The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650

the structure of power

This highly-praised and authoritative account surveys the history of the Ottoman Empire from its obscure origins in the fourteenth century, through its rise to world-power status in the sixteenth century, to the troubled times of the seventeenth century. Going beyond a simple narrative of Ottoman ...

Orientalism and Islam

european thinkers on oriental despotism in the Middle East and India

Through an historical analysis of the theme of Oriental despotism, Michael Curtis reveals the complex positive and negative interaction between Europe and the Orient. The book also criticizes the misconception that the Orient was the constant victim of Western imperialism and the view that Westerners ...

Destiny disrupted

a history of the world through islamic eyes

This sweeping history illuminates how Muslims must have seen the history of the world - and what western world history leaves out. We in the West share a common narrative of world history - that runs from the Nile Valley and Mesopotamia, through Greece and Rome and ...

The muslims of medieval Italy

This significant new work focuses on the formation and fragmentation of an Arab-Muslim state and its society in Sicily and south Italy between 800 and 1300, which led to the formation of an enduring Muslim-- Christian frontier during the age of the Crusades. It examines ...

Historia de Al-Andalus según las crónicas medievales

Vol. X: Rebeldes del emirato

No se trata en esta obra de contar la Historia de al-Andalus, sino de dejar fluir la voz de sus protagonistas para que nos vayan relatando lo que vieron y vivieron, pero también lo que oyeron y les contaron, y obtener, a través de sus ...

Los árabes en América Latina

historia de una emigración

Coord., Abdeluahed Akmir. A pesar de la importancia que tiene la presencia árabe en América Latina, los estudios realizados acerca del tema siguen siendo escasos. Sin embargo, el dinamismo que caracteriza las comunidades árabes actualmente en América Latina, y los acontecimientos que tuvieron lugar en ...

Slavery, Islam and diaspora

Edited by Behnaz A. Mirzai, Ismael Musah Montana and Paul E. Lovejoy. Slavery, Islam and Diaspora explores slavery in the context of the Muslim world through a study of the African Diaspora. The volume identifies the enslaved population as a distinct social stratum in Islamic ...

De Oriente al-Andalus, las vías del conocimiento

Ed., Fátima Roldán Castro. Tiene entre las manos un manual en el que se les invita a recorrer algunos de los caminos del saber durante la Edad Media, de Oriente a Occidente y viceversa.

Blood and faith

the purging of muslim Spain 1492-1614

In 1609, Philip III signed an edict denouncing the Muslims of Spain as heretics and the entire population was given three days to leave, on threat of death. In the exodus, some 300,000 Muslims were deported and by 1614 Spain had successfully implemented the ...

Descripción del reino de Granada bajo la dominación de los naseritas

Francisco Javier Simonet (Málaga, 1829-Madrid, 1897), destacado filólogo, orientalista e historiador y catedrático de lengua árabe en la Universidad de Granada, mandó estampar en 1860 ésta, su primera obra. Un riguroso tratado histórico y geográfico sobre el antiguo reino nazarí.

The new Cambridge history of Islam

Vol.I: The formation of the islamic world, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries

Volume One of The New Cambridge History of Islam, which surveys the political and cultural history of Islam from its Late Antique origins until the eleventh century, brings together contributions from leading scholars in the field. The book is divided into four parts. The first ...

The new Cambridge history of Islam

Vol.II: The western islamic world, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries

Volume 2 of The New Cambridge History of Islam is devoted to the history of the Western Islamic lands from the political fragmentation of the eleventh century to the beginnings of European colonialism towards the end of the eighteenth century. The volume embraces a vast ...

The new Cambridge history of Islam

Vol.V: The islamic world in the Age of Western Dominance

Volume 5 of The New Cambridge History of Islam examines the history of Muslim societies from 1800 to the present. Francis Robinson, a leading historian of Islam, has brought together a team of scholars with a broad range of expertise to explore how Muslims responded ...

The new Cambridge history of Islam. Vol. VI

Muslims and modernity culture and society since 1800

Ed. Robert W. Hefner. Unparalleled in its range of topics and geographical scope, the sixth and final volume of The New Cambridge History of Islam provides a comprehensive overview of Muslim culture and society since 1800. Robert Hefner's thought-provoking account of the political and ...

Memories of Muhammad

why the Prophet matters

Safi recognizes that in painting a portrait of the prophet Muhammad, he does not begin with a blank canvas. Indeed, he begins by confronting the negative images of Muhammad within the Western tradition#from Dante#s horrifying portrayal of the prophet#s damned soul to ...

Engaging the muslim world

With clarity and concision, Juan Cole disentangles the key foreign policy issues that America is grappling with today - from our dependence on Middle East petroleum to the promotion of Islamophobia by the American right - and delivers his informed advice on the best way forward. Cole ...

Armies of the Muslim conquest

Illustrated by Angus McBride. The dramatic eruption of the Arab peoples from Arabia after their adoption of the Muslim faith in the 7th century remains one of the most extraordinary events in world history. By the end of that century they ruled a state that ...

La Corte de los Califas

Ésta es la historia de los dos siglos de oro del Islam: la época en que los Abasidas rigieron un vasto imperio desde su corte de Bagdad. Hugh Kennedy, autor de Las grandes conquistas árabes, nos ofrece un libro que se aparta de los fríos ...

Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta was famous in his own lifetime during the 14th Century as the greatest traveller of the age. He traversed the whole Islamic world (from his native Tangier to China), and crossed over its boundaries in Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. He was variously attacked ...

Les arabes d'Israël

entre intégration et rupture

En 1947, le plan de partage de l'ONU prévoyant la partition de la Palestine entre un Etat arabe et un Etat juif est rejeté par les pays arabes. La proclamation de l'indépendance d'Israël en 1948 provoque la première guerre israélo-arabe qui se ...