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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.
€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.
€163.00$211.00
A study of the shaping of political and social institutions in Baghdad by an Iranian Shiite dynasty that re-established the Caliphate on a new footing as the powerless symbol of authority and legitimacy.
€250.00$324.00
This 14th-century biography of Jalāl al-Dīn-e Rūmī, the greatest Persian mystic poet, is a compendium of Sufi-style stories about his miracles, teachings and his poetry. The work contains chapters on Rūmī’s father, Shams al-Dīn (his great love), as well as Solṭān Valad and Amīr ‘Āref (his son ...
€135.00$175.00
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.
€115.00$149.00
Based on a new source, this study reconstructs for the first time the early development of Islamic jurisprudence at Mecca and challenges the current view of scholarship concerning the origins of Islamic jurisprudence.
€205.00$266.00
The period between 950 and 1150 A.D. is regarded as "turning point in the history of the Islamic Culture" from the Early Islamic to the Late Medieval civilization Ḥ̣arrān and al-Raqqa serve as paradigma for the development in Northern Syria and Northern Mesopotamia. After 1086 A.D., measures ...
€203.00$263.00
Verbranntes Ufer zeichnet erstmals das Bild der Entwicklung der syro-palästinensischen Hafenstädte nach der Vertreibung der letzten Kreuzfahrer. Die Arbeit diskutiert die verfehlte Flottenpolitik der Mamluken und beschreibt anschaulich die politische, sozialgeschichtliche und wirtschaftliche ...