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The place to go
This work focuses on the intellectual and educational history of Baghdad in the early ‘Abbasid and Buyid periods (8th–10th centuries). It covers a wide range of disciplines taught in the metropolis before the institutionalization of the madrasa system.
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Islamic revolution and historical memory
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Development, architecture, and the formation of heritage in late twentieth-century iran
Utilising an architectural lens, this book illustrates how development instigates interest in the past and in the process, creates heritage. It show multiple uses of the past and their contestation in highly fluid social contexts.
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Iranian / persianate subalterns in the safavid period
'Subaltern studies' refers to the importance of subordinate groups in the making of history, usually focusing social protest in response to manipulations by the elite. This book includes elite Persian diplomatic and political-economic materials, but also draws from cultural spheres such as art, c...
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Tribalism and society in islamic iran, 1500-1629
Iranian society came under the domination of tribal elites during the first part of the Safavid era. This book seeks to show how Iranian elites differed from other contemporary elites and to assess the place of the Iranian system in the world pattern of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Iran's strategic thinking
What are the ideological motives behind Iran's foreign policy? This new study examines Tehran's twin desires to protect national interests and to project real power.
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A chronicle of the early safavids and the reign of shah isma'il (907-930/1501-1524)
Kioumars Ghereghlou presents an edition, with preface and indexes, of a previously unpublished sixteenth-century Persian chronicle. Written by Qāsim Beg Ḥayātī, a court scribe to Shah Ṭahmāsp (r. 1524–76), it covers Safavid history beginning with the early part of the fourteenth century. Main te...
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The ilkhanid heartland
The Ilkhanid Heartland provides the first source on the fortified medieval (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries) settlement of Hasanlu Tepe in the western Azerbaigian province of Iran. Key problems addressed include the nature and dates of the fortifications, the difficulty of distinguishing Ilkh...
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The holy land
First English translation of La Galilée, an account of Pierre Loti's travels in the Holy Land from Jerusalem to Beirut via Damascus, in 1894. Apart from his literary talents, Loti was a pioneer photographer and this translation of his journey is greatly enhanced by the reproduction of some of the...
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The history and archaeology of jaffa 1
The twenty-five contributions to this work constitute the first major book-length publication to address the archaeology of Jaffa in more than sixty years since excavations were initiated at the site.
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The archaeology of the ostraca house at israelite samaria
The Caesarea Mithraeum (sanctuary or temple of the god Mithras) is only one of two excavated from eastern half of the Empire. Includes new photographs, plans and section drawings; catalogues the small finds from the vault, and technical details about the recovery of information about frescoes and...
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The arab spring
People in the Arab world rose up in revolt against their governments in 2010/11, demanding political empowerment and reforms. But Egypt's brief alliance with democracy was halted by a neo militarist takeover; little has changed in Yemen, Libya and Syria; the monarchies of the Gulf remain markedly...
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Political reforms in qatar
In the past decade, Qatar has emerged as one of the world's most proactive mediators in the international arena. This book examines political reforms in Qatar from an analytical, normative, ideological and empirical perspective, presenting different aspects of political reform in Qatar, including...
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The trucial coast political reports 1958-1963
The Trucial Coast Political Reports are a unique record of events, commented on by a small group of British men living in Sharjah and Dubai. This was in the years leading up to the commencement of oil exports from the desert of Abu Dhabi.
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The way to isfahan
From April to June 1900, Pierre Loti travelled in a private capacity from Bushire on the Persian Gulf, northwards through Shiraz, Persepolis, Isfahan and Tehran, before returning via the Caspian Sea to Europe. This is the account of his journey, the hardships of the mountainous terrain and the em...
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The arabs and islam in late antiquity
This study is a critique of Arabic textual sources for the history of the Arabs in late antique times, during the centuries immediately preceding Muhammad and up to and including the Umayyad period. It evaluates these sources for the history of the Arabs, and describes the emergence of Muhammadan...
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Is islam secularizable?
