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Bloodstone by Tim Mackintosh-Smith 9789927118555
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84The year is 1368 and Granada is under threat from violent extremists. Enter Abu Abdallah, the penniless globetrotter who has had wives and concubines on three continents but is still searching for... -
Yemen Tim Mackintosh-Smith 9780719597404
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Our ideas of the Arabian Peninusula have been hijacked: by images of the desert, by oil, by the Gulf War. But there is another Arabia.For the classical geographers Yemen was a fabulous land where... -
Arabes, Los by Tim Mackintosh-Smith 9788418217586
Booksplease Price: £40.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788418217586Author Tim Mackintosh-SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 832Imp -
The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and getting as far north as... -
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... -
Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam from Zanzibar to the Alhambra Tim Mackintosh-Smith 9780719567780
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments and easyJet. It meant travelling the known world to its limits. Seven centuries on,... -
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah Tim Mackintosh-Smith 9781848546752
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, travelling three times the... -
Travels with a Tangerine: From Morocco to Turkey in the Footsteps of Islam's Greatest Traveler by Tim Mackintosh-Smith 9780812971644
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971644Author Tim Mackintosh-SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Im -
The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.23Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return... -
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire by Jason Goodwin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Perhaps the most readable history ever written' Time OutLords of the Horizons charts the Ottoman Empire's swirling epic history; dramatic - detailed and alive - a journey, and a world all in one.The... -
Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Determination, grit and humour shine through' Lindsey Hilsum, ObserverNineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind... -
Accounts of China and India by Abu Zayd Al-Sirafi
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-life background to the Sinbad tales. An exceptional... -
A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years by ʿabd Al-Laṭīf Al-Baghdādī 9781479806249
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century Egypt A Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a... -
Of Sea and Sand by Denyse Woods 9789774168031
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.83"Gabriel Sherlock arrives in Oman in 1982, fleeing shame and disaster back home in Ireland, and begins an intense affair with a woman whom no one else has seen. Locals insist she must be one of the... -
A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years by ʿabd Al-Laṭīf Al-Baghdādī 9781479820078
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.55Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century Egypt A Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a... -
Ibn Battuta: The Journey of a Medieval Muslim by Edoardo Albert 9781847740472
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.92Ibn Battuta was no ordinary traveller. Between 1325 CE when he set off and 1354 CE when he finally returned home to stay, he had visited about 40 modern countries and travelled roughly 75,000 miles,... -
Two Arabic Travel Books: Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga by Abu Zayd Al-Sirafi
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £33.16Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation... -
The Prophet's Heir: The Life of Ali Ibn Abi Talib by Hassan Abbas
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.99The life and legacy of one of Mohammad's closest confidants and Islam's patron saint: Ali ibn Abi Talib Ali ibn Abi Talib is arguably the single most important spiritual and intellectual authority in... -
The Dissenters Youssef Rakha 9781913512675
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Amna, Nimo, Mouna - these are all names for a single Egyptian woman whose life has mirrored that of her country. After her death in 2015, her son, Nour, climbs to the attic of their house where he... -
Empire and Jihad: The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920 by Neil Faulkner
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62A panoramic, provocative account of the clash between British imperialism and Arab jihadism in Africa between 1870 and 1920 "An epic account of the British Empire's activities in Africa and the... -
The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East Barnaby Rogerson 9781781257265
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'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... -
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 ... -
Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul by Taran Khan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'A fabulous piece of writing . . . I recommend it unreservedly' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A brilliant book' CHRISTINA LAMB, author of Farewell KabulOne of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul... -
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,...