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  • Early Seljuq History

    A New Interpretation

    by A.C.S. Peacock ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey
    This book investigates the early history of the Seljuq Turks, founders of one of the most important empires of the mediaeval Islamic world, from their origins in the Eurasian steppe to their conquest of Iran, Iraq and Anatolia. The first work available in a western language on this important episode in Turkish and Islamic history, this book offers a new understanding of the emergence of this major ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia

    by A.C.S. Peacock, Bruno De Nicola ...
    Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia offers a comparative approach to understanding the spread of Islam and Muslim culture in medieval Anatolia. It aims to reassess work in the field since the 1971 classic by Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization which treats the process of transformation from a Byzantinist perspective. Since then, research ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy

    Bal'ami's Tarikhnamah

    by A.C.S. Peacock ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey
    The Tarikhnamah is a history of the world and the oldest surviving work of Persian prose. This book examines it as a political and cultural document and why it became such an influential work in the Islamic world. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Great Seljuk Empire

    by A. C. S. Peacock ...
    Series series The Edinburgh History of the Islamic Empires

    $44.29 CAD

  • Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia

    by A. C. S. Peacock ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
    From a Christian, Greek- and Armenian-speaking land to a predominantly Muslim and Turkish speaking one, the Islamisation of medieval Anatolia would lay the groundwork for the emergence of the Ottoman Empire as a world power and ultimately the modern Republic of Turkey. Bringing together previously unpublished sources in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, Peacock offers a new understanding of the crucial ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Seljuks of Anatolia

    Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East

    Edited by Sara Nur Yildiz, Professor A.C.S. Peacock ...
    One of the most powerful dynasties to rule in the medieval Middle East, the Seljuks played a critical role in the development of Anatolia's multi-ethnic, multi-confessional identity. Under Seljuk rule (c. 1081-1308) the formerly Christian Byzantine territories of Anatolia were transformed by the development of Muslim culture, society and politics, and it was then – well before the arrival of the ... Read more

    $37.79 CAD

  • Islamisation

    Comparative Perspectives from History

    Edited by A. C. S. Peacock ...

    $228.79 CAD

  • Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World

    Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation

    by D.G. Tor, Professor A.C.S. Peacock ...
    Series series British Institute of Persian Studies
    A.C.S. Peacock is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews, and holds a PhD in Oriental Studies from Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is the author of Early Seljuq History: A New Interpretation (2010), and is the co-editor of The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East (I.B.Tauris, 2012) and Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran: Art, ... Read more

    $199.79 CAD

  • Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran

    Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia

    Edited by Robert Hillenbrand, Firuza Abdullaeva, Professor A.C.S. Peacock ...
    I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage FoundationIran's rich cultural heritage has been shaped over many centuries by its rich and eventful history. This impressive book, which assembles contributions by some of the world's most eminent historians, art historians and other scholars of the Iranian world, explores the history of the country through the prism of Persian literature, art and ... Read more

    $199.79 CAD

  • Food for the Gods

    New Light on the Ancient Incense Trade

    by D. P. S. Peacock, A. C. S. Peacock, David Williams ...
    The story of incense is one of the most intriguing in both eastern and western culture. From the first millennium BC to the present day it has been sought after and valued on a par with precious metals or gems. Although incense was a luxury, it was consumed in prodigious quantities by the ancient world, in temples and at funerals, but also in private homes. The papers in this volume look at the ... Read more

    $34.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    For many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed, as the ... Read more

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  • The Muslim Discovery of Europe

    by Bernard Lewis, Ph.D. ...
    "Full of rare and exact information…A distinguished work." —New York Review of BooksThe eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came together, through trade and war, crusade and diplomacy. The ebb and flow between these two worlds for seven hundred years, illuminated here by a brilliant historian, is ... Read more

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