Historia & arkeologi

Kitb al-ifdah wa al-itibr f al-umur al-muhadah wa al-awdi al-muyanah bi-ar Mir, by Abd al-Laf al-Badd (1162-1231 AD) is a fascinating work; it represents one of the best known and most important manuscripts concerning Egypt during the period betwe...

Läs mer »

In 2015, a year after it started, Bushra al-Maqtari decided to document the suffering of civilians in the Yemeni Civil War, which has killed over 350,000 people according to the UN. Inspired by the work of Svetlana Alexievich, she spent two years ...

Läs mer »

Few doctrines in Islam have engendered as much contention and disagreement as those surrounding the imamate, the office of supreme leader of the Muslim community after the death of the Prophet. In the medieval period while the caliphate still exis...

Läs mer »

'ONE OF THE FIRST POLITICAL CLASSICS OF THE 21st CENTURY'- Observer 'EXTRAORDINARILY POWERFUL, POIGNANT AND AFFECTING. I WAS GREATLY MOVED' Michael Palin FOREWORD BY CHRISTINA LAMB Journalist Samar Yazbek was forced into exile ...

Läs mer »

I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies The Muhammad Ali Hamdani Collection in the Library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies represents a large segment of the library collected over seven generations by an eminent family ...

Läs mer »

'The History of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan is the chief work of the Arab philosopher and physician, Abu Bakr Ibn Tugail, and is thought by some to have been the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's classic work 'Robinson Crusoe'. Certainly it is one of the most im...

Läs mer »

One thousand years ago al-Muqaddasi, "the man from Jerusalem", wrote in Arabic an epic geographical treatise, which is also a great work of literature. This treatise was based on some twenty years of experiences undergone and observation...

Läs mer »

The military campaign of the Ottomans, when they entered the region of Yemen in the mid-16th century, was chronicled by Qutb al-Din al-Nahrawali, a scholar charged by an Ottoman general to document his army's progress. This book makes this 16...

Läs mer »

    -     27 .     .      ,   .   - . .    .

Läs mer »

The first book of its kind to be published for a general readership from youngsters upwards, Hidden in the Sands: Uncovering Qatar's Past is the fascinating, fun and educational story of Qatar's heritage and the exciting discoveries being made by ...

Läs mer »

This boxset consists of a collection of newspaper articles and earlier essays, presented in four volumes. Each volume is introduced by Professor Rasheed El-Enany (University of Exeter). Volume I compiles Mahfouz's early non-fiction writings m...

Läs mer »

The East/the West/the Arabs: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, 3rd Arabic 3rd Edition, deals with various topics: history, politics, current events, present conditions in the Arab world, and interrelations between Arabs and the West, in rhyming verse...

Läs mer »

The present volume offers the first critical edition of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen''s Commentary on Book 2 of the Hippocratic Epidemics produced by Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. ca. 870). The edition is based on all extant Arabic textual witn...

Läs mer »

The series Islamkundliche Untersuchungen was founded in 1969 by the Klaus Schwarz Verlag. Since then, it has become one of the most important venues for publications in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Its more than 350 volumes cover a wide ran...

Läs mer »

Jack Witrord has always taken care of most of his articles and research in the Mughal Empire and its founder Genghis Khan. In this work, he touched on new aspects that no one had ever seen before, such as the personality of Genghis Khan, his upbri...

Läs mer »

Einige literarische Auszüge über Abwesenheit und Nostalgie auf Arabisch. Diese ?Abschnitte wurden über einen Zeitraum von Jahren geschrieben, einige aus anderen literarischen Werken des Autors herausgeschnitten, andere für dieses Buch geschrie...

Läs mer »

Begleitband zur grossen Ausstellung im Herbst 2012 im Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig Tausende besuchen täglich die Ruinen von Petra in der jordanischen Wüste, die wenigsten wissen jedoch etwas über den Entdecker dieser Stadt: Am 22. Augus...

Läs mer »

In the book SAPIENS: A brief history of humanity, the historian Yuaha Harari explains all the findings of history and anthropologists to answer these questions. It also follows the journey of humanity through the three most important revolutions i...

Läs mer »