Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power (Bloom Jonathan M.)(Paperback)

Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power (Bloom Jonathan M.)(Paperback)

In its first thousand years--from the revelations to Muhammad in the seventh century to the great Islamic empires of the sixteenth--Islamic civilization flourished. While Europeans suffered through the Dark Ages, Muslims in such cities as Jerusalem, Damascus, Alexandria, Fez, Tunis, Cairo, and

Thousand Years of A London Street - Denmark Street (Read Mike)(Paperback / softback)

This book is intended to be the first of a series documenting London Streets and a thousand years of their respective histories. Clearly some routes were only trackways, pathways or even fields but where Londoners have existed, worked, fought, traded, played, lived and died on the site it's

Britain's Europe - A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation (Simms Brendan)(Paperback / softback)

Unveiling Islam (Du Pasquier Roger)(Paperback)

In these closing years of the 20th century Islam has captured the attention of the West, and has baffled it. Alone among the world's religions, Islam is not just surviving but flourishing. From Indonesia to West Africa, and even in some Western countries, Muslims are reasserting their spiritual and

The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire C.500-1492 (Shepard Jonathan)(Paperback)

Byzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled 'emperors of the Romans'. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and structural changes, yet recovered repeatedly from disaster: even after the near-impregnable Constantinople fell in 1204, variant forms of the empire reconstituted

Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (De Landa Manuel)(Paperback)

More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and F lix Guattari, while also engaging the critical new understanding of material processes derived

Islam - Faith and History (Ayoub Mahmoud M.)(Paperback / softback)

Combining the scholarly with the personal, this innovative introduction by an internationally renowned Islamicist gives the reader an insight into the history, traditions and beliefs of Islam. Taking his own spiritual journey as a starting point, Professor Ayoub explores all aspects of Islam; from

Islam - A New Historical Introduction (Hillenbrand Carole)(Paperback / softback)

Offers an understanding of the history of Muslims and their faith, from the life of Muhammad to the religion practised by 1.6 billion people around the world today. In this book, each chapters explains a core aspect of the faith in historical perspective, allowing readers to gain a sensitive

The Formation of Islam 1ed (Berkey Jonathan P.)(Paperback)

Jonathan Berkey surveys the religious history of the peoples of the Near East from approximately 600 to 1800 c.e. After examining the religious scene in the Near East in late antiquity, he investigates Islam's first century, the 'classical' period from the accession of the Abbasids to the rise of

Islamic Art and Architecture: Second Edition (Hillenbrand Robert)(Paperback)

Embracing over a thousand years of history and an area stretching from the Atlantic to the borders of India and China, this is an unrivalled synthesis of the arts of Islamic civilization. From the death of the Prophet Muhammad to the present day, Robert Hillenbrand traces the evolution of an

The Marsh Arabs (Thesiger Wilfred)(Paperback)

'Five thousand years of history were here and the pattern was still unchanged.' During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Travelling from village to village by canoe, he

China - A History (Keay John)(Paperback / softback)

Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single

Hungarians - A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat (Lendvai Paul)(Paperback / softback)

The Currency of Empire (Barth Jonathan)(Paperback)

In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas.The export-oriented mercantile economy promoted by the English Crown, Barth argues,

Egypt and the Egyptians (Brewer Douglas J.)(Paperback)

Surveying more than three thousand years of Egyptian civilization, Egypt and the Egyptians offers a comprehensive introduction to this most rich and complex of early societies. From high politics to the concerns of everyday Egyptians, the book explores every aspect of Egyptian culture and society,

Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric (Aristotle)(Paperback)

For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's 'Art of Rhetoric' has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric (deliberative, judicial, and epideictic), the

Tun-Huang (Inoue Yasushi)(Paperback)

More than a thousand years ago, an extraordinary trove of early Buddhist sutras and other scriptures was secreted away in caves near the Silk Road city of Tun-huang. But who hid this magnificent treasure and why? In Tun-huang, the great modern Japanese novelist Yasushi Inoue tells the story of Chao

History of Christianity - The First Three Thousand Years (MacCulloch Diarmaid)(Paperback / softback)

Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years follows the story of Christianity around the globe, from ancient Palestine to contemporary China. How did an obscure personality cult come to be the world's biggest religion, with a third of

Hundred Years War Vol 2 - Trial By Fire (Sumption Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the fourteenth century and the succession of crises that threatened French affairs of state, including defeat at Poitiers and the capture of the

Remembering Child Migration: Faith, Nation-Building and the Wounds of Charity (Lynch Gordon)(Paperback)

Between 1850 and 1970, around three hundred thousand children were sent to new homes through child migration programmes run by churches, charities and religious orders in the United States and the United Kingdom. Intended as humanitarian initiatives to save children from social and moral harm and

The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity (Wilken Robert Louis)(Paperback)

An authoritative and poignant account of the first millennium of Christian history How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to remake the civilizations it inhabited, culturally, politically, and intellectually? Beginning with the life of

The Corn King and the Spring Queen (Mitchison Naomi)(Paperback)

Introduced by Naomi Mitchison. Set over two thousand years ago on the calm and fertile shores of the Black Sea, Naomi Mitchison's The Corn King and the Spring Queen tells of ancient civilisations where tenderness, beauty and love vie with brutality and dark magic. Erif Der, a young witch, is

Poland: The First Thousand Years (Dabrowski Patrice M.)(Paperback)

Since its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux. In the late medieval and early modern periods, the country grew to be the largest in continental Europe, only to be later wiped off the map

Golem's Eye (Stroud Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

Two years have passed since the events of The Amulet of Samarkand and the young magician Nathaniel is rising fast through the government ranks. Nathaniel and Bartimaeus travel to Prague, enemy city of ancient magic, but while they are there uproar breaks out at home and Nathaniel returns to find