Archaeology
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Raqqa III, Baudenkmaler und Palaste 1 [Hardback]
Verena Daiber (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9783805332781
Published by : Philipp von Zabern
This third volume devoted to the Islamic city of ar-Rafiqa in Eastern Syria describes the present buildings and those recently excavated, as well as the details of the royal palace. Text in German and French. Lots of ornamental detail.
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The Formation of Islam. Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 [Hardback]
Jonathan Berkey (Author)
£42.50ISBN: 9780521582148
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Islamic identity and its religious doctrines were not established by the time of the death of the founder Muhammad in 632. Rather, there was a gradual process of religious and authoritarian change and definition, governed and affected by key e... .... Learn More -
The Formation of Islam. Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 [Paperback]
Jonathan Berkey (Author)
£17.99ISBN: 9780521588133
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Islamic identity and its religious doctrines were not established by the time of the death of the founder Muhammad in 632. Rather, there was a gradual process of religious and authoritarian change and definition, governed and affected by key e... .... Learn More -
Excavation of Samarra I: Architecture. Final Report of the First Campaign 1910-1912 [Hardback]
Thomas Leisten (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9783805318778
Published by : Philipp von Zabern
Series: BAGHDADER FORSCHUNGEN
Volume: 20
Excavations carried out in 1911 and 1913 at Samarra in Iraq by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friederich Museum of Berlin comprised `the first large-scale archaeological research on Islamic antiquities'. This volume, in addition to repo... .... Learn More -
Naming Patterns in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem [Paperback]
Iris Shagrir (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781900934114
Published by : Occasional Publications UPR
Anthroponymy, or the study of personal names, is used here to investigate the extent to which Frankish settlers in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem assimilated the practices and traditions of their hosts. Data from legal and commercial documents ... .... Learn More -
Cities and Saints: Sufism and the Transformation of Urban Space in Medieval Anatolia [Hardback]
Wolper (Author)
£49.50ISBN: 9780271022567
Published by : Penn State University Press
Most studies on Sufism, Islam's pain form of mysticism geared towards the knowledge of God, focus on the 13th-century poet Jalal al-Din Rumi. This study, however, looks at the physical world in which Rumi lived and was revered - medieval Anatol... .... Learn More -
L'Ile de Kharg: Une page de l'histoire du Golfe Persique et du monachisme oriental [Paperback]
Marie-Joseph Steve (Author)
£105.00ISBN: 9782940032037
Published by : Recherches et Publications
The island of Kharg lies off the northern coast of the Persian Gulf, its rather isolated location making it a perfect site for a Christian monastery. This report traces the history of Kharg from the 10th century to the present day through the r... .... Learn More -
Album of Armenian Paleography [Hardback]
Michael Stone (Author);Dickran Kouymjian (Author);Henning Lehmann (Author)
£126.75ISBN: 9788772885568
Published by : Aarhus University Press
This enormous album constitutes an important research tool for scholars studying the development of the Armenian script. It presents more than 200 securely dated manuscript pages from archives largely in Erevan, Jerusalem and Venice, photograph... .... Learn More -
The Post-Byzantine Monuments of the Pontos [Hardback]
Anthony Bryer (Author);David Winfield (Author);Selina Ballance (Author);Jane Isaac (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 9780860788645
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
The majority of this book is taken up by a reproduced article originally published as Parts 1-4 in the journal Archeion Pontou , by Anthony Bryer, David Winfield, Selina Ballance and Jane Isaac. This essay studies 68 sites in the former dioceses... .... Learn More -
The History of Medicine in Jerusalem [Paperback]
Zohar Amar (Author)
£22.00ISBN: 9781841714127
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR Archaeopress
Volume: 1032
In its time, Jerusalem has been ruled by some of the world's greatest cultures and many of these have contributed to medical science. This study touches on historical evidence from Biblical and Classical Jerusalem but the emphasis is firmly on ... .... Learn More