Islam & the Middle East
The world of Islam from its seventh century beginnings expanding westwards to Spain and eastwards throughout the Near East to India and central Asia, covering art and architecture, history, archaeology, religion and philosophy
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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)
Regular Price: £65.00
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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 -
Coherence of the Incoherence: Between Al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd on Nature and the Cosmos [Hardback]
Edward Moad (Author)
£99.00ISBN: 9781463244972
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Islamic History and Thought
Volume: 33
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Coherence of the Incoherence: Between Al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd on Nature and the Cosmos is the first of a two-part critical examination of the seminal debate carried out in the pages of Ghazali’s Incoherence of the Philosophers and Ibn Ru... .... Learn More -
The Martyrdom of Mar Grigor Piran-Gušnasp and The Martyrdom of Mar Yazd-panah [Paperback]
Florence Jullien (Editor)
£61.00ISBN: 9781463244873
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac: Text and Translation
Volume: 8
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In the mid-6th century, Grigor, the general of the Sasanian king’s armies and a converted from Zoroastrianism to Christianity, was put to death. This event brings about the conversion of several Zoroastrian notables such as Yazd-panāh, a judge who... .... Learn More -
A History of the Study of Grammar among the Syrians [Hardback]
Daniel King (Editor)
£87.00ISBN: 9781463241971
Published by : Gorgias Press
An English translation of a Latin work on the Syriac grammatical tradition ('Historia artis grammaticae apud Syros') by the 19th-century German theologian and linguist, Adalbert Merx. .... Learn More -
Victor-Marie de Launay et al. Usul-i Mi’mari-i ‘Osmani: (The Fundamentals of Ottoman Architecture)/ L’architecture ottomane/ Die ottomanische Baukunst, Istanbul: Imprimerie et lithographie centrales, 1873 [Hardback]
Mary Roberts (Editor); Samuel Williams (Editor); Gay McAuley (Editor)
£79.00ISBN: 9781463241704
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Modern Muslim World
Ottoman Architecture is the first modern history of Ottoman architecture written by Ottomans themselves, yet it is little known outside the field of late Ottoman studies. This magnificently-illustrated volume codifies the empire’s architectural hi... .... Learn More -
Critical Edition of Kitāb alsawād al-a‘ẓam by al-Ḥakīm al-Samarqandī (d. 342/953) [Hardback]
Maher Jarrar (Author)
£102.00ISBN: 9781463240776
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Islamic History and Thought
Volume: 27
The important text of Kitāb al-sawād al-a‘ẓam by al-Ḥakīm Muḥammad b. Ismā‘īl al-Samarqandī (d. 342/953) is an early Ḥanafī creed from Transoxania that found consensus among Ḥanafī scholars within the region, and was translated into Persian someti... .... Learn More -
Langage et théologie chez Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī (543/1148): Les informations subtiles de la somme de théorie légale (Nukat al-Maḥṣūl fī ʿilm al-uṣūl) [Hardback]
Ilyass Amharar (Author)
£96.00ISBN: 9781463243845
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Islamic History and Thought
Volume: 31
The Qāḍī Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī was an Ašʿarite theologian, a Maliki jurist and an Andalusian traditionalist of the fifth-sixth / eleventh-twelfth century. His influence in the Muslim West is undeniable: he is one of the most important figures in ... .... Learn More -
Shiʿite Rulers, Sunni Rivals, and Christians in Between: Muslim-Christian Relations in Fāṭimid Palestine and Egypt [Hardback]
Steven Gertz (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9781463244736
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Islamic History and Thought
Volume: 32
The study of sectarianism in Islam and the study of Muslim-Christian relations are both sub-specialities attracting growing numbers of scholars in Islamic studies. Rarely, though, are these two fields put into direct conversation with each other. ... .... Learn More -
Living the Quran with Joy and Purpose: Selections on Tawhid from Said Nursi's Epistles of Light [Paperback]
Yamina Bouguenaya (Author); Isra Yazicioglu (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781463243753
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: The Modern Muslim World
Volume: 10
This volume provides an annotated translation of selections from a noteworthy Muslim theologian Said Nursi (1876-1960) on the Quranic theme of oneness of God (tawhid). Given the scarcity of theological themes in Islamic literature in English as we... .... Learn More -
Rule of Law, ‘Natural Law’, and Social Contract in the Early ‘Abbasid Caliphate: Al-Tabari and the jariri methodology [Hardback]
Ulrika Martensson (Author)
£116.00ISBN: 9781463206499
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Islamic History and Thought
The book analyses all extant works by Ibn Jarir al-Tabari (d. 224/839–310/923), referring to their individual methodologies; their legacy as al- madhhab al-jariri; and their scholarly and socio- political context. Through the study of al- Tabari’s... .... Learn More
