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Author | : Aḥmad ibn al-Rashīd Ibn al-Zubayr |
Publisher | : Harvard CMES |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780932885135 |
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This work is a translation and study of a ninth- through fifteenth-century manuscript, Kitāb al-Hadāyā wa al-Tuḥaf. The manuscript furnishes a wealth of varied information offering insights into the period immediately preceding Islam and extending through the first four centuries of Islamic rule.
Author | : Josef W. Meri |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 980 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Islam |
ISBN | : 0415966906 |
Download Medieval Islamic Civilization Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the 7th and 16th century. This two-volume work contains 700 alphabetically arranged entries, and provides a portrait of Islamic civilization. It is of use in understanding the roots of Islamic society as well to explore the culture of medieval civilization.
Author | : Wendy Davies |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2010-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521515173 |
Download The Languages of Gift in the Early Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is a collection of original essays on gift in the early Middle Ages, from Anglo-Saxon England to the Islamic world. Focusing on the languages of gift, the essays reveal how early medieval people visualized and thought about gift, and how they distinguished between the giving of gifts and other forms of social, economic, political and religious exchange. The same team, largely, that produced the widely cited The Settlement of Disputes in Early Medieval Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1986) has again collaborated in a collective effort that harnesses individual expertise in order to draw from the sources a deeper understanding of the early Middle Ages by looking at real cases, that is at real people, whether peasant or emperor. The culture of medieval gift has often been treated as archaic and exotic; in this book, by contrast, we see people going about their lives in individual, down-to-earth and sometimes familiar ways.
Author | : Anna Akasoy |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780754669562 |
Download Islam and Tibet Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first encounters between the Islamic world and Tibet took place in the course of the expansion of the Abbasid Empire in the eighth century. The significance of these interactions has been long ignored in scholarship. These papers explore for the first time the multi-layered contacts between the Islamic world, Central Asia and the Himalayas from the eighth century until the present day in a variety of fields including art history, history of science, literature, archaeology, and anthropology.
Author | : Jo Van Steenbergen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2020-08-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000093077 |
Download A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A History of the Islamic World, 600–1800 supplies a fresh and unique survey of the formation of the Islamic world and the key developments that characterize this broad region’s history from late antiquity up to the beginning of the modern era. Containing two chronological parts and fourteen chapters, this impressive overview explains how different tides in Islamic history washed ashore diverse sets of leadership groups, multiple practices of power and authority, and dynamic imperial and dynastic discourses in a theocratic age. A text that transcends many of today’s popular stereotypes of the premodern Islamic past, the volume takes a holistically and theoretically informed approach for understanding, interpreting, and teaching premodern history of Islamic West-Asia. Jo Van Steenbergen identifies the Asian connectedness of the sociocultural landscapes between the Nile in the southwest to the Bosporus in the northwest, and the Oxus (Amu Darya) and Jaxartes (Syr Darya) in the northeast to the Indus in the southeast. This abundantly illustrated book also offers maps and dynastic tables, enabling students to gain an informed understanding of this broad region of the world. This book is an essential text for undergraduate classes on Islamic History, Medieval and Early Modern History, Middle East Studies, and Religious History.
Author | : Sam Ottewill-Soulsby |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2023-09-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691227969 |
Download The Emperor and the Elephant Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources In the year 802, an elephant arrived at the court of the Emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, sent as a gift by the ʿAbbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid. This extraordinary moment was part of a much wider set of diplomatic relations between the Carolingian dynasty and the Islamic world, including not only the Caliphate in the east but also Umayyad al-Andalus, North Africa, the Muslim lords of Italy and a varied cast of warlords, pirates and renegades. The Emperor and the Elephant offers a new account of these relations. By drawing on Arabic sources that help explain how and why Muslim rulers engaged with Charlemagne and his family, Sam Ottewill-Soulsby provides a fresh perspective on a subject that has until now been dominated by and seen through western sources. The Emperor and the Elephant demonstrates the fundamental importance of these diplomatic relations to everyone involved. Charlemagne and Harun al-Rashid’s imperial ambitions at home were shaped by their dealings abroad. Populated by canny border lords who lived in multiple worlds, the long and shifting frontier between al-Andalus and the Franks presented both powers with opportunities and dangers, which their diplomats sought to manage. Tracking the movement of envoys and messengers across the Pyrenees, the Mediterranean and beyond, and the complex ideas that lay behind them, this book examines the ways in which Christians and Muslims could make common cause in an age of faith.
Author | : Cecily J. Hilsdale |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2014-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107729386 |
Download Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Late Byzantine period (1261–1453) is marked by a paradoxical discrepancy between economic weakness and cultural strength. The apparent enigma can be resolved by recognizing that later Byzantine diplomatic strategies, despite or because of diminishing political advantage, relied on an increasingly desirable cultural and artistic heritage. This book reassesses the role of the visual arts in this era by examining the imperial image and the gift as reconceived in the final two centuries of the Byzantine Empire. In particular it traces a series of luxury objects created specifically for diplomatic exchange with such courts as Genoa, Paris and Moscow alongside key examples of imperial imagery and ritual. By questioning how political decline refigured the visual culture of empire, Cecily J. Hilsdale offers a more nuanced and dynamic account of medieval cultural exchange that considers the temporal dimensions of power and the changing fates of empires.
Author | : Michael Featherstone |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2015-08-31 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 3110382288 |
Download The Emperor's House Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Evolving from a patrician domus, the emperor's residence on the Palatine became the centre of the state administration. Elaborate ceremonial regulated access to the imperial family, creating a system of privilege which strengthened the centralised power. Constantine followed the same model in his new capital, under a Christian veneer. The divine attributes of the imperial office were refashioned, with the emperor as God's representative. The palace was an imitation of heaven. Following the loss of the empire in the West and the Near East, the Palace in Constantinople was preserved– subject to the transition from Late Antique to Mediaeval conditions – until the Fourth Crusade, attracting the attention of Visgothic, Lombard, Merovingian, Carolingian, Norman and Muslim rulers. Renaissance princes later drew inspiration for their residences directly from ancient ruins and Roman literature, but there was also contact with the Late Byzantine court. Finally, in the age of Absolutism the palace became again an instrument of power in vast centralised states, with renewed interest in Roman and Byzantine ceremonial. Spanning the broadest chronological and geographical limits of the Roman imperial tradition, from the Principate to the Ottoman empire, the papers in the volume treat various aspects of palace architecture, art and ceremonial.
Author | : Christen Carter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9781616898700 |
Download Button Power Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"A collection of more than 2,000 colorful and artistic pin-back buttons, forming a people's history of American culture and politics that focuses on a range of subjects: advertising, arts and entertainment, historical events, movements and causes, humor, nature, celebrated personalities and organizations, geographical features, sports, transportation, wars and anti-war movements"--
Author | : Zoltán Biedermann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108415504 |
Download Global Gifts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy.