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21 produkter
House Divided
Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East
Häftad, 2025
142 kr
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A Prospect 'History Book of the Year' 2024A Guardian 'Best Gift Book of 2024''A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance' Rory Stewart'Rogerson is an original - eloquent and always fascinating ... few British …
Last Crusaders
East, West and the Battle for the Centre of the World
Häftad, 2010
173 kr
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The Last Crusaders is about the titanic contest between Hadsburg-led Christendom and the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the last great conflict between East and West - the battles that were fought and the men who led the armies that fought them. It was, in its way, the …
Prophet Muhammad
A Biography
Häftad, 2004
156 kr
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The Prophet Muhammad is a hero for all mankind. In his lifetime he established a new religion, Islam; a new state, the first united Arabia; and a new literary language, the classical Arabic of the Qur'an, for the Qur'an is believed to be the word of God revealed to Muhammad by the angel Gabriel. A …
Heirs Of The Prophet Muhammad
And the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism
Häftad, 2006
158 kr
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The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the seventh-century and establish Islam and a new …
Last Crusaders
East, West and the Battle for the Centre of the World
E-bok, 2010
45 kr
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The Last Crusaders is about the titanic contest between Hadsburg-led Christendom and the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the last great conflict between East and West - the battles that were fought and the men who led the armies that fought them. It was, in its way, the …
Prophet Muhammad
A Biography
E-bok, 2010
45 kr
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The Prophet Muhammad is a hero for all mankind. In his lifetime he established a new religion, Islam; a new state, the first united Arabia; and a new literary language, the classical Arabic of the Qur''an, for the Qur''an is believed to be the word of God revealed to Muhammad by the angel Gabriel. …
Heirs Of The Prophet Muhammad
And the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism
E-bok, 2010
40 kr
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The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the seventh-century and establish Islam and a new …
Meetings With Remarkable Muslims
Av Rose Baring, Barnaby Rogerson
Häftad, 2006
175 kr
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This collection of travel writing celebrates friendship and the chance encounters that unexpectedly enrich our lives, which shows the diversity of the Islamic world and the way in which it continues to inspire, bemuse and enrich the western imagination. It includes portraits of scholars and …
House Divided
Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East
Inbunden, 2024
450 kr
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An incisive look at the past, present, and future of the religious divide that lies at the heart of the Middle East. At the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400-year-old schism between Sunni and Shia. To understand this divide and its modern resonances, we …
On Travel and the Journey Through Life
Av Barnaby Rogerson, Kate Boxer
Inbunden, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
119 kr
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This collection On Travel is clever, funny, provoking and confrontational by turn. In a pyrotechnic display of cracking one- liners, cynical word play and comic observation, it mines three thousand years of wit and wisdom: from Martha Gellhorn to Confucius and from Pliny to Paul Theroux.
North Africa
A History of the Maghreb – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya
Häftad, 2026
188 kr
Kommande
North Africa is defined by the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and the Nile, as well as the sand sea of the Sahara. It has seen waves of invasion, be it Romans assaulting the Carthaginians, the Arab cavalry armies of the Caliphate, fleets of Spanish and Portuguese Crusaders, as well as the machinations …
House Divided
Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East
Inbunden, 2024
281 kr
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Recommended on The Rest is Politics and EmpireA Guardian 'Best Gift Book of 2024'A Waterstones Best History Book of 2024'A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance' Rory Stewart'Rogerson is an original - eloquent …
House Divided
Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East
E-bok, 2024
140 kr
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A Prospect ''History Book of the Year'' 2024A Guardian ''Best Gift Book of 2024''''A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance'' Rory Stewart''Rogerson is an original - eloquent and always fascinating ... few British …
Textiles of North Africa
The Crawford Collection
Av Miriam Ali de Unzaga, Gebhart Blazek m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
661 kr
Kommande
This outstanding collection of North African textiles spans the Maghreb and the many peoples who have made it their home over the centuries. While craftspeople in urban centres excelled in the making of fine silk furnishings, rural communities produced garments for everyday and festive wear that …
Rogerson's Book of Numbers
The culture of numbers from 1001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the World
E-bok, 2013
120 kr
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Rogerson''s Book of Numbers tells the stories behind our iconic numbers. It is based on a numerical array of virtues, spiritual attributes, gods, devils, sacred cities, powers, calendars, heroes, saints, icons and cultural symbols. It provides a dazzling mass of information for those intrigued by …
Book Full of Rogersons
Häftad, 2021
259 kr
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The English tend either to look towards the Lord in his moated castle or the poor peasant at his gate, to polarise between nob and mob, capitalist and communist. This book takes us into another English landscape. It is the tale of an ordinary family, quietly proud of their parish, pub and position, …
Tales from the life of Bruce Wannell
Adventurer, Linguist, Orientalist
Av Kevin Rushby, Barnaby Rogerson m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
202 kr
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Bruce Wannell was the greatest Orientalist traveller of his generation: a Paddy Leigh Fermor of the East, a Kim for our own time. He lived in Iran through the 1979 revolution, worked for a decade in the North West Frontier during the wars in Afghanistan and could transcribe the most complex Arabic …
London
Häftad, 2003
103 kr
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London's poetry ranges from the up-beat rap of Benjamin Zephaniah to Wordsworth's dawn sigh over the beauty of Westminster Bridge, from half-charred lines of Anglo-Saxon to yesterday's lyrics retrieved from a pub floor. Like the city itself this collection is full of grief, irony and delight. It …
Prophet Muhammad
How Islam was Born
Häftad, 2018
110 kr
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Ignorance about Islam runs deep in the West – ignorance of its rites, its beliefs, and above all its prophet. Who was Muhammad, the founder of Islam, and the man Muslims believe was God’s last prophet on earth? In this concise and colourful account, the acclaimed writer and broadcaster Barnaby …
In Search of Ancient North Africa
A History in Six Lives
Häftad, 2020
218 kr
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For 40 years, Barnaby Rogerson has travelled across North Africa, making sense of the region's complex and fascinating history as both a writer and a guide. Throughout that time, there have always been a handful of stories he could not pin into neat, tidy narratives; stories that were not …
Desert Air
Arabia, Deserts and the Orient of the Imagination
Häftad, 2007
84 kr
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A pocket-sized collection of all the favourite verses that have inspired desert travellers. This collection of poems delights in constructing a sensual Orient of the imagination, from the seven golden odes of Pre-Islamic Arabia to the fevered visions of Coleridge. It is a place where sand dunes …
