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Medieval Near East

A Baghdad Cookery Book
by Muhammad Ibn Al-Hasan Al-Baghdadi, a new translation by Charles Perry
Al-Baghdadi's Kitab al-Tabikh was for a long time the only medieval Arabic Cookery book known to the English-speaking world, thanks to A.J Arberry's path-breaking 1939 translation as `A Baghdad Cookery Book' which was re-issued by Prospect Books in 2001 in Medieval Arab Cookery. For centuries, it has been the favourite Arab cookery book of the Turks. The original manuscript is still in Istanbul, and at some point a Turkish sultan commissioned a ...
Paperback. Price GB £10.00

Historical Topography of Samarra
by Alastair Northedge
This is the first fundamentally new work to come out in half a century on one of the world's most famous Islamic archaeological sites: Samarra, in Iraq. This capital of the Abbasid caliphs in the 9th century is not only one of the largest urban sites worldwide, but also gives us the essence of what the physical appearance of the caliphate was like, for early Baghdad is long lost. Northedge sets out to explain the history and development of this ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £40.00, Our Price GB £10.00

Islamic Crosspollinations: Interactions in the Medieval Middle East
by James Montgomery, Anna Akasoy and Peter E Pormann
Islam as a cultural, intellectual, and religious venture appears in the popular imagination as a monolithic entity. Orientalists of the traditional ilk have tended to describe it in essentialist terms, whilst many fundamentalist Muslims themselves promote their construction of a pure and unadulterated Islamic past, to which they strive to return by purging foreign or unauthentic elements from their religion. Next to these attempts, another more ...
Hardback. Price GB £39.00

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

Charlemagne's Survey of the Holy Land
by Michael McCormick
In Charlemagnes Survey of the Holy Land, Michael McCormick rehabilitates and reinterprets one of the most neglected and extraordinary sources from Charlemagnes revival of the Roman empire: the report of a fact-finding mission to the Christian church of the Holy Land. The roll of documents translated and edited in this volume preserves the most detailed statistical portrait before the Domesday Book of the finances, monuments (including exact ...
Hardback. Price GB £29.95

Emar After the Closure of the Tabqa Dam, Volume I
edited by Uwe Finkbeiner and Ferhan Sakal
This volume presents the first in a series of final reports from the Syrian-German excavations at Meskene Qadima/Emar (Syria). The contributions included in this first volume present the final reports on the Late Roman and Medieval cemeteries (archaeological and anthropological studies) and Environmental Studies (archaeozoological, archaeobotanical, anthracological and C-14 studies) on the Bronze Age Town Emar. 265p b/w illus (Subartu XXV, ...
Paperback. Price GB £75.00

Money, Power and Politics in Early Islamic Syria
edited by John Haldon
The transformation of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire from the middle of the seventh century CE under the impact of Islam has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in recent years, and as more archaeological material becomes available, has been subject to revision and rethinking in ways that radically affect what we know or understand about the area, about state-building and the economy and society of the early Islamic world, and ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00

Die Pflanzlichen Dekorelemente der Elfenbeinskulpturen des Kalifats von Córdoba (Mitte 10. bis Anfang 11. Jahrhundert)
by Christian Ewert
English summary: The life work of the architect and art historian Christian Ewert was the investigation and analysis of west Islamic architectural adornment, from its flowering in the 10th Century through to the 12th Century. His last monograph, completed shortly before his death, expands our perspective by examining a closely related art form: Spanish-Islamic ivory sculptures. With great subtlety, and his usual meticulousness, the author ...
Hardback. Price GB £80.00

The Mongols: From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane
by W.B. Bartlett
In the space of two hundred years, the Mongols built the greatest empire that the world had ever known and then lost it again. At its greatest extent, the lands they held dwarfed those under the control of Rome at its prime whilst the conquests of its founder, Genghis Khan, outshone those of even Alexander the Great. There were few parts of the known world that were not touched by the Mongols in one way or another: China, India, the Middle East, ...
Paperback. Price GB £14.99

Petra - The Mountain of Aaron 1: The Church and the Chapel
by Zbigniew T. Fiema and Jaakko Frosen
This is the first in a new series of reports from the Finnish Jabul Harun Project, which has conducted excavations at a Byzantine monastic complex at Jabul Harun (the Mountain of Aaron) near to Petra. As well as a general overview of the site it presents a detailed report on the church and the chapel, revealing a complex history of construction and restoration, and quite dramatic changes in the architecture of the buildings. Specialist chapters ...
Hardback. Price GB £125.00