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Medieval Arab Cookery
by Maxime Rodinson
Readers of Claudia Roden's masterworks have long been aware of the continuities in Middle Eastern cookery, others have been tantalized by the influence of Islamic cooking on the medieval West, all will rejoice in this new gathering of papers and documents relating to medieval Arab food and cookery.
The French scholar, Maxime Rodinson's contributions are legendary, yet have only been seen in translation in Petits Propos Culinaires. We include ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$75.00, Our Price US$50.00
Islamic Reflections, Arabic Musings: Studies in Honour of Professor Alan Jones
edited by Robert G Hoyland and Philip F Kennedy
These fifteen essays were written in honor of Alan Jones, distinguished Professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the Oriental Institute in Oxford, by his former students and colleagues.
c.288p (The E J W Gibb Memorial Trust 2004)
Hardback. Price US$80.00
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 US$30.00
The Tuaregs
Norris, H. T.
The Tuaregs
Paperback. Price US$35.00
People from the Desert: Pre-Islamic Arabs in History and Culture
edited by Nader Al Jallad
"People from the Desert. Pre-Islamic Arabs in History and Culture" provides a collection of text-based studies that investigate different aspects of the history, culture and literature of the pre-Islamic period. It presents detailed studies of the poetry of Imru'l-Qays, al-Shanfara, 'Antarah, al-Khansa' and more. It also offers in-depth studies of We pre-Islamic religions, narratives, trade, women, the concepts of life and death and much ...
Paperback. Price US$168.00
Sea of Pearls: Seven Thousand Years of the Industry that Shaped the Gulf
by Robert A. Carter
SINCE ANTIQUITY the natural pearls of the Gulf have been famed as the finest, most lustrous and most plentiful that the world can offer. From the beginnings of trade until the 1930s, these pearls were a major product of the Gulf's coastal peoples. Latterly, from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, rising international demand turned pearling into their economic mainstay. By this time pearls were fished in their millions, and pearling became the ...
Hardback. Price US$190.00
Islam, State, and Society in Independent Azerbaijan: Between Historical Legacy and Post-Soviet Reality (with special reference to Baku and its environs)
by Rufat Sattarov
The dissolution of the Soviet Union and the appearance of new independent states in its place resulted in dramatic changes in geopolitics. Azerbaijan emerged as one of the new spheres of interest in the world community. Its historical legacy as well as being a meeting point of western and eastern cultures makes it worthwhile for research. Its moderate Islamic framework and its unique character as the only country throughout the post-Soviet space ...
Hardback. Price US$105.00
Die Grenzen der Welt: Arabica et Iranica ad honorem Heinz Gaube
edited by Lorenz Korn, Eva Orthmann, and Florian Schwarz
Applying different methods to a broad range of sources, this volume attempts to transcend the limits between disciplines of Oriental Studies in twenty articles dedicated to the scholar Heinz Gaube. Focusing on cultural connections between the Arab and the Iranian world, its geographical scope ranges from the Nile to the Syr-Darya. Covering a chronological span from pre-Islamic times to the present, the articles deal with different aspects of ...
Hardback. Price US$115.00
Grenzgänge im östlichen Mittelmeerraum: Byzanz und die Islamische Welt vom 9.-13. Jahrhundert
edited by Ulrike Koenen and Martina Müller-Wiener
The volume presents articles from different academic fields. The geographical focus lies on the Eastern Mediterranean, its chronological framework comprises mainly the 9th to 13th century. The collected articles share a common approach inviting the reader to think across the established academic and institutional boundaries of Islamic and Byzantine art history and neighbouring disciplines. The Eastern Mediterranean is presented as an area that ...
Hardback. Price US$99.00
Iran und iranisch geprägte Kulturen: Studien zum 65. Geburtstag von Bert G. Fragner
edited by Markus Ritter, Ralph Kauz, and Birgitt Hoffmann
From ancient times, 'Iraniate' cultures (to use an artificial word analogous to Marshall Hodgson's 'Islamicate') and the Persian language had a significant rôle beyond the borders of Iran: in the lands of the Near & Middle East, Central Asia as far as China and in India. The book collects novel contributions within five chapters focussed on the Islamic periods. Creating a multi-disciplinary panorama, 39 scholars from 12 countries deal ...
Hardback. Price US$187.00
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