The position of the Persian Gulf as the main highway between East and West has long given this region special significance both within the Middle East...
With contributions from specialists in different areas of classical Islamic thought, this accessible volume explores the ways in which medieval...
Egypt’s history is interwoven with conflicts of Bedouin, governments and peasants, competing over same cultivated lands and of migrations of nomads...
This is one of the first books in English to explore Arab responses to Western culture and values in modern Arab literature. Through in-depth research...
Sufi Castigator investigates the writings of Ahmad Kasravi, one of the foremost intellectuals in Iran. It studies his work within the context of...
After the Mongol period, Persian was the official written language in Iran, Central Asia and India. A vast amount of documents relating to...
Religious Scholars and the Umayyads analyzes legal and theological developments during the Marw?nid period (64/684--132/750), focusing on religious...
Charting the expansion of the Rum Seljuqs from rulers of a small principality to a fully- fledged sultanate ruling over almost the whole of Anatolia...
Provincializing the history of the Ottoman Empire, this book provides a critical approach to the projects of ‘modernity’ that took place in the...
Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum’s department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement in 1924...