Middle Eastern history

In Managing Frontiers in Qing China, historians and anthropologists explore China's imperial expansion in Inner Asia, focusing on early Qing empire-building in Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, and beyond - Central Asian perspectives and comparisons to Russia's Asian empire are included.

Born into a family of scholars and literati in Samarqand, Muhammad 'Sultan' Mutribi Samarqandi (d.

In the Islamic world, the writing of biographical reference works has a very long tradition.

Ibn al-Farid (d.

There are many excellent published collections of the indispensable Dutch documents for the History of Indonesia in the seventeenth century.

Travel notebooks have existed almost ever since writing was invented.

Volume Five comprises, along with introductory comments, two "e;cave by cave"e; guides.

Throughout history, the lands of Central Asia have seen empires come and go.

This book offers a new history of the ancient city of Rayy.

In The Shi?

Nur al-Din Jahangir (d.

This volume, a product of international collaboration, presents readers with the state of the field in Khazar Studies.

The Qur?