Arabs and Empires Before Islam - Greg Fisher (ed.)

The Appearance of the Arabs in Central Asia under the Umayyads and the Establishment of Islam

Hana Filip and Greg

There are various opinions about how the phenomenon of sentential genericity (Carlson and Pelletier, 1995) is related to other classes of expressions of natural language. The notion of 'genericity' is most commonly viewed as having close ties to tense, mood and aspect (cf. Dahl, 1985; Comrie, 1985). For instance, philosophers and occasionally linguists (e.g. Dahl, 1975, 1985, and 1995) make use...

Greg Gibson

Greg Gibson grew up in Canberra, Australia, and did his undergraduate degree in Biology at the University of Sydney. He moved to Basel, Switzerland, for his PhD on the specificity of homeotic genes in Drosophila, and then to Stanford for postdoctoral research, where his interests turned to the quantitative genetics of development in flies. After a year at Duke University he took up a junior fac...

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States Systems and Universal Empires

"Civilizations" and "world systems" are alternative labels for the largest macropolitical entities that have existed in human history. These historical civilizations/world systems may be seen as having two polar types of power structure, the "states system" and the "universal empire." Each form has certain characteristic accompaniments, which may promote it, be promoted by it, or both. For stat...