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  • Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery

    by Nabil Matar ...
    During the early modern period, hundreds of Turks and Moors traded in English and Welsh ports, dazzled English society with exotic cuisine and Arabian horses, and worked small jobs in London, while the "Barbary Corsairs" raided coastal towns and, if captured, lingered in Plymouth jails or stood trial in Southampton courtrooms. In turn, Britons fought in Muslim armies, traded and settled in ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Europe Through Arab Eyes, 1578–1727

    by Nabil Matar ...
    Traveling to archives in Tunisia, Morocco, France, and England, with visits to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Spain, Nabil Matar assembles a rare history of Europe's rise to power as seen through the eyes of those who were later subjugated by it. Many historians of the Middle East believe Arabs and Muslims had no interest in Europe during this period of Western discovery and empire, but in fact these ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • An Arab Ambassador in the Mediterranean World

    The Travels of Muhammad ibn ‘Uthmān al-Miknāsī, 1779-1788

    by Nabil Matar ...
    Series series Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
    This book provides translated selections from the writings of Muhammad Ibn Othman al-Miknasi (d. 1799). The only writings by an Arab-Muslim in the pre-modern period that present a comparative perspective, his travelogues provide unique insight with in to Christendom and Islam.Translating excerpts from his three travelogues, this book tells the story of al-Miknasi’s travels from 1779-1788. As an ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery

    by Nabil Matar ...
    During the early modern period, hundreds of Turks and Moors traded in English and Welsh ports, dazzled English society with exotic cuisine and Arabian horses, and worked small jobs in London, while the "Barbary Corsairs" raided coastal towns and, if captured, lingered in Plymouth jails or stood trial in Southampton courtrooms. In turn, Britons fought in Muslim armies, traded and settled in ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • United States Through Arab Eyes

    An Anthology of Writings (1876-1914)

    by Nabil Matar ...

    $27.29 USD

  • Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam

    The Originall & Progress of Mahometanism

    Edited by Nabil Matar ...
    Henry Stubbe (1632–1676) was an extraordinary English scholar who challenged his contemporaries by writing about Islam as a monotheistic revelation in continuity with Judaism and Christianity. His major work, The Originall & Progress of Mahometanism, was the first English text to document the Prophet Muhammad's life positively, celebrate the Qur'an as a divine revelation, and praise the Muslim ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Britain and the Islamic World, 1558-1713

    by Gerald MacLean, Nabil Matar ...
    Before they had an empire in the East, the British travelled into the Islamic world to pursue trade and to form strategic alliances against the Catholic powers of France and Spain. First-hand encounters with Muslims, Jews, Greek Orthodox, and other religious communities living together under tolerant Islamic rule changed forever the way Britons thought about Islam, just as the goods they imported ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • In the Lands of the Christians

    Arabic Travel Writing in the 17th Century

    Edited by Nabil Matar ...
    In the Lands of the Christians presents original translations from Arabic of four Christian and Muslim writers who visited Western Europe and America in the seventeenth century. These essays contain careful descriptions of the regions, societies, customs, and religions these intrepid travelers encountered in their journeys. Here you will find the complete travel narrative of the first Arab to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam

    by Andrew Wheatcroft ...
    Here is the first panoptic history of the long struggle between the Christian West and Islam.In this dazzlingly written, acutely nuanced account, Andrew Wheatcroft tracks a deep fault line of animosity between civilizations. He begins with a stunning account of the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, then turns to the main zones of conflict: Spain, from which the descendants of the Moors were eventually ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Crusades, 1095-1204

    by Jonathan Phillips ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    This new and considerably expanded edition of The Crusades, 1095-1204 couples vivid narrative with a clear and accessible analysis of the key ideas that prompted the conquest and settlement of the Holy Land between the First and the Fourth Crusade.This edition now covers the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople, along with greater coverage of the Muslim response to the Crusades from the ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen

    How Moral Revolutions Happen

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    "[Appiah's] work reveals the heart and sensitivity of a novelist. . . .Fascinating, erudite and beautifully written."—The New York Times Book ReviewIn this groundbreaking work, Kwame Anthony Appiah, hailed as "one of the most relevant philosophers today" (New York Times Book Review), changes the way we understand human behavior and the way social reform is brought about. In brilliantly arguing ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Holy Warriors

    by Jonathan Phillips ...
    From an internationally renowned expert, here is an accessible and utterly fascinating one-volume history of the Crusades, thrillingly told through the experiences of its many players—knights and sultans, kings and poets, Christians and Muslims. Jonathan Phillips traces the origins, expansion, decline, and conclusion of the Crusades and comments on their contemporary echoes—from the mysteries of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD