I imprint: 1291 books
The Friars
The Impact of the Mendicant Orders on Medieval Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The mendicant friars of the Franciscan and Dominican orders played a unique and important role in medieval society. In the early thirteenth century, the Church was being challenged by a confident new secular culture, associated with the growth of towns, the rise of literature and articulate laity,...
Imperial Identity in the Mughal Empire
Memory and Dynastic Politics in Early Modern South and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2015
Having monopolized Central Asian politics and culture for over a century, the Timurid ruling elite was forced from its ancestral homeland in Transoxiana at the turn of the sixteenth century by an invading Uzbek tribal confederation. The Timurids travelled south: establishing themselves as the new...
Mahmoud Darwish
Literature and the Politics of Palestinian Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Mahmoud Darwish is the poet laureate of the Palestinian national struggle. His poems resonate across the entire Arab world and, more than any other single figure perhaps since the death of Yasser Arafat, he represents a unifying figurehead for Palestinian national aspirations. In this, the first comprehensive...
by C. Scott Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The years 1450-1650 were a momentous period for the development of Christianity. They witnessed the age of Reformation and Counter-Reformation: perhaps the most important era for the shaping of the faith since its foundation. C Scott Dixon explores how the ideas that went into the making of early...
Ottomania
The Romantics and the Myth of the Islamic Orient
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
'Romanticism had its roots in fantasy and fed on myth'. So Roderick Cavaliero introduces the European Romantic obsession with the Orient. Cavaliero draws on a life-time's research in Romantic literature and introduces a rich cast of leading Romantic writers, artists, musicians and travellers, including...
Last Chance
The Middle East in the Balance
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2011
In this magisterial work, one of the English language media's most respected authorities on the Arab world, David Gardner, addresses the urgent question: why does the Middle East keep missing its appointment with modernity? For too long the question has been the preserve of orientalists like Bernard...
Public Culture and Islam in Modern Egypt
Media, Intellectuals and Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
What does it mean to be an intellectual in Egypt today? What is expected from an 'authentic scholar'? And how does the mass media influence or reflect intellectual debates? Hatsuki Aishima explores these questions by examining educated, urban Egyptians and their perceptions of what it means to be...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
What is the extraordinary text that is the Quran - and how does it relate to the life and times of the Prophet Muhammad? How did a legacy so richly varied in faith, law and civilization emerge from the message of the Revelation that came to be called 'Islam' (or submission to God's will)?
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Culture shapes every aspect of the relationship between God and the believer in Islam - as well as among believers, and with those beyond the fold. Fasts, prayers and pilgrimages are attuned to social rhythms old and new, no less than the designs of mosques and public gardens, the making of 'religious'...
The Great Humanists
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Born out of a love of language, text, classical learning, art, philosophy and philology, the Christian Humanist project lasted beyond the turmoil of sixteenth-century Europe to survive in a new form in post-Reformation thought. Jonathan Arnold here explores the finest intellects of late-Renaissance...
Generation M
Young Muslims Changing the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
What does it mean to be young and Muslim today? There is a segment of the world's 1.8 billion Muslims that is more influential than any other, and will shape not just the future generations of Muslims, but also the world around them: meet 'Generation M'. Tech-savvy and self-empowered, Generation M...
Prophecy and the Politics of Salvation in Late Georgian England
The Theology and Apocalyptic Vision of Joanna Southcott
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Joanna Southcott (1750 – 1814) remains one of the most significant and extraordinary religious figures of her era. In an age of reason and enlightenment, her apocalyptic prophecies attracted tens of thousands of followers, and she captured international attention with her promise to bear a divine...
The Making of England
A New History of the Anglo-Saxon World
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
During the tenth century England began to emerge as a distinct country with an identity that was both part of yet separate from 'Christendom'. The reigns of Athelstan, Edgar and Ethelred witnessed the emergence of many key institutions: the formation of towns on modern street plans; an efficient administration;...
Global Civilization
A Buddhist-Islamic Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2003
Global Civilization emerged from a series of conversations between two peace advocates of Japanese and Iranian origin. It covers the encounters between Buddhist and Islamic civilizations from the 7th century to the present. For all their cultural differences, Buddhism and Islam share a surprising...