History
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World of the Fatimids [Hardback]
Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani (Editor)
Regular Price: £52.00
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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 -
Islam: An Illustrated Journey [Hardback]
Farhad Daftary (Author); Zulfikar Hirji (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781898592358
Published by : Azimuth Editions
Beginning in the world of late antiquity and the pre-Islamic period, the book takes the reader through Islam’s formative era and early development in the Arabian Peninsula, the rise and decline of major Muslim dynasties and finally into its place ... .... Learn More -
Mázandarán and Astarábád [Paperback]
H. L. Rabino (Author); Charles Melville (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 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 1908 and the other between Nove... .... Learn More -
Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History [Hardback]
Matthew S. Gordon (Editor); Kathryn A. Hain (Editor)
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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 -
Ethics and Poetry in Sixth-Century Arabia [Hardback]
Nadia Jamil (Author)
£46.00ISBN: 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 -
The Geographical Part of the Nuzhat al-qulūb [Paperback]
Ḥamd-Allāh Mustaufī (Author); Guy Le Strange (Author); Charles Melville (Author)
£38.00ISBN: 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 translation of Mu... .... 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 -
Introduction à l’Histoire des Mongols de Fadl Allah Rashid ed-din [Paperback]
Edgard Blochet (Author); Charles Melville (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 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 published as volume XII in the E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Series. T... .... Learn More -
The Most Noble of People: Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Identity in Muslim Spain [Hardback]
Jessica Coope (Author)
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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)
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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
