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  • Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy

    Bal'ami's Tarikhnamah

    by A.C.S. Peacock ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey
    The Tarikhnamah is a history of the world and the oldest surviving work of Persian prose. This book examines it as a political and cultural document and why it became such an influential work in the Islamic world. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia

    by A.C.S. Peacock, Bruno De Nicola ...
    Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia offers a comparative approach to understanding the spread of Islam and Muslim culture in medieval Anatolia. It aims to reassess work in the field since the 1971 classic by Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization which treats the process of transformation from a Byzantinist perspective. Since then, research ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World

    Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation

    by D.G. Tor, Professor A.C.S. Peacock ...
    Series series British Institute of Persian Studies
    A.C.S. Peacock is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews, and holds a PhD in Oriental Studies from Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is the author of Early Seljuq History: A New Interpretation (2010), and is the co-editor of The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East (I.B.Tauris, 2012) and Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran: Art, ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Early Seljuq History

    A New Interpretation

    by A.C.S. Peacock ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey
    This book investigates the early history of the Seljuq Turks, founders of one of the most important empires of the mediaeval Islamic world, from their origins in the Eurasian steppe to their conquest of Iran, Iraq and Anatolia. The first work available in a western language on this important episode in Turkish and Islamic history, this book offers a new understanding of the emergence of this major ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    For many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed, as the ... Read more

    $25.09 USD

  • Islam in History

    Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    From secular-minded autocrats like Saddam Hussein to religious fundamentalists like Osama bin Laden, powerful voices in the Islamic world have been united by a fierce hatred of the West. If we want to know why they think the way they do, we have to understand the history of Islam and its continuous interactions with the West.This masterly collection of essays by a leading expert on Islam and the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Muslim Discovery of Europe

    by Bernard Lewis, Ph.D. ...
    "Full of rare and exact information…A distinguished work." —New York Review of BooksThe eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came together, through trade and war, crusade and diplomacy. The ebb and flow between these two worlds for seven hundred years, illuminated here by a brilliant historian, is ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Mongols and the Islamic World

    From Conquest to Conversion

    by Peter Jackson ...
    An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam during the years of non-Muslim rule The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Genghis Khan and his warriors overran Central Asia and devastated much of Iran. Distinguished historian Peter Jackson offers a fresh and fascinating consideration of the years of ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Between Two Worlds

    The Construction of the Ottoman State

    by Cemal Kafadar ...
    Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious, and political affiliations were all at play in the struggle for power in Anatolia and the Balkans ... Read more

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  • Ibn Khaldun

    An Intellectual Biography

    by Robert Irwin ...
    The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332–1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not as well known as he ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Islam in Europe

    by Jack Goody ...
    This vigorously argued book reveals the central role that Islam has played in European history. Following the movement of people, culture and religion from East to West, Goody breaks down the perceived opposition between Islam and Europe, showing Islam to be a part of Europe's past and present. In an historical analysis of religious warfare and forced migration, Goody examines our understanding of ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The Rise of the Ottoman Empire

    Studies in the History of Turkey, thirteenth–fifteenth Centuries

    by Paul Wittek ...
    Series series Royal Asiatic Society Books
    Paul Wittek’s The Rise of the Ottoman Empire was first published by the Royal Asiatic Society in 1938 and has been out of print for more than a quarter of a century. The present reissue of the text also brings together translations of some of his other studies on Ottoman history; eight closely interconnected writings on the period from the founding of the state to the Fall of Constantinople and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD