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How was the use of violence against Muslims explained and justified in medieval Islam? What role did state punishment play in delineating the private from the public sphere? What strategies were deployed to cope with the suffering caused by punishment?...

This pioneering study examines the process of reasoning in Islamic law. Some of the key questions addressed here include whether sacred law operates differently from secular law, why laws change or stay the same and how different cultural and historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241562397Author John PiggotFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

From the Arab world comes a love story between an Arab man and an American woman that lasted more than half a century. Their lives spanned both sides of the Jordan River, and their love was tested by the traditions of an ancient and proud Christian tribe...

John Lewis Burckhardt (1784-1817) was a Swiss explorer who is best remembered for his rediscovery of the ancient city of Petra in modern Jordan. In 1809 he was commissioned by the African Association to discover the source of the River Niger. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241512736Author William Rae WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241231835Author Josias Leslie PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

The war of 1948 in Palestine is a conflict whose history has been written primarily from the national point of view. This book asks what happens when narratives of war arise out of personal stories of those who were involved, stories that are still...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241441326Author Henry Baker TristramFormat PaperbackPage Count 716Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Holy war ideas appear among Muslims during the earliest manifestations of the religion. This book locates the origin of Jihad and traces its evolution as an idea with the intellectual history of the concept of Jihad in Islam as well as how it has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241512545Author Marianne PostansFormat PaperbackPage Count 644Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

A prominent civil servant, scientist, and intellectual, Taghi Erani was a pivotal figure in interwar Iran. Witness to two of the major political upheavals in the twentieth century-the rise of Pahlavi and the collapse of the Weimar Republic-he turned from...

The orientalist Edward William Lane (1801-1876) is best remembered for his mighty Arabic-English Lexicon and his classic translation of One Thousand and One Nights. Fascinated by Egypt, he made his first visit in 1825, undertaking a study of Egyptian...

This book is the first in English to survey indigenous knowledge of seasonal, astronomical, and agricultural information in Arab Gulf almanacs. It provides an extensive analysis of the traditional information available, based on local almanacs, Arabic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241520014Author H F Wiber WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

The fallout from the Iraq War in 2003 has been widespread. The US finds itself under siege in Iraq; the Iraqi State is ruled by chaos, corruption and terrorism; and the hunt for weapons of mass destruction has been relentlessly debated in the media...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780390161Author Staff of the Combat Studies InstituteFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Books Express PublishingPublisher Books Express...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241518974Author Frederick Bart HennikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Frederick Burnaby (1842-85) joined the Royal Horse Guards in 1859, but, when not assigned to active duty, he crafted his own adventures. He ballooned across the English Channel, and travelled in Spain, Asia Minor and Russia. He was wounded, and...

John Lewis Burckhardt (1784-1817) was a Swiss explorer who is best remembered for his rediscovery of the ancient city of Petra in modern Jordan. In 1809 he was commissioned by the African Association to discover the source of the River Niger. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938462306Author Jason Criss HowkFormat HardbackPage Count 678Imprint Old Stone PressPublisher Old Stone PressWeight(grams) 1066g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240917808Author Jerome Van Crowninshield SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240912773Author Charles MillingenFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Why do countries celebrate defining religious moments or significant events in their history, and how and why do their leaders select certain events for commemoration and not others? This book is the first systematic study of the role of celebrations and...

Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522-92) was a Flemish herbalist, diplomat and writer. In 1554, Ferdinand I, soon to be Holy Roman Emperor, dispatched him to Suleiman the Magnificent's court as an ambassador to the Ottoman empire, where Busbecq spent years...

The adventurous and unconventional Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839) set off to travel to the East in the early nineteenth century. She had been hostess to her uncle, British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, and after his death she received a...

Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) spent much of his early life as a sailor in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and went on to publish accounts of his extensive travels to India, Palestine and Persia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241487898Author Edmondo De AmicisFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

The Iranian revolution of 1979 not only had an impact on regional and international affairs, but was made possible by the world and time in which it unfolded. This multi-disciplinary volume presents this revolution within its transnational and global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945934339Author Charles Montagu DoughtyFormat HardbackPage Count 678Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 1143g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241225148Author Frederick Arthur NealeFormat PaperbackPage Count 670Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination explores the cultural memory of al-Nakba (1948 Israeli independence, or The Catastrophe as it is known in Palestine) and its significance to the modern Palestinian imagination. Ihab Saloul...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925937565Author Smbat SparapetFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Sophene Pty LtdPublisher Sophene Pty LtdWeight(grams) 517g

This book is a study of how feudalism works in a contemporary Arab society, examining the operations of the hierarchy of Lebanese warlords. The book shows how the warlords have adapted to changing economic conditions in Lebanon. Whereas power was...

Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe considers the various attitudes of European religious and secular writers towards Islam during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Examining works from England, France, Italy, the Holy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241703554Author Walter BesantFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241500771Author John Kerr CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841-1917), was a British statesman and colonial administrator. After a successful career in the War Office he was appointed the Controller General of Egypt in 1879. After the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War, Baring became...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241518639Author Charles Dudley WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 502Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Since 1989 the history of Iraq has been one of the world's most traumatic. In this book, Thabit Abdullah places the Iraqi people at the centre of changes which began with the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and ended with the current American-led occupation...