Allies With The Infidel
Relying on contemporary Ottoman and French sources, it presents the realpolitik of diplomacy with 'infidels' in the early modern era. The result is essential reading for students and scholars of Europ...
Parable And Politics In Early Islamic History: The Rashidun Caliphs
The story of the succession to the Prophet Muhammad and the rise of the Rashidun Caliphate (632-661 AD) is familiar to historians from the political histories of medieval Islam, which treat it as a fa...
Vernacular And Latin Literary Discourses Of The Muslim Other In Medieval Germany
Purchase Books Similar To Vernacular And Latin Literary Discourses Of The Muslim Other In Medieval Germany Between Two Worlds:... by Jerold C. Frakes Rs. 5954 Introduction To Old Yiddish...
Jesus And Muhammad: Parallel Tracks, Parallel Lives
Jesus and Muhammad are two of the best known and revered figures in history, each with a billion or more global followers. Now, in this intriguing volume, F.E. Peters offers a clear and compelling ana...
Degrees Of Excellence: A Fatimid Treatise On Leadership In Islam
Ahmad b. Ibrahim al-Naysaburi (996-1021) lived at the pinnacle of Fatimid rule in Egypt. One of the most distinguished scholars of his time, several important works are accredited to him. However, it ...
Decline And Fall Of The Sasanian Em
"Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire" has already been praised as one of the most intellectually exciting books about ancient Persia to have been published for years. It proposes a convincing cont...
Towards A Shi'i Mediterranean Empire: Fatimid Egypt And The Founding Of Cairo: The Reign Of The Imam-Caliph Al-Mu'izz, From Al-Maqrizi's Itti'az Al-Hu
The Imam-caliph al-Mu1izz li-Din Allah (r 953-975), founder of the city of Cairo, transformed the emergent Fatimid state from a regional power of limited influence to an impressive Mediterranean empir...
The Spirituality Of Shi'i Islam: Belief And Practices
In this study the author shows, by contrast, how central and creative the very nature of spirituality was to the development of Shi'i Islam, as well as to classical Muslim civilisation as a whole. In ...
Islamic Reform And Conservatism: Al-Azhar And The Evolution Of Modern Sunni Islam
The famed reform debates at al-Azhar Madrasa in nineteenth-century Cairo -- one of the most influential centers of religious study in Sunni Islam -- were enormously influential for twentieth-century I...
A Modern History Of The Ismailis: Continuity And Change In A Muslim Community
The Ismailis have enjoyed a long, eventful and complex history dating back to the 8eigth century CE and originating in the Shi'i tradition of Islam. During the medieval period, Ismailis of different r...
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