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  • Islam

    A New History from Muhammad to the Present

    by John Tolan ...
    A concise new narrative history of Islam that draws on the transformative insights of recent research to emphasize the diversity and dynamism of the traditionToday’s Muslim world is in upheaval: legalists and mystics engage in intense debates, radical groups invoke Sharia, Muslim immigrants in the West face prejudice and discrimination, and Muslim feminists advocate new interpretations of the ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Saracens

    Islam in the Medieval European Imagination

    by John Tolan ...
    In the first century of Islam, most of the former Christian Roman Empire, from Syria to Spain, was brought under Muslim control in a conquest of unprecedented proportions. Confronted by the world of Islam, countless medieval Christians experienced a profound ambivalence, awed by its opulence, they were also troubled by its rival claims to the spiritual inheritance of Abraham and Jesus and ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Faces of Muhammad

    Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today

    by John Tolan ...
    Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of MuhammadIn European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren’t the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge from Western history. Commentators have also portrayed Muhammad as a visionary reformer and an inspirational leader, statesman, and lawgiver. In ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Saint Francis and the Sultan

    The Curious History of a Christian-Muslim Encounter

    by John V. Tolan ...
    In September, 1219, as the armies of the Fifth Crusade besieged the Egyptian city of Damietta, Francis of Assisi went to Egypt to preach to Sultan al-Malik al-Kâmil. Although we in fact know very little about this event, this has not prevented artists and writers from the thirteenth century to the twentieth, unencumbered by mere facts, from portraying Francis alternatively as a new apostle ... Read more

    $79.19 CAD

  • England's Jews

    Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century

    by John Tolan ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied important roles in medieval English society. England’s Jews revisits this neglected chapter of English history—one whose remembrance is more important than ever today, as antisemitism and other forms of racism are on the rise.Historian John Tolan tells the ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • England's Jews

    Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century

    by John Tolan ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied important roles in medieval English society. England’s Jews revisits this neglected chapter of English history—one whose remembrance is more important than ever today, as antisemitism and other forms of racism are on the rise.Historian John Tolan tells the ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Europe and the Islamic World

    A History

    by John Tolan, Henry Laurens, Gilles Veinstein ...
    A sweeping history of Islam and the West from the seventh century to todayEurope and the Islamic World sheds much-needed light on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness of their inextricably intertwined histories, refuting once and for all the misguided notion of a "clash of civilizations" between the Muslim world and Europe. In this landmark book, three eminent ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Geneses

    A Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam

    Edited by John Tolan ...
    What is a religion? How do we discern the boundaries between religions, or religious communities? When does Judaism become Judaism, Christianity become Christianity, Islam become Islam? Scholars have increasingly called into question the standard narratives created by the various orthodoxies, narratives of steadfastness and consistency, of long and courageous maintenance of true doctrine and right ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam

    A Book of Essays

    Edited by John Victor Tolan ...
    For medieval Christians, Islam presented a series of disquieting challenges, and individual Christians portrayed Muslim culture in varied ways, according to their interests and prejudices. These fifteen original essays focus on unfamiliar texts that reflect the wide range of medieval Christianity's preoccupation with Islam, treating works from many different periods and in a wide range of genres ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD

  • Radiology of the Post Surgical Abdomen

    Edited by John Brittenden, Damian J.M. Tolan ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Radiology of the Post Surgical Abdomen provides a comprehensive overview of all abdominal operations involving the gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, hepatobiliary and genitourinary systems. Each chapter is fully illustrated with artists' drawings and radiological images of normal post operative anatomy. The complications associated with each procedure are described alongside imaging examples. ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • The New World Disorder

    Challenges and Threats in an Uncertain World

    by David Andersen-Rodgers, Robert C. Austin, J. L. Black, Yann Breault, Brett Buchanan, Christopher J. Fettweis, Michael Johns, Ivan Kurilla, Aurélie Lacassagne, Tolan M. Pica0, Amy Pate1, Michèle Rioux2, Jeff Sahadeo3, Alanda D. Theriault4 ...
    The new world order as it stood after the apparent end of the Cold War and the collapse of the USSR was greeted with enthusiasm and optimism almost everywhere, but especially in the West. Less than a quarter century later that optimism has faded dramatically, with the rise of populism, nationalism, religious extremism and civil discord disrupting political and social norms around the world. This ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

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  • The Templars

    The Secret History Revealed

    by Barbara Frale ...
    Translated by Gregory Conti ...
    Barbara Frale gives us an explosive, exhaustively researched history of the medieval world’s most powerful military order, the Templars. At its height, the Order of the Knights Templar rivaled the kingdoms of Europe in military might, economic power, and political influence. For 700 years, the tragic demise of this society of warrior-monks amid accusations of heresy has been plagued by controversy ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD