Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon addresses the strange fact that, in both European and Middle Eastern medieval studies, those texts that we now study and teach as the most canonical representations of their era were in fact not popular or even widely read in their day.
Previously unavailable in English, Salim Barakat’s Sages of Darkness depicts Kurdish life in the period of transition from a traditional tribal existence to half-hearted modernization under the Ottomans.
In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact-a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE.
This study of the surrender to Babylon uses an interdisciplinary approach that includes historical-critical, linguistic, semiotic, communicative, and symbolic methods.
Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der vorislamischen arabischen Königreiche und entdecken Sie die kulturellen, sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Errungenschaften einer oft übersehenen Epoche.
A consciousness-shifting collection of poetic reflections and meditations These powerful meditations and poetic reflections will comfort, inspire, and gently bring you out of the hectic day-to-day and back to the bedrock of peace, and even joy, of your true, essential, and authentic self.
A consciousness-shifting collection of poetic reflections and meditations These powerful meditations and poetic reflections will comfort, inspire, and gently bring you out of the hectic day-to-day and back to the bedrock of peace, and even joy, of your true, essential, and authentic self.
150 Jahre intensiver archäologischer Forschung im Alten Vorderen Orient haben dem Erdboden unzählig viele Zeugnisse aus jener Zeit entrissen: Texte, Gebrauchsgegenstände und andere Spuren des menschlichen Lebens.
This book provides an historical overview of Palestine's Christian communities and their role in the Palestinian nationalist movement during the late Ottoman and British mandatory periods.
An unforgettable photographic journal of the "e;shadows"e; of the Arab world--at turns invisible, unknown, and threatening to some--this work gathers images of the Palestinians during the first few months of 1988 when the intifada was beginning to gain momentum.
Disorder and Diagnosis offers a social and political history of medicine, disease, and public health in the Persian Gulf from the late nineteenth century until the 1973 oil boom.
The definitive history of the Middle East, now updated in its fifth edition'The best overall survey of the politics, regional rivalries and economics of the contemporary Arab world' Washington PostOver the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike.
