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Taylor & Francis Ltd Society and Religion from Jahiliyya to Islam 327 Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Arabic Christianity in the Monasteries of NinthCentury Palestine Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Astronomy in the Service of Islam 416 Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd History and Religion in Late Antique Syria 464 Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Studies in the Medieval History of the Yemen and South Arabia Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Concepts and Ideas at the Dawn of Islam Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Arabs and Arabia on the Eve of Islam
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Jews and Arabs in Pre and Early Islamic Arabia 639 Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd People Tribes and Society in Arabia Around the Time of Muhammad 812 Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Arab Navigation in the Indian Ocean before the Portuguese Royal Asiatic Society Books
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A History of the ArabIsraeli Conflict
Book SynopsisComprehensive and analytical, A History of the ArabIsraeli Conflict presents a balanced and impartial overview of this centuries-old struggle. Taking a clear and chronological approach to this complex subject, and placing events in the context of their longer-term histories, Ian J. Bickerton and Carla L. Klausner examine the issues and themes that have characterized and defined the conflict over the course of its history, bringing the coverage up to date with a twenty-first-century perspective. Starting in the nineteenth century, the book moves through the British Mandate, World War II, and the proclamation of the state of Israel, the widening and deepening conflict and attempts at a peace process, the impacts of 9/11 and the Arab Spring, and finally it discusses events to the end of 2021. In a completely revised Conclusion the authors examine how we interpret many of the startling, rapidly changing, and somewhat unpredictable events of the last five years. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Palestine in the Nineteenth Century 2. Palestine during the Mandate 3. World War II, Jewish Displaced Persons, and the Partition of Palestine 4. The Proclamation of Israel and First Arab–Israeli War 5. The Conflict Widens: Suez, 1956 6. The Turning Point: June 1967 7. Holy Days and Holy War: October 1973 8. The Search for Peace, 1973–1979 9. Lebanon and the Intifada 10. The Peace of the Brave 11. The Peace Progresses 12. Collapse of the Peace Process 13. The Arab–Israeli Conflict in the Post-9/11 World 14. Perilous Times: 2006–2009 15. Dramatic Events: 2010–2013 16. Years of Increasing Turbulence and Uncertainty: 2013–2021 Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Turkey
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1985, Turkey: Coping with Crisis is a comprehensive survey of the Turkish experience tracing the Turks through the ages to provide the background essential to understanding contemporary Turkey. Noting the problems that possession of an empire left for its modern successor state and evaluating the role of the military in Turkish politics, Dr Harris provides insight into the political challenges facing the country and finds that the success of policies for economic development is the key to overall political success of modern Turkey. He analyses the constitutional structure, showing how modifications in proportional representation have helped create a more effective government. Dr Harris concludes that Turkey has the resources and dedication to representative government necessary to solve its most pressing problems. This is an essential read for students of international politics, Turkish politics, Turkish history, and Middle East studies.
