The Persian Gulf: The Rise of the Gulf Arabs
ISBN: 9781933823188 / Angielski / Miękka / 363 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of the Persian Gulf during the eighteenth century is still little known. This gap is now being filled by the historian and renowned scholar Willem Floor, first with publication of The Persian Gulf: A Political and Economic History of Five Port Cities, 1500-1730, and now with The Persian Gulf: The Rise of the Gulf Arabs, The Politics of Trade on the Persian Littoral, 1747-1792. This study tells the fascinating story of the shift in trade from the lower to the upper Gulf, while there was also a partial shift of trade from the northern Persian coast to the southern Arab coast. It...
The history of the Persian Gulf during the eighteenth century is still little known. This gap is now being filled by the historian and renowned schola...
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240,49 zł |
Iran's Persian Gulf Policy: From Khomeini to Khatami
ISBN: 9780415297806 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran towards the Persian Gulf states from 1979 to 1998, this text covers the perceptions Iranians and Arabs have of each other, Islamic revolutionary ideology, the Iran/Iraq war, the Gulf crisis, the election of President Khatami and finally the role of external powers, such as the US. The author argues that over the 20-year period, the policy has moved from being ideological to pragmatic, and that by tracing its history we can better anticipate its future relationship.
Examining the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran towards the Persian Gulf states from 1979 to 1998, this text covers the perceptions Irani...
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764,59 zł |
The Last Tourist in Iran: From Persepolis to Nuclear Natanz
ISBN: 9781846940767 / Angielski / Miękka / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looks at the cultural heritage and the nuclear crisis in Iran. This work explores the history of this pivotal country: the Achaemenians, the Sasanians, the Zoroastrian religion of 2,500 years ago; the Islamic period, the Safavids, and the Revolution which dethroned the Shah and made Iran an Islamic Republic.
Looks at the cultural heritage and the nuclear crisis in Iran. This work explores the history of this pivotal country: the Achaemenians, the Sasanians...
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64,33 zł |
Islam and Healing: Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600-1900
ISBN: 9780230554382 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traces the Islamic healing tradition's interaction with Indian society and politics as these evolved in tandem from 1600 to 1900, and demonstrates howan in-house struggle for hegemony can be as potent as external power in defining medical, social and national modernity.A pioneering work on the social and medical history of Indian Islam."
Traces the Islamic healing tradition's interaction with Indian society and politics as these evolved in tandem from 1600 to 1900, and demonstrates how...
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389,98 zł |
Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq: British and American Perspectives
ISBN: 9780719077463 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The decision to go to war in Iraq has had historic repercussions throughout the world. The editors of this volume bring together scholarly analysis of the decision-making in the U.S and U.K. that led to the war, inside accounts of CIA decision-making, and key speeches and documents related to going to war. The book presents a fascinating case study of decision-making at the highest levels in the United States and Britain as their leaders planned to go to war in Iraq. Just as the Cuban Missile Crisis has been used for decades as a case study in good decision-making, the decision to go to war...
The decision to go to war in Iraq has had historic repercussions throughout the world. The editors of this volume bring together scholarly analysis of...
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456,07 zł |
A Brief Introduction to Astronomy in the Middle East
ISBN: 9780863564284 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of two titles launching a series offering insight into Arabic advances in science and culture.
One of two titles launching a series offering insight into Arabic advances in science and culture.
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Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia
ISBN: 9781890951849 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical records of violence and biopolitics. In Mesopotamia, ancient (ca. 3000-500 BCE) Iraqi rituals of war and images of violence constituted part of the magical technologies of warfare that formed the underlying irrational processes of war. In Rituals of War, Zainab Bahrani weaves together three lines of inquiry into one historical domain of violence: war, the body, and representation. Building on Foucault's argument in Discipline and Punish that the art of punishing must rest on a whole technology of... Rituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical records of violence and biopolitics. In Mesopotamia, ancient (ca. 3000-500 ... |
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In Search of Glory
ISBN: 9780595476640 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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In Search of Glory
ISBN: 9780595713202 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945
ISBN: 9780807858981 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Douglas Little explores the stormy American relationship with the Middle East from World War II through the war in Iraq, focusing particularly on the complex and often inconsistent attitudes and interests that helped put the United States on a collision course with radical Islam early in the new millennium. After documenting the persistence of "orientalist" stereotypes in American popular culture, Little examines oil, Israel, and other aspects of U.S. policy. He concludes that a peculiar blend of arrogance and ignorance has led American officials to overestimate their ability to shape events...
Douglas Little explores the stormy American relationship with the Middle East from World War II through the war in Iraq, focusing particularly on the ...
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257,03 zł |
The Making of a New 'Indian' Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal, C.1850-1920
ISBN: 9780521052733 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers an analysis of the transformations that occurred in the art and aesthetic values of Bengal during the colonial and nationalist periods.
This book offers an analysis of the transformations that occurred in the art and aesthetic values of Bengal during the colonial and nationalist period...