This book by one of today's foremost Arab public intellectuals includes essays on: Civil Society and the Arab Spring, Orientalism and Conspiracy, Ground Zero Revisited, Islam and Secular Humanism, Islamist Terror and the Arab Imagination, Trends in Arab Thought, Palestinian Zionism, and Orientali...
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On fundamentalisms
Sadik Al-Azm (1934-2016) was one of today's foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offers innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism. This book includes essays on: Islamic Fundamentalism, Islam and the Science-Religion Deb...
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Islam - submission and disobedience
Sadik Al-Azm (1934-2016) was one of today's foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offers innovative challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism and the Israel-Palestine issue. This collection includes essays on Salman Rushdie, Is the Fatwa a Fatwa? And T...
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Bahrain's surviving dynasty
This book provides valuable insights into how the Al Khalifa tribe of Bahrain managed to shape and maintain their patrimonial rule for over 240 years, ultimately emerging as one of the most prevailing and enduring royal families in the region today.
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Occidentalism, conspiracy and taboo
Sadik Al-Azm (1934-2016) was one of the foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offered innovative, controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West. This fourth and final volume of his works in English includes his essays Faith and Reason in Islam, Sharia from a Secular ...
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The byzantine and early islamic near east vol. 4
A collection of critical analyses of the structure, historical development, and composition of the elite strata of late Roman, Byzantine, and early Islamic societies in the eastern Mediterranean basin. The authors focus on culture change, economic foundations, political roles and function, social...
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Arabs and others in early islam
This work investigates available early Arabic had?th and exegetical literature in order to determine the great complexity of how Arabs, Muslims and Arab-Muslims viewed themselves and members of other communities.
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The byzantine and early islamic near east vol. 3
A comparative analysis of Byzantine, Sasanian and Muslim armies and their impact on state resources. Contributions discuss the organization and financing of the army in the late Roman state, the transformations and continuities of the late Sasanid state and with authority and armies in the early ...
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Ibn askir and early islamic history
Ibn Askir's massive Tarikh madinat Dimashq (TMD) is a veritable gold mine of information for our understanding of the first five and one-half centuries of Islamic history. This book offers important insights on the mechanics of Arabic historiography, in particular on biographical sources from the...
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The byzantine and early islamic near east (4 volume set)
The four-volume set comprises: Volume 1: Problems in the Literary Source Material. Volume 2: Land Use and Settlement Patterns. Volume 3: States, Resources and Armies. Volume 4: Elites Old and New
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Critique of religious thought
Critique of Religious Thought is one of the most controversial and influential books about the role of religion in Arab politics. This is the authorised translation of Sadik Al-Azm's work, Naqd al-fikr ad-dini, originally published in Arabic in 1969.
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Crucifixion and death as spectacle
Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle explores how the first caliphal dynasty of early Islam, the Umayyads, employed crucifixion to punish brigands and heretics and to humiliate rebels and enemies, and how they drew upon a late antique legacy of punitive practices associated with crucifixion in the ...
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The capture of jerusalem by the persians in 614 ce by strategius of mar saba
Among those taken captive after the capture of Jerusalem in 614 CE by the Persian armies was Strategius, a monk who composed a homily recounting the events leading up to the siege of the Holy City and its aftermath. This volume provides, for the first time, a complete side-by-side English transla...
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Desert dispute volume 3
This is the third and final volume of a study based on archival research and direct experience. It will be the standard work on the question of national boundaries in south-eastern Arabia for all who have an interest in the Gulf Arab states, their territorial origins and its effects on their incr...
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Iran's relations with the arab states of the gulf
GCC-Iran relations are at the heart of political dynamics in the Middle East today. This volume traces the origins of the troubled relations between Iran and the majority of the Gulf Cooperation Council monarchies. It discusses not only geostrategic rivalries, but also matters of identity which h...
