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Historical Atlas of Islam by Malise Ruthven (Hardcover - Harvard Univ Pr)
 

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Historical Atlas of Islam by Malise Ruthven (Hardcover - Harvard Univ Pr)
The historical evolution of Islam is explained in this detailed reference, which chronicles the history of the religion from the birth of Mohammed to the independence of former Soviet Muslim States, covering a wide variety of themes including philosophy, arts, and architecture.

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The Jews of Islam
 

The Jews of Islam

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The Jews of Islam
Examines the Judaeo-Islamic tradition, traces the history of Islam, and describes the reasons for the breakdown in relations between the Jews and the Islamic world.

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The First Dynasty of Islam by G. R. Hawting (Paperback - Subsequent)
 

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The First Dynasty of Islam by G. R. Hawting (Paperback - Subsequent)

"...provides the best account now available in English." -- Journal of the American Oriental Society

Gerald Hawtings book has long been acknowledged as the standard introductory survey of this complex period in Arab and Islamic history. Now it is once more made available, with the addition of a new Introduction by the author which examines recent significant contributions to scholarship in the field.

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Covering Islam by Edward W. Said (Paperback - Revised)
 

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Covering Islam by Edward W. Said (Paperback - Revised)
From the Iranian hostage crisis through the Gulf War and the bombing of the World Trade Center, the American news media have portrayed "Islam" as a monolithic entity, synonymous with terrorism and religious hysteria. In this classic work, now updated, the author of Culture and Imperialism reveals the hidden agendas and distortions of fact that underlie even the most "objective" coverage of the Islamic world.

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Icon of Evil by David Dalin (Hardcover - Random House Inc)
 

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Icon of Evil by David Dalin (Hardcover - Random House Inc)
Exposing the link between the fascism of the past and twenty-first-century radical Islam, a detailed portrait of Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the spiritual and political leader of the Palestinian Arabs from the 1920s, describes his alliance with Hitler, his advocacy of the Final Solution, and his fomenting of Nazi-style anti-Semitic propaganda throughout the Islamic world. 30,000 first printing.

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God's Crucible by David Levering Lewis (Hardcover - W W Norton & Co Inc)
 

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God's Crucible by David Levering Lewis (Hardcover - W W Norton & Co Inc)
A panoramic history of Islamic culture in early Europe by the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of W. E. B. Du Bois traces five centuries of engagement between the Muslim imperium and an emerging Europe to describe key Islamic cultural contributions and the interplay of cooperation between disparate religions. 50,000 first printing.

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The Legend of the Middle Ages by Remi Brague (Hardcover - Univ of Chicago Pr)
 

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The Legend of the Middle Ages by Remi Brague (Hardcover - Univ of Chicago Pr)
Modern interpreters have variously cast the Middle Ages as a benighted past from which the West had to evolve and, more recently, as the model for a potential future of intercultural dialogue and tolerance. THE LEGEND OF THE MIDDLE AGES cuts through such oversimplifications to reconstruct a complicated and philosophically rich period that remains deeply relevant to the contemporary world. Featuring a penetrating interview and sixteen essays-only three of which have previously appeared in English--this volume explores key intersections of medieval religion and philosophy. With characteristic erudition and insight, Rémi Brague focuses less on individual Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thinkers than on their relationships with one another. Their disparate philosophical worlds, Brague shows, were grounded in different models of revelation that engendered divergent interpretations of the ancient Greek sources they held in common. So, despite striking similarities in their solutions for the philosophical problems they all faced, intellectuals in each theological tradition often viewed the others' ideas with skepticism, if not disdain. Such divisions, Brague contends, debunk notions that the medieval Mediterranean world was a European or Islamic cultural center in which different groups of people harmoniously mingled. His clear-eyed and revelatory portrayal of this misunderstood age brings to life not only its philosophical and theological nuances, but also its true lessons for our own time.

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A History of the Sudan by P. M. Holt (Paperback - Subsequent)
 

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A History of the Sudan by P. M. Holt (Paperback - Subsequent)
Here is a new edition of well-known introductory history of the Sudan, which takes events of this troubled region up to 1998. This extended coverage considers the last years of Jaafar Nimeiri's government to his fall from power in 1985; the subsequent transitional military regime; the return to parliamentary rule, and the current attempts to establish an Islamic state under a renewed military regime. More than a political narrative, this book shows how the modern Sudan has been shaped by three key elements in its history: the influence of the Ottoman Empire; the impact of British domination; and, above all else, the enduring indigenous tradition of the region, produced by the intermingling of its African and Arab Muslim inheritance.

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Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean by K. N. Chaudhuri (Paperback - Illustrated)
 

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Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean by K. N. Chaudhuri (Paperback - Illustrated)
An analysis of the long chain of oceanic trade, from the South China Sea to the eastern Mediterranean, which dominated seaborne commerce for many centuries up to the Industrial Revolution, reveals the unique features of Asian commercial capitalism as well as the contributions of Asian merchants worldwide.

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The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam by John O. Hunwick (Hardcover - Illustrated
 

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The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam by John O. Hunwick (Hardcover - Illustrated
Presents a collection of primary materials on the enslavement of Africans in Islamic countries of the Mediterranean, covering such topics as Muslim views on slavery, the capture and sale of slaves, and the types of labor they performed.

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