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Taylor & Francis The Yezidis
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1987 The Yezidis: A Study in Survival traces the origin of Yezidi communityâs religion, describes the discovery of the people by Western travellers in the early nineteenth century and details the Yezidi communityâs traumatic history and their status in the 80s. The Yezidi religious group is spread out over Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and erstwhile USSR and have retained their identity for over 500 years. The Yezidiâs believe that Lucifer, the fallen angel, has been forgiven by God and reinstated as chief angel: their history is, like their faith, characterized by dignity and survival in the face of great odds. Chapters also cover Sultan Abdul Hamidâs cruel but vain efforts to force the Yezidis to embrace Islam, leading to the emergence of Mayan Khatun, a strong-willed Yezidi princess who ruled the community from 1913-1958. They include vivid account of her rivalry with her brother Ismail and the ill-fated marriage between her son and his daughter. The final chapte
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Nazis Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East
Book SynopsisNazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle Eastdemonstrates the impact on the Arab world of Nazi ideology and propaganda in the 1930s and beyond.In 1937, with the brochure Islam and Judaism, a new form of Jew-hatred came into the world: Islamic antisemitism. The Nazis did everything they could to anchor this new message of hate through their Arabic-language radio propaganda. The book sheds light on this hitherto unknown chapter of Germany's past. It presents new archive findings that show how the image of Jews in Islam changed between 1937 and 1948 under the influence of this propaganda and other Nazi activities. This fresh look at Middle East history allows for a more precise assessment of the present: What exactly is Islamic antisemitism? How is it currently manifesting itself in Germany and France? What makes it particularly dangerous? Only when we understand how strongly modern Middle East history is shaped by the aftermath of National Socialism will we be able to Trade Review'Matthias Küntzel’s new work is a fascinating and important exploration of the influence of Nazi propaganda during a crucial period in the formation of the modern Middle East. Like all the best books, it challenges the reader to consider familiar terrain from a new perspective, with a fresh analysis rooted in archival sources and rigorous research. The story it tells is, as the title suggests, shocking in its implications.'Dr. Dave Rich, Director of Policy at the Community Security Trust, UK'This book is required reading and a treasure trove for anyone wanting to discover the antisemitic roots of the Middle East conflict and its devastating consequences. Animated by a deep desire to counter prejudice, Küntzel deftly transcends prevailing assumptions about the region to reveal how adept the Nazis and their allies were at exporting genocidal antisemitism to the region.'R. Amy Elman, Kalamazoo College, USA'Combining original archival research with a magisterial survey of the existing scholarship, Matthias Küntzel demonstrates that Islamic anti-Semitism is not a byproduct but an originating cause of the Palestinian-Zionist conflict from at least 1937 on, helping to explain its ongoing violence and intractability.'Joseph S. Spoerl, Saint Anselm College, UK'This short and accessible book shows that a significant proportion of antisemitism in today's Middle East results from Nazi efforts to influence Islamist and Arab Nationalist thinking. The impact of Soviet antisemitism is already well documented. If antisemitism is not only an effect but also an ongoing cause of conflict between Jews and Arabs, then Matthias Küntzel's scholarship will require many people to think again. It also sheds new light on how this local conflict came to be regarded as globally significant.'David Hirsh, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Academic Director and CEO of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, UK'With his usual depth and insight, Matthias Küntzel demonstrates in this book two points that are essential to any understanding of the Islamic antisemitism that pervades not only the Middle East but also the rest of world. First, he explains the centrality of Nazi exterminationist Jew hatred in Islamic Jihadist ideology, particularly as that ideology emerged from the Muslim Brotherhood. Second, he brings out the dangerous ways in which the hybrid of Nazi and Jihadist antisemitism continues to spread throughout the region, from Ankara to Tehran. Making crucial connections between history and contemporary realities, this book is a must-read for anyone who seeks to fathom the complexities of today’s Middle East and what they bode for tomorrow.'David Patterson, Hillel H. Feinberg Distinguished Chair in Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, USA'This important book sheds light on the unexplored yet crucial impact of Nazi anti-Semitism on modern