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Britain's departure from aden and south arabia
Five decades after the final British troops left Aden, academic experts and former British officials directly involved in the events reflect on British withdrawal from South Arabia, and how the United Kingdom learnt from its experience in stabilising Oman while overseeing the formation of the Uni...
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Gulfization of the arab world
The notion of Gulfization is increasingly pertinent as Gulf countries occupy a greater political and economic role in wider Middle East politics. This volume discusses the notion of Gulfization, and examines how thoughts, ideologies, way of life and practises are transmitted, changed, and transdu...
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State-society relations in the arab gulf states
This book examines the strategies and dynamics through which state-society relations in the Arab Gulf region have been cultivated, and explores the alternative political, social, economic and popular changes that threaten these relations.
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Abu dhabi, the united arab emirates and the gulf region
The unexpected decision of the British Government in January 1968 to withdraw its military and diplomatic protection from the Gulf catapulted the region into the limelight. For the following five decades the author was well placed to observe subsequent developments in the Gulf, having moved to Ab...
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The politics of food security
The international food system is increasingly at risk. Increasing demand, limited and diminishing resources and rising volatility are putting new pressures on the agriculture sector globally. This book compares the food security policies of selected countries in Asia and the Middle East.
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The silent revolution
How immune is the Gulf region to the changes that have engulfed the Arab world since 2011? This volume responds to this question by examining the impact of the Arab Spring on Gulf regimes and societies and contributing to debates on political participation and citizenship; sectarianism, gender an...
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Persian medical manuscripts at the university of california, los angeles
This catalogue contains descriptions of Persian medical manuscripts in the collection at UCLA; Persian texts in predominantly Arabic MSS are also listed, without descriptions.
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Handlist of arabic medical manuscripts in the research library, ucla
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A computerized listing of biographical data from the yatimat al-dahr by al-tha alibi
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Palestine in the evolution of syrian nationalism (1918-1920)
Palestine in the Evolution of Syrian Nationalism analyzes the place of Palestine in the development of Syrian nationalism from the inception of Syria as a modern nation-state following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War.
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Antoin sevruguin
This volume publishes for the first time the Oriental Institute Museum’s complete collection of nineteenth-century Iranian photographs, most of which were created by Antoin Sevruguin.
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The wine of love and life
Ibn al-Farid has long been venerated as a Sufi saint and poet whose verse stands as a high point in Arabic poetry. The Wine of Love & Life by Th. Emil Homerin makes available for the first time the full Arabic edition and English translation of al-Qaysaris master-work of Sufi theology.
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The criminal underworld in a medieval islamic society
The narrative histories generated during the Mamluk Period in Cairo and Damascus (648 922H/ 1250-1517CE) addressed a number of domestic issues. The chroniclers numerous references to criminal activity committed at all levels of society have not received much scholarly attention.
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Jordan in the late middle ages
This book explores the transformation of the Mamluk state from the perspective of the Jordanian frontier, considering the actions of local people in molding both the state and their own societies in the post-plague era.
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Power and patronage in medieval syria
This book investigates Tankizs building program by identifying the works that he commissioned, exploring the nature of his participation in these works, and situating them within the broader contexts of architectural development in the region and patronage during the Mamluk period.
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Social life under the abbasids
This book remains an invaluable resource for the study of the material culture of Abbasid life in the ninth and tenth centuries. Material is arranged thematically - costume, food, housing, hunting, indoor and outdoor games, and festivities and festivals.
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Land tenure, fiscal policy and imperial policy in medieval syro-egypt
This book aims to examine the structural changes in the state and society in Mamluk Egypt and Syria after the middle of the eighth/fourteenth century. Between 648/1250 and 922/1517, the Mamluk sultanate ruled Egypt, Syria, and the Hijaz, the central Middle East.
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Chronological conundrums
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Volume 13 contains papers given at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research in 2016. Integrates Egyptology with the Mediterranean, Near Eastern, and African Studies, and discusses Middle Bronze Age in the Levant and Egypt. 10 co...
