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Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d’abord les comprendre. Les Kurdes sont loups et bergers. Leur sens de l’hospitalité n’a d’égal que leur caractère de montagnards trop souvent contraint……続きを見る

A unique on-the-ground account of a country shattered Iraqi playwright Issam Jameel returned to Iraq after a 12-year exile. Giving up the relative safety of Jordan, he made a perilous journey to Bag……続きを見る

How a group of Iranian students sought love and learning in Jane Austen's London In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Thei……続きを見る

In seinem Werk 'Der Sieg des Islams' untersucht Eduard Gibbon den Aufstieg und die Ausbreitung des Islams im frühen siebten Jahrhundert. Gibbon beschreibt detailliert die militärischen, politischen ……続きを見る

The history of Islam runs without a break from its origins to the present. Therefore, understanding medieval Islam gives us a much clearer comprehension of the modern world. First published in 1979,……続きを見る

First published in 2003, this is the first encyclopedic work to focus exclusively on medieval Jewish civilization, from the fall of the Roman Empire to about 1492. Based on the research of an intern……続きを見る

The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 was a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Orthodox coalition led by the Russian Empire and composed of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro. Fou……続きを見る

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most prominent issues in world politics today. Few other issues have dominated the world’s headlines and have attracted such attention from policy make……続きを見る

In recent years, there has been growing interest in Turkey, stemming from the country’s developing role in regional and global politics, its expanding economic strength, and its identity as a predom……続きを見る

In recent years, the persecution of the Kurds in the Middle East under ISIS in Iraq and Syria has drawn increasing attention from the international media. In this book, Veli Yadirgi analyses the soc……続きを見る

There are but few nations of the earth which can match the boast of Persia: that despite an unexampled series of conquests and subjugations she has as a nation played a great part in world history i……続きを見る

Towards the middle of the thirteenth century a small band or tribe of nomad Turks migrated from Khorassan, in Central Asia, into Asia Minor. They were part of a much larger body, variously estimated……続きを見る

The word Ferman is derived from a Persian infinitive meaning to command, to order and denotes a degree, edict or a sovereign's sign. As a term, Ferman is a written command bearing a sultanic tuğra (……続きを見る

Collected Studies CS1066 The articles in this collection cover the region extending from Italy to the Black Sea and to Egypt, over a period of seven centuries, with an emphasis on the considerable e……続きを見る

This fifth volume of A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics is complemented by four preceding volumes which focused on the main chapters of classical mathematics: infinitesimal geometry, theor……続きを見る

For a brief period, the attention of the international community has focused once again on the plight of religious minorities in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. In particular, the abductions and massacres ……続きを見る

This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for GCSE Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the whole of Component 1, both the compulsory Period Study and the……続きを見る

Muslim scholars are a vital part of Islam, and are sometimes considered 'heirs to the prophets', continuing Muhammad's work of establishing Islam in the centuries after his death. But this was not a……続きを見る

Mesopotamien war das Land zwischen den Strömen Euphrat und Tigris. Unter anderem entwickelte man dort die Kunst zu schreiben, indem man mit einem Schilfrohrgriffel keilförmige Zeichen in feuchten To……続きを見る

This dramatic personal narrative is a unique contribution to understanding past and current events in the Near East. These memoirs of an American Protestant clergyman reveal little known aspects of ……続きを見る

This edition of Halide Edib Adivar's Memoirs, prefaced with Sibel Erol's excellent introduction, is important and timely. When stereotypes of women in the Muslim world abound, Halide's memoirs remin……続きを見る

Stellvertreter Gottes und Nachfolger Mohammeds: Die Kalifen sind von einer besonderen Aura umgeben, auch wenn die erstrebte Machtfülle oft ausblieb. Hugh Kennedy schildert anschaulich die Geschichte……続きを見る

Die Atlantikkarte des osmanischen Generals Piri Re’is, die um 1500 entstand, gibt seit Langem Rätsel auf: Die Ostküste Südamerikas ist erstaunlich präzise dargestellt – viel genauer, als Europäer si……続きを見る

Why is Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, involved in a costly and merciless war against its mountainous southern neighbor Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East? When the Saudis……続きを見る

This book, first published in 1978, treats methods of describing the total and special vocabularies of a given text and demonstrates a procedure of description of the vocabulary of the Sufi Mathnavi……続きを見る

This book, first published in 1931, shows in a simple, sound and lucid manner how the genius of two poets (Omar Khayyam and FitzGerald) brought together by the genius of an Orientalist (Professor Co……続きを見る

Modern Armenia reviews Armenian politics and political thinking from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, and the evolution of Armenians from peoplehood to statehood. Written by a key governme……続きを見る

Scores of books and articles have been published, addressing one or another aspect of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Missing from this body of scholarship, however, has been a comprehensive analysi……続きを見る

Cities the world over and in particular developing countries suffer from uneven development and inequality. This is often coupled with the view that these inequalities constitute unfortunate anomali……続きを見る

This book, first published in 1928, is based on Chinese, Persian and Arabic sources, and provides the first scholarly account of the history of Persian maritime exploration. 続きを見る