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  • Nur al-Din Zengi and the Reconquest of Muslim Syria

    by Arthur Gogarty ...
    Nur al-Din Zengi and the Reconquest of Muslim SyriaIn 1099, Jerusalem fell to a starving, divided army of European knights, and for nearly fifty years, the Muslim Near East seemed unable to muster the unity to take it back. Nur al-Din Mahmud, born in Aleppo in 1118 to the brutal warlord Zengi, inherited a fractured frontier at twenty-eight and spent twenty-eight years transforming it: annihilating ... Read more

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  • Osman's Dream

    The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300–1923

    by Caroline Finkel ...
    The Ottoman chronicles recount that the first sultan, Osman, dreamt of the dynasty he would found - a tree, fully-formed, emerged from his navel, symbolising the vigour of his successors and the extent of their domains.This is the first book to tell the full story of the Ottoman dynasty that for six centuries held sway over territories stretching, at their greatest, from Hungary to the Persian ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • God's Shadow

    Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World

    by Alan Mikhail ...
    An “arresting” (New York Times Book Review) revisionist history demonstrating how Islam and the Ottoman Empire made our modern world.The history of the Ottoman Empire—once the most powerful state on earth, ruling over more territory and people than any other world power—has for centuries been distorted, misrepresented, and suppressed in the West. With this “original and wide-ranging” (Wall Street ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

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  • The Ottomans

    Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs

    by Marc David Baer ...
    An authoritative history of the Ottoman dynasty, revealing a diverse empire that straddled East and West.**"Panoramic and thought-provoking." —**The GuardianThe Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the Christian, European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans’ multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe’s ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Empress of the East

    How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire

    by Leslie Peirce ...
    The "fascinating . . . lively" story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empire (New York Times).In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by slave traders from her Ruthenian homeland and brought to the harem of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in ... Read more

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  • Iran

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ali Ansari ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Iran has rarely been out of the headlines. Yet media interest and extensive coverage has tended to hinder rather than help our understanding of Iran as an idea, an identity, and a people, leading to a superficial understanding of what is a complex and nuanced political culture and civilization. This Very Short Introduction presents a radical reinterpretation of Iranian history and politics, ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • In God's Path

    The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire

    by Robert G. Hoyland ...
    Series series Ancient Warfare and Civilization
    In just over a hundred years--from the death of the Mohammed in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750--the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion, and it was claimed for the Arabs in roughly half the time. How they were able to engulf so many ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • The Ottomans: The Greatest Empire

    by İlber Ortaylı ...
    What was the significance of the Ottoman Empire? What lessons can be drawn from the civilization that the ottomans created? What does the Ottoman Empire mean to us today? One of Turkey's leading historians answers all of these questions in "Ottomans, The Re-Discovery", a brilliant set of learned and engaging reflections on the everyday life, legacy and enduring relevance of the Ottomans.Ilber ... Read more

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  • A History of Egypt

    From Earliest Times to the Present

    by Jason Thompson ...
    In A History of Egypt*,* Jason Thompson has written the first one-volume work to encompass all 5,000 years of Egyptian history, highlighting the surprisingly strong connections between the ancient land of the Pharaohs and the modern-day Arab nation.No country's past can match Egypt's in antiquity, richness, and variety. However, it is rarely presented as a comprehensive panorama because scholars ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Baloch and Balochistan

    A Historical Account from the Beginning to the Fall of the Baloch State

    by Naseer Dashti ...
    Three thousand years ago, a group of Indo-Iranic tribes (called Balaschik at that time) settled in the northwestern Caspian region of Balashagan. Circumstances forced them to disperse and migrate towards south and eastern parts of Iranian plateau. In medieval times, they finally settled in present Balochistan where they became known as the Baloch. During their long and tortuous journey from ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • A History of Iran

    Empire of the Mind

    by Michael Axworthy ...
    The definitive history of Iran, from the ancient Persian empires to today.**“Michael Axworthy’s deft untangling of the country’s history, from the advent of Zoroastrianism to the 1979 revolution, is a stunning achievement.” -**GuardianIran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic republic, but one in which only 1.4 percent of the population attend Friday prayers. Iran’s religious culture ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • A History of the Muslim World to 1750

    The Making of a Civilization

    by Vernon O. Egger ...
    A History of the Muslim World to 1750 traces the development of Islamic civilization from the career of the Prophet Muhammad to the mid-eighteenth century. Encompassing a wide range of significant events within the period, its coverage includes the creation of the Dar al-Islam (the territory ruled by Muslims), the fragmentation of society into various religious and political groups including the ... Read more

    $148.40 CAD