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This book advances two theses: (1) it refutes the revisionists' and restores Wellhausen's; (2) it goes few steps further. Attempting to prove that the revolution was neither Arab nor Abbasid, it claims no new discoveries. It hyper-activates existing source materials.
€127.00$165.00
This work provides information on an aspect of the encounter of Islam with the West which is best described as the unconscious appropriation by Islam of elements of Western culture.
€129.00$167.00
This work describes how Islam was adapted by the seventeenth century Acehnese state to serve political and dynastic goals, and how its consequent profile as a champion of Islam raised its profile in regional contests for military and commercial dominance
€205.00$266.00
This book contributes to a new way of understanding Islamic history by examining the definition of the Companions, their motives of settlements and political alignments, and the sources of this information (i.e. biographical dictionaries) through a quantitative analysis.
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Drawing on rich source material in several languages and three scripts (Arabic, Cyrillic, and Latin), this book presents a broad picture of international relations in early modern Eastern Europe, at the crossing point of Genghisid, Islamic, Orthodox, and Latin traditions.
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This book on contemporary Islamic medical ethics traces the efforts made by leading Muslim scholars, jurists and physicians to adapt modern medicine to the needs of Muslim patients and doctors while preserving Islamic principles.
€172.00$223.00
The volume comprises a collection of 20 of the 43 papers presented at the Third International Round Table on Safavid Persia, held at the University of Edinburgh in August, 1998 and edited by the Round Table's organiser.
€124.00$161.00
The Italo-Turkish War was the first armed clash between the lesser Great Powers immediately before 1914, leading inexorably to the deterioration of the Balkan situation and to Sarajevo. This is the first study based on the archives of the Ottoman Foreign Ministry for the period, as well as on ...
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This analysis of the encyclopedic work of a state official in the employ of the Abbasid dynasty offers new insight into the role of the Islamic state as an actor alongside other social groups in the development of various branches of knowledge in Islamic civilization.