Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Ottoman Empire is a tale of how women's triumphs as well as their failures shaped a global society-not despite, but because of, gender.
Der vorliegende Band enthält die Edition, die Übersetzung und den linguistischen und historischen Kommentar zu 13 bisher unpublizierten, arabischen Briefen aus der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien.
Michael Rydelnik, professor of Jewish studies at Moody Bible Institute, goes beyond the media images for an in depth, biblically grounded look at the crisis that never ends--the conflict between the Israelis and the Arabs.
Inspired by the "e;spatial turn,"e; this volume links for the first time the study of diplomacy and spatiality in the premodern Islamicate world to understand practices and meanings ascribed to territory and realms.
This book examines the role of Europeans who settled in the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries and assumed Ottoman identity , be it by way of conversion to Islam and assimilating to the host society or by becoming loyal servants or subjects of the Ottoman state, identifying themselves as Ottomans, but retaining their faith.
The Kit b-i-Aqdas is considered the most important and sacred text of the Bah ' Faith, a religion with some eight million adherents, found in nearly every country of the world.
In this book, the writer tries to provide adequate objective images of Islamic mysticism without excessive or neglecting a desire to clarify the truth and an invitation to achieve purposeful dialogue and to bring different views and compose the inconsistent hearts.
A human history of one of the planet’s most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions.
