Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World, Hardback - Professor Michelle Karnes

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Michelle KarnesNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 236 x 25C...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Michelle KarnesNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 20C...

In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses...

Describing various aspects of life in complex historical eras - cultural, social, religious, and political, this work details such day-to-day activ...

Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights' by Medieval Arabs, as were cross eyes, lameness an...

Reducere. In the 'encyclopaedic' fourteenth century, Arabic chronicles produced in Mamluk cities bore textual witness to both recent and bygone history, incl...

Publisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(s): Maribel FierroNumber of pages: 192Collection: Makers of the Muslim WorldPublication date: 2021Dimensions...

Reducere. Did you know that religious festivals are not limited to Christmas and the Holy Week? There's also Diwali and Ramadan and so on. Different religion...

A comprehensive, rigorous analysis of all the significant medieval Islamic and Jewish proofs for the eternity of the world, the creation of the wor...

This book offers a fresh perspective on religious culture in the medieval Middle East. It investigates the ways Muslims thought about and practiced...

Provocative new investigation into the shadowy figure of Gildas, his influence and representation.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Stephen...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor William N. WestNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 237 x 25C...

In over 170 duotone images, this title exposes an inside view of a world seen by very few people in the West. Focusing on the resurgence of Islam e...

Focussing on the many exchanges and the rich relationships that these intersections have created from the modernist to the postmodernist period, th...

This book explores the relationship between transnational and local Islam as expressed in public discourse and policy-making, as represented in the...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 242Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 157 x 233 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Amand...

Focusing on the works of 'Abdisho' of Nisibis, bishop and polymath of the Church of the East, this study examines the intellectual strategies emplo...

Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa examines Islamic legal responses to Muslims living under Christian rule in ...

The various objects chosen by the author tell the story of the conflicts which shaped the nature of the Western World known today, both in spiritua...

An exploration of how AEthelwold and those he influenced deployed the promotion of saints to implement religious reform.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer...

Medieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. What ideological purposes did these...

Publisher: CornerstoneAuthor(s): Lianne DillsworthNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 223 x 40Cover type: HardbackRedescope...

Venture into the great outdoors, switch off from your busy life and identify the wonders of the night sky.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): A...

Portugal is a country that has sometimes been dismissed as small and relatively unimportant. This title demonstrates that the contrary is true, sho...

The story of how Latin and Arabic spread across the Mediterranean to create a cosmopolitan world of letters.Publisher: The University of Chicago Pr...

A controversial and outspoken book debunking the popular theory that Islam and the West are irreconcilable enemies, showing how in truth they share...

A comprehensive study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern worldPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Professor James Walvi...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Hamid DabashiIllustration(s): 3 b-w photosNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...

Margarita Fajardo tells the story of the cepalinos, Latin American economists and policymakers, and their dependentista critics, whose ideas about ...

An exploration of the culture of public speaking in the Iberian world, which places the classical rhetorical tradition within the context of Iberia...

Al-Ghazali is arguably one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Islam, and his writings have received greater scholarly attention in ...

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Pigs were an integral part of society in the medieval West. Historian Jamie Kreiner demonstrates how the working relationships between humans and p...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A timely reconsideration of the life and times of one of the West's most prominent Muslim converts.Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdNumber of ...