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“craig perry”

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  • Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt

    A History

    by Craig Perry ...
    A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle EastIn this book, Craig Perry mines a remarkable cache of fragmentary documents preserved in an Egyptian synagogue to write a new history of slavery and the slave trade in the medieval Middle East. These documents—which range from ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Between Two Worlds

    The Construction of the Ottoman State

    by Cemal Kafadar ...
    Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious, and political affiliations were all at play in the struggle for power in Anatolia and the Balkans ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Burden of Silence

    Sabbatai Sevi and the Evolution of the Ottoman-Turkish Dönmes

    by Cengiz Sisman ...
    The Burden of Silence is the first monograph on Sabbateanism, an early modern Ottoman-Jewish messianic movement, tracing it from its beginnings during the seventeenth century up to the present day. Initiated by the Jewish rabbi Sabbatai Sevi, the movement combined Jewish, Islamic, and Christian religious and social elements and became a transnational phenomenon, spreading througout Afro-Euroasia. ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt

    by Mark R. Cohen ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages? In the past, the answer to this question came only from institutions and individuals who gave relief to the less fortunate. This book, by one of the top scholars in the field, is the first comprehensive book to study poverty in a premodern Jewish community--from the viewpoint of both the poor and those who provided for them.Mark Cohen mines the ... Read more

    $66.29 USD

  • The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism

    Race and the Politics of Dislocation

    by Reza Zia-Ebrahimi ...
    Reza Zia-Ebrahimi revisits the work of Fath?ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian nationalism. In their efforts to make sense of a difficult historical situation, these thinkers advanced an appealing ideology Zia-Ebrahimi calls "dislocative nationalism," in which pre-Islamic Iran is cast as a golden age, Islam is reinterpreted as an ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Founding Gods, Inventing Nations

    Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam

    by William F. McCants ...
    From the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, Founding Gods, Inventing Nations traces four thousand years of speculation on the origins of civilization. Investigating a vast range of primary sources, some of which are translated here for the first time, and focusing on the dynamic influence of the Greek, Roman, and Arab conquests of the Near East, William McCants looks at ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • The Mamluk Sultanate

    A History

    by Carl F. Petry ...
    The Mamluk Sultanate ruled Egypt, Syria and the Arabian hinterland along the Red Sea. Lasting from the deposition of the Ayyubid dynasty (c. 1250) to the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517, this regime of slave-soldiers incorporated many of the political structures and cultural traditions of its Fatimid and Ayyubid predecessors. Yet its system of governance and centralisation of authority ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Muhammad's Grave

    Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society

    by Leor Halevi ...
    Winner, 2007 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies AssociationWinner, 2008 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of ReligionWinner, 2011 John Nicholas Brown Prize, Medieval Academy of AmericaWinner, 2008 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta KappaShortlisted, 2008 Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Acad... ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad

    Edited by Jonathan E. Brockopp ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    As the Messenger of God, Muhammad stands at the heart of the Islamic religion, revered by Muslims throughout the world. The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad comprises a collection of essays by some of the most accomplished scholars in the field exploring the life and legacy of the Prophet. The book is divided into three sections, the first charting his biography and the milieu into which he was ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'ān

    Edited by Jane Dammen McAuliffe ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    As the living scriptural heritage of more than a billion people, the Qur'an (Koran) speaks with a powerful voice. Just as other scriptural religions, Islam has produced a long tradition of interpretation for its holy book. Nevertheless, efforts to introduce the Qur'an and its intellectual heritage to English-speaking audiences have been hampered by the lack of available resources. The Cambridge ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Aisha's Cushion

    Religious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam

    by Jamal J. Elias ...
    Westerners have a strong impression that Islam does not allow religious imagery. Elias corrects this view. Unearthing shades of meaning in Islamic thought throughout history, he argues that Islamic perspectives on representation and perception should be sought in diverse areas such as optics, alchemy, dreaming, vehicle decoration, Sufi metaphysics. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Religions of Iran

    From Prehistory to the Present

    by Richard Foltz ...
    A sweeping new work exploring Iran’s cultural import and influence on each of the world’s major religionsToday it is Iran’s association with Islam that commands discussion and debate. But this perception obscures a far more influential and complex relationship with religion. Iran has in fact played an unparalleled role in shaping all the world religions, injecting Iranian ideas into the Jewish, ... Read more

    $42.00 USD