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  • Turkish Language, Literature, and History

    Travelers' Tales, Sultans, and Scholars Since the Eighth Century

    Edited by Bill Hickman, Gary Leiser ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey
    The twenty two essays collected in Turkish Language, Literature and History offer insights into Turkish culture in the widest sense. Written by leaders in their fields from North America, Europe and Turkey, these essays cover a broad range of topics, focusing on various aspects of Turkish language, literature and history between the eighth century and the present.The chapters move between ancient ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Story of Joseph

    A Fourteenth-Century Turkish Morality Play by Sheyyad Hamza

    Series series Middle East Literature In Translation
    At the heart of this volume is the translation of a fourteenth-century Turkish version of the Joseph story, better known to Western readers from the version in Genesis, first book of the Hebrew Bible. Hickman provides us with a new lens: we see the drama of the Old Testament prophet Joseph, son of Jacob, through Muslim eyes. The poem’s author, Sheyyad Hamza, lived in Anatolia during the early days ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    This book is a translation of one of the most important Turkish scholarly works of the twentieth century. It was the masterpiece of M.F. Koprulu, one of Turkey’s leading, and most prolific, intellectuals and scholars. Using a wide variety of Arabic, and especially Turkish and Persian sources, this book sheds light on the early development of Turkish literature and attempts to show the continuity ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

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  • A History of Ancient Egypt

    by Marc Van De Mieroop ...
    Series series Blackwell History of the Ancient World
    Explore the entire history of the ancient Egyptian state from 3000 B.C. to 400 A.D. with this authoritative volumeThe newly revised Second Edition of A History of Ancient Egypt delivers an up-to-date survey of ancient Egypt's history from its origins to the Roman Empire's banning of hieroglyphics in the fourth century A.D. The book covers developments in all aspects of Egypt's history and their ... Read more

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  • The Ancient Black Hebrews and Arabs

    by Anu M'Bantu and Gert Muller ...
    The evidence from the Bible describes the ancient Hebrews as being Afro-haired and Black. Abraham, Jacob, David and Solomon were Black. Pictures of the ancient Hebrews show this part of Biblical record to be accurate. These pictures are presented here! Most people do not know that the original Arabs of ancient times were Black. This book quotes ancient authorities and the ancient Arabs themselves ... Read more

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  • Eden in Egypt

    Adam and Eve were Pharaoh Akhenaton and Nefertiti

    by ralph ellis ...
    Series series Egyptian Exodus Series
    Adam and Eve were Pharaoh Akhenaton and Nefertiti.The Bible says that a river flowed through the Garden of Eden and then split into four branches. There is only one river in the Near East that does exactly this, and that is the long oasis-garden of the Nile valley and its division into the (originally) four branches of the Nile Delta.This observation takes Ralph into the depths of the Genesis ... Read more

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  • God's Wife, God's Servant

    The God's Wife of Amun (ca.740–525 BC)

    by Mariam F. Ayad ...
    Mariam F. Ayad explores how five women were elevated to a position of supreme religious authority. Drawing on a variety of textual, iconographic, and archaeological evidence, and containing fifty-one black and white and colour illustrations, the volume discusses this often neglected subject, placing the women within the broader context of the politically volatile, turbulent seventh and eighth ... Read more

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  • The Hebrew Pharaohs of Egypt

    The Secret Lineage of the Patriarch Joseph

    by Ahmed Osman ...
    A reinterpretation of Egyptian and biblical history that shows the Patriarch Joseph and Yuya, a vizier of the eighteenth dynasty king Tuthmosis IV, to be the same person• Uses detailed evidence from Egyptian, biblical, and Koranic sources to place Exodus in the time of Ramses I• Sheds new light on the mysterious and sudden rise of monotheism under Yuya’s daughter, Queen Tiye, and her son ... Read more

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  • 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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  • The Buried Book

    The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

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  • Understanding the Qur'an

    Themes and Style

    by Muhammad Abdel Haleem ...
    Series series London Qur'an Studies
    The tenets of Islam cannot be grasped without a proper understanding of the Qur'an. In this important new introduction, Muhammad Haleem examines its recurrent themes - life and eternity, marriage and divorce, peace and war, water and nourishment - and for the first time sets these in the context of the Qur'an's linguistic style. Professor Haleem examines the background to the development of the ... Read more

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