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| 978-1-60724-732-6 | Baumstark, Anton. Die Heiligtümer des byzantinischen Jerusalem nach einer übersehen Urkunde
Anton Baumstark compares the description of various holy sites in Jerusalem from the Byzantine age in a neglected source—a tenth-century Typikon of Anastasis—with the descriptions found in other ancient texts. More... | $23.56 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-664-0 | Kinglake, Alexander, and Alison Dingle. Eothen
Given the twenty-first century association between the Holy Land and the Bible, we may assume that such a relationship just exists, and that the land is like the Book and contains a timeless quality. Eothen requires us to question this supposition. Alexander Kinglake describes a Palestine which is largely a wilderness on the verge of being defined by the political and religious forces of the west. He offers us a glimpse into the past to a society and place as it began to engage with Europe, and with the West. More... | $111.44 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-411-0 | Gairdner, W. H. T., and Colin Chapman. The Rebuke of Islam
Temple Gairdner’s The Rebuke of Islam, published in 1920, has long been recognized as one of the classics of Christian response to Islam in the early 20th century. Part of its significance is that Gairdner’s approach sums up the very best of earlier approaches (especially in the 19th century), but breaks significantly new ground and therefore points forward to approaches that have been developing between his time and the present day. More... | $114.56 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-410-3 | Goldziher, Ignaz, Kate Seelye, Morris Jastrow, and Douglas Pratt. Mohammed and Islam
Ignaz Goldziher was a pre-eminent scholar of Islam during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This book encapsulates his own lifetime of work and provides something of an historical commentary on his epoch in the Western academic study of Islam. One of its strengths is that Goldziher’s investigation of historical development probes into underlying religious motivations and allied theological issues. The book quickly became a classic of its day. It remains a classic that, in our day, is well worth re-visiting as it can still inform our understanding of contemporary Islam, whose roots lie in all that Goldziher covers. More... | $127.28 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-251-2 | Dolabani, Yuhanna, and Gregorios Ibrahim. Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery
This book is a reproduction of Philoxenos Dolabani’s handwritten catalogue of the Syriac, Karshuni, and Arabic manuscripts located in St. Mark’s Syrian Orthodox Monastery in Jerusalem, one of the most important Christian manuscript collections in the Middle East. Dolabani was one of the greatest scholars of Syriac of the twentieth century and this manuscript is an important resource for all interested in Syriac and Christian Arabic. A lengthy introduction by Bishop Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim contains information about Dolabani’s life and works. This is the first volume in a three-volume series which also includes Dolabani’s handwritten catalogues of the manuscripts of Dayr al-Za‘faran and other Syrian Orthodox collections in the Middle East. More... | $139.76 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-59333-979-1 | Clohessy, Christopher. Fatima, Daughter of Muhammad
This work, based almost entirely on the primary Arabic texts of Sunnî and Shîca Islam, offers a fresh examination of the life of Fatima, Muhammad’s only surviving child, and reveals for the first time her distinctive and fascinating personality. More... | $113.24 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-087-7 | Craven, Elizabeth, and Daniel O'Quinn. Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople
Written by one of the most scandalous figures in the beau monde and published just prior to the French Revolution, A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople (1789) transported readers to the most exclusive courts of Russia and the Ottoman Empire. More... | $132.00 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-093-8 | Dayantis, Jean. Doukas, Un Historien Byzantin du 15e Siècle
Djuneyd: Un personnage remuant de l'époque des Sultans Mehmed I et Mourad II Deux oracles concernant le règne de Michel VIII : Prédictions et prophéties vers la fin de l'Empire byzantin L'étendard de Mourad, conte historique Bayazid et Roxana, fiction historique Romain IV Diogène à Manzikert. More... | $96.00 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-090-7 | Dankoff, Robert. From Mahmud Kasgari to Evliya Çelebi
This volume of collected essays focuses on Middle Turkic and Ottoman literature. More... | $139.00 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-59333-783-4 | Richardson, E. Letters from a Distant Shore
The Journal of Sarah Ann Breath is an account of a trip from Boston to Oroomiah (modern Urumia) Persia in June, 1849 by the wife of missionary printer Edward Breath. Sarah describes the journey by sail, steamship, and overland caravan and the couple’s encounter with Assyrian, Kurdish and Nestorian Christian communities. More... | $64.00 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-111-9 | Hunter, Erica C. D., John Healey, John Watt, Sidney Griffith, Florence Jullien, . The Christian Heritage of Iraq
Iraq has been a centre of Syriac Christianity for almost two thousand years. This volume of collected papers from the Christianity in Iraq I-V Seminar Days (2004-2008) explores the Christian heritage of Iraq, highlighting the churches’ innate ability to transcend barriers of language, culture, ethnicity and religion. Syriac Christianity has maintained a discourse with the Muslim world, whilst the monastic institutions, still present in Iraq today, played a vital role within Iraq and in ‘outreach’ dioceses in Central Asia. In the post-medieval period, Christianity in Iraq revitalised itself in response to new initiatives, a process that continues today. More... | $107.00 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-091-4 | Soucek, Svat. Studies in Ottoman Naval History and Maritime Geography
