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The Middle East in the Middle Ages : the early Mamluk Sultanate, 1250-1382
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ISBN: 0809312867 Year: 1986 Publisher: Carbondale Edwardsville Southern Illinois University Press

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Mamlūks and Crusaders : men of the sword and men of the pen
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ISBN: 9781409407751 1409407756 Year: 2010 Volume: 955 Publisher: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum,

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Visions of the Jinn : illustrations of the Arabian Nights
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ISBN: 9780199590353 Year: 2010 Volume: 7 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

For lust of knowing : the Orientalists and their enemies
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ISBN: 9780713994155 0713994150 Year: 2006 Publisher: London : Allen Lane,

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The Middle East in the Middle Ages : the early Mamluk sultanate 1250-1382
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ISBN: 0709913087 Year: 1986 Publisher: London Croom Helm

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The Arabian nights : a companion
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ISBN: 1860649831 9781860649837 Year: 2009 Publisher: London : Tauris,

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"The book of The Arabian Nights has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Every child is familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. Yet very few people have a clear idea of when the book was written or what exactly it is. Far from being children's stories, The Arabian Nights contains hundreds of narratives of all kinds fables, epics, erotica, debates, fairy tales, political allegories, mystical anecdotes and comedies. It is a labyrinth of stories and of stories within stories. The Arabian Nights: A Companion guides the reader through this labyrinth, but above all uses the stories as a key to the social history and the counter-culture of the medieval Near East and the world of the storyteller, the snake charmer, the burglar, the sorcerer, the drug-addict, the treasure hunter and the adulterer."--Jacket.


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Ibn Khaldun : an intellectual biography
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ISBN: 9780691174662 0691174660 Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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"Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not as well known as he should be, and his ideas are widely misunderstood. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert Irwin provides an engaging and authoritative account of Ibn Khaldun's extraordinary life, times, writings, and ideas. Irwin tells how Ibn Khaldun, who lived in a world decimated by the Black Death, held a long series of posts in the tumultuous Islamic courts of North Africa and Muslim Spain, becoming a major political player as well as a teacher and writer. Closely examining the Muqaddima, a startlingly original analysis of the laws of history, and drawing on many other contemporary sources, Irwin shows how Ibn Khaldun's life and thought fit into historical and intellectual context, including medieval Islamic theology, philosophy, politics, literature, economics, law, and tribal life. Because Ibn Khaldun's ideas often seem to anticipate by centuries developments in many fields, he has often been depicted as more of a modern man than a medieval one, and Irwin's account of such misreadings provides new insights about the history of Orientalism. In contrast, Irwin presents an Ibn Khaldun who was a creature of his time--a devout Sufi mystic who was obsessed with the occult and futurology and who lived in an often-strange world quite different from our own."--Dust jacket.


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Robert Irwin : Double Diamond 1997-1998
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ISBN: 8881184451 9788881184453 Year: 1999 Publisher: Milan Skira

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Exquisite corpse
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ISBN: 0099598515 9780099598510 Year: 1996 Publisher: London : Vintage,

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The privatization of "justice" under the Circassian Mamluks
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