Islamist movements since the 1930s and their role in mobilizing mass political hostility and military opposition to Israel. In analyzing these aspects of modern Islamist anti-Semitism, Küntzel’s book offers a major contribution both to scholarship and to the struggle for a more humane world.'Meir Litvak, Tel Aviv University, Israel'This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the roots of antisemitism and hatred of Israel in the Middle East. Nazi propaganda introduced genocidal antisemitism to the Middle East by exploiting traditional anti-Jewish attitudes in Islam. Küntzel illustrates this with previously unseen documents, such as the Nazi pamphlet "Judaism and Islam," published in 1937 in Arabic, and evidence of the Nazi collaboration with the Muslim Brotherhood.'Günther Jikeli, Erna B. Rosenfeld Associate Professor, Indiana University, USA'Matthias Küntzel, author of the pioneering work Jihad and Jew-Hatred, has offered another bold and pathbreaking study of the impact of Nazi Germany on the Middle East, on the emergence of Islamic antisemitism, and of important causes of the Arab Israeli war of 1948. He writes in the spirit of the postwar West German and then German tradition of honest reckoning with the realities and the aftermath of the crimes and hatreds of Nazi Germany. In so doing, he offers a work that synthesizes a sizable scholarly literature, offers new and important archival findings, recasts conventional periodization, and sheds light on persons and ideas that comprised the era of 'post-Nazism' in the Middle East, and should stimulate debate and fresh thinking. With clarity, boldness, and scholarly rigor, he offers us a work that anyone with an interest in these issues in the academy and among general readers, should read and ponder.'Jeffrey Herf, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, USA'This magnificent documentary book illustrates the ties between the Nazis and the Muslim Brotherhood and shows how Germans launched a vast and systematic propaganda via radio broadcasting in several Middle East languages -- especially in Arabic -- to export and implement Antisemitism in the Arab world. The content of this book is inevitable for understanding Islamic-Antisemitism, its roots and how it manifests itself in our present age.'Excerpt from Michael Mobasheri, Azadi, No.7, Vol 14, p.6, August 2023.'Matthias Küntzel, a German political scientist and historian, has written another extremely significant book, which [...] describes how since 1937, the Germans disseminated antisemitic propaganda throughout the Middle East in the Arabic language and how this antisemitism played a “decisive factor,” leading the Arab armies to attempt to destroy the nascent Jewish state.'Excerpt from Alex Grobman, The Jewish Link, August 18, 2023. https://jewishlink.news/1948-revisited/'Küntzel’s book is an important one. It is a clear-sighted and timely vindication of the idea that, as Küntzel puts it, it is not “Jewish settlement blocs, but Palestinian ideological blocs, that present the biggest obstacle to a peace settlement.'Excerpt from Lyn Julius, Jewish News Syndicate, September 19, 2023. https://www.jns.org/antisemitism/israeli-palestinian-conflict/23/9/19/319945/'Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East is an important work for anyone who wants to grapple with the emergence of anti-Semitism in the Middle East. Matthias Küntzel should be particularly commended for investigating what some have deemed an illicit subject.'Excerpt from Daniel Ben-Ami, Fathom, 'Book Review', February 2024. https://fathomjournal.org/book-review-nazis-islamic-antisemitism-and-the-middle-east/Table of ContentsForeword by Jeffrey Herf Introduction 1. Islamic antisemitism 2. 1937: The watershed 3. 1939-1945: Goebbels in Arabic 4. 1948 –Arab-Israeli War 5. In the name of Islam
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Israel and the Gaza Strip
Book SynopsisThis book concentrates on the formative period of the Gaza Strip and the bordering Israeli Gaza Frontier Area, considering them as a distinct geographic region that might best be understood as an integral unit of analysis.Based on abundant Israeli, British and American documentation, articles from the contemporary Arab press and other sources that reflect Arab perspectives, the book deals with the formation of the Gaza Strip between the initial drawing of the boundaries of the 1947 UN partition plan until the Israeli withdrawal from the area in March 1957, following the 1956 War. It also concentrates on the development of the Israeli urban and rural settlement systems that enveloped the Gaza Strip and formed the Gaza Frontier Area. Ultimately, the book provides a wider understanding of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, shedding light on political, military and demographic-spatial plans to solve the Gaza Strip abnormality that involved radical measures such as mass pop
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Crusades
Book SynopsisCrusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history.Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades also incorporates the Society''s Bulletin.Table of Contents1. "Mediterranean Notables and the Politics of Survival in Islamic and Latin Syria: Two Geniza Documents on the Frankish Siege of Tripoli", Brendan Goldman 2. "A New Document concerning the Bishopric of Sebastea", Graham Loud 3. "A Ridge Too Far: The Siege of Saone/Sahyun in 1188 and Contemporary Trebuchet Technology", Michael S. Fulton 4. "‘The Sins of the Sons of Men’: A New Letter of Pope Celestine III concerning the 1195 Crusade of Alarcos", Miguel Gomez & Kyle Lincoln 5. "A Crusader Manuscript from Antioch? Reappraising the Provenance of Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, ms. Pal. lat. 1963", Philip D. Handyside 6."Otto of Grandson and the Holy Land, Cyprus and Armenia", Alan Forey 7. "A Crusader Lineage from Spain to the Throne of Jerusalem: The Lusignan", Clément de Vasselot-de-Régné 8. "Ending and Starting Crusades at the Council of Basel", Norman Housley 9. "Research Output in Medieval and Crusade Studies 1981-2011: A Bibliometric Survey", Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen 10. Reviews and Short Notices
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultures of Voting in Premodern Europe
Book SynopsisCultures of Voting in Pre-modern Europe examines the norms and practices of collective decision-making across pre-modern European history, east and west, and their influence in shaping both intra- and inter-communal relationships. Bringing together the work of twenty specialist contributors, this volume offers a unique range of case studies from Ancient Greece to the eighteenth century, and explores voting in a range of different contexts with analysis that encompasses constitutional and ecclesiastical history, social and cultural history, the history of material culture and of political thought. Together the case-studies illustrate the influence of ancient models and ideas of voting on medieval and early modern collectivities and document the cultural and conceptual exchange between different spheres in which voting took place. Above all, they foreground voting as a crucial element of Europe's common political heritage and raise questions about the contributiTrade Review"By examining the range of cultural contexts in which decision-making took place in every part of Europe, from ancient times to the eighteenth century, this fascinating collection of essays analyzes voting as a kind of ‘total social fact’, broadening our notions of ‘the political’ and offering a new perspective on the history of legitimacy, secrecy, political theology, and a host of other topics."Matthew Vester, West Virginia Universtity, USA"This eye-opening volume surveys the many spheres in pre-modern Europe in which decisions were made by forms of voting. With its emphasis on culture – on social meaning – it evokes the complexity and sophistication of the pre-modern political order. In its wake, the common equation of ‘medieval’ with ‘autocratic’ has never looked so wrong."John Watts, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsPart one: Ideas and Representations; Chapter 1: Not just Voting but being Counted: the Cases of Ancient Greece; Chapter 2: Roman Reflections on Voting Practices: also a Pythagorean Affair; Chapter 3: Cultures of Unanimity in Carolingian Councils; Chapter 4: A Vote for the New World Order: the Dardanelles meeting in 1235 (the Council at Lampsacus-Gallipoli); Chapter 5: Voting at the Council of Constance (1414-18); Chapter 6: Cultures of Secrecy in Pre-Modern Papal Elections; Chapter 7: ‘Conforme al vivere civile et politico’: Machiavelli's newly discovered proposal for electoral reform in 1512; Chapter 8: A Culture of Voting in Seventeenth-Century England; Chapter 9: Dead and Buried after the Elections? Voting and Citizenship in the Batavian Revolution; Part two: Practices, Institutions, Procedures; Chapter 10: The Culture of Voting in Medieval Split: Appearance and Reality; Chapter 11: From Discussion to Vote: Practices of Political Deliberation and Written Records in Communal Italy; Chapter 12: Parties, Quotas and Elections in Late Medieval Genoa; Chapter 13: The Election of the Abbess: Political Reasons of Monastic Discipline in Renaissance Parma; Chapter 14: Political Decision-Making in the Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries; Chapter 15:‘Il fait bon voir de tout leur sénat ballotter’. The Ubiquity of Voting in Late Medieval and Renaissance Venice; Chapter 16: The Citizens and the King: Voting and Electoral Procedures in Southern Italian Towns under the Aragonese ; Chapter 17: Voting in the Parliaments of the Crown of Aragon, c.1300-1716; Chapter 18: Voting and Elections in the Elite Ragusan Confraternities of St Anthony and St Lazarus; Chapter 19: Voting on the Move: Elections of Caravanbashi by Armenian Merchants in Poland and the Ottoman Empire, 1500-1700; Chapter 20: Municipal Elections and Contested Religious Space: Electoral Practices and Confessional Politics in Mediterranean France during the French Wars of Religion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Remembering the Crusades and Crusading
