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  • Arabs

    A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

    by Tim Mackintosh-Smith ...
    A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstoneThis kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Travels with a Tangerine

    A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

    by Tim Mackintosh-Smith ...
    Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, travelling three times the distance Marco Polo covered. Spiritual backpacker, social climber, temporary hermit and failed ambassador, he braved brigands, blisters and his own prejudices. The outcome was a monumental travel classic ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Landfalls

    On the Edge of Islam from Zanzibar to the Alhambra

    by Tim Mackintosh-Smith ...
    For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments and easyJet. It meant travelling the known world to its limits.Seven centuries on, Tim Mackintosh-Smith's passionate pursuit of the fourteenth-century traveller takes him to landfalls in remote tropical islands, torrid Indian Ocean ports and dusty towns on the shores of the Saharan sand ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Physician on the Nile

    A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years

    by ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī ...
    Translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith ...
    Series series Library of Arabic Literature
    Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century EgyptA Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pestilence. Written by the polymath and physician ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, and intended for the Abbasid caliph al-Nāṣir, the first part of the book offers detailed ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Two Arabic Travel Books

    Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga

    by Tim Mackintosh-Smith, James E. Montgomery, Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī, Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ...
    Series Book 17 - Library of Arabic Literature
    Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes on the lands and peoples of the Indian Ocean, from the Somali headlands to China and Korea. The early centuries of the Abbasid era witnessed a substantial network of maritime ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    Arabs

    A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires

    by Tim Mackintosh-Smith ...
    Narrated by Ralph Lister ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 35 min

    A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost three thousand years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic ... Read more

    $24.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Accounts of China and India

    Translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith ...
    by Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī ...
    Series Book 55 - Library of Arabic Literature
    The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-life background to the Sinbad tales.An exceptional exemplar of Arabic travel writing, Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes about the lands and peoples of this diverse territory, from the Somali headlands of Africa to the ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • A Physician on the Nile

    A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years

    by ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, Tim Mackintosh-Smith ...
    Series series Library of Arabic Literature
    Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century EgyptA Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pestilence. Written by the polymath and physician ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, and intended for the Abbasid caliph al-Nāṣir, the first part of the book offers detailed ... Read more

    $22.79 USD