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  • The Algerian Historical Novel

    Linking the Past to the Present and Future

    by Abdelkader Aoudjit ...
    Series Book 68 - Francophone Cultures and Literatures
    During the last thirty years, Algerian novelists have shown and continue to show a marked interest in the history of their country; some of them, however, approach the past in a manner that is significantly different from that of traditional historical novelists. The Algerian Historical Novel: Linking the Past to the Present and Future investigates for precisely what purpose, on what philosophical ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Algerian Literature

    A Reader’s Guide and Anthology

    by Abdelkader Aoudjit ...
    Series Book 66 - Francophone Cultures and Literatures
    The only up-to-date and comprehensive text and reader of Algerian literature available in English, Algerian Literature: A Reader’s Guide and Anthology offers the reader a historical and critical overview of the literature from the early twentieth century to the present, introduces Algerian authors, and provides selections from a wide range of their writings, many translated here for the first time ... Read more

    $125.59 USD

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  • The Classical Age of Islam

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  • Islam in History

    Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East

    by Bernard Lewis ...
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    Series series Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
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  • Ibn Khaldun

    An Intellectual Biography

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  • Jihad in Islamic History

    Doctrines and Practice

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    by Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ...
    Series Book 28 - Library of Arabic Literature
    The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in ArabicMission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia.In this colorful documentary from the tenth century, the enigmatic Ibn Fadlan relates his ... Read more

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    Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies," Bernard Lewis has been for half a century one of the West's foremost scholars of Islamic history and culture, the author of over two dozen books, most notably The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, The Political Language of Islam, and The Muslim Discovery of Europe. Eminent French historian Robert ... Read more

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