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This volume collects papers given at the conference "Documents and the History of the Early Islamic Mediterranean World", including editions of unpublished documents and historical studies, which make use of documentary evidence from al-Andalus, Sicily, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, Syria and ...
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This comparative analysis of the Muslim and Jewish exegetical texts on the early life of Abraham provides a new perspective on the extent of the relationship between Islam and Judaism while explaining the particular significance of Abraham in both traditions.
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This volume offers a wide-ranging account of the Mongols in western and eastern Asia in the aftermath of Genghis Khan’s disruptive invasions of the early thirteenth century, focusing on the significant cultural, social, religious and political changes that followed in their wake.
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This volume analyses the religious, philosophical and folkloristic content of Ibn Waḥshiyya's (d. 931) Nabatean Agriculture, a book containing rich information on Late Antique paganism in Iraq. The book also contains 61 translated excerpts from the Nabatean Agriculture.
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This monograph examines Evliya Çelebi's travel account to get at Ottoman perceptions of the world, relating to geography, administration, religion, narative styles, sexual relations, dream interpretation, and conceptions of the self.
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In Knowledge Triumphant, Franz Rosenthal observes that the Islamic civilization is one that is essentially characterized by knowledge ('ilm), for ''ilm is one of those concepts that have dominated Islam and given Muslim civilization its distinctive shape and complexion.'
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This book provides a vivid portrait of Iranian Islamism. Based on interviews with grass-roots activists it gives a unique picture of pro-regime movement in Iran. It is of interest to anyone who seeks to understand Shi’ite Islamism today.
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From 1884-1885, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje stayed in Mecca. He became intimately acquainted with the daily life of the Meccans and the thousands of pilgrims from all over the world.
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Relations between the Ottoman Empire and Russia were no less conflictual in the eighteenth century: They were at war in 1736-39, 1768-74, and 1787. In the infamous Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca of 1774, the Ottomans were forced to acknowledge the independence of the Crimea (under Russian influence) ...
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In 1590 an unidentified Arabic version of the Gospels was printed in Rome in two different editions. They were the first products of the Medici Oriental Press, which operated under the direction of Giovan Battista Raimondi (c. 1584-1614), the orientalist and lecturer in mathematics at the ...