This richly detailed study traces the shared history of Russia and Islam in expanding compass--from the Tatar civilization within the Russian heartland, to the conquered territories of the Caucasus an...
These fifteen essays were written in honor of Alan Jones, distinguished Professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the Oriental Institute in Oxford, by his former students and colleagues.
Goiteina (TM)s selection of studies dealing with Islamic history, religion, and institutions offers a wide-ranging, sensitive, and highly original introduction to a civilization by one who lived all h...
As a home to more than 180 million Muslims, Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world. However, the identity of the Indonesian state has never been defined in terms of Islam. In fact, tensi...
1927. Contents: Mohamed-The Prophet of God; Arabian Poetry; The New World of Islam; Islamic Regeneration; The Arab Kingdom and Its Fall; The Book-Trade under the Caliphate; Islamica; A Defense of Isla...
This book dwells on the cultural change, which took place in Central Asia from the middle of the VIIth century to the XIth century. Its articles come from a wide range of fields (history, philology, a...
The horrific acts of anti-Western and anti-Jewish terrorism carried out by Muslim fanatics during the last decades have been labeled by politicians, religious leaders, and scholars as a "Clash of Civi...
Kam es in der Mesopotamien beheimateten Alten Kirche des Ostens im 6.11. Jh. zu einer Blute christlich-orientalischer Mystik (z.B. Isaak von Ninive, Joseph der Seher und Johannes von Dalyatha) und ent...
At a time when so-called fundamentalism has become the privileged analytical frame for understanding Muslim societies past and present, this study offers another way of looking at Islam. In an innovat...
These essays were written by colleagues and former students of Richard Bulliet, the scholar and mentor whose "most important contribution remains his extraordinary imagination in the service of histor...
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