Archaeology
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Ancient Mosaic Pavements: Themes, Issues and Trends [Hardback]
Rachael Hachlili (Author)
£280.00ISBN: 9789004167544
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This publication is engaged in issues, trends, and themes depicted on mosaic pavements discovered in Israel, the Gaza Strip and Petra (the provinces of ancient Palaestina Prima, Secunda and Tertia) with comparable floors in Jordan (Arabia). The... .... Learn More -
Sources for the Study of the School of Nisibis [Paperback]
Adam H. Becker (Author)
£18.95ISBN: 9781846311611
Published by : Liverpool University Press
This volume offers annotated translations of several of the most important sources for the study of the history of the School of Nisibis, the most prominent centre of learning in the Church of the East (the 'Nestorian' church of the Sasanian Em... .... Learn More -
Petra - The Mountain of Aaron 1: The Church and the Chapel [Hardback]
Z.T Fiema (Author);Jaako Frosen (Author)
£165.00ISBN: 9789516533646
Published by : Finnish Academy of Sciences
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 i... .... Learn More -
Historical Topography of Samarra [Paperback]
A. Northedge (Author)
Regular Price: £40.00
Special Price: £10.00
ISBN: 9780903472227
Published by : British Institute for the Study of Iraq
Series: Samarra Studies
Volume: 1
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... .... Learn More -
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Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean: 6 - The Egyptian Dynasties [Hardback]
Norman D. Nicol (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781854442109
Published by : Ashmolean Museum Publications
This volume contains nearly 1600 coins of the 9th-16th centuries from North Africa to Great Syria. It covers the following dynasties: Tulunids, Ikhshidids, Fatamids, Ayyubids, Zengids and Mamluks. .... Learn More -
Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran [Hardback]
Beatrice Forbes Manz (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9780521865470
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Beatrice Forbes Manz uses the history of Iran under the Timurid ruler Shahrukh (1409-1447) to analyze the relationship between government and society in the medieval Middle East. She provides a rich portrait of Iranian society over an exception... .... Learn More -
Adamgirk': The Adam Book of Arak'el of Siwnik' [Hardback]
Michael Edward Stone (Author)
Regular Price: £65.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780199204779
Published by : Oxford University Press
This is the first English translation of the major Armenian epic on Adam and Eve composed by Arak'el of Siwnik' in the early fifteenth century. Arak'el writes extremely powerful narrative poetry, as in his description of the brilliance of parad... .... Learn More -
The Mongol Art of War [Hardback]
Timothy May (Author)
Regular Price: £19.99
Special Price: £7.95
ISBN: 9781844154760
Published by : Pen & Sword Books Ltd
May describes the mae-up of the Mongol army from its inception to the demise of the Mongol Empire, and examines the recruitment, arming and training of the Mongol warroir. He also analyses the organisation, tactics and strategies the Mongols us... .... Learn More -
Islamic Crosspollinations: Interactions in the Medieval Middle East [Hardback]
James Montgomery (Author); Anna Akasoy (Author); Peter E. Pormann (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780906094556
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
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 themsel... .... Learn More