Islamic World & Culture
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Politics and Power in Late Fatimid Egypt: The Reign of Caliph al-Mustansir [Hardback]
Kirsten Thomson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781780761671
Published by : I.B. Tauris
The caliph al-Muntasir was the eighth Shi'i Isma'ili Fatimid Caliph, making him both the Isma'ili imam and secular ruler of a vast empire when he came to power in 1036 at the age of seven. However, his political career was one of disaster and decl... .... Learn More -
An Apocalyptic History of the Early Fatimid Empire [Hardback]
Jamel Velji (Author)
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ISBN: 9780748690886
Published by : Edinburgh University Press
How can religion transform a society? This book investigates the ways in which a medieval Islamic movement harnessed Quranic visions of utopia to construct one of the most brilliant and lasting empires in Islamic history (979-1171). The Fatimids' ... .... Learn More -
Power, Politics and Tradition in the Mongol Empire and the Ilkhanate of Iran [Hardback]
Michael Hope (Author)
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ISBN: 9780198768593
Published by : Oxford University Press
This study provides a new interpretation of how political authority was conceived and transmitted in the Early Mongol Empire (1227-1259) and its successor state in the Middle East, the Ikhanate (1258-1335). Authority within the Mongol Empire was i... .... Learn More -
The Last Civilized Place: Sijilmasa and its Saharan Destiny [Paperback]
Ronald A. Messier (Author); James A. Miller (Author)
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ISBN: 9781477311356
Published by : University of Texas Press
Set along the Sahara's edge, Sijilmasa was an African El Dorado, a legendary city of gold. But unlike El Dorado, Sijilmasa was a real city, the pivot in the gold trade between ancient Ghana and the Mediterranean world. Following its emergence as a... .... Learn More -
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 : University of Pennsylvania Press
Islamic societies of the past have often been characterized 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 -
Byzantium and Islam [Hardback]
Helen Evans (Author); Brandie Ratliff (Author)
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ISBN: 9780300179507
Published by : Yale University Press
This groundbreaking volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the ninth century. As the period opened, the Empire's southern provinces-the vibrant, diverse areas of North Af... .... Learn More -
The Heirs of Muhammad [Hardback]
Barnaby Rogerson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781585678969
Published by : Overlook Press
A lively narrative account of the rise and phenomenal expansion of Islam, and of the lives of the first four Caliphs, as well as the split between the Sunni and Shia branches of the religion. .... Learn More -
The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate [Hardback]
Ramzi Rouighi (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812243109
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
The thirteenth century marks a turning point in the history of the western Mediterranean. The armies of Castile and Aragon won significant and decisive victories over Muslims in Iberia and took over a number of important cities including Cordob... .... Learn More -
Looted, Recovered, Returned: Antiquities from Afghanistan [Paperback]
Janet Ambers (Author); C. R. Cartwright (Author); C. Higgitt (Author); D. Hook (Author); St John Simpson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781784910167
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
The “Begram ivories” are widely considered to be miniature masterpieces of Indian art and are one of the largest archaeological collections of ancient ivories. They were excavated at the site of Begram, in northern Afghanistan, in 1937 and 1939 an... .... Learn More -
Beyond Ibn Hawqal’s Bahr al-Fars [Paperback]
Valeria Piacentini Fiorani (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781407312927
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2651
The first section of the present volume is a report of the Italian involvement in Southern Makrān and Kharān, its aims and objects, modus operandi. It is essentially restricted to the Islamic era and represents a discourse preliminary to the secon... .... Learn More
