münster, 17.–21. Juli 2006) (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Band 401), Münster, Ugarit-Verlag.
  • Oded B., 1992. War, Peace and Empire: Justifications for War in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions, Wiesbaden, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag.
  • Perani M. (ed.), 2005. Guerra santa, guerra e pace dal Vicino Oriente antico alle tradizioni ebraica, cristiana e islamica: Atti del convegno internazionale, Ravenna 11 maggio-Bertinoro 12-13 maggio, 2004, Firenze, Giuntina.
  • Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, Berlin-New York, De Gruyter, 1928-.
  • Vidal J. (ed.), 2010. Studies on War in the Ancient Near East. Collected Essays on Military History (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Band 372),
    Münster, Ugarit-Verlag.
  • Westenholz A., 2007. “The Graeco-Babyloniaca Once Again.” Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, vol. 97, issue 2, Berlin-New York, De Gruyter: 262-313.

Ugaritic- Alfredo Criscuolo

Linguistic Tools and Editions

Dictionnaires
  • Del Olmo Lete, G. et Sanmartín, J., 2003. A Dictionary of the Ugaritic language in the alphabetic tradition Voll. I-II, (tr. Del Olmo Lete and J. Sanmartín, Diccionario de la lengua Ugarítica, Vol. I-II. Editorial AUSA. Sabadell, Barcellona 1996-2000. Edited by Wilfred G. E. Watson), Brill. Leiden.

Sources and Text Editions

  • Dietrich, M., Loretz, O. et Sanmartín, J., 2013. The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and other places, Third, enlarged edition (AOAT 360/1). Ugarit-Verlag. Münster.

Studies

General works
  • Caquot, A. and Sznycer, M. et Herdner, A., 1974, Textes ougaritiques. Mythes et légendes. Tome I, Les Éditions du Cerf, Paris.
  • Caquot, A. and de Tarragon, J-M., 1989, Textes ougaritiques. Textes religieux et rituels. Tome II, Les Éditions du Cerf. Paris.
  • Day, P., 2002 “Dies diem docet: The Decipherment of Ugaritic”. Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici 19, 37-57.
  • Pardee, D., 2007, “The Ugaritic alphabetic cuneiform writing system in the context of other alphabetic systems” in C. L. Miller (ed..). Studies in
    Semitic and, Afroasiatic Linguistics presented to Gene B. Gragg (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 60). Oriental Institute. Chicago. 181-200.
  • Pardee, D., 2012, The Ugaritic texts and the origins of West Semitic literary composition, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • Tropper, J., 1994 “Is Ugaritic a Canaanite language?” in G. J. Brooke, A. H. W. Curtis et J.-F. Healey (éds). Ugarit and the Bible. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ugarit and the Bible, Manchester, September 1992 (Ugaritisch-Biblische Literatur 11). Ugarit-Verlag. Münster. 343-53.
  • Watson, W. G. E. and Wyatt, N. (eds.), 1999, Handbook of Ugaritic studies, Brill. Leiden, 1999.

Ancient Egyptian- Claire Somaglino

Studies

  • Allen, James P. The Ancient Egyptian Language: An Historical Study. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  • Blumenthal E., Untersuchungen zum ägyptischen Königtum des mittleren Reiches I. Die Phraseologie, Abhandlungen der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig. Philologisch-Historische Klasse 61,1, Berlin, 1970.
  • Edel E., 1997, Der Vertrag zwischen Ramses II. von Ägypten und Ḫattušili III. von Ḫatti, Berlin.
  • Grimal N., Les termes de la propagande royale égyptienne : de la XIXe dynastie à la conquête d’Alexandre, Mémoire de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres nouvelle série t.6, Paris, 1986
  • Lorton D., The Juridical Terminology of International Relations in Egyptian Texts through dyn. XVIII, Londres, 1974
  • Peust, Carsten. Egyptian Phonology: An Introduction to the Phonology of a Dead Language. Göttingen 1999.

Coptic - Korshi Dosoo

General Works

  • Grossman, Eitan. “Greek Loanwords in Coptic” in Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, edited by Georgios K. Giannakis et al. Leiden: Brill, 2014: 118-120.
  • Choat, Malcolm. "Coptic" in The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt, edited by Christina Riggs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012: 581-593.

