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Gibb Memorial Trust Document Forms for Official Orders of Appointment in the Mughal Empire
Professor Richard's work is based on part of a manuscript in the British Library concerned with the revenues and administration of the later Mughal Empire, and datable to the reign of the Emperor Bahadur Shah I (AD 1708-1712).
£65.00
Gibb Memorial Trust The Quran
The Qur'an is the sacred book of Islam. For Muslims it is the word of God revealed in Arabic by the archangel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad, and thence to mankind. Originally it was delivered orally: traditional sources indicate that Muhammad always recited his message.
£37.00
Gibb Memorial Trust Islamic Crosspollinations
Islam as a cultural, intellectual, and religious venture appears in the popular imagination as a monolithic entity.
£65.00
Gibb Memorial Trust The Mathnawi of Jalaluddin Rumi Vol 3 Persian Text
The second of three volumes presenting the earliest text of this great poem of Muslim mysticism. Persian text.
£40.50
Gibb Memorial Trust Faaili Balkh or the Merits of Balkh
This is a critical edition and translation of the medieval local history of Balkh, known as Fa?a?il-i Balkh ("The Merits of Balkh"), which was completed in 610 Hijri (1214 CE) in Arabic by Shaykh al-Islam Abu Bakr ?Abd Allah al-Wa?i? and translated into Persian by ?Abd Allah al-?usayni in 676 Hijri (1278 CE). It is the Persian version which survives today and forms the source text for this book. Balkh is one of the most illustrious cities of the Islamicate East, and yet we know very little about life in the city during the first five centuries of Islam (8th-13th centuries CE). The Fa?a?il-i Balkh, the oldest surviving local history of Balkh, changes that. The work is the sum of its parts, the first being a collection of accounts about the history of Balkh attributed largely to Muslim religious and legal scholars and their chains of transmission. The second part consists of original descriptions of Balkh's economic, urban and cultural life. The researcher who wants to know about Balkh
£110.00
Gibb Memorial Trust Ethics and Poetry in SixthCentury Arabia
A much-needed study of pre-Islamic poetry from Arabia, that fills a key gap in understanding not only the history of Arabian poetry, but also of Arabian ethos and ideology. What emerges is a complex, stylized discourse which reflects a distinctive cosmology.
£85.50
Gibb Memorial Trust The Mathnawi of Jalaluddin Rumi Volume 6 English translation
Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi's great poem, the Mathnawi is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism. Nicholson's critical edition is based on the oldest known manuscripts, including the earliest, dated 1278 and preserved in the Mevlana Museum at Konya.
£19.99