Writing History in the Medieval Islamic World: The Value of Chronicles as Archives, Paperback - Fozia Bora

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

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

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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...

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...

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In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the ...

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