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  • Cawnpore & Lucknow

    A Tale of Two Sieges- Indian Mutiny

    by D. S. Richards ...
    A history of two 1857 sieges in which Indians violently revolted against British colonials, featuring accounts from people who lived through them.Following the May 1857 uprising by sepoys in Meerut and Delhi, the whole future of the British Raj was in the balance. Nowhere was this better demonstrated than at Lucknow and Cawnpore. At the latter, a garrison of 240 with 375 British women and children ... Read more

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  • Conflict in the Crimea

    British Redcoats on Russian Soil

    by D. S. Richards ...
    The author relies to a great extent on contemporary accounts of a large number of British men—and women—who were unwittingly caught up in this appalling war. As well as surviving the efforts of their determined enemy, the Russians, they had to overcome the harshest weather, rampant disease and woefully inadequate administrative support. As revealed to a shocked nation by the first war reporters, ... Read more

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  • The Peninsula Years

    Britain's Red Coats in Spain & Portugal

    by D. S. Richards ...
    The Peninsular Campaign was conducted over terrain ranging from the sun scorched plains of Andalusia to the picturesque snow covered passes of the Pyrenees. Drawing on the experiences and observations of fifty-six officers and men who fought during the years 1808 to 1814, The Peninsula Years is a thrilling and fast moving narrative of the bloody campaigns in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as ... Read more

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  • The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh. Part 1

    The Years 491–541/1097–1146: The Coming of the Franks and the Muslim Response

    Edited by D.S. Richards ...
    Series Book 1 - Crusade Texts in Translation
    The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233AD), entitled 'al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh', is one of the outstanding sources for the history of the mediaeval world. It covers the whole sweep of Islamic history almost up to the death of its author and, with the sources available to him, he attempted to embrace the widest geographical spread; events in Iraq, Iran and further East run in counterpoint with those ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period

    Edited by D. S. Richards, Roger Allen ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature
    The final volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature explores the Arabic literary heritage of the little-known period from the twelfth to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Even though it was during this time that the famous Thousand and One Nights was composed, very little has been written on the literature of the period generally. In this volume Roger Allen and Donald Richards ... Read more

    $247.69 USD

  • The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin or al-Nawadir al-Sultaniyya wa'l-Mahasin al-Yusufiyya by Baha' al-Din Ibn Shaddad

    Edited by D.S. Richards ...
    Series series Crusade Texts in Translation
    Saladin is perhaps the one and only Muslim ruler who emerges with any clarity in standard tales and histories of the Crusades; this is a translation of Baha’ al-Din Ibn Shaddad’s account of his life and career. Ibn Shaddad (1144-1234) was clearly a great admirer of Saladin and was a close associate of his, serving as his qadi al-’askar (judge of the army), from 1188 until Saladin’s death in 1193. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Annals of the Saljuq Turks

    Selections from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh of Ibn al-Athir

    by D.S. Richards ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey
    Ibn al-Athir, who died in the 13th century, is one of the most important historians of Islam. His major chronicle, the Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh, is one of the greatest achievements of Muslim historiography for the range and comprehensiveness of the sources it assembled and for its narrative, covering the whole sweep of Islamic history up to his own lifetime. This volume of D.S. Richards' translation ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Egypt and Syria in the Early Mamluk Period

    An Extract from Ibn Fa?l Allah Al-�Umari's Masalik Al-Ab?ar Fi Mamalik Al-Am?ar

    by D.S. Richards ...
    Providing a modern English translation of a key selection of Ibn Fadl Allah al-`Umarī’s Masālik al-absār, this book offers a rich description of Egypt and Syria under the Mamluks in the first half of the fourteenth-century A.D. It provides a fascinating snapshot of the physical and administrative geography of this crucial region as well as insights into its society and the organization and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh. Part 2

    The Years 541–589/1146–1193: The Age of Nur al-Din and Saladin

    Edited by D.S. Richards ...
    Series Book 2 - Crusade Texts in Translation
    The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233 AD), entitled "al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh", is one of the outstanding sources for the history of the mediaeval world. It covers the whole sweep of Islamic history almost up to the death of its author and, with the sources available to him, he attempted to embrace the widest geographical spread; events in Iraq, Iran and further East run in counterpoint with those ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh. Part 3

    The Years 589–629/1193–1231: The Ayyubids after Saladin and the Mongol Menace

    Edited by D.S. Richards ...
    Series Book 3 - Crusade Texts in Translation
    The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233AD), entitled "al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh", is one of the outstanding sources for the history of the mediaeval world. It covers the whole sweep of Islamic history almost up to the death of its author and, with the sources available to him, he attempted to embrace the widest geographical spread; events in Iraq, Iran and further East run in counterpoint with those ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam

    by Peter Crawford ...
    The War of the Three Gods is a military history of the Near and Middle East in the seventh century-with its chief focus on the reign of the Eastern Roman Emperor Heraclius (AD 610641)-a pivotal and dramatic time in world history. The Eastern Roman Empire was brought to the very brink of extinction by the Sassanid Persians before Heraclius managed to inflict a crushing defeat on the Sassanids with ... Read more

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  • The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

    by Amin Maalouf ...
    Series Book 1 - Saqi Essentials
    European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by barbarian hordes. Under Saladin, an unstoppable Muslim army inspired by prophets and poets finally succeeded in destroying the most powerful Crusader kingdoms. The memory of this greatest and most enduring ... Read more

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