Islam & the Middle East

ISBN: 9781907586163
Published by : MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
Series: MoLA Monograph
Volume: 66
Excavations at Plantation Place provided evidence for medieval and early post-medieval occupation of an entire block in the eastern part of the City of London near the Thames waterfront. Contemporary ground surfaces and buildings ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780906094129
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
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 translat... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780718902360
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
The Ta'rikh-i-Jahan-Gusha or History of the World-Conqueror is one of the most valuable sources for the life of Chingiz Khan and the establishment of the Mongol Empire. The Juwaynis, an established secretarial family of North-East Persia, made th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843838036
Published by : Boydell Press
This book charts the continuing war between Britain and France on the one side and the Turkish Empire on the other following the British capture of Jerusalem in 1917. It outlines how the British prepared for their advance, bringing in Indian and A... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780906094433
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies
The description of his mission to the court of the Shah Tahmasp I of Persia by the Venetian Michele Membre is one of the most informative as well as one of the most individual of the few European accounts of 16th century Persia. .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781898592075
Published by : Azimuth Editions
This volume surveys the Persian miniature and associated arts held in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. The most comprehensive catalogue yet of these collections, it comprises more than 400 works dating from the 15th to t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843837596
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
Volume: 25
The patronage of Benedictine art and architecture, and the circumstances that made it possible and desirable, reveal much about the ambitions, beliefs and allegiances of both the order and those who interacted with it; moreover, analysis of such p... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780904220681
Published by : Oxford Archaeology
Series: Oxford Archaeology Monograph
Volume: 16
Excavations along the new road line have revealed nearly 6000 years of human activity, from a massive marker post erected by early Neolithic farmers at the head of a dry valley to a bizarre burial of several different animals dati... .... Learn More

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ISBN: 9780906094532
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
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 ... .... Learn More