A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muhammad to the birth of the modern eraThis book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world.
'Heresy illuminates a forgotten world - and it's an absolute pleasure to read' - The Sunday Telegraph'In the beginning was the Word,' says the Gospel of John.
Research on the Mamluk period has so far remained relatively silent about the Mamluk descendants, who are often referred to by the Arabic term awlad al-nas (roughly: children of the elite).
The Mamluk Sultanate represents an extremely interesting case study to examine social, economic and cultural developments in the transition into the rapidly changing modern world.
This volume is a collection of research essays submitted by fellows of the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, an Advanced Center of Research in Mamluk Studies.
Gozde Yazici Corut unfolds the details of everyday life and represents the local people as active agents - active, moreover, in relation both to the changing nature and effectiveness of the Ottoman state's assertion of territorial authority and also to the differences between policies and practices of the Russian and Ottoman Empires.
Das Osmanische Reich war über sein gesamtes Bestehen hinweg von kultureller Vielfalt geprägt, in der die verschiedenen Kulturen in wechselseitigem Austausch standen.
Cairo's synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the presentSacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo's synagogues historically functioned as active institutions in the social lives of these Jews.
Selma Lagerlöfs großartige Werke 'Jerusalem' und 'Im heiligen Lande - Historische Romane aus wahrem Leben' entführen den Leser in die faszinierende Welt des Nahen Ostens und enthalten eine Mischung aus historischer Genauigkeit und fesselnder Fiktion.
In ›Die Erfindung der Namen‹ taucht der Leser in eine faszinierende Welt ein, in der die Bedeutung von Namen nicht nur eine kulturelle Nuance ist, sondern eine grundlegende Rolle im menschlichen Dasein spielt.
Der Hexenhammer (Malleus maleficarum) ist ein Werk zur Legitimation der Hexenverfolgung, das der Dominikaner Heinrich Kramer nach heutigem Forschungsstand im Jahre 1486 veröffentlichte.
'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics of Istanbul' PETER FRANKOPAN'A love letter to this ancient capital' THE TIMESWalking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a distillation of the country's history, a mirror of its present, and a shadow of its future.
The commentary interprets Jeremiah 1-25 as a dramatic text: In laments, accusations, and announcements of doom, a polyphonic message about the fall of Jerusalem and Judah emerges.
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2024****A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORKER** From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost Wars, the inside story of America's long and ruinous relationship with Saddam HusseinThe Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq and, for the first time, details America's fundamental miscalculations during its ruinous, decades-long relationship with Saddam Hussein.
Die Vermessung von Kunstwerken gehörte zu den wichtigsten Methoden der »Rassenwissenschaften«In der rassistischen Bildpropaganda völkischer und nationalsozialistischer Ideologen fallen die vielen Abbildungen von antiken Kunstwerken auf.
Ausgezeichnet mit dem Pulitzer-Preis 2024 in der Kategorie »General Nonfiction«»Buch des Jahres 2023« The New YorkerVor den Toren Jerusalems kommt es zu einer Tragödie, als ein mit palästinensischen Kindern besetzter Schulbus von einem Sattelschlepper gerammt wird und in Flammen aufgeht.
Pleasing God is a practical resource for Christian living that inspires believers to seek the greatest honor of anyone's lifetime--to have the privilege of pleasing God.
The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on terror.
Pleasing God is a practical resource for Christian living that inspires believers to seek the greatest honor of anyone's lifetime--to have the privilege of pleasing God.
This book contributes to the history of medieval Jewry in general, as a basis for a comparative study of the position of the Jews in Christian Europe in the Late Middle Ages.
This book aims to study the heritage revival movement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a scientific study, which chronicles this movement since the printing press entered the land of this country in 1300 AH/ 1883AD, even before the release of this book.
This book came as a natural response and an inevitable consequence of my former writers who fought the field of wound, amendment and scientific criticism, which are a book (Books of Men's Translations between Wound and Amendment) and the book (Scientific Criticism of the Curriculum of Investigators on Heritage Books) as he stood on the critical side of the scholars and historians of opinions and narratives They took the geniuses of Akkad as an example to which the arrows of criticism, evaluation and evaluation are directed.
The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on terror.
The history of Tanzimat in the Ottoman Empire has largely been narrated as a unique period of equality, reform, and progress, often framing it as the backdrop to modern Turkey.
Unerbittlich besteht König Melim-anna von Uruk auf dem Recht der ersten Brautnacht, ohne vom zunehmenden Frust seines Volkes oder den Ratschlägen seiner Vertrauten Notiz zu nehmen.
The EU two-state policy concerning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is failing, despite a half-century of strenuous EU efforts expending tens of billions of euros to implement it.
›Die Erfindung der Überbevölkerung‹ ist eine tiefgründige Analyse, die sich mit einem der drängendsten globalen Probleme unserer Zeit auseinandersetzt.
The commentary interprets Jeremiah 1-25 as a dramatic text: In laments, accusations, and announcements of doom, a polyphonic message about the fall of Jerusalem and Judah emerges.
Western leaders face significant challenges when conducting business in Iraq, from navigating cultural differences to overcoming ingrained misconceptions.
Technological advancements, expanding education, and unfettered capitalism have encouraged many around the world to aspire to better lives, even as declines in employment and widening inequality are pushing more and more people into insecurity and hardship.
Technological advancements, expanding education, and unfettered capitalism have encouraged many around the world to aspire to better lives, even as declines in employment and widening inequality are pushing more and more people into insecurity and hardship.
How ornamentation enables a direct and immediate encounter between viewers and art objectsBased on universal motifs, ornamentation occurs in many artistic traditions, though it reaches its most expressive, tangible, and unique form in the art of the Islamic world.
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'A deeply immersive portrait of daily life in Israel and the West Bank' The Best Books to Understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Financial Times'Brims over with just the sort of compassion and understanding that is needed at a time like this a book that speaks with deep and authentic truth of ordinary lives trapped in the jaws of history' ObserverA gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collisionMilad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy awaits: his bus is involved in a horrific accident.
