I B Tauris imprint: 1139 books
The Laws of Solon
A New Edition with Introduction, Translation and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Solon (c 658-558 BC) is famous as both statesman and poet but also, and above all, as the paramount lawmaker of ancient Athens. Though his works survive only in fragments, we know from the writings of Herodotus and Plutarch that his constitutional reforms against the venality, greed and political...
by PJ Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Classical Greece and its legacy have long inspired a powerful and passionate fascination. The civilization that bequeathed to later ages drama and democracy, Homer and heroism, myth and Mycenae and the Delphic Oracle and the Olympic Games has, perhaps more than any other, helped shape the intellectual...
Military Leaders and Sacred Space in Classical Greek Warfare
Temples, Sanctuaries and Conflict in Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The ancient Greeks attributed great importance to the sacred during war and campaigning, as demonstrated from their earliest texts. Among the first four lines of the Iliad, for example, is a declaration that Apollo began the feud between Achilles and Agamemnon and sent a plague upon the Greek army...
by Isabelle Torrance
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides are often described as the greatest tragedians of the ancient world. Of these three pivotal founders of modern drama, Euripides is characterized as the interloper and the innovator: the man who put tragic verse into the mouths of slaves, women and the socially inferior...
British PoWs and the Holocaust
Witnessing the Nazi Atrocities
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
In the network of Nazi camps across wartime Europe, prisoner of war institutions were often located next to the slave camps for Jews and Slavs; so that British PoWs across occupied Europe, over 200,000 men, were witnesses to the holocaust. The majority of those incarcerated were aware of the camps,...
Celestial Revolutionary
Copernicus, the Man and His Universe
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In the spring of 1500, at the apex of the Renaissance, a papal secretary to the Borgia Pope, Alexander VI, wrote that "All the world is in Rome." Though no one knew it at the time, this included a young scholar by the name of Nicolaus Copernicus who would one day change the world.
One...
Embracing the Darkness
A Cultural History of Witchcraft
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
As dusk fell on a misty evening in 1521, Martin Luther - hiding from his enemies at Wartburg Castle - found himself seemingly tormented by demons hurling walnuts at his bedroom window. In a fit of rage, the great reformer threw at the Devil the inkwell from which he was preparing his colossal translation of the Bible.
Edward Said's Concept of Exile
Identity and Cultural Migration in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Edward Said was an exiled individual – the 'out of place' Palestinian in the USA. He saw the consequences of the 1948 dismantling of Palestine and the establishment of Israel through his parents' experiences and through the collective statelessness imposed on the Palestinians. His own personal experience...
The Beloved in Middle Eastern Literatures
The Culture of Love and Languishing
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
In the long literary history of the Middle East, the notion of 'the beloved' has been a central trope in both the poetry and prose of the region. This book explores the concept of the beloved in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary manner, revealing how shared ideas on the subject supersede geographical...
Artisans, Sufis, Shrines
Colonial Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Punjab
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
In nineteenth-century Punjab, a cultural tug-of-war ensued as both Sufi mystics and British officials aimed to engage the local artisans as a means of realizing their ideological ambitions. When it came to influence and impact, the Sufi shrines had a huge advantage over the colonial art institutions,...
Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete
Creating the Vision of Knossos
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Before Sir Arthur Evans, the principal object of Greek prehistoric archaeology was the reconstruction of history in relation to myth. European travellers to Greece viewed its picturesque ruins as the gateway to mythical times, while Heinrich Schliemann, at the end of the nineteenth century, allegedly...
Recognizing Sufism
Contemplation in the Islamic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Sufism is all too often associated just with 'mysticism' in the West. The author of this new textbook, a former pupil of Annemarie Schimmel, suggests that conflating Sufism and mysticism is only partially valid. He shows that the vast majority of Sufi practice, both historically and in the contemporary...
Georgia
A Political History Since Independence
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Georgia emerged from the fall of the Soviet empire in 1991 with the promise of swift economic and democratic reform. But that promise remains unfulfilled. Economic collapse, secessionist challenges, civil war and the failure to escape the legacy of Soviet rule - culminating in the 2008 war with Russia...
God
A New Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
In this elegant new book, the sequel to his earlier, much praised treatment of the Devil, Philip Almond reveals that - whether in Judaism, Christianity or Islam - God is seen to be at once utterly beyond our world yet at the same earnestly desiring to be at one with it. In the Christian chapter of...