Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 (El-Rouayheb Khaled)(Paperback)

Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 (El-Rouayheb Khaled)(Paperback)

Attitudes toward homosexuality in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic-visible and tolerated on one hand, prohibited by Islam on the other. Khaled El-Rouayheb argues that this apparent paradox is based on the anachronistic assumption that homosexuality is a

A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800: Empire, Dynastic Formations, and Heterogeneities in Pre-Modern Islamic West-Asia (Van Steenbergen Jo)(Pevná vazba)

A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800 supplies a fresh and unique survey of the formation of the Islamic world and the key developments that characterize this broad region's history from late antiquity up to the beginning of the modern era. Containing two chronological parts and fourteen

Road to Manzikert: Byzantine and Islamic Warfare, 527-1071 (Cairns John)(Paperback)

Useful overview of politico-military relations between Byzantium and the Islamic world (Arab and then Seljuk Turkish) from 6th century.In August 1071, the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV Diogenese led out a powerful army in an attempt to roll back Seljuk Turkish incursions into the Anatolian heartland

The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World (Al-Nuwayri Shihab Al-Din)(Paperback)

For the first time in English, a catalog of the world through fourteenth-century Arab eyes--a kind of Schott's Miscellany for the Islamic Golden Age An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogs everything known to exist from the

Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature (Roscoe Will)(Paperback)

The first anthropological collection that reveals patterns of male and female homosexuality in the Muslim World The dramatic impact of Islamic fundamentalism in recent years has skewed our image of Islamic history and culture. Stereotypes depict Islamic societies as economically backward,

Bad Girls of the Arab World (Yaqub Nadia)(Paperback)

Women's transgressive behaviors and perspectives are challenging societal norms in the Arab world, giving rise to anxiety and public debate. Simultaneously, however, other Arab women are unwillingly finding themselves labeled 'bad' as authority figures attempt to redirect scrutiny from serious

Astronomy and Astrology in the Islamic World (P. Blake Stephen)(Paperback)

It was the astronomers and mathematicians of the Islamic world who provided the theories and concepts that paved the way from the geocentric theories of Claudius Ptolemy in the second century AD to the heliocentric breakthroughs of Nicholas Copernicus and Johannes Kepler in the sixteenth and

Silver and Frankincense: Scent and Personal Adornment in the Arab World (Van Roode Sigrid)(Paperback)

Although scent has always played a major role in personal adornment in the Arab world, its evanescent quality leaves very few or no traces at all over time. This book presents an introduction into this lesser known aspect of personal adornment in the Arab world. Starting from a historic background,

Man and the Natural World - Changing Attitudes in England 1500-1800 (Thomas Sir Keith)(Paperback / softback)

Presents an account of the changing attitudes in people towards nature and the environment between

When in the Arab World: An insider's guide to living and working with Arab culture (Nejem Rana)(Paperback)

Fractured Lands - How the Arab World Came Apart (Anderson Scott)(Paperback / softback)

A lucid, powerful, and very human account of the transformation of the Arab world in the years following the invasion of Iraq in 2003, by the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Lawrence in

The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World (Saadawi Nawal El)(Paperback)

This powerful non-fiction account of the oppression of women in the Muslim world remains as shocking today as when it was first published, more than a quarter of a century ago. Nawal El Saadawi writes out of a powerful sense of the violence and injustice which permeated her society. Her experiences

Philosophy in the Islamic World: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 3 (Adamson Peter)(Paperback)

Peter Adamson presents the first full history of philosophy in the Islamic world for a broad readership. He traces its development from early Islam to the 20th century, from Spain to Persia. He introduces Jewish and Christian thinkers as well as Muslim; theology, mysticism, and the history of

Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World (Lindsay James E.)(Paperback / softback)

The Origins of Globalization: World Trade in the Making of the Global Economy, 1500-1800 (de Zwart Pim)(Paperback)

For better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this process of globalization begin, and what effects did it have on economies and societies? Pim de Zwart and Jan Luiten van Zanden argue that the networks of trade

Serpent of the Nile - Women and Dance in the Arab World (Buonaventura Wendy)(Paperback / softback)

Features a celebration of female dancers of the Arab world. This book traces the origins of this ancient art, which survived in the face of commercialism, religious disapproval and changing times. It demonstrates how Arabic dance came to be influenced by Western ideas about art and

The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (Armitage David)(Paperback)

This text was the first edited collection on the burgeoning history of the early modern Atlantic world and has had a huge impact on the many fields of Atlantic Studies. This second edition features two new essays on science and global history respectively, as well as a revised Introduction and

In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire (Hoyland Robert G.)(Paperback)

In just over a hundred years--from the death of the Mohammed in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750--the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion,

Arab-Islamic Philosophy: A Contemporary Critique (Al-Jabri)(Paperback)

The distinguished Moroccan philosopher Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, in this summary of his own work, examines the status of Arab thought in the late twentieth century. Al-Jabri rejects what he calls the current polarization of Arab thought between an imported modernism that disregards Arab tradition and

Women Before the Court: Law and Patriarchy in the Anglo-American World, 1600-1800 (Moore Lindsay R.)(Paperback)

This book is a ground-breaking study of women in Britain and British America through two centuries of pivotal changes in the law, economy and empire. It shows how the expansion of women's legal status gave them increased financial independence and undermined patriarchal relationships within the

The Canonization of Islamic Law (El Shamsy Ahmed)(Paperback)

The Canonization of Islamic Law tells the story of the birth of classical Islamic law in the eighth and ninth centuries CE. It shows how an oral normative tradition embedded in communal practice was transformed into a systematic legal science defined by hermeneutic analysis of a clearly demarcated

Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World (Hamid Shadi)(Paperback)

Shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, exceptional in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the

The World of Image in Islamic Philosophy: Ibn Sina, Suhrawardi, Shahrazuri and Beyond (Van Lit L. W. C.)(Paperback)

One of the most controversial issues that divided Islamic philosophers and theologians during the Middle Ages was whether human beings would have a spiritual or bodily existence after death. The idea of a world of image was conceived as a solution, suggesting that there exists a world of

The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring (Danahar Paul)(Paperback)

In 2011 the Arab revolts changed the Middle East forever. The toppling of a generation of dictators left the region in turmoil. Has the promise of the Arab Spring been lost? What does the rise of religious extremism on Europe's doorstep mean for the West and its allies? Is America giving up on the