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Saqi Essentials S. eBook Series

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  • An Imam in Paris

    Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831)

    by Rifa'a Al-Tahtawi ...
    Translated by Daniel L. Newman ...
    Series Book 0 - Saqi Essentials S.
    In the 1820s, Rifa`a Rafi` al-Tahtawi, a young Muslim cleric, was a leading member of the first Egyptian educational mission to Paris, where he remained for five years, documenting his observations of European culture. His account, Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz, is one of the earliest and most influential records of the Muslim encounter with Enlightenment-era European thought, introducing ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Orientalism

    by Edward W. Said ...
    **A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. • With a new foreword by Ussama Makdisi"Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." —The New York Times**In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Trickster Travels

    A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

    by Natalie Zemon Davis ...
    An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readersAl-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian ... Read more

    $17.29 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

  • Europe and the Islamic World

    A History

    by John Tolan, Henry Laurens, Gilles Veinstein ...
    A sweeping history of Islam and the West from the seventh century to todayEurope and the Islamic World sheds much-needed light on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness of their inextricably intertwined histories, refuting once and for all the misguided notion of a "clash of civilizations" between the Muslim world and Europe. In this landmark book, three eminent ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Islam and the West

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies," Bernard Lewis has been for half a century one of the West's foremost scholars of Islamic history and culture, the author of over two dozen books, most notably The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, The Political Language of Islam, and The Muslim Discovery of Europe. Eminent French historian Robert ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam

    Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam

    by G.W. Bowersock ...
    Series series Emblems of Antiquity
    Just prior to the rise of Islam in the sixth century AD, southern Arabia was embroiled in a violent conflict between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs. Though little known today, this was an international war that involved both the Byzantine Empire, which had established Christian churches in Ethiopia, and the Sasanian Empire in Persia, which supported the Jews in what became a proxy war ... Read more

    $37.79 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

    $28.79 USD

  • The Riddle of the Rosetta

    How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

    by Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz ...
    A major new history of the race between two geniuses to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century EuropeIn 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he discovered an ancient stele fragment bearing a decree inscribed in three different scripts. So begins one of the most familiar tales in Egyptology ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • The Republic of Arabic Letters

    Islam and the European Enlightenment

    by Alexander Bevilacqua ...
    A Longman–History Today Book Prize FinalistWinner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year“Deeply thoughtful…A delight.”—The Economist“[A] tour de force…Bevilacqua’s extraordinary book provides the first true glimpse into this story…He, like the tradition he describes, is a rarity.”—New RepublicIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pion... ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Arab France

    Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798-1831

    by Ian Coller ...
    Many think of Muslims in Europe as a twentieth century phenomenon, but this book brings to life a lost community of Arabs who lived through war, revolution, and empire in early nineteenth century France. Ian Coller uncovers the surprising story of the several hundred men, women, and children—Egyptians, Syrians, Greeks, and others—who followed the French army back home after Napoleon’s occupation ... Read more

    $31.49 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