Dictionaries, Lexicons

  • Crum, Walter Ewing. A Coptic Dictionary. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1939.
  • Kasser, Rodolphe. Compléments au Dictionnaire Copte de Crum. Cairo: Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1964.
  • Vycichl, W. Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue copte. Peeters, 1983.
  • Vycichl, Werner. “Vocabulary, Copto-Arabic” in The Coptic Encyclopedia, vol.8, edited by Aziz S. Atiya. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1991: 215.

Grammars and Linguistic Studies

  • Förster, Hans. Wörterbuch der griechischen Wörter in den koptischen dokumentarischen Texten. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2002.
  • Funk, Wolf-Peter. "Dialects wanting homes: a numerical approach to the early varieties of Coptic" in Historical Dialectology: Regional and Social, edited by Jacek Fisiak. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1988: 149-92.
  • Haspelmath, Martin. “A grammatical overview of Egyptian and Coptic” in Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics in Typological Perspective, edited by Еіtаn Grоѕѕmаn & Martin Нaspelmаth & Tonio Sebastian Rіchtеr. De Gruyter Mouton, 2014: pp.103-144.
  • Layton, Bentley. A Coptic Grammar with Chrestomathy and Glossary. Sahidic Dialect. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000.
  • Wipszycka, E. “Le nationalisme a-t-il existe dans l'Egypte byzantine?” in Journal of Juristic Papyrology 22, 1992: 83-128.
  • Zakrzewska, Ewa D. “The Coptic Language” in Coptic Civilization: Two Thousand Years of Christianity in Egypt, edited by Gawdat Gabra. Cairo: The
    American University in Cairo Press, 2014: 79-89.

South Arabian Epigraphic Languages - Mounir Arbach

Linguistic Tools

Database of South Arabian Inscriptions

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions (CSAI : DASI – Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions)

Collections of South-Arabian Inscriptions
  • CIH
    Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humaniorum conditum atque digestum. Litterarum Humaniorum conditum atque digestum IV. Inscriptiones Ḥmyariticas et Sabaeas continens, Paris (Imprimerie nationale), tomus I-III (1889-1930).
  • RES
    Répertoire d’Epigraphie Sémitique, tome I-VIII (1900-1967).
  • CIAS
    Corpus des Inscriptions et Antiquités Sud-Arabes, tome 1-2 (1977, 1986).
  • CSAI
    Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions I-III. Qatabanic, Marginal Qatabanic, Awsanite Inscriptions (2004).
  • IIS
    Inventaire des Inscriptions Sudarabiques, tome I-VIII (1992-2007)
Dictionaries, grammars and encyclopedias
  • Encyclopédie yéménite, Tome I-IV, Mu’assasat al-ʿAfīf al-Thaqafiyya, Sanaa, 2003.
Sabaic
  • Höfner, Maria, Altsüdarabische Grammatik (Porta linguarum orientalium, XXIV), Leipzig (Otto Harrassowitz), 1943.
  • Biella, Joan Copeland, Dictionary of Old South Arabic, Sabaean Dialect (Harvard Semitic Museum, Harvard Semitic Studies, 25), Chico, CA (Scholars Press), 1982.
  • Beeston, A.F.L., Sabaic Grammar (Journal of Semitic Studies, monograph No. 6), Manchester (JSS, University of Manchester), 1984.
  • Beeston, A.F.L., Ghul, M.A., Müller, W.W., Ryckmans, J., Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic) - Dictionnaire sabéen (anglais-français-arabe) - al-Mu‘jam as-saba’ī (bi-l-inglīziyya wa-l-firansiyya wa-l-‘arabiyya) (Publication of the University of Sanaa), Louvain-la-Neuve (Éditions Peeters) - Beyrouth (Librairie du Liban), 1984.
  • Iry N, Muṭahhar, Al-Muʿjam al-yamanī –alif-. Fī al-lugha wa-l-turāṯ. Ḥawla mufradāt khāṣṣa mina al-lahajāt al-yamaniyya. Dār al-fikr, Dimashq, 1996.
  • Stein, Peter, Lehrbuch der sabäischen Sprache. 1. Teil : Grammatik. Silo (Subsidia et Instrumenta Linguarum Orientis, 4,1), Harrassowitz Verlag. Weisbaden, 2013.
Qatabanic
  • Ricks, Stephen D., Lexicon of Inscriptional Qatabanian (Studia Pohl, 14), Roma (Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico), 1989.
Minaic
  • Arbach, Mounir. Le madhābien : lexique, onomastique et grammaire d’une langue de l’Arabie du Sud préislamique, (tome I-III), Université d’Aix-Marseille, 1993.
    Tome I: Lexique madhābien comparé aux lexiques sabéen, qatabānite et ḥaḍramawtique ;
    Tome II: Répertoire des noms propres madhābiens ;
    Tome III: Grammaire madhābienne.
Foundational Texts
  • Sabaic inscriptions of VIII, VII and VI BCE (DAI 2005-50, RES 3945-3946, RES 3943, Ja 555, Demrjian 1, etc.)
    Royal accounts, constituting the principal historical source for the reconstruction of the political history of South Arabian cities and kingdoms in the course of their formation.
  • Qatabanic and Minaic inscriptions of VIII, VII and VII BCE inscriptions (RES 3858 ; YM 2009, Maʿīn 102, 112, as-Sawdāʾ 89, etc.)
    Texts reporting the historical events relating to the formation of the states of South Arabia.
  • Inscriptions of IV, III, and I BCE (M 222, M 247 ; A-20-206 ; CIH 291 + Ry 547 ; Arbach-Sayʾūn 1; al-Ḥājj-al-ʿ dī, etc.)
    Group of historical texts attesting the synchronisms between the South Arabian kingdoms and those of the Near East.
  • Sabaic inscriptions from I to III CE (inscription from Maḥram Bilqīs de Maʾrib)
    Texts of the rulers of Saba’/Ḥimyar relating the principal events of this period marked by the conflicts between the South Arabian kingdoms which resulted in the unification of South Arabia by Ḥimyar at the end of the third century CE.
  • Historical inscriptions of IV-VI CE
    Historical material relating to the expansion and the control of the kings of Ḥimyar into central Arabia.

