Historia de los musulmanes en España

Contiene: Libro 3: El califato -- Libro 4: Los reyes de Taifas. Fruto de largos años de trabajo y de una prodigiosa labor de investigación original, la Historia de los musulmanes de España, obra cumbre del filólogo e historiador holandés Reinhart P. Dozy, provocó de inmediato ...

Eternal performance

Ta'ziyeh and other shiite rituals

Ed. Peter J. Chelkowski. Over the centuries, observances of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, have traveled far from their origins at Karbala - a windswept desert plain that is now a town in present-day Iraq - where, according to tradition, Hussein, the beloved grandson ...

A History of Saudi Arabia

This updated edition analyses the challenges, both internal and external, facing Saudi Arabia in the twenty-first century. Two new chapters discuss the political, economic and social developments in the aftermath of 9/11, painting a vivid picture of a country shocked by terrorism and condemned ...

Saint Francis and the Sultan

the curious history of a christian-muslim encounter

In September, 1219, as the armies of the Fifth Crusade besieged the Egyptian city of Damietta, Francis of Assisi went to Egypt to preach to Sultan al-Malik al-Kamil. Although we in fact know very little about this event, this has not prevented artists and writers ...

Religion in the Middle East

Volume II: Islam

It is generally accepted that the Middle East witnessed the ancient rise of monotheism and its dissemination. The three faiths predominantly concerned - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - have retained their separateness and have been in different degrees torn asunder by schisms; but less well known has ...

The crucifixion and the Qur´an

a study in the History of Muslim thought

According to the majority of modern Muslims and Christians, the Qur'an denies the crucifixion of Jesus, and with it, one of the most sacred beliefs of Christianity. However, it is only mentioned in one verse - 'They did not kill him and they did not ...

Al-Andalus

La conquista emprendida por el islam a partir de 711 supondrá la apertura de un extenso periodo en la historia peninsular, que nos lleva hasta 1492, caracterizado por una presencia musulmana de compleja historia, tal como se revela por el mero hecho de la variada ...

A concise history of Pakistan

This is a comprehensive one-volume history of Pakistan, a country that lies at the centre of the worlds strategic concerns. Being published as Pakistan completes its sixtieth year as a nation state the book covers contemporary crises in the perspective of the subcontinents ancient and ...

Early Islamic Spain

the history of Ibn al-Qûtîya

This book is the first published English-language translation of the significant History of Islamic Spain by Ibn al-Qutiya (d. Cordova 367 / 977). Including extensive notes and comments, a genealogical table and relevant maps, the text is preceded by a study of the author and his ...

Radical Reform

islamic ethics and liberation

Tariq Ramadan has emerged as one of the foremost voices of reformist Islam in the West. In one of his previous books, 'Western Muslims and the Future of Islam'he urged his fellow Muslims to participate fully in the civil life of the Western societies ...

Ancient Turkey

Students of antiquity often see ancient Turkey as a bewildering array of cultural complexes. Ancient Turkey brings together in a coherent account the diverse and often fragmented evidence, both archaeological and textual, that forms the basis of our knowledge of the development of Anatolia from ...

Iraq bajo ocupación

destrucción de la identidad y la memoria

Hoy se afirma que la violencia ha disminuido en Iraq y que, tras el triunfo de Barak Obama en EE.UU., es posible la retirada de las tropas extranjeras y la estabilización del país. La realidad es bien distinta: más allá del fin de la ...

El crisol de Dios

el Islam y el nacimiento de Europa (570-1215)

Contiene ilustraciones. Lewis nos ofrece un extraordinario y vívido retrato de la España islámica, desde la imponente gran mezquita aljama de Córdoba hasta el palacio califal, más grandioso que Versalles. Córdoba, "ornamento del mundo", perdería su primacía en el políticamente turbulento pero intelectualmente espectacular siglo ...

The Cambridge history of Turkey.

Volume 1:Byzantium to Turkey, 1071-1453

Edited by Kate Fleet Volume I of The Cambridge History of Turkey examines the rise of Turkish power in Anatolia from the arrival of the first Turks at the end of the eleventh century to the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453. Taking ...

Islam and the west

the making of an image

This classic study by Norman Daniel explores the political and religious considerations behind distorted western views of Islam, examining Christian-Muslim interaction from medieval times to the modern world. First published over 30 years ago, the message within this great scholarly achievement is more relevant today ...

Islam and the Russian Empire

reform and revolution in Central Asia

Relations between Muslims and the Russian government have long been a source of tension and never more so than today. This penetrating examination of the conflict between the central authority of the Russian Empire and its Muslim regions before, during and immediately after the Russian ...

The great caliphs

the golden age of the `Abbasid Empire

The flowering of the 'Abbasid caliphate between 750 and 1258 CE is often considered the classical age of Islamic civilization. In the preceding 120 years, the Arabs had conquered much of the known world of antiquity and established a vast empire stretching from Spain to ...

Mirror of the arab world

Lebanon in conflict

Mirror of the Arab World is really two books in one. Mackey's narrative deftly weaves Lebanon's tragic history with that of the Arab Middle East as a whole#Mackey performs the tricky balancing act of demonstrating that Lebanon is unique yet somehow still ...

Violence and belief in late antiquity

militant devotion in Christianity and Islam

"In Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity, Thomas Sizgorich seeks to understand why and how violent expressions of religious devotion became central to the self-understandings of both Christian and Muslim communities between the fourth and ninth centuries. Sizgorich argues that the cultivation of violent martyrdom ...

The great islamic conquests

AD 632-750

Few centuries in world history have had such a profound and long- lasting impact as the first hundred years of Islamic history. In this book, David Nicolle examines the extensive Islamic conquests between AD 632 and 750. These years saw the religion and culture of ...