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A new reading of madness in Don Quixote based on archival accounts of insanity From the records of the Spanish Inquisition, Dale Shuger presents a social corpus of early modern ...

The Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art series offers readers easy access to the most up-to-date research across the whole range of Islamic art. It is a forum for studies that, ...

The publication of this book honours Professor Carole Hillenbrands outstanding achievements in and service to Islamic and Middle Eastern Scholarship. The first non-Muslim scholar to be awarded the prestigious King ...

Condition: New. As New. NUEVO. COMO NUEVO.Abdelmadjid Charfi recovers what he believes to be the essential message of Islam and pairs it with a history of the Prophet Muhammad, a ...

Encylcopedias About Muslim Civilisations is a reference catalogue of two hundred annotated bibliographies and abstracts of encyclopedias published during the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Listed materials are available in ...

The interchange between Muslims and Europe has a long and complicated history, dating back to before the idea of 'Europe' was born, and the earliest years of Islam. There has ...

Tracing the history of the discipline from its earliest manifestations through to the present and evaluating the contribution made by archaeology to the understanding of key aspects of Islamic culture, ...

This significant new work focuses on the formation and disintegration of Arab-Muslim rule and society in Sicily and south Italy between 800 and 1300 which led to the creation of ...

Recent events have focused attention on the perceived differences and tensions between the Muslim world and the modern West. As a major strand of Western public discourse has it, Islam ...

This fascinating history explores the ceremony of the oath of allegiance to the caliph from the time of the Prophet Muhammad until the fragmentation of the caliphate in the late ...

Pascual de Gayangos (1809-97) celebrated Spanish Orientalist and polymath, is recognised as the father of the modern school of Arabic studies in Spain. He gave Islamic Spain its own voice, ...

The Cinema of Small Nations is the first major analysis of small national cinemas, comprising twelve case studies of small national - and sub national - cinemas from around the ...

This series of reference guides covers the key film directors of a particular nation or continent. Each volume introduces the work of 100 contemporary and historically important figures, with entries ...

This book looks at a much-debated phenomenon in contemporary cinema: the re-emergence of filmmaking practices (and, by extension, of theoretical approaches) that give precedence to cinema as the medium of ...

People have been searching for meaning in Islamic art for centuries. This generously illustrated book explores the iconography of Islamic art from an illuminating range of perspectives. An overarching theme ...

The American Horror Film moves from Dracula in 1931 to contemporary films such as Scream and The Sixth Sense. The various characters that recur in horror films -Dracula, Frankenstein, Dr. ...

Since its publication in Germany Manfred Clauss's introduction to the Roman Mithras cult has become widely accepted as the most reliable, as well as the most readable, account of its ...