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2213-1043

The Muslim World in the Age of the Crusades

Edited by Suleiman A. Mourad (Smith College), Paul M. Cobb (University of Pennsylvania), Konrad Hirschler (SOAS, University of London)

This series features works studying the impact of the Crusades on the Islamic World, between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. It includes, but is not limited to, such topics as: diplomatic, military, cultural, and commercial relations between Muslim and Frankish states, and between the ...

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1380-6076

The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage

Editorial board: Suraiya Faroqhi, Halil İnalcık, and Boğaç Ergene

Publishes studies of the political, economic, social and religious history of the Ottoman Empire.

Western Travellers in the Islamic World Online

€103.00$133.00

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104

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9789004229266

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Al-Ḥīra

Isabel Toral-Niehoff, Freie Universität Berlin

In al-Ḥīra. Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im spätantiken Kontext, Isabel Toral-Niehoff draws a vivid portrait of this multicultural Late Antique Arab city located in the frontier zone between Byzantium and Iran and emphasizes its significance for Arab culture and early Islam. In al-Ḥīra. Eine ...

€109.00$141.00

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102

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9789004252714

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Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court

Maaike van Berkel, University of Amsterdam, Nadia El Cheikh, American University Beirut, Hugh Kennedy, SOAS, London and Letizia Osti, University of Milan

The reign of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32) is a crucial epoch in Abbasid history. Four scholars question the picture of decline attached to this period, exploring the formal and informal power relationships that shaped politics at the court of this caliph.

€96.00$133.00

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9789004230668

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The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period

Suleiman A. Mourad, Smith College and James E. Lindsay, Colorado State University

The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology provides an account of the preaching of a revitalized vision of jihad in Crusader-era Syria by Sunni scholars, including Ibn ʿAsākir, as a major propaganda tool of the Counter-Crusade and Sunni revival.

€168.00$234.00

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9789004218857

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The Lineaments of Islam

Edited by Paul M. Cobb, University of Pennsylvania

In honor of Fred M. Donner's distinguished career as an interpreter of early Islam, this volume collects more than a dozen studies by his students. They range over a wide array of sub-fields in Islamic studies, including Islamic history, historiography, Islamic law, Qur'anic studies and ...

€99.00$136.00

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9789004210455

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The Performing Arts in Medieval Islam

Li Guo, University of Notre Dame

Drawing on medieval Arabic sources and earlier scholarship, this book is a study of the life and work of Ibn Dāniyāl (d. 1310). It also presents the first full English translation of his shadow play "The Phantom.”

€128.00$175.00

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9789004209305

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The Caliph and the Heretic

Sean W. Anthony, University of Oregon

This book offers an examination of the origins of Shīʿite Islam as viewed through the lens of the traditions surrounding its earliest and most infamous heretic, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sabaʾ, and the sectarian movement he purportedly founded, the Sabaʾīya.