Daily life in the Ottoman Empire

This book provides a general overview of the daily life in a vast empire which contained numerous ethnic, linguistic, and religious communities. The Ottoman Empire was an Islamic imperial monarchy that existed for over 600 years. At the height of its power in the 16th ...

Peerless Among Princes

The Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman

A full life and times biography of Süleyman, the longest reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Süleyman, who ruled the Ottoman Empire between 1520 and 1566, was a globally recognized figure during his lifetime. His domain extended from Hungary to Iran, and from the Crimea ...

Roma in the medieval Islamic world

literacy, culture, and migration

Winner of the 2022 Dan David Prize for outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history Winner of the 2023 Medieval Academy of America Monica H. Green Prize for Distinguished Medieval Research In Middle Eastern ...

Les Berbères entre Maghreb et Mashreq

(VIIe-XVe siècle)

Le terme « Berbère », qui désigne la population du Maghreb au moment de la conquête islamique, renvoie à l’idée du caractère autochtone de cette dernière. Cette altérité coexiste cependant dans les textes avec la revendication du caractère oriental des Berbères, à travers l’élaboration de ...

The Eastern Frontier

limits of empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia

Transoxania, Khurasan, and Tukharistan - which comprise large parts of today's Central Asia - have long been an important frontier zone. In the late antique and early medieval periods, the region was both an eastern political boundary for Persian and Islamic empires and a cultural border ...

The Abbasid Caliphate

a history

The period of the Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258) has long been recognized as the formative period of Islamic civilization with its various achievements in the areas of science, literature, and culture. This history of the Abbasid Caliphate from its foundation in 750 and golden age under ...

Imperial Mecca

Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj

With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for the globalization of epidemic diseases. European, especially British Indian, officials also feared that lengthy sojourns in Arabia might expose their ...

El pionero de la luz

Alhacén y su Libro de la Óptica

Entre las efemérides consideradas por Naciones Unidas para la declaración del año 2015 como Año Internacional de la Luz, una de ellas tuvo un significado especial: la celebración de la aparición hace aproximadamente un milenio de la obra del científico árabe Ibn al-Hytham, más conocido ...

The apple of his eyes

coverts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX

The thirteenth century brought new urgency to Catholic efforts to convert non-Christians, and no Catholic ruler was more dedicated to this undertaking than King Louis IX of France. His military expeditions against Islam are well documented, but there was also a peaceful side to his ...

Alexander the Great in the persian tradition

history, myth and legend in Medieval Iran

Alexander the Great (356-333 BC) was transformed into a legend by all those he met, leaving an enduring tradition of romances across the world. Aside from its penetration into every language of medieval Europe, the Alexander romance arguably had its greatest impact in the Persian ...

El sueño de al-Quds

los musulmanes ante la conquista cruzada de Jerusalén (1099-1187)

Las cruzadas siguen siendo un fenómeno de mucha actualidad e interés, no solo en el mundo occidental, donde han generado un sin fin de ensayos, novelas y películas, sino también en el islámico, donde a lo largo del siglo XX se entendieron como un paralelo ...

Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam

geography, translation, and the 'Abbasid Empire

The story of the 9th-century caliphal mission from Baghdad to discover the legendary barrier against the apocalyptic nations of Gog and Magog mentioned in the Quran, has been either dismissed as superstition or treated as historical fact. By exploring the intellectual and literary history surrounding ...

The Crucible of Islam

Little is known about Arabia in the sixth century CE. Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from the Iberian peninsula to India. Today, Muslims account for nearly a quarter of the global population. G. W. Bowersock ...

The Mongols and the Islamic World

from conquest to conversion

An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam during the years of non-Muslim rule The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Genghis Khan and his warriors overran Central Asia and ...

Authority and identity in medieval islamic historiography

persian histories from the peripheries

Intriguing dreams, improbable myths, fanciful genealogies, and suspect etymologies. These were all key elements of the historical texts composed by scholars and bureaucrats on the peripheries of Islamic empires between the tenth and fifteenth centuries. But how are historians to interpret such narratives? And what ...

The islamic-byzantine frontier

interaction and exchange among muslim and christian communities

The retreat of the Byzantine army from Syria in around 650 CE, in advance of the approaching Arab armies, is one that has resounded emphatically in the works of both Islamic and Christian writers, and created an enduring motif: that of the Islamic-Byzantine frontier. For ...

Alchoranus Latinus quem transtulit Marcus canonicus Toletanus

Poco antes de la victoria cristiana de Las Navas de Tolosa, se gestó un segundo movimiento de traducciones de textos islámicos -genuinamente hispánico- impulsado por don Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada y don Mauricio, archidiácono de la catedral de Toledo. El presente estudio ofrece la edición ...

The Almoravid and Almohad empires

This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive account of the rise and fall of the Almoravids and the Almohads, the two most important Berber dynasties of the medieval Islamic west, an area that encompassed southern Spain and Portugal, Morocco, Algeria and ...

Rirha: site antique et médiéval du Maroc. I

Cadre historique et géographique général

Localisé à environ 35 kilomètres de l’antique Volubilis, le site de Rirha possède une emprise spatiale d’environ 10 hectares. Occupé de l’époque du royaume maurétanien (Ve siècle av. J.-C.) à la période mérinide (XIVe siècle ap. J.-C.), il est à ...

Hattin

On 4 July 1187 the legendary Muslim leader Saladin destroyed the Crusader army of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem with a terrible slaughter at the battle of Hattin - and went on to restore the Holy City of Jerusalem to Islamic rule. The carnage at Hattin ...