Las sultanas de la Alhambra

las grandes desconocidas del reino nazarí de Granada (siglos XIII-XV)

Esta obra constituye el primer estudio dedicado única y exclusivamente a las mujeres de la dinastía nazarí, desde el siglo XIII hasta más allá del XV, un colectivo que ha permanecido injustamente relegado al silencio y al olvido. Esta obra, basada en el análisis de ...

Abbás Ibn Firnás

el sabio de al-Ándalus

El rondeño-andalusí Abbás Ibn Firnás es uno de los personajes más importantes y fascinantes del siglo IX. Residió la mayor parte de su vida en la Córdoba de los omeyas, donde trabajó al servicio de los emires independientes al-Hakam I (796-822), ‘Abd al-Rahmán II (822-852 ...

A concise history of the arabs

The key to understanding the Arab world today - and in the future - is unlocking its past. John McHugo takes the reader on a journey through the political, social and intellectual history of the Arabs from the Roman Empire right up to the present day. He ...

Law and piety in medieval Islam

The Ayyubid and Mamluk periods were two of the most intellectually vibrant in Islamic history. Megan H. Reid's book, which traverses three centuries from 1170 to 1500, recovers the stories of medieval men and women who were renowned not only for their intellectual prowess ...

Writing history at the Ottoman Court

editing the past, fashioning the future

Ottoman historical writing of the 15th and 16th centuries played a significant role in fashioning Ottoman identity and institutionalizing the dynastic state structure during this period of rapid imperial expansion. This volume shows how the writing of history achieved these effects by examining the implicit ...

The arabs of the Ottoman Empire, 1516-1918

a social and cultural history

The Ottomans ruled much of the Arab World for four centuries. Bruce Masters's work surveys this period, emphasizing the cultural and social changes that occurred against the backdrop of the political realities that Arabs experienced as subjects of the Ottoman sultans. The persistence of ...

Diccionario de historia árabe e islámica

Este diccionario se presenta como una herramienta fundamental para el conocimiento de la historia del Islam, pues ofrece al lector un repertorio esencial de términos –apuntando a unos centros de interés– relativos a nociones de variada índole, como son las categorías sociales, la tierra, la ...

La angustia de Abraham

los orígenes culturales del Islam

La idea motriz de estas páginas es sustituir el concepto mítico de transmisión textual por el de evolución en la historia de los sistemas religiosos. Cuando nos enfrentamos al estudio de las religiones, el dogma y la ortodoxia se presentan siempre avalados por la tradición ...

Historia de la España islámica

La presencia árabe y beréber en la Península durante cerca de ocho siglos dio lugar a una fusión cultural de amplísimo alcance y sirvió de medio transmisor de la civilización islámica a los reinos y territorios europeos. En la presente obra W. Montgomery Watt describe ...

Islamic art and the museum

approaches to art and archaeology of the muslim world in the Twenty-First Century

The first years of the twenty-first century have witnessed an impressive re-evaluation of Islamic art and archaeology. However, while museums and galleries become increasingly important forums for public interest in Muslim cultures, there has been little discussion about content or categories of order and their ...

The legal status of dimmi-s in the Islamic West

(Second/Eighth-Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries)

The studies brought together in this volume provide an important contribution to the history of ?imm?-s in the medieval d?r al-isl?m, and more generally to the legal history of religious minorities in medieval societies. The central question addressed is the legal status ...

Arabia before Muhammad

Islamic civilization in South Asia

a history of muslim power and presence in the indian subcontinent

Muslims have been present in South Asia for 14 centuries. Nearly 40% of the people of this vast land mass follow the religion of Islam, and Muslim contribution to the cultural heritage of the sub-continent has been extensive. This textbook provides both undergraduate and postgraduate ...

The Seljuqs

politics, society and culture

This is a unique collaborative exploration of this pivotal yet understudied Muslim dynasty. The Seljuqs were a Turco-Persian Sunni Muslim dynasty that ruled parts of Central Asia and the Middle East from the 11th to 14th centuries. What was it like to live in Seljuq ...

The odyssey of Ibn Battuta

uncommon tales of a medieval adventurer

Ibn Battuta was, without doubt, one of the world's truly great travellers. Born in 14th century Morocco, and a contemporary of Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta has left us an account in his own words of his remarkable journeys throughout the Islamic world and beyond ...

A labyrinth of kingdoms

10.000 miles through islamic Africa

In 1849 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died, but he carried on alone, eventually reaching the fabled city of gold, Timbuktu. His five-and-a-half-year, 10,000-mile adventure ranks among the ...

Modern Afghanistan

a history of struggle and survival

Afghanistan's recent history is a sad one: Soviet invasion in 1979; Pakistan-backed internal conflict in the 1980s; the Taliban regime and then the US invasion and the multi-national occupation after the events of September 11th 2001. Why does Afghanistan remain so vulnerable to domestic ...

A history of Libya

John Wright's concise history of Libya begins in the prehistoric Sahara and concludes with the bloody overthrow of the Gadafi regime and the emergence of a 'new' Libya in 2011. After surveying the story of the central Sahara's early hunter-gatherers and its Garamantian ...

The generalship of Muhammad

battles and campaigns of the Prophet of Allah

His campaigns, military thought, and insurgent strategy "An excellent analysis of Muhammad as a general, placing his battles within the context of military history, and a good introduction to the life of the founder of Islam."--David Cook, author of Understanding Jihad "Provides an essential ...

Did Muhammad exist?

an inquiry into Islam's obscure origins

This title offers an introduction to one of the core methods of approaching biblical texts. "Historical Critical Analysis" is the main way in which the Bible (both the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and the New Testament) has been examined and read by scholars in the ...