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Adoration of the ram
This new study, the first extensive commentary on the five liturgically connected hymns, features new translations with detailed notes. The book also considers dominant theological themes present in the texts, including the concept of "Amun within the Iris."
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Higher education investment in the arab states of the gulf
Over the last half-century, the Gulf Cooperation Council states have invested on a huge scale in higher education, but the stated commitment to internationally recognized excellence has also to come to terms with tradition. These pressure points are examined here in a number of comparative studies.
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Islamic finance volume 2
The studies in this volume focus on examples in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries to provide empirical analysis of the risk aspects of Islamic finance, to test its stability, identify its growth trajectories, and measure its impact on economic growth.
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Islamic finance volume 3
The studies in this volume aim at providing empirical and comparative perspectives on the performance and efficiency of the Islamic finance industry through a number of econometric models, with a specific focus on the Gulf Cooperation Council countries supported by comparative cases.
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Islamic finance volume 1
Islamic finance has had a transformational impact on markets well beyond the Muslim world, the outcome of various agencies interacting to generate religiously and culturally authentic financial institutions and instruments. The studies presented in this volume discuss these interactions through s...
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Islamic finance (3-volume set)
This collection of new research brings together state of the art thinking by 46 experts from academia and business on all key aspects of Islamic Finance. Individual volumes deal with the key issues of: Political Economy, Values and Aspirations; Growth, Performance and Efficiency; Stability and Risk.
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History of the oil industry in the gulf and the people who made it happen, 1934-1966 (5-book set)
These volumes are a testament of the challenges faced by those who initiated the search for oil in the United Arab Emirates in the years between the two World Wars. With rare photographs and maps alongside the author's narrative, it will be essential reading for scholars, residents and visitors i...
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The trucial coast diaries
The Trucial Coast Diaries are the secret reports written in Dubai by the Representatives of the London based group of oil companies, the Iraq Petroleum Company, known on the Trucial Coast as Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast), PD(TC).
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From pearls to oil
This book is about the experiences of the pioneers who visited the Trucial Coast on behalf of the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) subsidiary in the years between the two World Wars. With rare photographs and maps alongside the author's narrative, it will be essential reading for scholars, residents ...
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The trucial coast political reports 1963-1966
The Trucial Coast Political Reports are a unique record of events, commented on by a small group of British men living in Sharjah and Dubai. This was in the years leading up to the commencement of oil exports from the desert of Abu Dhabi.
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English texts
This volume collects the English texts written by visitors to Cyprus between the early 15th century up til 1878. In this period, the island was ruled by the Franks and the Turks.
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Ismaili and fatimid studies in honor of paul e. walker
A collection of essays on Ismaili and Fatimid studies in honour of Paul E. Walker, former Director of the American Research Center in Egypt.
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The continuatio of the samaritan chronicle of abu i-fath al-samiri al-danafi
A complete facsimile edition with translation into English and full editorial and explanatory annotation of the previously unedited Samaritan Middle Arabic sequel to the Kitab al-Ta‘rikh by Ab? l-Fat? al-S?mir? al-Dinf? (d. ca. 1355).
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Commemorating the nation
This is a study of the relationship between public commemoration and national identity in Egypt over the course of the twentieth century. By analyzing nationalism through the prism of public commemoration, the work extends our understanding of the shaping of national identity and the evolution of...
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The earliest biographies of the prophet and their authors
Josef Horovitz (1874-1931) wrote this classic monograph a century ago in two parts in German. Lawrence Conrad, who has re-edited the text for this edition, presents a slightly corrected version, expanding and updating the notes and bibliography and adding a new introduction dealing with Horovitz...
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A muslim philosopher on the soul and its fate
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Conflict resolution and creation of a security community in the gulf region
The bitter confrontation between Saudi Arabia and Iran is not only stoking conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, but now threatens the stability, security and well-being of the whole Gulf region. This book goes to the heart of this issue, examining the critical modalities whereby the "Gulf Cold War...
