Islamic World & Culture
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The Near West: Medieval North Africa Latin Europe and the Mediterranean in the Second Axial Age [Hardback]
Allen J. Fromherz (Author)
Regular Price: £70.00
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ISBN: 9780748642946
Published by : Edinburgh University Press
While scholarship in English has focused on correspondence, commerce and travel from West to East, there were also important cultural bridges being crossed between North Africa and Europe: this book will document this neglected history. It begins ... .... Learn More -
Water and Technology in Levantine Society 1300-1900: An Historical Archaeological and Architectural Analysis [Paperback]
Charlotte Schriwer (Author)
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ISBN: 9781407313863
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2728
The main aim of this project was to document as many existing structures as possible due to the rapid development of rural areas, and a fear that these important historical features of the landscape would soon disappear. The book contains a detail... .... Learn More -
Travellers in Ottoman Lands [Paperback]
Ines Asceric-Todd (Editor); Sabina Knees (Editor); Janet Starkey (Editor); Paul Starkey (Editor)
Regular Price: £60.00
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ISBN: 9781784919153
Published by : Archaeopress
This collection of around twenty papers has its origins in a two-day seminar organised by the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) in conjunction with the Centre for Middle Eastern Plants at the Royal Botanic Gar... .... Learn More -
World of the Fatimids [Hardback]
Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani (Editor)
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ISBN: 9783777430379
Published by : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
This survey in 14 essays of Fatimid art between the 10th and 12th centuries showcases the pottery, rock crystal, metalwork, textile, architectural, wood, and calligraphic creations of one of t he most artistically inventive periods in Islamic cult... .... Learn More -
Routledge Handbook on Jerusalem [Hardback]
Suleiman A. Mourad (Editor); Bedross Der Matossian (Editor); Naomi Koltun-Fromm (Editor)
Regular Price: £165.00
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ISBN: 9781138936935
Published by : Routledge
Few cities around the world transcend their physical boundaries the way Jerusalem does. As the spiritual capital of monotheism, Jerusalem has ancient roots and legacies that have imposed themselves on and accompanied its inhabitants throughout the... .... Learn More -
Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam [Hardback]
Lev E. Weitz (Author)
Regular Price: £54.00
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ISBN: 9780812250275
Published by : University of Pennsylvania 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 -
Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture [Hardback]
Eve Krakowski (Author)
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ISBN: 9780691174983
Published by : Princeton University Press
Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movements of great men. How did women participate in the societies these texts describe? What about non-Mus... .... Learn More -
Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History [Hardback]
Matthew S. Gordon (Editor); Kathryn A. Hain (Editor)
Regular Price: £71.00
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ISBN: 9780190622183
Published by : Oxford University Press
Concubines and Courtesans contains sixteen essays that consider, from a variety of viewpoints, enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history. The essays bring together arguments regarding slavery, gender, social ne... .... Learn More -
The Most Noble of People: Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Identity in Muslim Spain [Hardback]
Jessica Coope (Author)
Regular Price: £49.50
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ISBN: 9780472130283
Published by : University of Michigan Press
The Most Noble of People presents a nuanced look at questions of identity in Muslim Spain under the Umayyads, an Arab dynasty that ruled from 756 to 1031. With a social historical emphasis on relations among different religious and ethnic groups, ... .... Learn More -
Power, Politics and Tradition in the Mongol Empire and the Ilkhanate of Iran [Hardback]
Michael Hope (Author)
Regular Price: £66.00
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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
