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  • An Intrepid Scot
    C. Edmund Bosworth
    ’An Intrepid Scot’ makes an important new contribution to the growing literature on the perceptions of the Islamic world and the ’Orient’ in early modern Europe, at the same time as illuminating the attitudes of a Protestant from Northern Europe towards the Catholic South. In this book Edmund Bosworth looks at the life and career of William Lithgow, a tough and opinionated Sc...
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    95,01 €

  • The Ornament of Histories
    C. Edmund Bosworth
    Abu Sa’id ’Abd al-Hayy Gardizi was an author and historian living in the mid-eleventh century at the height of the Turkish Ghazvanid dynasty. His only known work, The Ornament of Histories (’Zayn al-akhbir’), is a hugely ambitious history of the Eastern Islamic lands AD 650-1041, spanning what is now Eastern Iran, Afghanistan and parts of the Central Asian Republics and Indo-Pa...
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    52,69 €

  • The History of the Seljuq State
    Clifford Edmund Bosworth
    The Akhbar al-dawla al-saljuqiyya is one of the key primary documents on the history of Western Persia and Iraq in the 11th and 12th centuries. This book provides an accessible English translation and commentary on the text, making available to a new readership this significant work on the pre-modern history of the Middle East and the Turkish peoples.The text is a chronicle of ...
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    91,06 €

  • The History of the Seljuq Turks
    Edmund Bosworth
    Nishapuri flourished in the 12th century and wrote a succinct history in Persian of the Saljuq Turks, a tribal group from Central Asia who in the 11th century established a vast empire, enduring for some century and a half and bringing about lasting changes to the ethnic composition and the patterns of land utilisation in the northern tier of the Middle East. ...
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    88,35 €

  • Arabian Society Middle Ages
    Clifford Edmund Bosworth / Edward William Lane / Stanley Lane-Poole
    First Published in 1995. Published a few years after the author’s death this text offers explanatory notes for his translation of The Thousand and One Nights. The editor Lane had utilized as the main basis for this the Arabic text printed at the press of Biilaq in the suburbs of Cairo established by the Pasha Muhammad ’Ali, but had enriched it by a copious commentary. Since the...
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    51,54 €