Book SynopsisRemembering the Crusades and Crusading examines the diverse contexts in which crusading was memorialised and commemorated in the medieval world and beyond. The collection not only shows how the crusades were commemorated in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, but also considers the longer-term remembrance of the crusades into the modern era. This collection is divided into three sections, the first of which deals with the textual, material and visual sources used to remember. Each contributor introduces a particular body of source material and presents case studies using those sources in their own research. The second section contains four chapters examining specific communities active in commemorating the crusades, including religious communities, family groups and royal courts. Finally, the third section examines the cultural memory of crusading in the Byzantine, Iberian and Baltic regions beyond the early years, as well as the trajectory of crusading memory in tTrade Review"This intensely tight-knit collection will find a place on any crusade historian’s shelf. It’s tremendously wide-ranging and will immediately become the jumping off point for all sorts of future research, not just on crusading but on any aspect of the later Middle Ages. Remembering the holy war was just as important to the movement of history as the holy war itself."— Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Tech, USA"Remembering the Crusades and Crusading demonstrates to both students and scholars how the application of theories about materiality and cultural memory to medieval sources has illuminated our understanding of how and why the Crusades were remembered in the Middle Ages and beyond. At a time when the Crusades have re-entered our public discourse, this book could not be timelier."—Kimberly Rivers, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA. "Overall, this book has much to its credit... there are several chapters which should serve as the ideal starting point for anyone looking to explore issues of crusading memory, and which provide important correctives and addendums to traditional ideas or avenues of scholarship. Given the impressive bibliographical data also available for each chapter, this should be a must for scholars of crusading memory, as well as university libraries and teachers of the crusades." — Andrew Buck, Queen Mary University of London, Medievally SpeakingTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Remembering in the time of the crusades Megan Cassidy-WelchSources of memory2. Preaching and crusade memory Jessalynn Bird3. The liturgical memory of 15 July 1099: between history, memory and eschatology M. Cecilia Gaposchkin4. Crusades, Memory and Visual Culture: Representations of the Miracle of Intervention of Saints in Battle Elizabeth Lapina5. Remembrance of Things Past: Memory and Material Objects in the Time of the Crusades, 1095-1291Anne E. Lester6. Historical writing Darius von Güttner-Sporzyński7. "Perpetuel Memorye": Remembering History in the Crusading Romance Lee ManionCommunities of memory8. Monastic memories of the early crusading movement Katherine Allen Smith9. Royal memory James Naus and Vincent Ryan10. Jewish Memory and the Crusades: The Hebrew Crusade Chronicles and Protection from Christian violence Rebecca Rist11. Family memory and the crusades Nicholas Paul and Jochen SchenkCultural memory12. ‘A blow sent by God’: Changing Byzantine memories of the Crusades Jonathan Harris13. Living and remembering the crusades and the Reconquista: Iberia, 11th-13th Centuries Ana Rodriguez14. The Muslim Memory of the Crusades Alex Mallett15. Appropriating history: Remembering the crusades in Latvia and Estonia Carsten Selch Jensen
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Islamic Astronomical Tables
Book SynopsisThis volume comprises nine articles on Islamic astronomy published since 1989 by Benno van Dalen. Van Dalen was the first historian of Islamic astronomy who made full use of the new possibilities of computers in the early 1990s. He implemented various statistical and numerical methods that can be used to determine the mathematical properties of medieval astronomical tables, and utilized these to obtain entirely new, until then unattainable historical results concerning the interdependence of individual tables and hence of entire astronomical works. His programmes for analysing tables, making sexagesimal calculations and converting calendar dates continue to be widely used. The five articles in the first part of this collection explain the principles of a range of statistical methods for determining unknown parameter values underlying astronomical tables and present extensive step-by-step examples for their use. The four articles in the second part provide extensive studies of materialsTrade Review'... what readers have before them in this book is twenty years of insightful, pioneering work into the analysis of Islamic astronomical tables. The impact of van Dalen’s work cannot be overstated.' - Journal of the History of Astronomy'This is an important collection of papers, published over the span of a quarter century, devoted entirely to one topic, the astronomical handbooks with tables and explanations