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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 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

Voices and Veils: Feminism and Islam in French Women's Writing and Activism
by Anna Kemp
In recent years, the figure of the Muslim Woman has loomed large over mainstream feminist debate in France. Cast alternately as a Frenchwoman-in-the-making or a veiled threat, the Muslim Woman has become emblematic of Frances relationship to those identified as its cultural others. But throughout these debates, and in spite of their scale and passion, one view has been glaringly absent: the view of French Muslim women themselves. Drawing on ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00

1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World
edited by Salim T.S. Al-Hassani
Designed originally as a lively introduction to medieval Islamic science and technology for use in schools, the second edition (the first sold out almost immediately) contains a fuller bibliography and a list of manuscripts used and their locations, and the intention is clearly to make the book available and relevant to a much wider audience. That said, this is still very much for those with little or no knowledge of the subject, but the great ...
Hardback. Price GB £29.50

Medieval Cuisine of the Islamic World: A Concise History with 174 Recipes
by Lilia Zaouali
Vinegar and sugar, dried fruit, rose water, spices from India and China, sweet wine made from raisins and dates - these are the flavors of the golden age of Arab cuisine. This book, a delightful culinary adventure that is part history and part cookbook, surveys the gastronomical art that developed at the Caliph's sumptuous palaces in ninth-and tenth-century Baghdad, drew inspiration from Persian, Greco-Roman, and Turkish cooking, and rapidly ...
Paperback. Price GB £17.95

Islam and the West: A Dissonant Harmony of Civilisations
by Christopher Walker
Based on the premise that, despite the Crusades and the recent war on terrorism, Islam and the west have enjoyed a long history of toleration and mutual influence, Christopher Walker explores changing relations between the two from the appearance of Islam in the 7th century to 1914. Conceived of before the events of 11 September 2001, the book traces how and why the world has in many ways strayed from a spirit of inclusion and acceptance of ...
Hardback. Price GB £20.00

A Landscape of Pilgrimage and Trade in Wadi Masila, Yemen
by Lynne S. Newton
This volume reports on excavations at the site of al-Qisha, an Islamic period settlement in the Mahra region of Yemen. In particular it examines the role of the village as a gateway community linked with the Ba'Abbad of Qabr Hud, the community which ...
Paperback. Price GB £34.00

Kingship and Ideology in the Islamic and Mongol Worlds
by Anne F. Broadbridge
The Middle Ages saw the emergence of the Mongols as an overwhelming military force and a great empire. This study focusing on the years between Chinghiz and Temur looks at their ideology of kingship and the ways in which it was expressed, contrasting this ...
Hardback. Price GB £65.00

Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic World: The Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society
edited by Amira K. Bennison and Alison L. Gascoigne
In recent years the idea of an 'Islamic City' has been repeatedly attacked as orientalist; however the Islamic conquests did occasion change in urban landscapes, if gradual, as this collection of essays bears out. The book has three main themes: urban ...
Hardback. Price GB £70.00

Classic Ships of Islam: From Mesopotamia to the Indian Ocean
by Dionisius A. Agius
This book charts the development of Islamic ships and boats in the Western Indian Ocean from the seventh to the early sixteenth century with reference to earlier periods. It utilizes mainly Classical and Medieval Arabic literary sources with ...
Hardback. Price GB £120.00