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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

  • 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

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    Series Book 1 - Saqi Essentials
    European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by barbarian hordes. Under Saladin, an unstoppable Muslim army inspired by prophets and poets finally succeeded in destroying the most powerful Crusader kingdoms. The memory of this greatest and most enduring ... Read more

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  • The Ismaili Assassins

    A History of Medieval Murder

    by James Waterson, David Morgan ...
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  • A Middle East Mosaic

    Fragments of Life, Letters and History

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    In times of war and in peace, from the earliest days of the Roman Empire to our own, Westerners have journeyed to the lands of the middle east, bringing back accounts of their adventures and impressions. Yet it was never a one way exchange. From the first Arab embassy to the Vikings in the 9th century to the internet musings of the Taliban, A Middle East Mosaic collects a rich, boisterous ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • From The Medes to the Mullahs A History Of Iran

    In Brief, #1

    by Anne Davison ...
    Series Book 1 - In Brief
    Mention of Iran may bring to mind images of turbaned Mullahs and nuclear weapons. On the other hand Persia may provoke other images; of Persian Gardens, romantic poetry or the beautiful wives of the last Pahlavi Shah.But this in no way does justice to the people of Iran, or its rich and complex history. For much of the ancient period Iranian empires ruled vast areas from Afghanistan in the East to ... Read more

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  • The Great Mughals and their India

    by Dirk Collier ...
    A definitive, comprehensive and engrossing chronicle of one of the greatest dynasties of the world – the Mughal – from its founder Babur to Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last of the clan.The magnificent Mughal legacy – the world-famous Taj Mahal being the most prominent among countless other examples – is an inexhaustible source of inspiration to historians, writers, moviemakers, artists and ordinary ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Sultan Salahuddin Ayyubi

    by Naima Sohaib ...
    Salahuddin Ayyubi was an acclaimed Muslim general who spent almost his entire life on the battlefield. Born in 1138, his formal military career began at the early age of 14 and consisted of over a hundred battles. He fought the Crusaders for 20 years, dealing them a severe blow in the Battle of Hittin from which they never recovered. He conquered Al Aqsa back from the Crusaders, a historic and ... Read more

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  • The Caliph's Splendor

    Islam and the West in the Golden Age of Baghdad

    by Benson Bobrick ...
    The Caliph’s Splendor is a revelation: a history of a civilization we barely know that had a profound effect on our own culture.While the West declined following the collapse of the Roman Empire, a new Arab civilization arose to the east, reaching an early peak in Baghdad under the caliph Harun al-Rashid. Harun is the legendary caliph of The Thousand and One Nights, but his actual court was nearly ... Read more

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  • The Arab Conquests

    by Justin Marozzi ...
    Series Book 21 - The Landmark Library
    The story of the seventh- and eighth-century Muslim conquests, when armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to build the Islamic Empire.'This book delivers drama through sublime writing, but mainly through marvellous images... As sharp as the Arabian desert in the midday sun' Gerard DeGroot, The Times, Books of the Year'An excellent prelude to Marozzi's previous books' ... Read more

    $17.19 USD

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  • The Mughal Empire

    In Brief, #6

    by Anne Davison ...
    Series Book 6 - In Brief
    This book tells the story of the Mughal Empire, which lasted from 1526 to 1857. The early Mughals, who were ethnic Turco-Mongol and descendants of Timur, or Tamerlane, came from Central Asia. They introduced many aspects of Persian culture into India, for example literature, painting and architecture. The Taj Mahal is a surviving example of the particular Indo-Islamic style of Mughals architecture ... Read more

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  • The Persians

    Lost Civilizations

    by Geoffrey Parker, Brenda Parker ...
    Series Book 2 - Lost Civilizations
    Now available in paperback, The Persians tells the story of this cultured ancient civilization, tracing the unique features of Persian life as well as their influence down the centuries. This book describes the difficulties early Persians encountered and how such challenges contributed to their unique character and the establishment of the Achaemenid Empire. It recounts the keenly fought conflicts ... Read more

    $22.09 USD