ilość książek w kategorii: 1486
Jesus in the House of the Pharaohs: The Essene Revelations on the Historical Jesus
ISBN: 9781591430278 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A provocative thesis that the historical Jesus was connected to the royal 18th dynasty of Egypt - Contends that Jesus, Joshua, and Tutankhamun were the same person - Provides evidence from church documentation, the Koran, the Talmud, and archaeology that the Messiah came more than a millennium before the first century C.E. - Shows that Christianity evolved from Essene teachings Although it is commonly believed that Jesus lived during the first century C.E., there is no concrete evidence to support this fact from the Roman and Jewish historians who would have been his...
A provocative thesis that the historical Jesus was connected to the royal 18th dynasty of Egypt - Contends that Jesus, Joshua, and Tutankhamun wer...
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96,69 zł |
Taha Husayn: His Place In the Egyptian Literary Renaissance
ISBN: 9781593333164 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book was by far the earliest book-length study of any aspect of modern Arabic literature to be published outside the Arab world.
This book was by far the earliest book-length study of any aspect of modern Arabic literature to be published outside the Arab world.
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577,47 zł |
Islamic Archaeology in the Sudan
ISBN: 9781841716398 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Middle Nile Basin, which is in effect the present Republic of the Sudan, from the 7th century CE accepted Islam through influences from both the north and the east and responded to the changes which have taken place in the Dar al-Islam. From the north these influences, through Egypt, have been largely from aeSunniAE sources and from the east, through the Red Sea Coast which have been aeSufiAE. This has profoundly affected the spiritual life of both the immigrant Muslims and the indigenous population who converted to Islam. Political divisions through the centuries maintained those...
The Middle Nile Basin, which is in effect the present Republic of the Sudan, from the 7th century CE accepted Islam through influences from both the n...
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294,61 zł |
Egypt: A Short History
ISBN: 9781851682409 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This concise new guide to Egyptian history considers not only the ancient past but also the last 200 years of modernization and the evolution of the Egyptian state, right up to contemporary developments
This concise new guide to Egyptian history considers not only the ancient past but also the last 200 years of modernization and the evolution of the E...
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158,73 zł |
The African origins of civilization, religion, yoga mystical spirituality, ethics philosophy and a history of Egyptian yoga
ISBN: 9781884564505 / Angielski / Twarda / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Ashby has combined in one volume the most important evidence showing the correlations and common teachings between Kamitan (ancient Egyptian) culture and religion and that of India. He provides an expanded understanding of the underlying kinship of humanity.
Ashby has combined in one volume the most important evidence showing the correlations and common teachings between Kamitan (ancient Egyptian) culture ...
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214,52 zł |
Sketches in Egypt
ISBN: 9781931641500 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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101,96 zł |
England in Egypt: With Additions Summarizing the Course of Events to the Close of the Year 1898
ISBN: 9781931956680 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Milner (1854-1925) was a British statesman, leading imperialist, and colonial administrator. From 1890 to 1892 he served as undersecretary of finance in Egypt. His book effectively argues for greater British involvement there. In 1920 he led a commission to Egypt that recommended Egyptian independence.
Milner (1854-1925) was a British statesman, leading imperialist, and colonial administrator. From 1890 to 1892 he served as undersecretary of finance ...
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479,77 zł |
Chronicle of the First Seven Months of the French Occupation of Egypt, Muḥarram-Rajab 1213/15 June-December 1789: Tārīkh Muddat Al Far
ISBN: 9789004038813 / Arabski / Twarda / 131 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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554,60 zł |
State and Society in Fatimid Egypt
ISBN: 9789004093447 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Fatimid history is a chapter of both Mediterranean and Islamic history. In the period covered by the book (10th-12th centuries) profound changes took place in the Eastern Mediterranean affecting the history of the region.
Divided into three parts this study deals with the political history of the Fatimid period, the structure of the Fatimid state and the interplay between state and society. The book is a contribution to the study of Islamic military history addressing such topics as: the formation and upkeep of black slave armies, the role of Christian-Armenian troops in twelfth-century... Fatimid history is a chapter of both Mediterranean and Islamic history. In the period covered by the book (10th-12th centuries) profound changes took ...
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640,58 zł |
A Turning Point in Mamluk History: The Third Reign of Al-Nāsir Muḥammad Ibn Qalāwūn (1310-1341)
ISBN: 9789004101821 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A Turning Point in Mamluk History deals with the process of decline of the Mamluk state (1250-1517). Its main thesis is that the origins of this process are to be found in the third reign of al-Nāsir Muḥammad Ibn Qalāwūn, more specifically in the changes he effected in the Mamluk system. The Mamluk army was the first to be confronted with these changes, whose impact on the social and political life of the Mamluk elite was already felt during al-Nāsir's own lifetime. The author follows their course of development to the end of autonomous Mamluk rule and reveals...
A Turning Point in Mamluk History deals with the process of decline of the Mamluk state (1250-1517). Its main thesis is that the origins of thi...
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584,69 zł |
The Historiography of Islamic Egypt (C. 950-1800)
ISBN: 9789004117945 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) History writing in Islamic Egypt was highly developed and no country in the Middle East has a richer or more developed tradition. This book is a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field, examining different authors, their works and the intellectual climate in which they flourished. Due prominence is given to the great historians of the Mamluk period (c.1260-1517) but also to the less well-known writers of the Ottoman period. The essays are also enlivened by insights into personalities and customs of the time.
This book will be of interest to historians of the Islamic world in... History writing in Islamic Egypt was highly developed and no country in the Middle East has a richer or more developed tradition. This book is a colle...
