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War and Revolution in South China - The Story of a Transnational Biracial Family, 1936-1951 (Hardcover): Edward J.M. Rhoads War and Revolution in South China - The Story of a Transnational Biracial Family, 1936-1951 (Hardcover)
Edward J.M. Rhoads
R1,438 Discovery Miles 14 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Impeaching the Impeachment - Justice for President Park Geun-Hye (Hardcover): Peter Pyungwoo Kim Impeaching the Impeachment - Justice for President Park Geun-Hye (Hardcover)
Peter Pyungwoo Kim
R816 Discovery Miles 8 160 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Byzantium and Islam - Collected Studies on Byzantine-Muslim Encounters (English, Greek, To, Hardcover): Daniel J. Sahas Byzantium and Islam - Collected Studies on Byzantine-Muslim Encounters (English, Greek, To, Hardcover)
Daniel J. Sahas
R4,977 Discovery Miles 49 770 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Arabs and the Middle East were among the first to embrace Christianity, leaving their print on its culture. Thus Byzantium, by geography and culture, encountered Islam at its birth. No wonder that many saw and treated Islam as a contemporary Christian "heresy" - whatever the word may connote. Radical events fill the history of Byzantium (330-1453) encountering the world of Islam: conquests, wars, cultural and diplomatic relations, manifestations of mutual admiration - and exclusion! Their story makes for a fascinating branch of either Byzantine or Islamic studies; the literature about each other forming a distinguished section in either field. This collection of studies is a sample of Byzantine perspectives of Islam offering, hopefully, expressions and solutions rather than creating impressions or illusions.

Tilkepe - Past and Present (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Michael J Bazzi Tilkepe - Past and Present (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Michael J Bazzi
R682 Discovery Miles 6 820 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Stranger in the Shogun's City - A Japanese Woman and Her World (Paperback): Amy Stanley Stranger in the Shogun's City - A Japanese Woman and Her World (Paperback)
Amy Stanley
R453 R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Save R30 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire - US Mercenary Force in the Middle East (Hardcover): Eric Covey Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire - US Mercenary Force in the Middle East (Hardcover)
Eric Covey
R3,987 Discovery Miles 39 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire examines the role of mercenary figures in negotiating relations between the United States and the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century. Mercenaries are often treated as historical footnotes, yet their encounters with the Ottoman world contributed to US culture and the impressions they left behind continue to influence US approaches to Africa and the Middle East. The book's analysis of these mercenary encounters and their legacies begins with the Battle of Derna in 1805-in which the US flag was raised above a battlefield for the first time outside of North America with the help of a mercenary army-and concludes with the British occupation of Egypt in 1882-which was witnessed and criticized by many of the US Civil War veterans who worked for the Egyptian government in the 1870s and 1880s. By focusing these mercenary encounters through the lenses of memory, sovereignty, literature, geography, and diplomacy, Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire reveals the ways in which mercenary force, while marginal in terms of its frequency and scope, produced important knowledge about the Ottoman world and helped to establish the complicated relationship of intimacy and mastery that exists between Americans in the United States and people in Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Uganda, South Sudan, and Turkey.

From Tokio Through Manchuria With the Japanese (Hardcover): Louis Livingston 1851-1932 Seaman From Tokio Through Manchuria With the Japanese (Hardcover)
Louis Livingston 1851-1932 Seaman
R921 Discovery Miles 9 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ancient India - A Captivating Guide to Ancient Indian History, Starting from the Beginning of the Indus Valley Civilization... Ancient India - A Captivating Guide to Ancient Indian History, Starting from the Beginning of the Indus Valley Civilization Through the Invasion of Alexander the Great to the Mauryan Empire (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R627 R566 Discovery Miles 5 660 Save R61 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Diary and Consultation Book ... [serial]; 3(1679/80) (Hardcover): Madras (India Presidency), Madras (India Presidency) Record O Diary and Consultation Book ... [serial]; 3(1679/80) (Hardcover)
Madras (India Presidency), Madras (India Presidency) Record O
R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Aristotle's >Physics< VIII, Translated into Arabic by Ishaq ibn Hunayn (9th c.) - Introduction, Edition, and Glossaries... Aristotle's >Physics< VIII, Translated into Arabic by Ishaq ibn Hunayn (9th c.) - Introduction, Edition, and Glossaries (Hardcover)
R udiger Arnzen; Contributions by Pieter Sjoerd Hasper
R4,899 Discovery Miles 48 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Aristotle's theory of eternal continuous motion and his argument from everlasting change and motion to the existence of an unmoved primary cause of motion, provided in book VIII of his Physics, is one of the most influential and persistent doctrines of ancient Greek philosophy. Nevertheless, the exact wording of Aristotle's discourse is doubtful and contentious at many places. The present critical edition of Ishaq ibn Hunayn's Arabic translation (9th c.) is supposed to replace the faulty edition by A. Badawi and aims at contributing to the clarification of these textual difficulties by means of a detailed collation of the Arabic text with the most important Greek manuscripts, supported by comprehensive Greek and Arabic glossaries.

