Author: John BarkerPublisher:
ISBN: 1402187858
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Samuel Tinsley in London, 1876.
Syria and Egypt Under the Last Five Sultans of Turkey
Author: John BarkerPublisher:
ISBN: 1402187858
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Samuel Tinsley in London, 1876.
Syria and Egypt Under the Last Five Sultans of Turkey
Author: John BarkerSyria and Egypt Under the Last Five Sultans of Turkey
Author: Edward B. B. BarkerThe Wahhabis seen through European Eyes (1772-1830)
Author: Giovanni BonacinaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004293280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In The Wahhabis seen through European Eyes (1772-1830) Giovanni Bonacina offers an account of the early reactions in Europe to the rise of the Wahhabi movement in Arabia. Commonly pictured nowadays as a form of Muslim fundamentalism, the Wahhabis appeared to many European witnesses as the creators of a deistic revolution with serious political consequences for the Ottoman ancien regime. They were seen either in the light of contemporary events in France, or as Islamic theological reformers in the mould of Calvin, opposing an established church and devotional traditions. These audacious but fascinating attempts to interpret the unknown by way of the better known are illustrated in Bonacina’s book.
The International Review
Author: John Torrey Morse (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Lebanon
Author: Mark FarhaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108471455
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Chronicles secularism in Lebanon up to the present day, presenting possible causes for its decline in the face of sectarianism.
Aleppo
Author: Ross BurnsPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134844018
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Aleppo is one of the longest-surviving cities of the ancient and Islamic Middle East. Until recently it enjoyed a thriving urban life—in particular an active traditional suq, whose origins can be traced across many centuries. Its tangle of streets still follow the Hellenistic grid and above it looms the great Citadel, which contains recently-uncovered remains of a Bronze/Iron Age temple complex, suggesting an even earlier role as a ‘high place’ in the Canaanite tradition. In the Arab Middle Ages, Aleppo was a strongpoint of the Islamic resistance to the Crusader presence. Its medieval Citadel is one of the most dramatic examples of a fortified enclosure in the Islamic tradition. In Mamluk and Ottoman times, the city took on a thriving commercial role and provided a base for the first European commercial factories and consulates in the Levant. Its commercial life funded a remarkable building tradition with some hundreds of the 600 or so officially-declared monuments dating from these eras, and its diverse ethnic mixture, with significant Kurdish, Turkish, Christian and Armenian communities provide a richer layering of influences on the city’s life. In this volume, Ross Burns explores the rich history of this important city, from its earliest history through to the modern era, providing a thorough treatment of this fascinating city history, accessible both to scholarly readers as well as to the general public interested in a factual and comprehensive survey of the city’s past.
British Routes to India.
Author: Halford Lancaster HoskinsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429682948
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
First published in 1928, this volume examines the routes to India which originated as a means of communication and casual trading voyages in the late 18th century but which evolved under European imperialism, adding vast significance and definite lines of access alongside economic and social uses in times of peace, strategic access in times of war and acting as political objects on all occasions. Halford Lancaster Hoskins responded to the solicitude of the Powers of Europe in relation to countries in the eastern Mediterranean, which had been a conspicuous feature of international relations since the rise of the Eastern Question.
Analytical and Classified Catalogue of the Library ...: A-H
Author: Dennis O'DonovanConcise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus
Author: Wolfgang BehnPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047413903
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 719
Book Description
This first of the ultimately three-volume Who’s Who in Islamic Studies presents the scholarly world at long last with its own biographical encyclopaedia. Taking as a starting point the inventory of authors from the renowned Index Islamicus, the author, Wolfgang Behn (Berlin), has systematically collected numerous data on the lives and works of the tens of thousands of authors listed in the Index Islamicus from 1665 to 1980. This Biographical Companion will be an indispensable reference tool for the serious student and scholar of Islamic Studies. It enables the user to quickly gain knowledge on the life, work, and professional background of almost every major and minor author, and thus to place each author in his/her proper perspective. A tremendous achievement and a true must for every library.