Nabataean - Laila Nehmé

Linguistic Tools

Grammar
  • Cantineau, J. Le Nabatéen. 2 vols. Paris : Librairie Ernest Leroux, 1930-1932.
Writing
  • Gruendler, B. The Development of the Arabic Scripts. From the Nabatean Era to the First Islamic Century According to Dated Texts. Harvard Semitic Studies. Atlanta : Scholars Press, 1993.
  • Nehmé L., « A glimpse of the development of the Nabataean script into Arabic based on old and new epigraphic material », in M. C. A. Macdonald (éd), The development of Arabic as a written language. Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 40. Oxford, Archaeopress, 2010, p. 47-88.
  • Yardeni, A. Textbook of Aramaic, Hebrew and Nabataean Documentary Texts from the Judaean Desert and Related Material. A. The Documents. B. Translation, Palaeography, Concordance. The Hebrew University, 2000.
Collections of inscriptions and texts
  • CIS. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum. Pars II. Tomus II. Fasc. 1. Sectio Secunda. Inscriptiones Nabataeae. Paris, 1889-.
  • Hackl, U., H. Jenni et Chr. Schneider. Quellen Zur Geschichte Der Nabatäer. Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus. Göttingen, 2003.
  • Healey, John F. The Nabataean Tomb Inscriptions of Mada’in Salih. Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 1. Oxford, 1993.
  • Commission du Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum. Répertoire d’épigraphie sémitique. Imprimerie Nationale, 1900.
  • Jaussen A. et Savignac R. 1909-1914 : Mission archéologique en Arabie. I. De Jérusalem au Hedjaz, Médain Saleh. II. El-‘Ela, d'Hégra à Teima,
    Harrah de Tebouk. (2 volumes). Paris.
  • Theeb, S. al-. Mudawwanat al-nuqūš al-nabaṭiyyah fī ʾl-mamlakah al-ʿarabiyyah al-saʿūdiyyah. 2 vol. Al-Riyāḍ : Dārat al-malik ʿabdulʿazīz, 2010.
Papyri
  • Healey, John F. « A Nabataean Papyrus Fragment (Bodleian MS Heb. D. 89). » Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 146 (2004) : 183-188.
  • Yadin, Y., J.C. Greenfield, A. Yardeni, and B. Levine. The Documents from the Bar Kokhba Period in the Cave of the Letters. Hebrew, Aramaic and Nabataean Aramaic Papyri. Judean Desert Studies. Jerusalem : Israel Exploration Society/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002.
  • Yadin, Y. et J.C. Greenfield. « Aramaic and Nabatean Signatures and Subscriptions. » In the Documents from the Bar Kokhba Period in the Cave of Letters, edited by N. Lewis, 135-149, 162-164 (index). Jerusalem : Israel Exploration Society, 1989.
Online texts

