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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Few cities around the world transcend their physical boundaries the way Jerusalem does. As the spiritual capital of monotheism, Jerusalem has ancient roots and legacies that have imposed themselves on its inhabitants throughout the centuries. In modern times, and aside from all the religious complexities,...
In the Beginning: Hijacking of the Religion of God
Volume 3: Islam
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Preface
It was shortly after I had graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1980, with a PhD Degree specializing in fracture mechanics and failure analysis of materials and structures, that I discovered the dire need for this book. This undertaking began to take shape in the early 1980s...
The Millennial Sovereign
Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
At the end of the sixteenth century and the turn of the first Islamic millennium, the powerful Mughal emperor Akbar declared himself the most sacred being on earth. The holiest of all saints and above the distinctions of religion, he styled himself as the messiah reborn. Yet the Mughal emperor was...
Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World
Transmission, Transformation and Communication
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Incorporating a rich series of case-studies covering a range of geographical areas, this collection of essays examines the history of modern intellectuals in the Islamic world throughout the twentieth century. The contributors reassess the typology and history of various scholars, providing significant...
by Ludwig Salvator
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria is an amazing accout of the Middle East from the late 19th century,
by Lonely Planet, Jessica Lee, Anthony Sattin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher*
Lonely Planet’s Egypt is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Wonder at the construction of the Pyramids of Giza, wander through the columned halls...
by Cary Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
How should we understand the international debate about the future of Israel and the Palestinians? Can justice be achieved in the Middle East? Until now, there was no single place for people to go to find detailed scholarly essays analyzing proposals to boycott Israel and the Boycott, Divestment, and...
by Farhad Daftary
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
The Ismailis represent an important Shiʿi Muslim community with rich intellectual and literary traditions. The complex history of the Ismailis dates back to the second/eighth century when they separated from other Shiʿi groups under the leadership of their own imams. Soon afterwards, the Ismailis...
Reading the Middle Ages
Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions—thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative introductions, and close integration with A Short History of the Middle Ages—and adds significant new materials, especially on the Byzantine and Islamic...
Reading the Middle Ages Volume I
From c.300 to c.1150
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions—thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative introductions, and close integration with A Short History of the Middle Ages—and adds significant new materials, especially on the Byzantine and Islamic...
Reading the Middle Ages Volume II
From c.900 to c.1500
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions—thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative introductions, and close integration with A Short History of the Middle Ages—and adds significant new materials, especially on the Byzantine and Islamic...
The Fire, the Star and the Cross
Minority Religions in Medieval and Early Modern Iran
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2006
Contemporary political events have generated a strong interest in minorities in the Middle East. Although today the region is mostly identified with Islam, it has been home to many other great cultures, and the civilization of the Islamic world is itself indebted to the various peoples that the Arabs...
The Palestinians
Myths and Martyrs
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Johannes Gerloff, born in 1963, is a professional journalist, a studied theologian and he is German. With all that carries with it in relation to Germany’s past history with the Jewish people – culminating in the Holocaust during the NA ZI regime in WWII – it is that much more significant that...
Israeli Nationalism
Social conflicts and the politics of knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The question of nationalism centres around the political, social, and cultural ways by which the concept and practice of a nation is constructed, and what it means to its various bearers. This book examines the issue of Jewish-Israeli nationalism, combining a sociological study of national culture...