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  • A History of the Muslim World to 1405

    The Making of a Civilization

    by Vernon Egger ...
    Muslims first appeared in the early seventh century as members of a persecuted religious movement in a sun-baked town in Arabia. Within a century, their descendants were ruling a vast territory that extended from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indus River valley in modern Pakistan. This region became the arena for a new cultural experiment in which Muslim scholars and creative artists synthesized and ... Read more

    $226.99 CAD

  • A History of the Muslim World since 1260

    The Making of a Global Community

    by Vernon Egger ...
    A History of the Muslim World since 1260 continues the narrative begun by A History of the Muslim World to 1750 by tracing the development of Muslim societies, institutions, and doctrines from the time of the Mongol conquests through to the present day. It offers students a balanced coverage of Muslim societies that extend from Western Europe to Southeast Asia. Whereas it presents a multifaceted ... Read more

    $130.99 CAD

  • A History of the Muslim World since 1260

    The Making of a Global Community

    by Vernon Egger ...
    The history of the predominantly Muslim world is examined within the context of world history. It examines political, economic, and broad cultural developments, as well as specifically religious ones. The themes of the book are tradition and adaptation: it examines the tensions between the desire of Muslims to maintain continuity with their legacy and their recognition of the need to adapt to ... Read more

    $226.99 CAD

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    A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

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    “A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world” (San Francisco Chronicle)We in the West share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed through the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the ... Read more

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  • Lost Islamic History

    Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past

    by Firas Alkhateeb ...
    Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France to East Africa and South East Asia. Yet many of the contributions of Muslim thinkers, scientists and theologians, not ... Read more

    $9.99 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

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  • The Oxford History of Islam

    Edited by John L. Esposito ...
    Lavishly illustrated with over 300 pictures, including more than 200 in full color, The Oxford History of Islam offers the most wide-ranging and authoritative account available of the second largest--and fastest growing--religion in the world. John L. Esposito, Editor-in-Chief of the four-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, has gathered together sixteen leading scholars, both ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran

    by Homa Katouzian ...

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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

  • Lebanon

    A History, 600 - 2011

    by William Harris ...
    Series series Studies in Middle Eastern History
    In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its vicinity. He offers a fresh perspective on the antecedents of modern multi-communal Lebanon, tracing the consolidation of Lebanon's Christian, Muslim, and Islamic derived sects from their origins between the sixth and eleventh centuries. The identities of Maronite Christians, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Secret History of Iran

    How Iran is the Key to both the Survival and the Destruction of the Islamic World

    by Hamad Subani ...
    Iran is an ancient place of extreme contrasts. It is both blessed and cursed. It is home to both Islam and anti-islam. This book attempts to trace out the Secret History of Iran, from 500 B.C. to present. This book covers the largely unknown secret groups and cabals that continue to dominate Iran, from the remnants of Mystery Babylon and the Sabaeans to crypto-Byzantines. Their little known role ... Read more

    $10.00 CAD

  • A History of Islamic Societies

    by Ira M. Lapidus ...
    This new edition of one of the most widely used course books on Islamic civilizations around the world has been substantially revised to incorporate the new scholarship and insights of the last twenty-five years. Ira Lapidus' history explores the beginnings and transformations of Islamic civilizations in the Middle East and details Islam's worldwide diffusion. The history is divided into four ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD