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Islamic History

Islamic Reflections, Arabic Musings: Studies in Honour of Professor Alan Jones
edited by Robert G Hoyland and Philip F Kennedy
Fifteen essays on literature, linguistics, history and epigraphy. Contents include: Maysir-gambling in early Arabic poetry (N Jamil); the Qu'ran as a source of law: the case of zakat (alms-tax) (Y Dutton); On the difficulty of knowing mediaeval Arab authors: the case of Abu I-Faraj and pseudo-Isfahani (H Kilpatrick); Mahfuz's urban battlegrounds (R Ostle); Inscriptions of companions of the prophet in the Merv Oasis ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00

Law and education in medieval Islam: Studies in Memory of George Makdisi
edited by Joseph Lowry, Devin Stewart and Shawkat M. Toorawa
This volume, focusing on legal education and its place in classical and medieval Islamic civilisation, comprises eight articles written in honour of Professor George Makdisi (1925-2002), seven of them by his former students at the University of Pennsylvania (William Granara, Sherman Jackson, Gary Leiser, Joseph Lowry, Christopher Melchert, Devin Stewart, and Shawkat Toorawa). One article is by George Makdisi's friend and Islamicist colleague ...
Hardback. Price GB £18.00

The Tuaregs
Norris, H. T.
Hitherto studies of the Tuaregs have concentrated on the nomads of the north to the neglect of their southern brethren of Mali and Niger who have contributed most to the spread of Islamic culture and institutions. Their share in the foundation of towns like Timbuctoo, in the transmission of ideas particularly from Mamluk Egypt, their mystic lodges and their scholars played a key role in the penetration of Islam into the remote regions of the ...
Paperback. Price GB £16.50

Early Islamic Iran
edited by Edmund Herzig and Sarah Stewart
This latest volume in "The Idea of Iran" series traces that critical moment in Iranian history which followed the transformation of ancient traditions during the country's conversion and initial Islamic period. Contributors discuss, from a variety of literary, artistic, religious and cultural perspectives, the years around the end of the first millennium CE, when the political strength of the 'Abbasid Caliphate was on the wane, and when the ...
Hardback. Price GB £39.50

Commmon Justice: The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews
by Uriel I. Simonsohn
Focusing on the late seventh to early eleventh centuries in the region between Iraq in the east and present-day Tunisia in the west, Simonsohn explores the multiplicity of judicial systems that coexisted under early Islam to reveal a complex array of social obligations that connected individuals across confessional boundaries. By examining the incentives for appeal to external judicial institutions on the one hand and the response of minority ...
Hardback. Price GB £52.00

The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the 'Abbasid Empire
by Amira K. Bennison
This volume explores the immense achievements of the 'Abbasid age through the lens of Mediterranean history. When the Umayyad caliphs were replaced by the 'Abbasids in 750, and the Arab capital moved to Baghdad, Iraq quickly became the centre not only of an imperium but also of a culture built on the foundations of the great civilizations of antiquity: Greece, Rome, Byzantium and Persia.Debunking popular misconceptions about the Arab conquests, ...
Paperback. Price GB £14.99

The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate: Ifriqiya and its Andalusis 1200-1400
by Ramzi Rouighi
The thirteenth century marks a turning point in the history of the western Mediterranean. The armies of Castile and Aragon won significant and decisive victories over Muslims in Iberia and took over a number of important cities including Cordoba, Seville, Jaen, and Murcia. Chased out of their native cities, a large number of Andalusis migrated to Ifri-qiya- in northern Africa. There, a newly founded Hafsid dynasty (1229-1574) welcomed members of ...
Hardback. Price GB £36.00

The Ornament of Histories: A History of the Eastern Islamic Lands, AD 650-1041
edited and translated by C. Edmund Bosworth
Abu Sa'id 'Abd al-Hayy Gardizi was an author and historian living in the mid-eleventh century at the height of the Turkish Ghazvanid dynasty. His only known work, "The Ornament of Histories" ("Zayn al-akhbir"), is a hugely ambitious history of the Eastern Islamic lands AD 650-1041, spanning what is now Eastern Iran, Afghanistan and parts of the Central Asian Republics and Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. Gardizi's text is an extremely rare source of ...
Hardback. Price GB £51.50

The Religious Elite of the Early Islamic Hijaz: Five Prosopographical Case Studies
by Asad Q. Ahmed
This book charts the sociopolitical trajectories of five of the leading religious families of the Hijaz for the Umayyad and early 'Abbasid periods. Bringing together the mass of details on matters such as kinship ties, political appointments and participation in revolutionary movements that are scattered throughout the Islamic sources - and especially genealogies - this work contributes to uncovering salient patterns of local politics, the logic ...
Paperback. Price GB £60.00

Saladin
by David Nicolle
Saladin's victory over the armies of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem at Hattin is well known, but this fine, concise biography, helps to bring the broader context of his career to the general reader. Focusing more on the political narrative than is often the case in Osprey's output, Nicolle looks at Saladin's campaigns, conquests and rivals in the Islamic world as well as against the Crusaders, and also considers his promotion of religion as a ...
Paperback. Price GB £11.99