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  • Muhammad and the Believers

    At the Origins of Islam

    by Fred M. Donner ...
    The origins of Islam have been the subject of increasing controversy in recent years. The traditional view, which presents Islam as a self-consciously distinct religion tied to the life and revelations of the prophet Muhammad in western Arabia, has since the 1970s been challenged by historians engaged in critical study of the Muslim sources.In Muhammad and the Believers, the eminent historian Fred ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Articulation of Early Islamic State Structures

    Edited by Fred M. Donner ...
    Series series The Formation of the Classical Islamic World
    This volume reprints nineteen articles that deal with the formation of the first Islamic state under the 'rightly-guided' and Umayyad caliphs (632-750 CE). The articles (five of which originally appeared in languages other than English and are translated here) trace the crystallization of key institutions of the growing empire and treat such fundamental issues as taxation, military institutions, ... Read more

    $529.06 CAD

  • The Expansion of the Early Islamic State

    Edited by Fred M. Donner ...
    Series series The Formation of the Classical Islamic World
    This volume presents a selection of the key studies in which leading scholars since the beginning of the 20th century attempt to explain the phenomenally rapid expansion of the early Islamic state during the 7th century CE. The articles debate the causes for the conquest movement or expansion, the reasons for its success, the nature of the movement itself, the impact the expansion had on the ... Read more

    $384.99 CAD

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  • Peace Be Upon You

    Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Conflict and Cooperation

    by Zachary Karabell ...
    In a narrative that is at once thoughtful and passionate, an award-winning historian reveals the history of peaceful coexistence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews over the course of fourteen centuries until the present day.The harsh reality of religious conflict is daily news, and the rising tensions between the West and Islam show no signs of abating. However, the relationship between Muslims ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Crucible of Islam

    by G. W. Bowersock ...
    Little is known about sixth-century Arabia. Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from Iberia to India. G. W. Bowersock illuminates this obscure yet most dynamic period in Islam, exploring why arid Arabia proved to be fertile ground for Muhammad’s message and why it spread so quickly to the wider world. ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • What Went Wrong?:Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

    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

    $21.99 CAD

  • Palestine

    A Four Thousand Year History

    by Nur Masalha ...
    This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history.Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Palestine and its Palestinian identity have evolved over thousands of years, from the Bronze Age to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • 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 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

    $15.99 CAD

  • Islam in History

    Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    From secular-minded autocrats like Saddam Hussein to religious fundamentalists like Osama bin Laden, powerful voices in the Islamic world have been united by a fierce hatred of the West. If we want to know why they think the way they do, we have to understand the history of Islam and its continuous interactions with the West.This masterly collection of essays by a leading expert on Islam and the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Islam

    The Religion and the People

    by Bernard Lewis, Buntzie Churchill ...
    Praise for Bernard Lewis"For newcomers to the subject[el]Bernard Lewis is the man."TIME Magazine“The doyen of Middle Eastern studies."The New York Times“No one writes about Muslim history with greater authority, or intelligence, or literary charm.”British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper“Bernard Lewis has no living rival in his field.”... ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Jihad in Islamic History

    Doctrines and Practice

    by Michael Bonner ...
    What is jihad? Does it mean violence, as many non-Muslims assume? Or does it mean peace, as some Muslims insist? Because jihad is closely associated with the early spread of Islam, today's debate about the origin and meaning of jihad is nothing less than a struggle over Islam itself. In Jihad in Islamic History, Michael Bonner provides the first study in English that focuses on the early history ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD