Islam
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The Portrait of Abū i-Qāsim al-Baghdādī al-Tamīmī [Hardback]
Abū l-Muṭahhar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Azdī(Author); Emily Sealove(Editor); Geert Jan van Gelder(Editor)
$150.00ISBN: 9781913604042
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
New translation and commentary on the 11th century tale of a Baghdadi party-crasher in Isfahan. It is introduced by its author as a microcosm of Baghdad. This work, written in prose but containing numerous poems, is widely hailed among scholars as... .... Learn More -
Al-Andalus in Motion: Travelling Concepts and Cross-Cultural Contexts [Hardback]
Rachel Scott(Contributor); AbdoolKarim Vakil(Contributor); Julian Weiss(Editor); Rachel Scott(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781897747384
Published by : King's College London CLAMS
Series: Kings College London Medieval Studies (KCLMS)
Volume: 28
At a time when the discourse of a clash of civilisations has been re-grounded anew in scaremongering and dog-whistle politics over a Hispanic "challenge" to America and a Muslim "challenge" to European societies, and in the con... .... Learn More -
Prophets, Viziers and Philosophers: Wisdom and Authority in Early Arabic Literature [Hardback]
Emily J. Cottrell(Editor)
$140.00ISBN: 9789493194199
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: Ancient Narrative Supplement
Volume: 28
The collection of essays assembled in this volume addresses the models of divine and practical wisdom in some of the earlier Arabic prose texts passed down to us. All essays were initially presented and discussed at an international conference hel... .... Learn More -
Faḍāʾil-i Balkh, or The Merits of Balkh: Annotated translation with commentary and introduction of the oldest surviving history of Balkh in Afghanistan [Hardback]
Arezou Azad(Author); Edmund Herzig(Author); Ali Mir-Ansari(Editor)
$175.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781913604004
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
This is a critical edition and translation of the medieval local history of Balkh, known as Faḍāʾil-i Balkh ("The Merits of Balkh"), which was completed in 610 Hijrī (1214 CE) in Arabic by Shaykh al-Islām Ab$... .... Learn More -
The Tiflis Dirhams of Möngke Khān [Hardback]
Kirk Bennett(Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9780897223652
Published by : American Numismatic Society
Series: Numismatic Notes and Monographs
Volume: 172
The dirhams of Möngke Khān represent the first major emission of silver coinage in Georgia following the Mongol conquest roughly a generation previously. Struck in the Georgian capital city of Tiflis (modern Tbilisi) from the middle of A... .... Learn More -
Mázandarán and Astarábád [Paperback]
Charles Melville(Introduction); H.L. Rabino(Author)
$59.99Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781909724921
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Mázandarán and Astarábád was first published as volume VII of the new series of the E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Series (1928). Much of the data was retrieved in the course of two expeditions by the author, one in spring of 190... .... Learn More -
Ethics and Poetry in Sixth-Century Arabia [Hardback]
Nadia Jamil(Author)
$70.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781909724969
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
The poetry of pre-Islamic Arabia is a neglected tessera in the mosaic of Late Antiquity. It is the only literary corpus of that time that embodies the voices of the Arabs, and is, thus, a critical complementary resource for understanding the histo... .... Learn More -
Introduction à l’Histoire des Mongols de Fadl Allah Rashid ed-din [Paperback]
Edgard Blochet(Author); Charles Melville(Introduction)
$59.99ISBN: 9781909724846
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Edgard Blochet (1870-1937), the French orientalist, left his mark in several areas of Middle Eastern and Asian studies. In 1910 his introduction to Rashīd al-Dīn’s Jāmi‘ al-tawārīkh was publish... .... Learn More -
The Geographical Part of the Nuzhat al-Qulūb [Paperback]
Ḥamd-Allāh Mustaufī(Author); Guy Le Strange(Translator); Charles Melville(Introduction)
$55.00ISBN: 9781909724884
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Guy Le Strange (1854-1933) pioneered the study of the historical geography of the Middle East, and especially Persia, notably in his Lands of the Eastern Caliphate (Cambridge, 1905) and the present work which contains an English t... .... Learn More -
The Travels of Ibn Jubayr [Hardback]
William Wright(Author); M. J. de Goeje(Author)
$49.95ISBN: 9780906094457
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Ibn Jubayr, originally from an Arab family in Spain, is best known for the account he wrote of his journey to the East. The main part of the book covers eight months spent in Mecca and gives one of the fullest early descriptions o... .... Learn More