for their use...' - Zentralblatt MATH"For the last 25 years, Benno van Dalen has devoted his efforts indefatigably to the study and analysis of medieval astronimical tables, particularly Islamic tables, and his research has contributed substantially to the progress in this field...it is most welcome that nine of his most remarkable papers, dating from 1989 to 2008, are now published together in a single volume." - José Chabás, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, AestimatioTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Part 1 Methods for Analysing Astronomical Tables: A statistical method for recovering unknown parameters from medieval astronomical tables; On Ptolemy’s table for the equation of time; A table for the true solar longitude in the Jami’ Zij; Al-Khwarizmi’s astronomical tables revisited: analysis of the equation of time; Origin of the mean motion tables of Jai Singh. Part 2 Studies of Zijes: The Zij-i Nasiri by Mahmud ibn ‘Umar. The earliest Indian-Islamic astronomical handbook with tables and its relation the Ala i Zij; A second manuscript of the Mumtahan Zij; Re-editing the tables in the Sabi’ Zij by al-Battani (ca. AD 900) (with Fritz S. Pedersen); Dates and eras in the Islamic world: era chronology in astronomical handbooks; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Christians Jews Ottoman Arab World The Roots of Sectarianism Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
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Cambridge University Press Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis
Book SynopsisElspeth R. M. Dusinberre proposes a fresh approach to understanding the Achaemenid Empire based on her study of the regional capital, Sardis. This study uses archaeological, artistic and textual sources to demonstrate that the two-hundred-year Persian presence in this city had a profound impact on local social structures, revealing the region's successful absorption, both ideological and physical, into the Persian Empire. During this period, Sardis was a centre of burgeoning creativity and vitality, where a polyethnic elite devised a fresh culture - inspired by Iranian, Greek and local Lydian traditions - that drew on and legitimated imperial ideology. The non-elite absorbed and adapted multiple aspects of this culture to create a wholly different profile of what it meant to be Sardian. As well as successfully bringing together information on the Achaemenids, this book is also an excellent contribution to empire studies.Trade Review"...this book brings together a diverse array of evidence and makes a significant contribution to the growing field of Achaemenid Anatolian studies, with an insightful and progressive theoretical approach." Journal of Field Archaelogy"...Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis is carefully written, methodologically well informed and thoughtfully argued." BMCR"...Dusinberre's book brings Sardis studies forward in a vital way." BMCRTable of ContentsList of figures; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Sardis in the Achaemenid empire; 2. Textual sources and the effects of empire; 3. The urban structure of Achaemenid Sardis: monuments and meaning; 4. The urban structure of Achaemenid Sardis: sculpture and society; 5. Inscriptions: Sardians in their own words; 6. Mortuary evidence: dead and living societies; 7. Personal signifiers: Sealstones; 8. Achaemenid bowls: ceramic assemblages and the non-elite; 9. Conclusion: Imperialism and Achaemenid Sardis; Appendices; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Judas Maccabaeus
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Cambridge University Press European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State
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Cambridge University Press The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam
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Cambridge University Press Empire Elites after Muslim Conquest The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
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Cambridge University Press Iran Under the Safavids
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Cambridge University Press Between East and West
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Iran Volume 1
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge History of Iran is an eight-volume survey of Iranian history and culture, and its contribution to the civilisation of the world. All aspect of the religious, philosophical, political, economic, scientific and artistic elements in Iranian civilisation are studies, with some emphasis on geographical and ecological factors which have contributed to that civilisation's special character. The aim is to provide a collection of readable essays rather than a catalogue of information. The volumes offer scope for the publication of new ideas as well as providing summaries of established facts. They should act as a stimulus to specialists, but are primarily concerned to answer the sort of questions about the past and present of Iran that are asked by the non-specialist. Volume