Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World (Cohen Mark R.)(Pevná vazba)

Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World (Cohen Mark R.)(Pevná vazba)

The advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In response, and over the course of the seventh through

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society (Sarat Austin)(Pevná vazba)

This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society contains two sections, focusing on the interaction between law and religion, together with the ways in which the law simultaneously enhances and inhibits projects of social

Hadith: Muhammad's Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World (Brown Jonathan A. C.)(Paperback)

Contrary to popular opinion, the bulk of Islamic law does not come from the Quran but from hadith, first-hand reports of the Prophet Muhammad's words and deeds, passed from generation to generation. However, with varying accounts often only committed to paper a century after the death of Muhammad,

After the Black Death: Economy, Society, and the Law in Fourteenth-Century England (Bailey Mark)(Pevná vazba)

The Black Death of 1348-9 is the most catastrophic event and worst pandemic in recorded history. After the Black Death offers a major reinterpretation of its immediate impact and longer-term consequences in England. After the Black Death reassesses the established scholarship on the impact of

Ancient West Asian Civilization: Geoenvironment and Society in the Pre-Islamic Middle East (Tsuneki Akira)(Pevná vazba)

Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance (Saunders Corinne)(Pevná vazba)

The world of medieval romance is one in which magic and the supernatural are constantly present: in otherwordly encounters, in the strange adventures experienced by questing knights, in the experience of the uncanny, and in marvellous objects - rings, potions, amulets, and the celebrated green

The Medieval World View: An Introduction (Cook William R.)(Paperback)

The Medieval World View, Third Edition, presents the presuppositions of medieval society in a systematic fashion by integrating brief, self-contained selections from primary texts and carefully captioned photographs into a narrative of the medieval world and its foundations. The text is divided

Conspiracy of Capital - Law, Violence, and American Popular Radicalism in the Age of Monopoly (Cohen Michael Mark)(Pevná vazba)

Between the 1880s and 1920s, a broad coalition of American dissidents, which included rabble-rousing cartoonists, civil liberties lawyers, socialist detectives, union organizers, and revolutionary martyrs, forged a culture of popular radicalism that directly challenged an emergent corporate

Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making (Scott Rachel M.)(Paperback)

By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law highlights how the sharia, when attached to constitutional commitments, is reshaped into modern Islamic state law.Rachel M. Scott analyzes the complex

Zionism and the Melting Pot: Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics (Silver Matthew Mark)(Pevná vazba)

Traces the roots of ideologies and outlooks that shape Jewish life in Israel and the United States today Zionism and the Melting Pot pivots away from commonplace accounts of the origins of Jewish politics and focuses on the ongoing activities of actors instrumental in the theological, political,

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

Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo (E. Baldwin James)(Paperback)

What did Islamic law mean in the early modern period, a world of great Muslim empires? Often portrayed as the quintessential jurists' law, to a large extent it was developed by scholars outside the purview of the state. However, for the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, justice was the ultimate duty

Philosophy in the Middle Ages - The Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Traditions(Paperback / softback)

Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum, 1270s-1370s: Production, Patronage and the Arts of the Book (Jackson Cailah)(Pevná vazba)

Between the Mongol invasions in the mid-13th century and the rise of the Ottomans in the late 14th century, the Lands of Rūm were marked by instability and conflict. Despite this, a rich body of illuminated manuscripts from the period survives, explored here in this extensively illustrated volume

The Arms of Greece and Her Balkan Neighbors in the Ottoman Period (Elgood Robert)(Pevná vazba)

The Ottoman Balkans were by far the greatest center of weapons manufacture in the Islamic world, and their wares were exported far and wide. Each town developed its own style not only in weaponry but also in silver decoration and costume, often with splendid results. Traditional arms were held in

Technology and Society: A World History (Ede Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

Technology and Society: A World History explores the creative power of humanity from the age of stone tools to the digital revolution. It introduces technology as a series of systems that allowed us to solve real-world problems and create a global civilization. The history of technology is also the

Eternal Light and Earthly Concerns: Belief and the Shaping of Medieval Society (Fouracre Paul)(Pevná vazba)

This book investigates how the practice of keeping a light burning in churches was established in the early Middle Ages. It asks what the material consequences of implementing the practice were and why it ceased at the end of the Middle

Islamic Architecture: A World History - Eric Broug

A richly informative and visually packed sourcebook demonstrating and explaining the function and worldwide appeal of Islamic architecture. Islamic architecture dates back 1,400 years and continues to reinvent itself up to the present day. The enormous richness of building types, regional styles,

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

Bonds of Secrecy: Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England (Saltzman Benjamin A.)(Pevná vazba)

What did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the belief that God knew all human secrets, yet the secrets of God remained unknowable to human beings. In Bonds of Secrecy, Benjamin A. Saltzman argues that

Art, Trade, and Culture in the Islamic World and Beyond: From the Fatimids to the Mughals (Ohta Alison)(Pevná vazba)

The essays in this book trace a rich continuum of artistic exchange that occurred between successive Islamic dynasties from the twelfth through nineteenth centuries--as well as the influence of Islamic art during that time on cultures as far away as China, Armenia, India, and Europe. Taking

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

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 Islamic World: A History in Objects (Akbarnia Ladan)(Pevná vazba)

This illustrated introduction offers a fresh approach to the history of the Islamic world from its origins to the present day. Told in six chapters, arranged both chronologically and thematically, and richly enhanced with outstanding images, it provides an illuminating insight into the material

Archery and Crossbow Guilds in Medieval Flanders, 1300-1500 (Crombie Laura)(Pevná vazba)

The notion of 'guilds' in civic society might conjure images of craft guilds, the organisations of butchers, bakers or brewers set up to regulate working practises. In the towns of medieval Flanders, however, a plethora of guilds existed which had little or nothing to do with the organisation of