Islamic World & Culture
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Landscapes of the Islamic World: Archaeology, History and Ethnography [Hardback]
Stephen McPhillips (Editor); Paul D. Wordsworth (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780812247640
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Islamic societies of the past have often been characterised as urban, with rural and other extra-urban landscapes cast in a lesser or supporting role in the studies of Islamic history and archaeology. Yet throughout history, the countryside was fr... .... Learn More -
The Southern Transjordan Edomite Plateau and the Dead Sea Rift Valley: The Bronze Age to the Islamic Period (3800/3700 BC–AD 1917) [Hardback]
Burton MacDonald (Author)
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ISBN: 9781782978329
Published by : Oxbow Books
Burton MacDonald presents an in-depth study of the archaeology and history of human presence over the past five-six thousand years in the southern segment of the Transjordan/Edomite Plateau and the Dead Sea Rift Valley to the west. The evidence fr... .... Learn More -
Age of Transition [Paperback]
Helen C. Evans (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780300211115
Published by : Yale University Press
This volume explores cultural interaction between Christian and Jewish communities and the world of Islam. The eleven essays address such topics as the transmission of Christian imagery in the Mediterranean, icons preserved in the Holy Monastery o... .... Learn More -
The Exceptional Qu'ran: Flexible and Exceptive Rhetoric in Islam's Holy Book [Hardback]
Johanne Christiansen (Author)
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ISBN: 9781463207298
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Islamic History and Thought
Volume: 26
This monograph examines the principle of dispensation in the Qur'an, which seems to be, if not unique, articulated in a new manner compared to previous religions (cf. Deut 12,32). The Qur'anic dispensations have never been systematically studied a... .... Learn More -
Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam [Hardback]
Lev E. Weitz (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812250275
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
In the conventional historical narrative, the medieval Middle East was composed of autonomous religious traditions, each with distinct doctrines, rituals, and institutions. Outside the world of theology, however, and beyond the walls of the mosque... .... Learn More -
The Bronze Age Collective Graves of Qarn al-Harf, Ras al-Khaimah (UAE): Southeast Arabia at the Dawn of the Second Millennium [Hardback]
Derek Kennet (Author); Alyson Caine (Author); Anna Hilton (Author); Lloyd Weeks (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789257953
Published by : Oxbow Books
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The end of the 3rd millennium was a time of significant transformation in south-east Arabia (the United Arab Emirates and northern Oman). The cultural homogeneity of the preceding Early Bronze Age, Umm an-Nar period (c. 2700–2000 BC) came... .... Learn More -
Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur [Hardback]
Richard L. Zettler (Author); Lee Horne (Author)
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ISBN: 9780924171543
Published by : Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
This stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excav... .... Learn More -
Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Volume 2 [Hardback]
David Whitehouse (Author)
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ISBN: 9780872901995
Published by : Corning Museum of Glass
This is the second volume in the catalog of the Islamic glass collection in The Corning Museum of Glass. It is the largest and richest collection of early Islamic glass in the United States. This volume describes and illustrates 482 objects and fr... .... Learn More -
Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine [Hardback]
Jodi Magness (Author)
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ISBN: 9781575060705
Published by : Eisenbrauns
There is a common perception that the Muslim conquest of Palestine in the seventh century caused a decline in the number and prosperity of settlements throughout the country. The role played by archaeology in perpetuating this view, claims Magness... .... Learn More -
Between Revolution and State: The Path to Fatimid Statehood [Hardback]
Sumaiya Hamdani (Author)
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ISBN: 9781850438823
Published by : I.B. Tauris
This book examines the most important writings of a tenth century Islamic theologian and jurist who was one of the most original thinkers of his period. It argues that Qadi al-Nu'man's works constituted new and vital genres in Ismaili Shi'i litera... .... Learn More