This is a collection of essays on historical and maritime geography in the Ottoman period. More... | $109.00 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-089-1 | Faroqhi, Suraiya. Another Mirror for Princes
This book is a collection of essays on Ottoman history, focusing on how sultans of the Ottoman Empire were viewed by the public. More... | $115.00 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-59333-602-8 | Morony, Michael G. Christians in Iraq after the Muslim Conquest
This brief introduction to the state of Christianity in Iraq during the ascendancy of Islam begins with a discussion of the friction between Christians and Magians. The political role of the church among the Sassanians, both internally and externally, is addressed. With the Islamic conquest various traditions circulated regarding the tolerance of Christianity within Muslim jurisdiction. Morony skillfully navigates these traditions, providing a plausible historical view. The formation of the Assyrian Church of the East’s doctrine and identity as well as their schools, monasteries, laws, and their sense of community and separateness are considered. The contrast with Monophysites with their “Nestorian” competitors rounds out the discussion. More... | $29.00 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-092-1 | Alkan, Necati. Dissent and Heterodoxy in the Late Ottoman Empire
This is a series of essays on various religious issues from the Late Ottoman period. More... | $112.00 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-59333-967-8 | Stavridis, Stavros T. The Greek-Turkish War 1919-23
The book provides a historical development of the Australian press from Colonial Times till 1923. Since Australia was part of the British Empire, foreign policy decisions made in London impacted on this far-flung dominion located in the South –West Pacific. Australia’s national identity was forged on the shores of the Gallipoli Peninsula fighting against the Ottoman Empire in 1915. More... | $105.00 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-59333-591-5 | Brune, Lester H. United States and Two Gulf Wars
This incisive study by historian Lester Brune examines the background and implications of these events. Considering the late twentieth-century involvement of the United States in Iraq, Brune discusses the policy of containment and the decision to go to war a second time in the region in the twenty-first century. He traces the situation up to the creation of an Iraqi government and Saddam Hussein’s capture and trial. The continuing implications of the wars are also analyzed. More... | $127.00 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-077-8 | Khalid Wa Umar, Quellenkritische Untersuchung zur Hiteriographie der fruehislamischen Zeit
This unique book deals with the relationship between two great Arab-Muslim leaders, the Khalifa Umar and the military hero Khalid ibn alWaleed. Though their personal relationship was described as uneasy, the author proves that the early impression about this was greatly exaggerated, and that many early Muslim historiographers deliberately misrepresented facts. This explains the many contradictions about this sensitive subject in early Arab Islamic writings. More... | $139.00 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-076-1 | Zahir Baybars, A Contribution to the History of the Near East in the Thirteenth Century | $129.00 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-052-5 | Ali, Maulawi Agha Ahmad. The Haft Ásmán or History of the Masnawí of the Persians
Presented in the original Persian, this volume represents the solely published first volume of the Haft Ásmán “seven heavens,” or a compendium of poetry in the seven epic meters of Persian poetry. This history of the masnawí, or Middle Persian poetic form, written in rhymed couplets, is here presented by one of the recognized teachers of Persian in India. This, his final work, was intended to be an introduction to the works of Nizami. As such it contains invaluable nuggets about the Persian poets and their poetry. More... | $50.70 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-034-1 | Schulthess, Friedrich. Umajja ibn Abi s Salt
In this collection of poetry of Umayya ibn Abi al-Salt, as well as poems published in his name, Schulthess does a great service in bringing together these legendary Arabic poems. Umayya ibn Abi al-Salt was a contemporary of Muhammad who did not accept Islam. Printed here in the original Arabic, the poems are also translated in German and annotated. Schulthess also provides a knowledgeable introduction that includes a listing of the manuscript sources utilized in the reconstruction of the texts. More... | $44.20 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-023-5 | Brockelmann, Carl. Ibn Gauzi's Kitab al-Wafa fi fada'il al Mustafa
This investigation of Abu-al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzi’s al-Wafa bi Fada'il al-Mustafa, according to the Leiden manuscript by one of Germany’s foremost Semiticists, is essential reading for anyone interested in Arabic history and literature. Ibn al-Jawzi was a twelfth-century jurist and perhaps the most prolific writer in the history of Arabic literature. Al-Wafa bi Fada'il al-Mustafa (Detailed Accounts of the Chosen Prophet), is a large work on the biography of the prophet Muhammad. In this manuscript study, Brockelmann analyzes several aspects of this composition, including citations of this work by other notable Islamic writers. More... | $37.70 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-019-8 | Muslih, Antoine. Qanun al-ahwal al-shakhsiyya l-'l-tawa'if al-kathulikiyya fi suriyya | $110.00 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-010-5 | de Goeje, M. Mémoire sur la Conquête de la Syrie
Taken from the collection of studies published under the collective title Mémoires de l'histoire et de Ia geographie orientales, Mémoire sur la Conquête de la Syrie stands as a monument to the insight of M. J. de Goeje on the Arabic conquest of Syria. This brief account of an important phase of Syria’s history will be sure to please those interested in the general history of the Middle East as well as scholars studying the rise of Islam. More... | $50.70 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-005-1 | de Lagarde, Paul. Die Persischen Glossen der Alten
