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Islamic Legal Principles and Intellectual Property Rights in the Gulf States

Nadia Naim – 2023-01

The book focuses on the relationship between Islamic law and intellectual property law and proposes groundbreaking alternatives to better support the growth of intellectual property in line with the Islamic moral economy...
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Iranian / Persianate Subalterns in the Safavid Period: Their Role and Depiction

Recovering ’Lost Voices‘

Andrew J. Newman – 2022-06

‘Subaltern studies’ refers to the importance of ‘subordinate’ groups in the making of history. The latter are usually defined as encompassing the urban and rural underclasses, the majority in any society, although genera...
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The Arab Spring: Ten Years On

Sujata Ashwarya, Mujib Alam (eds.) – 2022-06

It has been a decade since people across the Arab world rose up in revolt against their governments in 2010/11, demanding political empowerment, social reform and economic improvement. Pro-democracy protests, as they wer...
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Grand Strategy in the Contemporary Middle East

The Concepts and Debates

Tore T. Petersen, Clive Jones (eds.) – 2022-01

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 o...
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The Holy Land: Travels Through Galilee to Damascus and Baalbek.

And the Green Mosque of Bursa

Pierre Loti – 2022-01

First English translation of ‘La Galilée’, an account of Pierre Loti’s travels in the Holy Land from Jerusalem to Beirut, via Damascus and many other interesting places, in 1894. Pierre Loti (1850-1923) was born Louis...
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The Way to Isfahan and Passing through Muscat

An Account of a Trip to Persia and Oman in 1900

Pierre Loti – 2021-05

From 17 April, 1900, to 6 June of that year, 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 t...
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The Trucial Coast Political Reports 1958-1963

The Slow Progress from Pearls to Oil

David Heard (ed.) – 2021-05

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 de...
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The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East

Volume 1: Problems in the Literary Source Material

Averil Cameron, Lawrence I. Conrad (eds.) – 2021-05

This volume focuses on the problems researchers face when using (Byzantine) Greek, Syriac and Arabic sources together for the reconstruction of Near Eastern history from 400–c. 800. Contributions to the volume set the s...
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The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East

Volume 2: Land Use and Settlement Patterns

Geoffrey King, Averil Cameron (eds.) – 2021-05

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 E...
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The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East

Volume 3: States, Resources and Armies

Averil Cameron (ed.) – 2021-05

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 conti...
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The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East

Volume 4: Elites Old and New

John Haldon, Lawrence I. Conrad (eds.) – 2021-05

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. Culture change, ec...
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The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East

Set, Volumes 1-4

Averil Cameron, Lawrence I. Conrad, John Haldon, Geoffrey King (eds.) – 2021-05

Volume 1: Problems in the Literary Source Material focuses on the problems researchers face when using (Byzantine) Greek, Syriac and Arabic sources together for the reconstruction of Near Eastern history from 400–ca. 800...
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The Christian Communities of Palestine from Byzantine to Islamic Rule.

An Historical and Archaeological Study

Robert Schick – 2021-05

An assessment of the nature and social continuity of Christian communities in Palestine from 602–813. By synthesizing literary and archeological evidence, it provides a detailed discussion of disparate historical and arc...
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Narratives of Islamic Origins:

The Beginnings of Islamic Historical Writing

Fred M. Donner – 2021-05

How and why did Muslims first come to write their own history? The author argues in this work that the Islamic historical tradition arose not out of idle curiosity, or through imitation of antique models, but as a respon...
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Studies in Early Islamic History

with an Introduction by G. R. Hawting

Martin Hinds – 2021-05

Collection of all of Martin Hinds’ (1941–1988) full-length articles which appeared in journals as well as one of his articles for the Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd Edition. Most of the articles have to do with the early pe...
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A Gateway To Hell, A Gateway To Paradise.

The North African Response to the Arab Conquest

Elizabeth Savage – 2021-05

This book is a study of the early history of the lbadiyya in North Africa, a "moderate" movement among the Kharijis which from its base in Basra gradually spread among the Berbers of the Maghrib in the 750s. Th...
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Arabs and Others In Early Islam

Suliman Bashear – 2021-05

This work investigates available early Arabic hadith and exegetical literature in order to determine the great complexity of how Arabs, Muslims and Arab-Muslims viewed themselves and members of other communities. In par...
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The Continuatio of the Samaritan Chronicle of Abū l-Fatḥ al-Sāmirī al-Dinfī

Including an Annotated TranslatIon

Milka Levy-Rubin (ed.) – 2021-05

A complete facsimile edition of the previously unedited Samaritan sequel to the Kitab al-Ta‘rikh by Abū l-Fatḥ al-Sāmirī al-Dinfī (d. ca. 1355). The edition of this chronicle photographically reproduces Paris BN Ms. Sama...
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The Earliest Biographies of the Prophet and Their Authors

Josef Horovitz – 2021-05

Josef Horovitz (1874-1931) wrote this classic monograph a century ago in two parts in German. The editor added footnotes, corrections and the preface, and it is now a book in its own right. The translation was prepared ...
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Ibn Asakir and Early Islamic History

James E. Lindsay (ed.) – 2021-05

Ibn Asakir’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 mech...
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Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic

David Cook – 2021-05

A detailed study on the nature of Muslim apocalyptic material in Islam, both Sunni and Shi‘i . Taking a transcultural perspective by also discussing Christian and Jewish apocalyptic traditions, it offers in eight studies...
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The Late Antique World of Early Islam:

Muslims among Christians and Jews in the East Mediterranean

Robert G. Hoyland (ed.) – 2021-05

This book offers a number of innovative studies on the three main communities of the East Mediterranean lands—Muslims, Jews and Christians—in the aftermath of the seventh-century Arab conquests. It focuses principally on...
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The Place to Go: Contexts of Learning in Baghdad, 750-1000 C.E.

Jens Scheiner, Damien Janos (eds.) – 2021-05

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 institution...
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