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The caliphate in the West : An Islamic political institution in the Iberian Peninsula
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ISBN: 0198203012 9780198203018 Year: 1993 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press

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Black banners of ISIS : the roots of the new caliphate
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ISBN: 9780300228359 030022835X 0300231431 9780300231434 Year: 2017 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.): Yale university press,

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A medieval Islam historian's incisive portrait of ISIS, revealing the group's deep ideological and intellectual roots in the earliest days of Islam With tremendous speed, the Islamic State has moved from the margins to the center of life in the Middle East. Despite recent setbacks, its ability to conquer and retain huge swaths of territory has demonstrated its skillful tactical maneuvering, ambition, and staying power. Yet we still know too little about ISIS, particularly about its deeper ideology. In this eye-opening book, David J. Wasserstein offers a penetrating analysis of the movement, looking closely at the thousand-year-old form of Islamic apocalyptic messianism the group draws upon today. He shows how ISIS is not only a military and political movement but also, and primarily, a religious one with a coherent worldview, a patent strategy, and a clear goal: the re-creation of a medieval caliphate. Connecting the group's day-to-day activities and the writings and sayings of its leaders with the medieval Islamic past, Wasserstein provides an insightful and unprecedented perspective on the origins and aspirations of the Islamic State.


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The Muslims and the golden age of the Jews in al-Andalus

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Daghestan and the world of Islam.
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ISSN: 12396982 ISBN: 9514109457 9789514109454 Year: 2006 Volume: 330 330 Publisher: Helsinki Academia scientiarum Fennica

The legend of the Septuagint : from classical antiquity to today
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ISBN: 0521854954 9780521854955 9780511499142 9780521104616 0511191898 9780511191893 0511190719 9780511190711 0511191030 9780511191039 0511499140 1107165946 1280458763 0511191545 0511316089 0521104610 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York: Cambridge university press,

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The Septuagint is the most influential of the Greek versions of the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. The exact circumstances of its creation are uncertain, but different versions of a legend about the miraculous nature of the translation have existed since antiquity. Beginning in the Letter of Aristeas, the legend describes how Ptolemy Philadelphus commissioned seventy-two Jewish scribes to translate the sacred Hebrew scriptures for his famous library in Alexandria. Subsequent variations on the story recount how the scribes, working independently, produced word-for-word, identical Greek versions. In the course of the following centuries, to our own time, the story has been adapted and changed by Jews, Christians, Muslims and pagans for many different reasons: to tell a story, to explain historical events and to lend authority to the Greek text for the institutions that used it. This book offers the first account of all of these versions over the last two millennia, providing a history of the uses and abuses of the legend in various cultures around the Mediterranean.

Dhimmis and others : jews and christians and the world of classical Islam
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ISBN: 1575060264 Year: 1997 Publisher: Winona Lake Eisenbrauns

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Dhimmis and others : Jews and Christians and the world of classical Islam. XVII (1997), 1997
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Year: 1997 Publisher: Winona Lake, IN : Eisenbrauns,

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Porphyrii Philosophi Fragmenta
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ISBN: 381541721X 9783815417218 Year: 1993 Publisher: Stuttgart: Teubner,

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The creation of Adam and the Apocrypha in early Ireland
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Porphyrii Philosophi fragmenta
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Year: 1993 Publisher: Stuttgart Leipzig Teubner

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