In progress: DASI, Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions : http ://www.dasiproject.eu

Arabic - Sylvie Denoix

Linguistic tools

Dictionaries
  • Al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Farāhīdī, Kitāb al-‘ayn
    Arabic-Arabic dictionary from the beginning of IX CE, called al-Khalīl. 18 volumes, Iran, Mu’assasat dār al-hijra, 1409H.
  • Ismā‘īl ibn Ḥammād Al-Jawharī, Tāj al-lugha wa-ṣiḥāḥ al‘arabiyya, 17 vol., Beyrouth, Dār al-‘ilm al-mulāyyīn, 1984.
    Arabic-Arabic dictionary, from the beginning of XI CE, called Al-Ṣiḥāḥ
  • Abū l-Qāsim al-Ḥusayn Al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī, Mufradât alfāẓ al-qur’ân, 1248 p., Dār al-al-qalam, Damas.
    Qur'anic lexicon from the beginning of XI CE.
  • Ibn Fāris, Mu‘jam maqāyīs al-lugha
  • ‘Abd al-Bāqī, Al-Mu‘jam al-mufahras
  • Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-‘arab [The language of the Arabs]
    Arabic-Arabic dictionary from XIII-XIV century. It was inspired by its predecessors:
    • Al-Azharī, Tahḏīb al-luġa
    • Ibn Sida, Muḥkam
    • Al-Jawharī, al-Ṣiḫāḫ
    • Al-Ḏahabī, al-Nihāya
  • Ibn Murtaḍā al-Ḥusaynī al-Zabīdī, Belgram, India, 1732- Egypt, 1790, Tāj al-‘Arūs min jawāhir al-qamūs.
    Arabic-Arabic dictionary from the 19th century.
  • Dozy, Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes, Leiden, 1881.
    Arabic-French dictionary from the end of the 19th century, containing a primarily North African corpus from XII-XIV CE.
  • Naṣṣār, Ḥ, Al-mu‘jam al-‘arabī, Cairo, 1956.
Encyclopedias
  • Encyclopédie de l’Islam
    • Abel, Armand, « Dār al-Ṣulḥ »
    • Inalcçik, Halil, « Dār al-‘ahd »
  • Amir Moezzi, Mohammed Ali, Dictionnaire du Coran, Éd. Robert Laffont, Coll. Bouquins, Paris, 2007.
    • Marie-Thérèse Urvoy, « Guerre et Paix », p. 372-377.
Sources
  • Ibn Isḥāq (Abū 'Abd Allāh Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Yasār b. Khyār-Médine ca 704 – Bagdad ca 767), Sīrat Ibn Isḥāq, éd. Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, 1858-1859.
    - Wustenfeld's edition of part of a text transmitted by Ibn Hishām.
    • Translation: Abdurrahmân Badawî, Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad.
    - This contains the famous "Constitution of Medinah" or "The treaty between the Immigrants and the Ansars and the reconciliation with the Jews".
    This text deals with an agreement establishing relations between the group of Muslims who emigrated from Medinah and led by Muhammad, with the Medinans. It served as the implicit model for other treaties between that Muslims established with the conquerors.
  • Al-Wāqidī, Kitab al-Maghazi, 3 volumes, 1321 pages, ed. Marsden Jones, London, 1966.
    - Transmitting the Prophetic Biography (Sīrat al-nabawiyya), written by Ibn Isḥāq and transmitted by Ibn Hishām.
  • History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church, known as the History of the Holy Church, by Sawirus ibn al-Mukaffa', Bishop of al-Asmunin (bilingual Arab-English edition edited by Evetts  (vol. 1) : vol. 2/1 by Yassa 'Abd al-Masih and O. H. E. Burmester (from Michael II to Shenouda I) ; vol. 2/2 et 2/3 by Aziz Suryal Atiya, Yassa 'Abd al-Masih and O. H. E. Burmester (from Michael III to Michael IV) ; vol. 3/1, 3/2 and 3/3 by Antoine Khater and O. H. E. Burmester (from Macarius II to Cyril V, d.1929) ; vol. 4/1 et 4/2 by Antoine Khater and O. H. E. Burmester (Biograohy of Cyrille III ibn Laqlaq, 1216-1243), Société d'archéologie.
Traités de paix
  • Bresc, Henri, Rāġib, Yūsuf, Du traité de paix au pacte secret. Le sultan mérinide Abū l-Ḥasan ‘Alī et Jacques III de Majorque, Cairo, Ifao, 2011.
  • Jehel, G. & Jehel, S., Les relations des pays d’Islam avec le monde latin du Xe s. au milieu du XIIIe s. Textes et documents, Paris, 2000.
  • Holt, P. M., « Baybars ‘ Treaty with the Lady of Beirut in 667/1269 », in Edbury, P. W. (ed.), Crusades and settlement, Cardif, 1985, p. 242-245.
  • —, « Qalāwūn’s ṭreaty with Acre in 1283 », EHR 91 (1976), p. 802-812.
  • —, « Qalāwūn’s ṭreaty with Genua in 1290 », Der Islam 57 (1980), p. 101- 108.
  • —, « The Treaties of the Early Mamluk Sultans with the Frankish States », BSOAS 43 (1980), p. 67-73.
  • Köhler, Michael A., Alliances and treaties between Frankish and Muslim Rulers in the Middle East. Cross-Cultural Diplomacy in the Period of the Crusades, Revised, edited and introduced by Konrad Hirschler, Leiden, Brill, 2013
  • Mas Latrie, L. de, Traités de paix et de commerce et documents divers concernant les relations es chrétiens avec les Arabes de l’Afrique septentrionale au Moyen-Age, Paris, 2 vols, 1868.
  • Weigert, G., « A note on hudna. Peacemaking in Islam », in Lev Y., War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean 7th-15th c., Leyde, New York, Cologne, p. 399-405.