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Yemen and the gulf states
Yemen is the only state on the Arabian Peninsula that is not a member of the GCC; it is also the only local state not ruled by a royal family. This timely volume analyses Yemen's relations with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman and Iran with a focus on recent developments, including the conflict after ...
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Grand strategy in the contemporary middle east
This unique volume explores the role that Grand Strategy has played in the shaping of the Middle East and why, conceptually, its core principles still have traction in explaining the shifting alliances and dispensation of power across the region.
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Ex oriente lux et veritas
The essays in this book place Edward Elbridge Salisbury in the context of 19th-century Orientalism, with emphasis on the interconnected growth of Assyriology in Northern Europe and America. Salisbury was a founding figure in the development of ancient Near Eastern, Arabic, and Sanskrit studies. 3...
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Reflections of empire
This monograph addresses a gap in the literature of Ottoman archaeology by pulling together technical studies on pottery from the eastern frontiers of the Ottoman Empire: Cyprus, Israel, the Palestinian territories, and Jordan.
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Gods, objects, and ritual practice in ancient mediterranean religion
Uses case studies from Israel, Athens, Rome, Sicily and North Africa to explore how scholars are incorporating study of material culture into study of religion in the ancient Meditteranean. First volume in new series - Studies in Ancient Mediteranean Religions.
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Desire, discord and death
The three essays presented in this volume reveal the symbolic complexity and poetic visions of ancient Near Eastern mythology. The author explores the interrelated themes of erotic desire, divine conflict, and death's realm in selected ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian mythological narratives usi...
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The mortuary papyrus of padikakem
This new study is the first translation of the papyrus of Padikakem, with an extensive commentary. The complete early Ptolemaic manuscript from the Walters Art Museum contains two uncommon texts in hieratic. The study also thoroughly examines the development of grammar and paleography among the p...
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Archaism and innovation
The current volume assembles a series of studies of Middle Kingdom culture gathered around the theme of archaism, change and innovation.
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Theban desert road survey ii
The second monograph devoted to the work of the Theban Desert Road Survey presents the major rock inscriptions of the northwestern Theban Desert and the western hinterlands of Qamûla. The material includes six larger sites and several smaller collections and individual inscriptions and images.
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Slab stelae of the giza necropolis
Full colour, numerous charts and catalogues. Draws together information on all slab stelae emplacements, the history of their excavation and previous scholarly research. Appendices include palaeographies of all hieroglyphs appearing on the stelae, and a collection of 'linen lists' that adorn the ...
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The classic christian townsite at arminna west
An illustrated report on the 1963 excavation of a town in Lower Nubia which dated to the Christian Period which reached its zenith between c.AD 850 and 1100. Includes a general discussion of the town's history and its relations with Egypt and the rest of Nubia.
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The great karnak inscription of merneptah
The Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah's 5th regnal year, the longest surviving continuous monumental text from Egypt, describes the combined Libyan and Sea People invasion of Egypt c.1208 BCE. This new study, the first complete commentary on this damaged text, begins with a translation of the...
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The mortuary temple of senwosret iii at abydos
The Abydos mortuary complex includes a royal tomb and a temple established for the afterlife cult of pharaoh Khakaure-Senwosret III. Excavation of the temple's well-preserved architecture in tandem with work on its surroundings now provides the basis for a detailed reconstruction of this major Mi...
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People on the move
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Volume 12 contains papers given at University of Basel in Switzerland in August 2015 looking at the mobility of people and commodities in the Eastern Mediterranean Region in the 8th to 6th centuries BC. 10 col and 20 b&w illus. and tables.
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Inscribed material from the pennsylvania-yale excavations at abydos
An illustrated catalogue of inscriptions recorded during excavatione between 1967-69. The inscriptions comprise literary and religious ostraca, construction records, Middle Kingdom texts from the chapel area, inscribed potsherds, bricks, seals and other objects.
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Silk and purple (greek language text)
This edited collection opens a window into the world of Byzantine and post-Byzantine textiles by exploring the different traditions that developed in the Eastern Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern era. The book’s contributors have created a complex scientific canvas, based on t...
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Oil men, territorial ambitions and political agents (2-volume set)
Oil Men' represents a unique resource for the student of the challenges, both physical and political, of oil prospecting in a region with no infrastructure and no formal boundaries between local power bases. The book charts the slow and unexpected transformation of the emirates from poverty to un...
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An elephantastic adventure in petra
An introduction for children to the wonders of Petra, by Judith McKenzie, author of The Architecture of Petra (OUP, 1990). In this marvellous ancient city in Jordan, the Great Temple stands out because its columns had elephant-head capitals. Two of the elephants realise that they have lost their ...
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Receptions of the ancient near east in popular culture and beyond
A celebration of the ways in which popular culture have consumed aspects of the ancient Near East to construct new realities: archaeologists, philologists, historians and art historians reflect on how ideas and interpretations of the ancient Near East have been reimagined within our shared cultur...
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The byzantine and early islamic near east vol. 2
This volume revisits archaeological evidence from Syria, Palestine, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and Egypt describing a variety of land-use patterns and the development of a particular type of settlement across the Near East
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The christian liturgical papyri: an introduction
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Christliches agypten in der spatantiken zeit
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The survey of memphis iii
The third volume of the Survey of Memphis focuses on the Third Intermediate Period, offering an introduction to the monuments, a complete catalogue of pottery diagnostics from area RAT at Kom Rabia, and an essay on life during that era.
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Forgotten saint-simonian travelers in egypt
The paradoxes of nineteenth-century colonialism in the Middle East revealed through the accounts of three working class European travelers to Egypt This book tells the stories of two French women and a French African man, travelers connected to the Saint-Simonian utopian socialist...
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The temple of ramesses ii in abydos volume 3
Building on the comprehensive photographic and epigraphic documentation of the temple presented in volumes 1 and 2 of The Temple of Ramesses II at Abydos, Volume 3 (Architectural and Inscriptional Features) offers analysis of the architectural layout and decorative programme of the temple and its...
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Surviving repression
Surviving repression tells the story of the Muslim Brotherhood in the aftermath of the 2013 coup. It is the first book of its kind to analyse the movement’s recent trajectories by showcasing the experiences of its individual members, analysing how their responses to repression are affecting the m...
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History of egypt
An extract from Abu l-Mahasin Ibn Taghri Birdi’s Chronicle, entitled Hawadith ad-Duhur fi Mada l-Ayyam wash-Shuhur (845-843 A.H.), translated by William Popper.
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The sheikh's house at quseir al-qadim
This study of a 13th-century dwelling on Egypt's Red Sea Coast reconstructs a history of the building and the people who lived there. The evidence from this small portion of Quseir al-Qadim yields a rich local story that is a microcosm of Nile Valley-Red Sea-Indian Ocean trade under the last Ayyu...
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The struggle for an enlightened republic
Analyzes the evolution of politics, ideas, and culture in Buenos Aires from 1820-1827, focusing on Rivadavia's period as minister of government from 1821-24. This book also reveals the causes of his political downfall in 1827, after he became the president of the Argentine Republic.
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Brazil and the transnational human rights movement, 1964-1985
Brazil and the Transnational Human Rights Movement, 1964–1985 is about how Brazilians and European solidarity networks collaborated to resist dictatorship in Brazil and contribute to a more expansive definition of human rights.
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Joaquim nabuco, british abolitionists, and the end of slavery in brazil
The correspondence between Joaquim Nabuco, the leading Brazilian abolitionist, and Charles Harris Allen, secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society, and other British abolitionists reveals a partnership to internationalize the struggle to abolish slavery. This collection of letters provides an insight...
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Peruvian foreign policy in the modern era
Peruvian Foreign Policy in the Modern Era is a chronological treatment of Peruvian foreign policy from 1990 to the present. It focuses on the impact of domestic politics, economic interests, security concerns, and alliance diplomacy on contemporary Peruvian foreign policy.
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