I sets the physical stage for the human events which follow. In a sense it is a companion volume to the rest of the series. The whole volume is devoted to geography, geology, anthropology, economic life, and fTable of ContentsList of plates; Volume editor's preface; Units of measurement; Part I. The Land: 1. Physical geography; 2. Geology; 3. Geomorphology; 4. The origin of the Zagros defiles; 5. Climate; 6. Soils; 7. Hydrography; 8. Vegetation; 9. Mammals; 10. Zoogeographic analysis of the lizard fauna of Iran; 11. Ornithology; Part II. The People: 12. Early man in Iran; 13. Geography of settlement; 14. Population; Part III. Economic Life: 15. Minerals; 16. Industrial activities; 17. Communications, transport, retail trade and service; 18. Agriculture; 19. Water use in north-east Iran; 20. Pastoralism, Nomadism and the social anthropology of Iran; 21. Land reform of Iran; Part IV. Conclusion: 22. The personality of Iran; Bibliography; Conversion tables; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem
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Cambridge University Press Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem
Book SynopsisThis gazetteer has been compiled under the auspices of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem and is published as a companion volume to Dr Pringle's three-volume work The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.Trade Review'... extremely valuable ... it makes a significant contribution to the current debate about the nature of Latin settlement in the Crusader States.' The Times Literary Supplement 'There is no doubting the value of this book as a reference tool and as a companion to the author's corpus of churches.' Medieval ArchaeologyTable of ContentsList of plates; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Addenda; Gazetteer; Supplementary gazetteer; Possibles; Rejects; Don't Knows; Bibliography; Maps; Index.
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Cambridge University Press PostZionism PostHolocaust Three Essays on Denial Forgetting and the Delegitimation of Israel
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Cambridge University Press Slavery the State and Islam
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Cambridge University Press The First Afghan War 1838 1842
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Cambridge University Press Slavery the State and Islam
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Cambridge University Press Pilgrimage and Household in the Ancient Near East
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Cambridge University Press Saddam Husseins Bath Party Inside an Authoritarian Regime Author Joseph Sassoon published on December 2011
Book SynopsisThe Ba'th Party came to power in 1968 and remained for thirty-five years, until the 2003 US invasion. Under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, who became president of Iraq in 1979, a powerful authoritarian regime was created based on a system of violence and an extraordinary surveillance network, as well as reward schemes and incentives for supporters of the party. The true horrors of this regime have been exposed for the first time through a massive archive of government documents captured by the United States after the fall of Saddam Hussein. It is these documents that form the basis of this extraordinarily revealing book and that have been translated and analyzed by Joseph Sassoon, an Iraqi-born scholar and seasoned commentator on the Middle East. They uncover the secrets of the innermost workings of Hussein's Revolutionary Command Council, how the party was structured, how it operated via its network of informers and how the system of rewards functioned.Trade Review'Sassoon's writing is calm and deliberate.' The Times Literary Supplement'In Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime, Joseph Sassoon has worked his way through the meticulous records in the archives to put together what is a fascinating portrait of the regime, explaining how the Ba'th Party was organized, its relationship with the army, the security organizations, the personality cult around Saddam, and how the regime extended its control over all aspects of life in Iraq.' Emma Sky, International Affairs'In this well-written and extensively researched volume, Joseph Sassoon … provides critical insights into the functioning of the Ba'thist party and regime. Deftly analyzing the party's internal structure, intelligence organizations, and relationship with the military, as well as Saddam's personality cult, patterns of control and resistance, and bureaucracy and civil life under the Ba'th, [he] weaves a fascinating narrative of social control and repression.' Eric Davis, Perspectives on Politics'… an impressively researched and perceptive book.' Weldon C. Matthews, Arab Studies JournalTable of Contents1. The rise of the Ba'th party; 2. Party structure and organization; 3. The Ba'th party branches; 4. Security organizations during the Ba'th era; 5. The Ba'th and the army; 6. The personality cult of Saddam Hussein; 7. Control and resistance; 8. Bureaucracy and civil life under the Ba'th.
