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  • Global Trade in the Early Medieval World

    The Movement of Wealth, Spice and Medicine, 700–1100

    Series series Routledge Explorations in Economic History
    Exploring the movement of peoples, perfumes, and spices across vast distances in this period of medieval history across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, this book examines the role of Arab merchants in trade between and among the Caliphal and Carolingian elites.The study of the trade in perfumes and spices highlights the relationship between the South Asian subcontinent and the Caliphate. It is ... Leer más

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  • Making Health Public

    A Manifesto for a New Social Contract

    A public health crisis is gripping the UK. Improvements in life expectancy have stalled, health inequalities have widened, obesity and alcohol misuse are placing an increasing strain on health services and urban air pollution is now widely recognised as a serious health hazard. COVID-19 revealed the weaknesses of the UK's public health system, once thought to be among the best in the world.Against ... Leer más

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  • Palestine

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  • When Asia Was the World

    Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the ""Riches of the ""East""

    "New insights, especially into the remarkable developments of Asian worlds in a millennium of Asian predominance. . . . [A] thoughtful, innovative history." —David Landes, Professor of Economics and History, emeritus, Harvard UniversityWhile European civilization stagnated in the "Dark Ages," Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of ... Leer más

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  • Lost Enlightenment

    Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane

    The forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment—its rise, fall, and enduring legacyIn this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds—remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly ... Leer más

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  • Iran

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Ali Ansari ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Iran has rarely been out of the headlines. Yet media interest and extensive coverage has tended to hinder rather than help our understanding of Iran as an idea, an identity, and a people, leading to a superficial understanding of what is a complex and nuanced political culture and civilization. This Very Short Introduction presents a radical reinterpretation of Iranian history and politics, ... Leer más

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  • The Great Arab Conquests

    How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In

    de Hugh Kennedy ...
    This history of Arabia's overpowering cultural expansion across the globe is "a brisk account of Islam's momentous first century" ( New York Times ).Today's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over one hundred years following the death of Mohammed in 632, Arabs had subjugated a territory with an east-west expanse greater than the Roman Empire, and they did it in about one-half ... Leer más

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  • In God's Path

    The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire

    Series series Ancient Warfare and Civilization
    In just over a hundred years--from the death of the Mohammed in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750--the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion, and it was claimed for the Arabs in roughly half the time. How they were able to engulf so many ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford History of Islam

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    Lavishly illustrated with over 300 pictures, including more than 200 in full color, The Oxford History of Islam offers the most wide-ranging and authoritative account available of the second largest--and fastest growing--religion in the world. John L. Esposito, Editor-in-Chief of the four-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, has gathered together sixteen leading scholars, both ... Leer más

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  • A History of the Muslim World to 1750

    The Making of a Civilization

    A History of the Muslim World to 1750 traces the development of Islamic civilization from the career of the Prophet Muhammad to the mid-eighteenth century. Encompassing a wide range of significant events within the period, its coverage includes the creation of the Dar al-Islam (the territory ruled by Muslims), the fragmentation of society into various religious and political groups including the ... Leer más

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  • The Venture of Islam, Volume 2

    The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods

    A sweeping work of history that the New Yorker says "demonstrates how history should be written"The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammad to the middle of ... Leer más

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  • Arabs in History

    de Bernard Lewis ...
    `Whoever lives in our country, speaks our language, is brought up in our culture and takes pride in our glory is one of us.' Thus ran a declaration of modern leaders of Arab states. But what exactly is an Arab, and what has been their place in the course of human history? In this well-established classic, Professor Lewis examines the key issues of Arab development - their identity, the national ... Leer más

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