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Library of Middle East History

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Hardcover : $92.50 Buy	Jerusalem From the Ottomans to the British Library of Middle East History #20 Roberto Mazza Tauris Academic Studies In December 1917, British troops entered Jerusalem, thereby ending Ottoman rule and opening a new and important era in the history of Jerusalem. Roberto Mazza...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab The Man and his Works Library of Middle East History #19 'Abd Allah Salih al-'Uthaymin I. B. Tauris The Saudi religious reform movement of the 18th and 19th centuries, known in the west as Wahhabism, is one of the most controversial and misunderstood...

Hardcover : $92.50 Buy	The Almohads The Rise of an Islamic Empire Library of Middle East History #18 Allen J. Fromherz I. B. Tauris How did an obscure Islamic visionary found an empire? The Almohad Empire, at its zenith in the 12th century, was the major power in the Mediterranean and North...

Hardcover : $92.50 Buy	Diplomacy in the Early Islamic World A Tenth-Century Treatise on Arab-Byzantine Relations Library of Middle East History #17 Maria Vaiou Tauris Academic Studies Arab messengers played a vital role in the medieval Islamic world and its diplomatic relations with foreign powers. An innovative treatise from the tenth...

Hardcover : $65.00 Buy	Inventing Lebanon Nationalism and the State Under the Mandate Library of Middle East History #6 Kais Firro I. B. Tauris Inventing Lebanon examines the history behind an idea: a new polity of ‘Greater Lebanon’. It shows how, under the powerful influence of the French...

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	Metalwork and Material Culture in the Islamic World Art, Craft and Text Library of Middle East History Edited By Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owen I. B. Tauris Islamic civilization's reach across vast swathes of the globe has produced rich and diverse traditions of art, craft, and metalwork. It has left a legacy that...

Hardcover : $99.00 Buy	Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam Geography, Translation and the 'Abbasid Empire Library of Middle East History Travis Zadeh Tauris Academic Studies The story of the 9th-century caliphal mission from Baghdad to discover the legendary barrier against the apocalyptic nations of Gog and Magog mentioned in the...

Hardcover : $96.00 Buy	The Slave Girls of Baghdad The Qiyan in the Early Abbasid Era Library of Middle East History F. Matthew Caswell Tauris Academic Studies From the refined Geisha of the Imperial Court to the learned hetaerae of Ancient Greece, the captivating history of courtesans and slave girls transcends...

Hardcover : $99.00 Buy	Patronage and Poetry in the Islamic World Social Mobility and Status in the Medieval Middle East and Central Asia Library of Middle East History Jocelyn Sharlet Tauris Academic Studies Arabic and Persian panegyric poetry was one of the most important genres of literature in the medieval Middle East and Central Asia. Jocelyn Sharlet argues...

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From Mission to Modernity

Evangelicals, Reformers and Education in Nineteenth Century Egypt

Library of Middle East History

Paul Sedra Tauris Academic Studies

In this pioneering account of Egyptian educational history, Paul Sedra describes how the Egyptian state under Muhammad Ali Pasha sought to forge a new...

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Hardcover : $96.00 Buy	Islam, Orientalism and Intellectual History Modernity and the Politics of Exclusion since Ibn Khaldun Library of Middle East History Mohammad R. Salama Tauris Academic Studies As the events and aftermath of 9/11 have shown, the relationship between Islam and the West is deeply troubled. In Islam, Orientalism and Intellectual History,...

Hardcover : $96.00 Buy	Religion and Mysticism in Early Islam Theology and Sufism in Yemen Library of Middle East History Muhammad Ali Aziz Tauris Academic Studies Scholar, mystic and visionary, Ibn 'Alwân lived through the transition from Ayyubid to Rasulid rule in thirteenth-century Yemen. He was well known in his time...

Hardcover : $88.00 Buy	Ottoman Haifa A History of Four Centuries under Turkish Rule Library of Middle East History Alex Carmel I. B. Tauris Under Ottoman rule, the city of Haifa, located at the southern point of the largest bay on the coast of what today is Israel, was transformed from a...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	Mamluk History Through Architecture Monuments, Culture and Politics in Medieval Egypt and Syria Library of Middle East History Nasser Rabbat I. B. Tauris The most enduring testament to the Mamluk Sultanate is its architecture. Not only do Mamluk buildings embody one of the most outstanding medieval...

Hardcover : $92.50 Buy	The Travels of Ibn al-Tayyib The Forgotten Journey of an Eighteenth Century Traveller to the Hijaz Library of Middle East History Mustapha Lahlali, Salah Al-Dihan and Wafa Abu Hatab Tauris Academic Studies In the eighteenth century, the academic scholar Ibn al-Tayyib made a rihla (journey) from Morocco to the Hijaz in modern day Saudi Arabia, documenting his...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Islam and the Victorians Nineteenth Century Perceptions of Muslim Practices and Beliefs Library of Middle East History Shahin Kuli Khan Khattak Tauris Academic Studies This book brings to life Victorian Britain’s conceptions and misconceptions of the Muslim World using a thorough investigation of varied cultural sources of...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Islamic Jerusalem and its Christians A History of Tolerance and Tensions Library of Middle East History Maher Abu-Munshar Tauris Academic Studies Islamic Jerusalem has a special place in the hearts of the three monotheistic religions. Throughout its history it has been the site of tolerance and tensions....

Hardcover : $107.00 Buy	Slaves of the Shah New Elites of Safavid Iran Library of Middle East History Kathryn Babayan, Sussan Babaie, Ina McCabe and Massumeh Farhad I. B. Tauris The Safavid dynasty represented the pinnacle of Iran’s power and influence in its early modern history. The evidence of this – the creation of a...

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