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Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This illustrated introduction to the history of the Islamic world offers a fresh approach to the subject. Told in six chapters, arranged both chronologically and thematically, it sheds light on Islamic culture from West Africa to Southeast Asia through art and artefacts, people and places, from its origins to the present day. From pre-Islamic works that provided a foundation for the arts of Islam, to masterpieces produced under the great empires,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Many of the inventions and discoveries that we use in our lives today were created centuries ago -- during the golden age of Muslim empires and beyond. Art, music, astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, and so many other files of knowledge we shared and created and discussed in Arabia, Persia, Iraq, and India a very, very long time ago.
7) Islam
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Discover the faith, culture, and history that have shaped the modern Islamic world.
11) The Crusades
Author
Series
Essential histories volume 1
Publisher
Osprey
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pioneering community of Christian scholars laid the groundwork for the modern Western understanding of Islamic civilization. These men produced the first accurate translation of the Qur'an into a European language, mapped the branches of the Islamic arts and sciences, and wrote Muslim history using Arabic sources. The Republic of Arabic Letters reconstructs this process, revealing the influence of Catholic...
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