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This captivating book introduces readers to Islamic history through vivid images and intriguing facts. The text works in conjunction with the fascinating photos and illustrations to teach readers about important aspects of the history of Islam, including Muhammad, the Arabian Peninsula, Mecca, the Qur'an, the Five Pillars of Worship, Sunnis, Shi'as, Muslims, and Bedouins. Students will develop their vocabulary and social studies content knowledge,...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013" John Tolan is professor of history at the Université de Nantes. His books include Saracens and Saint Francis and the Sultan. Gilles Veinstein (1945-2013) was professor of history at the Collège de France. His books include Merchants in the Ottoman Empire. Henry Laurens is professor of history at the Collège de France. He is the author of L'empire et ses ennemis: La question impériale dans...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre las cruzadas en Tierra Santa, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Analizar el contexto en el que se enmarcan las cruzadas: el avance musulmán, la decadencia del Imperio bizantino y la política europea, ligada a la religión
• Descubrir las ocho cruzadas que se llevaron a cabo en Tierra Santa, así...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur les croisades en Terre sainte en moins d'une heure !
Entreprises entre le XIe et le XIIIe siècle par la papauté, officiellement dans le but de délivrer le tombeau du Christ alors aux mains des musulmans, les croisades ont toujours occupé une place à part dans l'imaginaire collectif.
Du succès de la première croisade en 1096 à l'échec cuisant de la huitième en 1272, des milliers de chrétiens,...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Crusades in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Crusades. In the 11th century, tensions peaked between the Christian West and the Muslim East over control of the Holy Land. At the pope's call to Crusade, a series of conflicts broke out that would endure for nearly two centuries. The cultural and political shockwaves...
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"One of the Financial Times' Best Books of the Year: Critics' Picks" "One of Asian Review of Books' Books of the Year (Biography & Memoir)" Robert Irwin is senior research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and a former lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. His many books include Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents and Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics, and the Sixties, as well as seven...
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"Winner of the James Henry Breasted Prize, American Historical Association" "Honorable Mention for the Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association" Jack Tannous is assistant professor of history at Princeton University.
A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the story
In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured...
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The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries witnessed a rising interest in Arabic texts describing and explaining the rituals of the Coptic Church of Egypt. This book provides readers with an English translation of excerpts from three key texts on the Coptic liturgy by Abū al-Barakāt ibn Kabar, Yūh.annā ibn Sabbā', and Pope Gabriel V. With a scholarly introduction to the works, their authors, and the Coptic liturgy, as well as a detailed explanatory...
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Few historians immersed themselves in their topics like bestselling, noted author Ernle Bradford. Specializing in the Mediterranean world and naval topics, Bradford was an enthusiastic sailor himself and spent almost thirty years sailing the Mediterranean, where many of his acclaimed books are set. He served in the Royal Navy during World War II, finishing as the first lieutenant of a destroyer, and afterward worked as an editor and correspondent...
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The political thought of Muslim societies is all too often defined in religious terms, in which the writings of clerics are seen as representative and ideas about governance are treated as an extension of commentary on sacred texts. Disenchanting the Caliphate offers a groundbreaking new account of political discourse in Islamic history by examining Abbasid imperial practice, illuminating the emergence and influence of a vibrant secular tradition.
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