Representative of Lagarde’s interests in a wide variety of languages, this study of ancient Persian glosses deals with several sources that contain such material. First he explores glosses that relate to religion. Next Lagarde turns to glosses relating to political conditions. Resources concerning civil life constitute the third section of this detailed study, followed by a section addressing glosses in geographic materials. Natural history topics are next addressed, and finally issues that do not fall under the previous categories are given some consideration. Genealogical notes and a miscellany are also included. More... | $37.70 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-004-4 | de Lagarde, Paul. Geoponicon: Text and Commentary
Lagarde’s edition of the British Museum manuscript of an abridged version of the Geoponica is here made available again for the use of scholars and interested historians. Originally composed by Vindonius Anatolius of Beirut, a fourth-century Greek author, the Geoponica is an example of early natural science, a collection of agricultural tracts. Published here with Lagarde’s Latin commentary on the material from his Gesammelte Abhandlungen, this obscure and difficult text is now available for the first time with the insightful comments of the linguist who edited the Syriac text. More... | $44.20 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-59333-856-5 | Tomaschek, Wilhelm. Zur Historischen Topographie von Kleinasien im Mittlelalter
This study considers the topography of Asia Minor during a period of intense historical interest, the era spanning the Crusades. Useful for historians of the Middle Ages and especially those interested in the events surrounding the use of Asia Minor as a bridge to the distant lands of the Holy Land, this brief examination will retain its value. Presenting Turkey as it was seen during the Ottoman period, this topographical history will also appeal to historians of the final days of the empire. More... | $44.20 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-59333-893-0 | Tornberg, C. J. Oriental Codices of Lund University Library
As the title of the volume ably indicates, this historical catalogue is a record of the Oriental codices in the library of the Royal University of Lund. After a brief introduction in Latin he divides the materials into different religious or language groups, beginning with Islamic materials, the largest category. Hebrew, Syriac, and Sabaean codices complete the collection. More... | $89.00 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-59333-855-8 | Tomaschek, Wilhelm. Zur Historischen Topographie von Persien
Originally a two-part publication, geographer Wilhelm Tomaschek’s study on the historic topography of Persia is here published in one volume. Beginning with the street layout of the Tabula Peutingerana, the author describes the major routes of the Persian realm as reflected in antiquity. Although reflecting the period of the Qajar Dynasty prior to the developments during the World Wars, this guide still provides historic information concerning the mapping of one of the great empires of the ancient world. More... | $50.70 | Add to Cart |
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| 1-59333-102-9 | Crone, Patricia. Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam
Patricia Crone reassesses one of the most widely accepted dogmas in contemporary accounts of the beginnings of Islam: the supposition that Mecca was a trading center. In addition, she seeks to elucidate sources on which we should reconstruct our picture of the birth of the new religion in Arabia. More... | $89.00 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-153-9 | al-Bartilli, Severos, Behnam al-Bartilli, and Gregorios Ibrahim. The Book of Treasures
Jacob al-Bartilli, also known as Jacob bar Shakko, was an important Syrian Orthodox scholar of the thirteenth century (d. 1241). Hailing from the town of Bartilleh, near Mosul, he was the student of the East Syrian John bar Zo‘bi as well as the Muslim Kamal al-Din b. Yunus al-Mawsili before becoming the Bishop of Mar Mattai and Azerbaijan in 1232, taking Severos as his episcopal name. Among the works Jacob has left us is this theological treatise, entitled The Book of Treasures, which has here been translated in its entirety into Arabic. The Syriac text remains unpublished and this Arabic translation has been executed by the Deacon Behnam Daniel al- Bartilli on the basis of three different manuscripts. An introduction by Bishop Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim provides helpful information on the life and works of Jacob al- Bartilli. The Book of Treasures will prove essential reading for scholars seeking to understand the texture of Christian thought in the thirteenth-century Middle East. More... | $113.00 | Add to Cart |
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| 978-1-60724-150-8 | al-Hamad, Muhammad, and Gregorios Ibrahim. The Role of the Syrians in the Arab Sciences
This book begins with a discussion of the contribution of the areas of al-Raqqa (Kallinikos) and Diyar Mudar to translation into the Arabic language; the importance of Christian monasteries in the region of the Jazira for the history of translation of Greek receives special emphasis. Al-Hamad also discusses some of the most important Syriac translators: Peter of Kallinikos, Sergios of Resh‘ayna, Severos Sebokht and Jacob of Edessa, in addition to the translational activities which took place in the Umayyad period as well as during the Caliphates of al-Mansur, al-Rashid, al-Ma’mun. Each of the book’s remaining three sections is devoted to profiling an important figure in Arabic science: Muhammad b. Musa al-Khawarizmi, Thabit b. Qurra and Muhammad b. Jabir al-Batani al-Raqqi. In the case of each scholar, the significance of their connection to the region of the Jazira and their connection to Syriac scholarship in their intellectual formation and production is highlighted. More... | $108.00 | Add to Cart |
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