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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241492236Author George Warrington SteevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

This edited volume of specially commissioned essays written for the anniversary of `Abdu'l-Baha's journey to America tells the story of this former prisoner's interactions with the white upper echelon of American society as well as his impact on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616101176Author Robert O. FreedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Orange Grove BooksPublisher Orange Grove Books

After his diplomatic sojourn in Syria as consul in Damascus, Richard Francis Burton (1821-90) published, in 1872, this two-volume account of nineteenth-century Syria. It is the result of collaboration with several partners with specific expertise,...

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...

This book explores the history of natural disasters in the Ottoman Empire and the responses to them on the state, communal, and individual levels. Yaron Ayalon argues that religious boundaries between Muslims and non-Muslims were far less significant in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909382077Author Thomas K. MugerditcianFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Gomidas InstitutePublisher Gomidas InstituteWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949445312Author Nicolas GorjestaniFormat HardbackPage Count 702Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 1250g

What is the future of the oil and gas sector in Lebanon? Following the recent discovery of these valuable resources in the southern Mediterranean, including in the Cypriot and Israeli offshore reserves, the possibility of Lebanon also becoming a...

This collection examines the role of Britain in the Islamic world. It offers insight into the social, political, diplomatic, and military issues that arose over the centuries of British involvement in the region, particularly focusing on the nineteenth...

Excavations in the Lower Market in Petra (Jordan), capital of the ancient kingdom of Nabsataea, uncovered the remnants of a monumental pool-complex at the heart of the ancient city. It played an important role in the socio-political life of Petra during...

Eighth- and ninth-century Armenia and Caucasian Albania were largely Christian provinces of the then Islamic Caliphate. Although they formed a part of the Iranian cultural sphere, they are often omitted from studies of both Islamic and Iranian history...

The prophet Muhammad and the early Islamic community radically redefined the concept of time that they had inherited from earlier religions' beliefs and practices. This new temporal system, based on a lunar calendar and era, was complex and required...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241437121Author Archibald J DunnFormat PaperbackImprint 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 9781241198602Author Augustus Henry MounseyFormat PaperbackImprint 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 9781241377113Author Samuel Green Wheeler BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 546Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

The Palestinian Druze are the only Israeli Arabs who are conscripted into the Israeli army today. Based on Israeli military and political documents, this book looks at the origins of the Druze's unique status in Israeli society by telling the story of...

During the formative period of Islam, in the first centuries after Muhammad's death, two particular intellectual traditions emerged, Sunnism and Shi'ism. Sunni Muslims endorsed the historical caliphate, while Shi'i Muslims, supporters of 'Ali, cousin of...

This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies and travellers'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241704018Author Robert Hamilton LangFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

This book explores how medieval and modern Muslim religious scholars ('ulama') interpret gender roles in Qur'anic verses on legal testimony, marriage, and human creation. Citing these verses, medieval scholars developed increasingly complex laws and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241493073Author Emmeline LottFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint 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 9781241162085Author Mary Elizabeth HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241507015Author Patrick O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240910021Author W H BartlettFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

This revisionist account of the history of Islamic political thought from the early to the late medieval period focuses on Ibn Taymiyya, one of the most brilliant theologians of his day. This original study demonstrates how his influence shed new light...

In the early 1850s the French diplomat and engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894) revived earlier French plans to build a canal through the Isthmus of Suez. He saw the immense benefits such a canal would bring, reducing by 3000 miles the distance by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241491567Author James Aitken WylieFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

How did the US become a world power? How did it become involved in the Middle East? What is the history and nature of its 'special relationship' with Israel? Given the increase in tensions in the Middle East, and the United States' involvement in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861549405Author H A HellyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Oneworld PublicationsPublisher Oneworld PublicationsWeight(grams) 463g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646700199Author Jamil Elias KabalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 95g

A study by a team of researchers at the Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. It assesses the strategic ramifications for Israel of military, political, economic and social aspects of the Gulf War, and concludes with a set of...

The Middle East provides a thematic analysis of major forces and trends in contemporary Middle East and a thorough examination of individual countries in the region. This comprehensive anthology, the first in more than two decades, explores the political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956103864Author Henry Ralph CarseFormat PaperbackPage Count 145Imprint Ziggurat Books InternationalPublisher Ziggurat Books InternationalWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870030239Author Robert E. HarkavyFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Carnegie Endowment for International PeacePublisher Brookings...

How did the pre-modern Islamic intellectual tradition conceptualize, produce, and disseminate scientific knowledge? What can we learn about pre-modern Islamic civilizations from the way they examined and studied the universe? In answering these...

What can travelling camels tell us about the history of the interior of the Middle East? In this innovative book Philippe Petriat demonstrates how caravans - groups of travellers, often on trade expeditions, journeying together for mutual protection in...

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Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazālī (1058–1111) was one of the most influential philosophers of the classical Islamic period, with his intellectual innovations spanning the fields of theology, logic, and law. Despite this, contemporary assessments of Ghazālī...

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies.This new history of the Alamut era of the Nizari Ismaili community concentrates on the local politics of the remote mountainous Caspian region. This is where the prominent religious and...