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  • Islamic Central Asia

    An Anthology of Historical Sources

    Edited by Scott C. Levi, Ron Sela ...
    Islamic Central Asia is the first English-language anthology of primary documents for the study of Central Asian history. Scott C. Levi and Ron Sela draw from a vast array of historical sources to illustrate important aspects of the social, cultural, political, and economic history of Islamic Central Asia. These documents—many newly translated and most not readily available for study—cover the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing Travel in Central Asian History

    by Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Ron Sela, Laura Hostetler, Abbas Amanat, Arash Khazeni, Kate Teltscher, Imre Galambos, Ronald Vroon, Tanya H. Merchant ...
    For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a wide range of Asian and European languages to trace how Central Asia was gradually absorbed into global affairs. The representations of the region brought home to China and Japan, India and Persia, Russia and Great Britain, provide valuable ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Islamic Central Asia

    An Anthology of Historical Sources

    Edited by Scott C. Levi, Ron Sela ...
    Islamic Central Asia is the first English-language anthology of primary documents for the study of Central Asian history. Scott C. Levi and Ron Sela draw from a vast array of historical sources to illustrate important aspects of the social, cultural, political, and economic history of Islamic Central Asia. These documents—many newly translated and most not readily available for study—cover the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Legendary Biographies of Tamerlane

    Islam and Heroic Apocrypha in Central Asia

    by Ron Sela ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
    Timur (or Tamerlane) is famous as the fourteenth-century conqueror of much of Central Eurasia and the founder of the Timurid dynasty. His reputation lived on in his native lands and reappeared some three centuries after his death in the form of fictional biographies, authored anonymously in Persian and Turkic. These biographies have become part of popular culture. Despite a direct continuity in ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • A Short History of the Mongols

    by George Lane ...
    Series series Short Histories
    The Mongol Empire was the mightiest land empire the world has ever seen. At its height it was twice the size of its Roman equivalent. For a remarkable century and a half it commanded a population of 100 million people, while the rule of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan marched undefeated from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. George Lane argues that the Mongols were not only subjugators who swept all ... Read more

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  • Empire and Power in the Reign of Süleyman

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    Kaya Şahin's book offers a revisionist reading of Ottoman history during the reign of Süleyman the Magnificent (1520–66). By examining the life and works of a bureaucrat, Celalzade Mustafa, Şahin argues that the empire was built as part of the Eurasian momentum of empire building and demonstrates the imperial vision of sixteenth-century Ottomans. This unique study shows that, in contrast with many ... Read more

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  • The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

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  • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age—by the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan.The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the ... Read more

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  • Islam in History

    Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East

    by Bernard Lewis ...
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  • The Ismaili Assassins

    A History of Medieval Murder

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    "A fascinating history . . . The Medieval conflict between Christians and Muslims has many similarities to the Middle East today."—FiretrenchThe Ismaili Assassins were an underground group of political killers who were ready to kill Christians and Muslims alike with complete disregard for their own lives. Under the powerful control of an enigmatic grand master, these devoted murderers often slayed ... Read more

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