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Cambridge University Press Shattering Empires The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908 1918 SHATTERING EMPIRES THE CLASH AND COLLAPSE OF THE OTTOMAN AND RUSSIAN EMPIRES 1908 1918 BY Reynolds Michael A Author on Mar012011 Paperback
Book SynopsisThe break-up of the Ottoman empire and the disintegration of the Russian empire were watershed events in modern history. The unravelling of these empires was both cause and consequence of World War I and resulted in the deaths of millions. It irrevocably changed the landscape of the Middle East and Eurasia and reverberates to this day in conflicts throughout the Caucasus and Middle East. Shattering Empires draws on extensive research in the Ottoman and Russian archives to tell the story of the rivalry and collapse of two great empires. Overturning accounts that portray their clash as one of conflicting nationalisms, this pioneering study argues that geopolitical competition and the emergence of a new global interstate order provide the key to understanding the course of history in the Ottoman-Russian borderlands in the twentieth century. It will appeal to those interested in Middle Eastern, Russian, and Eurasian history, international relations, ethnic conflict, and World War I.Trade Review"A first-class work of history ... an impressively clear and highly original account of the complex events in the Russian and Ottoman empires" - Financial Times Financial Times'Shattering Empires is a pioneering study that brilliantly illuminates the entangled crises of the Ottoman and Russian states. In this timely and well-written book, Reynolds skilfully shows how the confrontation between these two states contributed to the collapse of both empires and to the birth of a new kind of politics in the Middle East and the Caucasus.' Robert D. Crews, Stanford University'Michael Reynolds has written an important and original book. He relates a complex story with remarkable clarity and admirable rigor. His balanced and nuanced account is based on wide research and is a major addition to the literature on Russian and Ottoman history, and to the history of the First World War.' Peter Holquist, University of Pennsylvania'Michael Reynolds combines a deep understanding of Russia and Turkey to produce an outstanding book that illuminates both historical and contemporary questions.' Stephen Rosen, Harvard University'Shattering Empires is a fine book … it makes a valuable contribution not only to the history of Russian-Ottoman relations but also to our understanding of the intersection of nationalism and geopolitics in the age of imperial downfall.' The Times Literary Supplement'This fine, provocative book asks important questions: about the alleged anachronistic nature of empires; about nationalism as a driving force to explain the modern historical narrative; about the quest for security and its costs and consequences. It deserves a wide and serious reading.' The Journal of Military History'This very well-written study is an invaluable addition to literature on WWI, borderland studies, and analyses of the Armenian question. Highly recommended.' Choice'… original, fresh, and insightful …' Paul W. Werth, The Journal of Modern History'Shattering Empires is the fruit of a rising scholar's scrupulous archival labours … required reading for everyone who wishes to become properly acquainted with Russia's Great War.' David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, The Russian ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The high politics of anarchy and competition; 2. Troubles in Anatolia: imperial insecurities and the transformation of borderland politics; 3. Visions of vulnerability: the politics of Muslims, revolutionaries, and defectors; 4. Out of the pan, into the fire: empires at war; 5. Remastering Anatolia: rending nations, rending empires; 6. Brest-Litovsk and the opening of the Caucasus; 7. Forced to be free: the geopolitics of independence in the Transcaucasus; 8. Racing against time; Epilogue.
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