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137,57 zł |
Dawn of the Metal Age: Technology and Society During the Levantine Chalcolithic
ISBN: 9781904768999 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By midway through the fifth millennium BCE rapid social change was underway in the southern Levant. One critical dimension of this cultural revolution was a series of profound technological breakthroughs, bringing the dawn of the age of metals. Archaeologists working in the region have discovered a host of sites dating to the Chalcolithic Period (4700-3500 BCE) with material culture reflecting the production and use of copper. This survey will take the reader from the copper mines of the Aravah in Jordan and Israel where the ore was acquired, to the villages of the northern Negev such as...
By midway through the fifth millennium BCE rapid social change was underway in the southern Levant. One critical dimension of this cultural revolution...
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713,61 zł |
Hegemony in the Digital Age: The Arab/Israeli Conflict Online
ISBN: 9780739117729 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the relative benefits which the internet provides to a range of weak and powerful actors in American society. The Arab/Israeli conflict is utilized as a topic holding common interest to all of those considered. Evidence suggests that the Web's exploitation by countless competing interests is contributing to the consolidation of dominant discourses and policies surrounding American Mid-East policy, while exacerbating processes of social fragmentation in civil society.
This book examines the relative benefits which the internet provides to a range of weak and powerful actors in American society. The Arab/Israeli conf...
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472,16 zł |
Studien Zur Komposition Der Mekkanischen Suren: Die Literarische Form Des Koran - Ein Zeugnis Seiner Historizität?
ISBN: 9783110192339 / Angielski / Twarda / 449 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der Koran, als Text von der Forschung jahrzehntelang marginalisiert, ruckt mit dem Bekanntwerden altester Manuskriptfunde aus San'a wieder ins Interesse der Islamforschung. Angesichts des Fehlens zeitgenossischer Zeugnisse fallt dem Koran als historischem Dokument fur die fruheste Islamentwicklung einzigartige Bedeutung zu - ein Sachverhalt, der jedoch fur die Fruhislamdebatte bisher noch nicht fruchtbar gemacht werden konnte. Denn zum einen sperrt sich der Koran mit seiner schwer zuganglichen Gesamtstruktur gegen eine historische Lekture, zum anderen kann der poetische Text des Koran kann... Der Koran, als Text von der Forschung jahrzehntelang marginalisiert, ruckt mit dem Bekanntwerden altester Manuskriptfunde aus San'a wieder ins Inte... |
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Global Security Watch Iran: A Reference Handbook
ISBN: 9780275994839 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explains the foreign policy decisions of Iranian leaders, as well as the foreign policy decisions of its neighbors and major world powers. Iran is not treated primarily as a problem to be dealt with by the United States and its friends. There is an effort to understand not only the concerns and policies of the United States and its allies, but also to understand Iranian concerns and policy. Thus, this book is better able than many others to explain the actions, reactions, and interactions of all the relevant actors and to explore the prospects for future war or... This book explains the foreign policy decisions of Iranian leaders, as well as the foreign policy decisions of its neighbors and major world powers... |
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517,35 zł |
The Gulf War Chronicles: A Military History of the First War with Iraq
ISBN: 9781605280066 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World
ISBN: 9780521066020 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The empire of the Qara Khitai, which was one of the least known and most fascinating dynasties in the history of Central Asia, existed for nearly a century before it was conquered by the Mongols in 1218. Arriving in Central Asia from China, the Qara Khitai ruled over a mostly Muslim population. Their history affords a unique window onto the extensive cross-cultural contacts between China, Inner Asian nomads and the Muslim world in the period preceding the rise of Chinggis Khan. Using an extensive corpus of Muslim and Chinese sources, Michal Biran comprehensively examines the political,...
The empire of the Qara Khitai, which was one of the least known and most fascinating dynasties in the history of Central Asia, existed for nearly a ce...
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188,55 zł |
Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society
ISBN: 9780521847155 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. High rates of divorce, often taken to be a modern and western phenomenon, were also typical of medieval Islamic societies. By pitting these high rates of divorce against the Islamic ideal of marriage, Yossef Rapoport radically challenges usual assumptions about the legal inferiority of Muslim women and their economic dependence on men. He argues that marriages in late medieval Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem had little in common with the patriarchal models advocated by jurists and moralists. The transmission of dowries, women's access to waged labour, and the strict separation of property...
High rates of divorce, often taken to be a modern and western phenomenon, were also typical of medieval Islamic societies. By pitting these high rates...
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249,76 zł |
The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades
ISBN: 9780140455137 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Crusades as seen through the eyes of Muslims
A significant contribution to the understanding of the medieval holy wars between Christians and Muslims, this volume brings together the best and most complete eyewitness account of the Crusades from the perspective of a medieval Muslim writer. Focusing on twelfth-century Arab aristocrat Usama ibn Munqidh's Book of Contemplation but also including extracts from The Book of the Staff and Kernels of Refinement, this volume offers a strikingly human portrayal of Islamic perspectives on day-to-day existence,... The Crusades as seen through the eyes of Muslims
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The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims
ISBN: 9781591026020 / Angielski / Miękka / 759 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Extensive primary and secondary source materials, many translated here for the first time, are presented, making clear that jihad conquests were brutal, imperialist advances, which spurred waves of Muslims to expropriate a vast expanse of lands and subdue millions of indigenous peoples.
Extensive primary and secondary source materials, many translated here for the first time, are presented, making clear that jihad conquests were bruta...
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90,14 zł |