The Islamic World

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...

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In the history of philosophy, few topics are so relevant to today's cultural and political landscape as philosophy in the Islamic world. Yet, this ...

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The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions--thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative...

DescriptionThe latest in the series based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, this volume presents the first full history of philosophy i...

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DescriptionFew images are as evocative as the silhouette of the Arab dhow as, under full sail, it tacks to windward on glittering waters of Red Sea...

The Secret Order of Assassins The Struggle of the Early Niz r Ism 'l s Against the Islamic World Marshall G. S. Hodgson "The essential work on the ...

In the contemporary world the Islamic community is represented by around 1.4 billion people or twenty-five percent of the global population, from a...

Shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber PrizeIn Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a nove...

Reducere. DescriptionPeople in Western societies have long been interested in their dreams and what they mean. However, few non-Muslims in the West are likel...

The foremost U.S. authority on Islam and, Seyyed Hossein Nasr discusses today's hot button issues--including holy wars, women's rights, the rise of...

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Reducere. Muslims began arriving in the New World long before the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. The first arrivals date to the turn of the sixteenth cent...

Reducere. I began my study of Gog and Magog more than fifteen years ago in the early 90's while resident in New York. My subsequent public lecture on the sub...

An introduction to Islam, today the faith of more than a billion people, set in the context of world history and of religious studies.

A journey inside the hidden world of Islamic finance, from one of the world's leading Islamic finance bankers.

We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely differ...

Publisher: EWI Press LtdNumber of pages: 177Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 210 x 137 x 15Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Hassan Tarom...

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

Yezidi survivors speak out in this important history of persecution and genocidePublisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s): Thomas SchmidingerIllustration(s):...

Reducere. DescriptionThe New World of Islam is the 1922 work by the political theorist Lothrop Stoddard. Theodore Lothrop Stoddard was an American historian,...

DescriptionThe images released by the Islamic State of militants smashing statues at ancient sites were a horrifying aspect of their advance across...

Attitudes toward homosexuality in the premodern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. This title argues that this apparent par...

This book will interest scholars and students of comparative politics, Middle East politics, religion, and collective action. Examining the rise of...

Reducere. In common folklore, angels or malaikah are thought of as good forces of nature, hologram images, or illusions. Western iconography sometimes depict...

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...

The earliest and largest corpus of Christian writings on Islam was written in the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Envisioning Islam shows how these prev...

The earliest and largest corpus of Christian writings on Islam was written in the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Envisioning Islam shows how these prev...

A popular history of the Arab invasions that carved out an empire from Spain to China

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hugh KennedyIn this engaging history, world-renowned historian Hugh Kennedy deftly sews together the stories of the people,...

DescriptionHow did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play i...

Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UKAuthor(s): Burhana IslamNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 10Cover type:...

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...

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

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...

Reducere. The Path of Muhammad: A Book on Islamic Morals & Ethics by Imam Birgivi, Paperback

Reducere. DescriptionIs Islam compatible with democracy? Must fundamentalism win out in the Middle East, or will democracy ever be possible? In this now-clas...

Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward...

In this transnational history of World War II, Kelly Hammond places Sino-Muslims at the centre of imperial Japan's challenges to Chinese nation-bui...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Eivind Heldaas SelandIllustration(s): 25 Halftones, black and white; 25 Illustrations, black and whiteNum...

Reducere. Buzan and Acharya challenge the discipline of International Relations to reimagine itself in the light of the thinking about, and practice of, inte...

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...