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London Barnaby Rogerson 9781903651032
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.45London's poetry ranges from the up-beat rap of Benjamin Zephaniah to Wordsworth's dawn sigh over the beauty of Westminster Bridge, from half-charred lines of Anglo-Saxon to yesterday's lyrics... -
The Prophet Muhammad: A Biography by Barnaby Rogerson 9780349115863
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The Prophet Muhammad is a hero for all mankind. In his lifetime he established a new religion, Islam; a new state, the first united Arabia; and a new literary language, the classical Arabic of the... -
A Book Full of Rogersons Barnaby Rogerson 9781900209205
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.06The English tend either to look towards the Lord in his moated castle or the poor peasant at his gate, to polarise between nob and mob, capitalist and communist. This book takes us into another... -
On Travel and the Journey Through Life Barnaby Rogerson 9781780602042
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40This collection On Travel is clever, funny, provoking and confrontational by turn. In a pyrotechnic display of cracking one- liners, cynical word play and comic observation, it mines three thousand... -
Marrakesh Lavington 9780907871996
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10This book features, perhaps the most fashionable, talked about, photographed city in Africa, which is home to Yves St. Laurent, the Bransons and others.Book InformationISBN 9780907871996Author... -
The Prophet Muhammad: How Islam was Born by Barnaby Rogerson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187882Author Barnaby RogersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint
Meetings With Remarkable Muslims Rose Baring 9780955010507
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10This collection of travel writing celebrates friendship and the chance encounters that unexpectedly enrich our lives, which shows the diversity of the Islamic world and the way in which it continues...
The Last Crusaders: East, West and the Battle for the Centre of the World by Barnaby Rogerson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The Last Crusaders is about the titanic contest between Hadsburg-led Christendom and the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the last great conflict between East and West - the...
The Heirs Of The Prophet Muhammad: And the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism by Barnaby Rogerson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to...
The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East by Barnaby Rogerson 9781781257258
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37Recommended on The Rest is Politics and Empire 'A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance' Rory Stewart ...
The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East by Barnaby Rogerson 9781639366965
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £21.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639366965Author Barnaby RogersonFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint
The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East Barnaby Rogerson 9781781257265
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance' Rory Stewart 'Rogerson is an original - eloquent and always...
In Search of Ancient North Africa: A History in Six Lives by Barnaby Rogerson 9781912208784
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51For 40 years, Barnaby Rogerson has travelled across North Africa, making sense of the region's complex and fascinating history as both a writer and a guide. Throughout that time, there have always...
Syria Marius Kociejowski 9780907871842
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10This exciting new series will bring together both classic texts and the writing of the leading Travel writers working today, which will inform and inspire the inquisitive traveller. It is an...
Critical Muslim 14: Power by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88Ziauddin Sardar explores the limits of power, Barnaby Rogerson is enchanted with the notion of governance in the life of Prophet Muhammad, Bruce Lawrence deconstructs the idea of AoIslamic State',...
Let It Come Down by Paul Bowles 9780141182209
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Let It Come Down, with its title from Macbeth, tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to identify himself, and his...
Morocco: The Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges by Marvine Howe 9780195169638
Booksplease Price: £36.85In Morocco, Marvine Howe, a former correspondent for The New York Times presents an incisive and comprehensive review of the Moroccan kingdom and its people, past and present. It addresses emerging...![Brazil by Michael Palin 9780297866268 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9705383/10722079/9780297866268__73076.1781362317.jpg?c=1 "Brazil by Michael Palin 9780297866268 [USED COPY]")
Brazil by Michael Palin 9780297866268 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.61Michael Palin, the No. 1 bestselling author, explores an exotic country now a global superpower. Brazil is one of the four new global super powers with its vast natural resources and burgeoning...
Critical Muslim 06: Reclaiming Al-Andalus by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88Ziauddin Sardar sides with the philosophers of al-Andalus in their struggle with orthodox theologians, Robin Yassin-Kassab goes on a poetic journey, Nazry Bahrawi reveals how the Andalusi...
Don McCullin: Journeys across Roman Asia Minor by Don McCullin 9780995756670
Booksplease Price: £95.49'Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures' - Don McCullin ...
Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World by James Mather 9780300170917
Booksplease Price: £33.01The fascinating, forgotten story of when Europe and Islam first met Long before they came as occupiers, the British were drawn to the Middle East by the fabled riches of its trade and the enlightened...
Meander: East to West along a Turkish River by Jeremy Seal
Booksplease Price: £13.16The course of the Meander is so famously indirect that the river's name has come to signify digression - an invitation Jeremy Seal is duty-bound to accept while travelling the length of it in a...
Riding Through War and Peace Michael Pugh 9781846894398
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.61Summer 2014. Crimea has been seized; death and destruction are running wild in eastern Ukraine. Michael Pugh has heard the rumble of dragons awakening, and despite the splendour of life as an expat...
People of the Book: Prophet Muhammad's Encounters with Christians by Craig Considine
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80The Christians that lived around the Arabian Peninsula during Muhammad's lifetime are shrouded in mystery. Some of the stories of the Prophet's interactions with them are based on legends and myths,...
Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City by Philip Mansel
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.54A poignant testament to the city shattered by Syria's civil war. Aleppo lies in ruins, a casualty of Syria's brutal civil war. Its streets are cloaked in darkness, its population scattered, its...
Re-Orienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East by G. Maclean 9781403992338
Booksplease Price: £90.17This book explores how the Renaissance entailed a global exchange of goods, skills and ideas between East and West. In chapters ranging from Ottoman history to Venetian publishing, from portraits of...
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization by Justin Marozzi
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'Outstanding, illuminating, compelling ... a riveting read' Peter Frankopan, Sunday Times Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals,...
Brazil by Michael Palin 9781474625807
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Once a traveller, always a traveller, and as long as there were maps and guide books and airline schedules I was still fatally susceptible to the lure of the open road . . .'Brazil: a growing global...
The Hotel Years: Wanderings in Europe between the Wars Joseph Roth 9781783788477
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12'A hugely significant and wonderfully haunting collection' William Boyd In the 1920s and 1930s, Joseph Roth travelled extensively in Europe, living in hotels and writing about the towns through...
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia by Sam Dalrymple 9781324123781
Booksplease Price: £30.20As recently as 1928, a vast swath of Asia stretching from the Red Sea to the borders of Thailand was bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the "Indian Empire"...![Brazil by Michael Palin 9781780220864 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9727702/10744352/9781780220864__67189.1781396271.jpg?c=1 "Brazil by Michael Palin 9781780220864 [USED COPY]")
Brazil by Michael Palin 9781780220864 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £1.99Michael Palin, the No.1 bestselling author, explores an exotic country that is now a global superpower. Brazil is one of the four new global super powers with its vast natural resources and...
Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman by Minoo Dinshaw
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.38'An extraordinary book ... exceptionally fascinating, always readable and penetratingly intelligent' David Abulafia'As rich, funny and teemingly peopled as Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of...
Hall of a Thousand Columns Tim Mackintosh-Smith 9780719565878
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception: for them, there were lies, damned lies, and Ibn Battutah's India.Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his...
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.08A SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR "Masterly and brilliant"-Simon Sebag Montefiore "A book of vast scope and stunning insight."-Anthony Sattin, Spectator "Commanding erudition and a...
A Coup in Turkey: A Tale of Democracy, Despotism and Vengeance in a Divided Land by Jeremy Seal
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74The most dramatic, revealing and little-known story in Turkey's history - which illuminates the nation'Through the spellbinding career of a single, ill-fated leader, Jeremy Seal illuminates a...
Tazmamart: 18 Years in Morocco's Secret Prison by Aziz BineBine 9781912208883
Booksplease Price: £15.88This is the true story of Aziz BineBine who, unwittingly entangled in a failed coup against King Hassan II, found himself locked in a small, underground cell in a prison thought to be a mere horror...
Britain and the Islamic World, 1558-1713 by Gerald MacLean 9780199203185
Booksplease Price: £77.34Before they had an empire in the East, the British travelled into the Islamic world to pursue trade and to form strategic alliances against the Catholic powers of France and Spain. First-hand...
The Marches by Rory Stewart
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Rory Stewart explores his love for the UK in this account of history, memory and landscape as he traverses the the borderlands between England and Scotland.'This beautifully written book is a...
Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society by Leor Halevi
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £106.53In his probing study of the role of death rites in the making of Islamic society, Leor Halevi imaginatively plays prescriptive texts against material culture and advances new ways of interpreting...
Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society by Leor Halevi 9780231137430
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.23In his probing study of the role of death rites in the making of Islamic society, Leor Halevi imaginatively plays prescriptive texts against material culture and advances new ways of interpreting...