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Tadhkirat al-Muluk: A Manual of Safavid Administration
translated and explained by V Minorsky
This work dates from about AD 1725; it was composed a few years after the damage and deaths caused by the Afghan conquest had effectively destroyed the system by which Persia had been administered since the 16th century. Persian text with translation. ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £16.00, Our Price GB £8.95

Late Antiquity: Eastern Perspectives, From the Sasanians to Early Islam
edited by Teresa Bernheimer and Adam Silverstein
In the past four decades since the field of late antique studies began to gather real momentum, scholars have debated the place of early Islam within the late antique world, particularly in relation to the issue of where and when 'Late Antiquity' ends. ...
Hardback. Price GB £39.00

Ayyubids and Early Rasulids in the Yemen (567-694 AH 1173-1295 AD)
by G R Smith
This chronicle is the fullest and best historical source fro the conquest of Yemen to the end of the 13th century. In two volumes: Vol. I contains a critical edition of the Arabic text of Kitab al-Simt al-Ghali al-Thaman fi Akhbar al-Muluk min al-Ghuzz ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £40.00, Our Price GB £14.95

The manuscript of al-Malik al-Afdal
edited by Daniel Martin Varisco and G Rex Smith
The author's talents spanned many disciplines and this is a collection of works on agriculture, animals, astrology, astronomy, biography, calendars, crops, genealogies, geography, grammar, lexicography, mathematics, medicine, taxes, timekeeping, warfare ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £65.00, Our Price GB £19.95

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

Averroes: Tahafut al Tahafut (The Incoherence of the Incoherence)
translated by Simon van den Bergh
Ibn Rushd, known to Christian Europe as Averroes, came from Córdoba in Spain and lived from 1126 to 1198. He is regarded as the last great Arab philosopher in the Classical tradition, and, under the patronage of the Almohad ruler Abu Ya'quib Yusuf, was a very prolific one. The Tahafut al-Tahafut, written not long after 1180, is his major work and the one in which his original philosophical doctrine is to be found. It takes the form of a ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00