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614,79 zł |
Revolutionary Sudan Revolutionary Sudan: Hasan Al-Turabi and the Islamist State, 1989-2000 Hasan Al-Turabi and the Islamist State, 1989-2000
ISBN: 9789004131965 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book investigates the objectives, activities, and a decade of success and failure by Islamist military officers and civilians to create the first Islamic government in Africa after the coup d'etat by Brigadier Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir. It describes and analyzes the role played by Hasan al-Turabi in the Sudan, the world, and the revolutionary government from its relative isolation on the frontiers of Islam and the margins of the Arab World. It follows the activities of this ideological and activist leader of the revolution who used his influence as a charismatic Muslim scholar to...
This book investigates the objectives, activities, and a decade of success and failure by Islamist military officers and civilians to create the first...
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558,90 zł |
The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian Politics and Society
ISBN: 9789004132863 / Angielski / Twarda / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This volume consists of 19 studies by leading historians of the Mamluks. Drawing on primary Arabic sources, the studies discuss central political, military, urban, social, administrative, economic, financial and religious aspects of the Mamluk Empire that was established in 1250 by Mamluks (manumitted military slaves, mostly Turks and Circassians). It was a Sunni orthodox state that had a formidable military, a developed and sophisticated economy, a centralized Arab bureaucracy and prestigious religious and educational institutions. There are special articles about Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem,...
This volume consists of 19 studies by leading historians of the Mamluks. Drawing on primary Arabic sources, the studies discuss central political, mil...
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894,24 zł |
Commerce, Culture, and Community in a Red Sea Port in the Thirteenth Century: The Arabic Documents from Quseir
ISBN: 9789004137479 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book is the first comprehensive study of the Arabic documents uncovered in Quseir, Upper Egypt, during the 1980s. The hundreds of paper fragments shed light on activities and operations of a family shipping business on the Red Sea shore in the thirteenth century. Part One is an introductory essay on historical and cultural context of these documents. The three chapters deal with, respectively, the "Sheikh's house," where the documents were found, the Red Sea commerce as reflected in the trade activities around the house, and aspects of popular culture as revealed through the texts. Part...
This book is the first comprehensive study of the Arabic documents uncovered in Quseir, Upper Egypt, during the 1980s. The hundreds of paper fragments...
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773,86 zł |
Images of Empire: Photographic Sources for the British in the Sudan
ISBN: 9789004146273 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book combines important and often historic photographs with text to illustrate the value of photographs for the study of modern African history in general and of the Sudan, Africa's largest country and one of its most varied.
This book combines important and often historic photographs with text to illustrate the value of photographs for the study of modern African history i...
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511,61 zł |
The Politics of Liberation in South Sudan
ISBN: 9789970021024 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Winner of the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa 1998. The jury cited the book as "a pioneering text, the most important book to have appeared to date about the struggle for African national liberation in the Sudan. It is a first-class inside story of the history of the civil war of the past fifteen years, told with passion and commitment. Its stature, ringing significance and contribution to knowledge make it a powerful and unique book." The process of liberation in south Sudan has been rocky since 1955. Successive governments in Khartoum have broken promises and agreements relating to...
Winner of the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa 1998. The jury cited the book as "a pioneering text, the most important book to have appeared to dat...
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244,44 zł |
Modern Egypt: The Formation Of A Nation-state
ISBN: 9780813338866 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This second edition of scholar Arthur Goldschmidt presents a concise survey of Egyptian history since the mid-eighteenth century. It focuses on Egypt's evolution as a nation-state, dispelling common misconceptions about Egypt's modern history. Professor Goldschmidt calls upon recent Egyptian and Western scholarship to document pivotal points, such as the 1952 revolution, and to illuminate controversies, such as those surrounding Sadat's role in the 1973 war with Israel. Modern Egypt is anecdotal as well as authoritative, covering social history, religion, politics, economics, military...
This second edition of scholar Arthur Goldschmidt presents a concise survey of Egyptian history since the mid-eighteenth century. It focuses on Egypt'...
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229,06 zł |
The Southern Sudan in Historical Perspective
ISBN: 9781412805858 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Robert O. Collins is one of the most prolific authors on Africa, the Sudan, and the Nile. The Southern Sudan in Historical Perspective, based on a seriesof lectures he gave in 1973 to the Department of Middle Eastern and AfricanHistory and the Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies atTel Aviv University, is a succinct and engaging study of the Southern Sudan, from its origins in antiquity, the British occupation of the early twentiethcentury, the civil disturbances of 1955, its independence in 1956, to theviolence of the late 1960s and early 1970
Robert O. Collins is one of the most prolific authors on Africa, the Sudan, and the Nile. The Southern Sudan in Historical Perspective, based on a ser...
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229,06 zł |
The River War
ISBN: 9781604245882 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of England during some of the most important moments in history. In 1953 Churchill won the Nobel Prize in Literature. While still an officer in the British army, Winston Churchill wrote this account of the conquest in the Sudan. Lord Kitchener led the British forces and Muhammad Ahmad led the Islamic Jihadists. Ahmad wanted to conquer Egypt and drive the non-Muslim infidels out so that things would be ready for the second coming of Mahdi.
Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of England during some of the most important moments in history. In 1953 Churchill won the Nobel Prize in Literat...
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105,58 zł |
Napoleon to Nasser: The Story of Modern Egypt
ISBN: 9780759653931 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Designed for undergraduates with little or no background in world music, Music in Bulgaria is one of several volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the main book in the Global Music Series, in any introductory world music or ethnomusicology course. It provides an overview of the cultural, historical and political meaning of traditional Bulgarian music and begins by exploring how Bulgaria's rural traditions affect the expression and interpretation of its music. It goes on to examine how the country's social, political and economic histories have influenced its music over many...
Designed for undergraduates with little or no background in world music, Music in Bulgaria is one of several volumes that can be used along with Think...
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74,10 zł |