Studies

The concept of peace
  • Bauden, Frédéric, « Due trattati di pace conclusi nel dodicesimo secolo », in Martinez de Castilla, Nuria (ed.), Documentos y manuscritos arabes del Occidento musulman medieval, Madrid, CSIS, 2010, p. 33-86.
  • Buresi, Pascal, « Les plaintes de l’archevêque. Chronique des premiers échanges épistolaires entre Pise et le gouverneur almohade de Tunis » in Martinez de Castilla, Nuria (ed.), Documentos y manuscritos arabes del Occidento musulman medieval, Madrid, CSIS, 2010, p. 87-120.
  • M. Ouerfelli, Mohammed, « Les enjeux commerciaux dans les traités de paix et de commerce entre Pise et les États du Maghreb au Moyen Âge (XIIe-XIVe siècle) », in Les territoires de la Méditerranée, XIe-XVIe siècle, A. Nef (dir.), Rennes, 2013, p. 205-215.
  • Nachi, Mohammed, Figures du compromis dans les sociétés islamiques, IISM, Karthala, 2011.
  • Pedani, Fabris, M. P., La Dimora della Pace, Considerazioni sulle capitolazioni tra i paesi islamici e l’Europa, Rome, 1996.

On law concerning the end of hostilities, see :

  • Hammidullah , Muslim Conduct of State, p. 263-274.
  • Khadduri, War and Peace, p. 133-137.
  • Khadduri, Shaybani, Islamic Law of Nations, p. 142-157.
  • Hill, Donald R., The Termitation of Hostilities in the Early Arab Conquest AD 634-636, London, 1971.
  • Reichmuth, Stefan, The World of Murtaḍá Al-Zabīdī (1732-91): Life, Networks and Writings, Gibb Memorial Trust, 2009.

Mongol - Marie-Dominique Even

General works

  • Denise Aigle, The Mongol Empire Between Myth and Reality. Historic Anthropological Studies, Leiden, Brill, 2014
  • Bonvini E., Busuttil J. Peyraube A. (dir.), Dictionnaire des langues, Quadrige/PUF, 2011
  • Doerfer G., Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen, I-IV, Wiesbaden, 1963-1975
  • Ligeti, L., Un vocabulaire mongol d’Istanbul, Acta Orientalia Hungarica 14, 1962, pp. 3-99
  • Pelliot, P., Les Mongols et la Papauté, Revue de l’Orient Chrétien, 23, 1922-1923
  • Lewicki, M., La langue mongole des transcriptions chinoises du XIVe siècle, le Hua-yi yi-yu de 1389, Wroclaw 1949 (I) et 1959 (II)
  • Introduction to Altaic Linguistics, Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1965

Linguistic tools

Lexicons, dictionaries, grammars and encyclopedias

Modern dictionaries
  • A. Mostaert, Dictionnaire Ordos, Monumenta Serica, Université catholique de Pékin, 1941-1944
    Mongol-Ordos Dictionary
  • G.J. Ramsted, Kammückisches Wörterbuch, Helsinki, Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura,1935
    Dictionary of Kalmuk Mongol
  • Ya. Tsevel, Mongol xelnii tovč tailba toli, 1966 ; New Edition : 2013
    Explanatory dictionary
  • Mongol xelnii delgerengüi tailbar toli, 5 vol., Oulan-Bator, 2008
    Dictionary of the Mongolian Academy Sciences
Sources and Text Editions
  • Cleaves, F. W. : Among many other articles on several Sino-Mongol inscriptions on stelae from 1362, 1335, 1338, 1346, 1240, 1348, which appeared respectively in Harvard Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 12, 13, 14,15, 23
  • Juvaini, ‘Ala’al-Din ‘Ata-Malik, History of the World-Conqueror, translated by John Boyle from the text of Mizra Muhammad Qazvini, 2 vols., Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1958 (re-edited with an introduction from, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1997)
  • Les inscriptions mongoles en écriture carrée, Collectanea Orientalia, 12, Wilno, 1937
  • Mostaert, A., Le matériel mongol du Houa i i iu de Hong-ou (1389), Bruxelles, I (1977) et II (1995)
  • Mostaert, A, F.W. Cleaves, Les lettres de 1289 et 1305 des Ilkhans Argun et Oljeïtü à Philippe le Bel, Cambridge, 1962
  • Poppe, N., Mongols’ksii slovar’ Mukaddimat al-Adab, parts 1-III, Moscou-Leningrad, 1938-1939

The Concept of Peace

  • Kotwicz W., Les Mongols, promoteurs de l’idée de paix universelle au début du XIIIe siècle, Rocznik Orientalisttyczny 16, 1950, pp. 199-204
  • The Mongolian Monuments in ’Phags-pa Script, second edition translated by J.R. Krueger, Wiesbaden, 1957
  • Ancient Mongolian, Studies on East Asia, 13 (Studies on Mongolica, G. Schwartz ed.), 1979, pp. 30-37
  • Rachewiltz, I. de, The Secret History of the Mongols, translated with a historical and philological commentary, 2 volumes, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2004
  • Rashid al-Din. The Successors of Genghis Khan, tr. J.A. Boyle, NY, Columbia UP, 1971
  • Rashiduddin Fazlullah, Jami‘u’t-tawarikh : Compendium of Chronicles (3 parts), A History of the Mongols. Translated and annotated by W. Thackston. Cambridge, Mass., 1998-99
  • Shagdarsürüng, Ts, Mongolčuudiin üseg bicigiin tovčoon (History of the Writings of the Mongols), Oulan-Bator, Urlakh Erdem Press, 2001
  • Sumyabaatar, B., The Secret history of the Mongols (phonetic transcription in Chinese characters with their pronunciation and a restoration of the Mondol text in Uyghur-Mongol and Latin characters), Oulan-Bator, Presses d’Etat D. Süxbaatar, 1990
  • Tömörtogoo, D., Mongol xelšinžileliin onol, tüüxiin asuudaluud (Questions théoriques et historiques de linguistique mongole), Oulan-Bator, 2002
  • Yuan shi (edition by Song Lian of the history of the Yuan Dynasty compiled in 1370), 15 vol., Pékin, Zhonghua Shuju, 1976

Hindi - Stefania Cavaliere

Dictionaries

  • Platts, John T. (John Thompson). A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1884.
  • Dasa, Syamasundara. Hindi sabdasagara. Navina samskarana. Kasi: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, 1965-1975.
  • Fallon, S. W. A new Hindustani-English dictionary, with illustrations from Hindustani literature and folklore. Banaras, London: Printed at the Medical Hall Press; Trubner and Co., 1879.
  • Shakespear, John. A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani. 3rd ed., much enl. London: Printed for the author by J.L. Cox and Son: Sold by Parbury, Allen, & Co., 1834.

Sources

  • Nāṭyaśāstra with the commentary Abhinavabhāratī by Abhinavagupta, by K.L. Joshi. Delhi: Parimal Publications, 1984.
  • Keśavadāsa, Rasikapriyā, in Keśava-Granthāvalī, Khaṇḍa 1, Viśvanātha Prasāda Miśra (saṃpādaka). Ilāhābāda: Hindustānī Ekeḍemī, 1954, pp. 1-93.
  • Bhikhārīdāsa, Kāvya Nirṇaya, in Bhikhārīdāsa granthāvalī, Viśva Nāth Prasād Miśra (saṃpādaka). Kāśī: Nāgarī Pracāriṇī Sābhā, 1956, dvitīya khaṇḍa, pp. 1-344.
  • Bhikhārīdāsa, Rasasārāṃśa, in Bhikhārīdāsa granthāvalī, Viśva Nāth Prasād Miśra (saṃpādaka). Kāśī: Nāgarī Pracāriṇī Sābhā, 1956, pahlā khaṇḍa, pp. 3-85.
  • Padmākar, Jagat vinod. Banāras: Bhārat Jīvan Pres, 1902.
  • Saiyad Gulām Nabī Raslīn, Rasaprabodha, in Raslīn Granthāvalī. Vārāṇasī: Nāgarī Pracāriṇī Sābhā, 1969, pp. 1-355.

Persian - Michele Bernardini

Dictionaries and lexicons

  • ‘Alī Akbar Dehkhodā, Loghatnāme (Classical dictionary of the Persian language, online)
  • Doerfer, Gerhard, Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung älterer neupersischer Geschichtsquellen, vor allem der Mongolen- und Timuridenzeit, 4 vols., Wiesbaden, 1963-1975.

Historical Dictionaries

  • ‘Alī Ibn Aḥmad Asadī Ṭūsī, Loghat-e fors, ed. Moḥammad Dabīr Siyāqī, Tehran, 1957.
  • Muḥammad Qāsem ibn Muḥammad Kāshānī Sorūrī, Farhang-e Majma‘ al-Furs, ed. Moḥammad Dabīr Siyāqī, Tehran, 1959.
  • Mīr Jamāl ad-Dīn Ḥosayn Ibn Fakhr ad-Dīn Ḥasan Injū Shīrāzī, ‘Afīfī, Farhange Jahāngīrī, Mashhad, 1972-1975.

Modern Dictionaries

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph, A comprehensive Persian-English dictionary including the Arabic words and phrases to be met with in Persian literature,
    London 1930.
  • Lazard, Gilbert, Dictionnaire persan-français / par Gilbert Lazard. Avec l'assistance de Mehdi Ghavam-Nejad, Leiden, 1990.
  • Vullers, Johann August, Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum accedit appendix vocum dialecti antiquioris, Zend et Pazend dictae; Bonn, 1855.
  • Mo’īn Moḥammad, Farhang-e Fārsī, 6 vols., Téhéran 1992-1996.
    Lexicon used by Shāhnāme and classical literature
  • Wolff, Fritz, Glossar zu Firdosis Schahname, Verskonkordanz der Schahname-Ausgaben von Macan, Vullers und Mohl, Berlin 1935.
Sources
  • Shāhnāmah/The Shahnameh (The Book of kings) by Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī ; éds. Jalāl Khāliqī Muṭlaq - Abū al-Faḍl H̱aṭībī, Maḥmūd Omīdsālār, 8 vols. Costa Mesa-New York, 1997-2008.

Archaic and Classical Greek - Paul Demont

Works on the concept of peace

  • Alonso, Victor, "War, peace, and international law in ancient Greece", in Raaflaub, Kurt A. (ed), War and peace in the ancient world, London, Oxford, 2007. (cdé BSA)
  • Demont, Paul, La cité grecque archaïque et classique et l’idéal de tranquillité, Paris, 1990. (BC – BSA)
  • Fernandez Nieto F. J., « Tregua sagrada, diplomacia y politica durante la Guerra del Peloponeso = Trêve sacrée, diplomatie et politique pendant la Guerre du Péloponnèse », in Frezouls, Edmond and Jacquemin, Anne (eds.), Les relations internationales, Paris, 1995, p. 161-187 (avec résumé en français p. 528). (BC-BSA)
  • Jehne, Martin, Koine Eirene : Untersuchungen zu den Befriedungs- und Stabilisierungsbemühungen in der griechischen Poliswelt des 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Stuttgart, 1994.(BC)
  • Konstan, David, "War and reconciliation in Greek literature", in Raaflaub, Kurt A. (ed.), War and peace in the ancient world, London, Oxford, 2007. (cdé BSA)
  • Perrin-Samindayar, Eric, « Si vis pacem, gere bellum : l’aspiration à la paix dans la société athénienne de la guerre du Péloponnèse à la guerre lamiaque », in Prost, Francis (ed.), Armées et sociétés de la Grèce classique : aspects sociaux et politiques de la guerre aux Ve et IVe s. av. J.-C., Paris, 1999, p. 147-162.(BC-BSA).
  • Préaux, Claire, « La paix à l’époque hellénistique », in La Paix, Recueils de la société Jean Bodin pour l’histoire comparative des institutions, Éditions de la librairie encyclopédique, Bruxelles, 1962, p. 227-301.
  • Romilly, Jacqueline de, « Guerre et paix entre cités », in Vernant, Jean-Pierre (ed.), Problèmes de la guerre en Grèce ancienne, Paris-La Haye,
    1968, p. 207-220. (BC – BSA)
  • Rudhardt, Jean, Thémis et les Hôrai : recherches sur les divinités grecques de la justice et de la paix, Genève, 1999. (BSA)
  • Ryder, Timothy Thomas Bennett, Koine eirene : general peace in local independence in ancient Greece, London, 1965. (BC)
  • Theriault, Gaëtan, Le culte d’Homonoia dans les cités grecques, Lyon, 1996.(BC)
  • Tritle, Lawrence, "'Laughing for joy': war and peace among the Greeks", in Raaflaub, Kurt A. (ed.), War and peace in the ancient world, London, Oxford, 2007. (cdé BSA)
  • Whitehead, David, « The ten-day truce (Thucydide 5.26.2, etc.) = La trêve de dix jours », in: Frezouls, Edmond and Jacquemin, Anne (eds.), Les relations internationales, Paris, 1995, p. 189-210. (BC-BSA)
  • Zampaglione, Gerardo, L’idea della pace nel mondo antico, Torino, 1967.(BC)
  • Zampaglione, Gerardo, The idea of peace in antiquity, Notre Dame (Ind.), 1973. (BC)

Armenian - Isabelle Augé

Dictionaries

  • Calfa, Dictionnaire arménien-français, 6e édition, Lisbonne, 1991.
  • Dictionnaire arménien-arménien : Nor Baṙgirk‘ haykazean lezowi [Nouveau dictionnaire de langue arménienne], 2 vols., Venise, 1837.
  • Dictionnaire de moyen arménien : Ṙ. S. Łazaryan and H. M. Avetisyan, Miǰin Hayereni baṙaran, 2 vols., Erevan, 1987-1992.

Text editions

  • The majority of sources, up to the 10th century, are edited in Hayoc‘, Antélias, from 2003 (15 volumes at present).

Greek of the Papyri - Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello

  • Cadell H., 1974, « Le renouvellement du vocabulaire au IVe siècle de notre ère d’après les papyrus », Akten des XIII. Internationalen Papyrologenkongresses, Marburg/Lahn, 2—6 August 1971, Munich, p. 61-68.
  • Cavallo G., 2009, « Greek and Latin Writing in the Papyri », in R. S. Bagnall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology, Oxford University Press, p. 101-148.
  • Dickey E., 2009, « The Greek and Latin Languages in the Papyri », in R. S. Bagnall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology, Oxford University Press, p. 149-169.
  • Gascou J., 2009, « The Papyrology of the Near-East », in R. S. Bagnall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology, Oxford University Press, p. 473-494.

Latin - Jean-Paul Brachet

  • Ernout, Alfred, and Meillet, Antoine. Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine. 4th edition. 1959, 4th edition reviewed by Jacques André, Paris, Klincksieck, 1985.
  • Leonhardt, Jürgen. La grande histoire du latin. Des origines à nos jours. Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2010 (French translation of Latein. Geschichte einer Weltsprache, Munich, Beck, 2009).
  • Oxford Latin Dictionary. Director P. G. W. Glare, Oxford University Press, 1968-1982.
  • Article pax in Dictionnaire Historique et Encyclopédie Linguistique du Latin, http://www.linglat.paris-sorbonne.fr/dictionnaire:pax