Creating a Homeland - A True Story of Dedication, Sacrifice and Pioneering Spirit That Created the Modern State of Israel... Creating a Homeland - A True Story of Dedication, Sacrifice and Pioneering Spirit That Created the Modern State of Israel (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Dan Gielan; Edited by Janis L. Dworkis; Cover design or artwork by David a Gielan
R836 Discovery Miles 8 360 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Hawi l-Funun wa-Salwat al-Mahzun, Encompasser of the Arts and Consoler of the Grief-Stricken by Ibn al-Tahhan - Annotated... Hawi l-Funun wa-Salwat al-Mahzun, Encompasser of the Arts and Consoler of the Grief-Stricken by Ibn al-Tahhan - Annotated Translation and Commentary (Hardcover)
George Dimitri Sawa
R5,235 Discovery Miles 52 350 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Hawi l-Funun (Encompasser of the Arts) of Ibn al-Tahhan (d. ca. 1057) is a medieval Arabic music dictionary that complements other sources because of the practical knowledge of the author who was an accomplished singer, lutenist and composer. The first part in 80 chapters deals with compositions; voice production and characteristics, unison and duet singing, taking care of the voice; preludes, ornaments, tarab; the importance of tonality; approaches to teaching; musical and extra-musical behavior at the court; names of Syrian Fatimid and Ishshidid singers. The second part in 22 chapters includes lute manufacturing, frets placement, stringing and tuning; 47 rhythmic ornaments, names and definitions of rhythmic and melodic modes; types of dances; descriptions of 12 instruments.

The Persianate World - Rethinking a Shared Sphere (English, Persian, Hardcover): Abbas Amanat, Assef Ashraf The Persianate World - Rethinking a Shared Sphere (English, Persian, Hardcover)
Abbas Amanat, Assef Ashraf
R3,814 Discovery Miles 38 140 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere is among the first books to explore the pre-modern and early modern historical ties among such diverse regions as Anatolia, the Iranian plateau, Central Asia, Western Xinjiang, the Indian subcontinent, and southeast Asia, as well as the circumstances that reoriented these regions and helped break up the Persianate ecumene in modern times. Essays explore the modalities of Persianate culture, the defining features of the Persianate cosmopolis, religious practice and networks, the diffusion of literature across space, subaltern social groups, and the impact of technological advances on language. Taken together, the essays reflect the current scholarship in Persianate studies, and offer pathways for future research.

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient - Other Encounters (Hardcover): Liliana Sikorska Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient - Other Encounters (Hardcover)
Liliana Sikorska
R3,020 Discovery Miles 30 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European Middle Ages, the first part of the book discusses the troubled legacy of the encounters between the East and the West and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and fiction. Drawing on the nineteenth-century models, the second part of the book looks at fictional and non-fictional works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century which re-established the "Oriental obsession," stimulating dread and resentment, and even more strongly setting the Civilized West against the Barbaric East. Here medieval metaphorical enemies of Mankind - the World, the Flesh and the Devil - reappear in different contexts: the world of immigration, of white women desiring Muslim men, and the present-day "freedom fighters."

Dead Sea Level - Science, Exploration and Imperial Interests in the Near East (Hardcover): Haim Goren Dead Sea Level - Science, Exploration and Imperial Interests in the Near East (Hardcover)
Haim Goren
R4,650 Discovery Miles 46 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the nineteenth century the Dead Sea and the Tigris-Euphrates river system had great political significance: the one as a possible gateway for a Russian invasion of Egypt, the other as a potentially faster route to India. This is the traditional explanation for the presence of the international powers in the region. This important new book questions this view. Through a study of two important projects of the time -- international efforts to determine the exact level of the Dead Sea, and Chesney's Euphrates Expedition to find a quicker route to India -- Professor Goren shows how other forces than the interests of empire, were involved. He reveals the important role played by private individuals and establishes a wealth of new connections between the key players; and he reveals for the first time an important Irish nexus. The resulting work adds an important new dimension to our existing understanding of this period.

America's Destruction of Iraq (Hardcover): Michael M. O'Brien America's Destruction of Iraq (Hardcover)
Michael M. O'Brien
R707 Discovery Miles 7 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bulus ibn Raja' - The Fatimid Egyptian Convert Who Shaped Christian Views of Islam (English, Arabic, Hardcover): David... Bulus ibn Raja' - The Fatimid Egyptian Convert Who Shaped Christian Views of Islam (English, Arabic, Hardcover)
David Bertaina
R3,530 Discovery Miles 35 300 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Bulus ibn Raja' (ca. 955-ca. 1020) was a celebrated writer of Coptic Christianity from Fatimid Egypt. Born to an influential Muslim family in Cairo, Ibn Raja' later converted to Christianity and composed The Truthful Exposer (Kitab al-Wadih bi-l-Haqq) outlining his skepticism regarding Islam. His ideas circulated across the Middle East and the Mediterranean in the medieval period, shaping the Christian understanding of the Qur'an's origins, Muhammad's life, the practice of Islamic law, and Muslim political history. This book includes a study of Ibn Raja''s life, along with an Arabic edition and English translation of The Truthful Exposer.

History of the Jews - A Captivating Guide to Jewish History, Starting from the Ancient Israelites through Roman Rule to World... History of the Jews - A Captivating Guide to Jewish History, Starting from the Ancient Israelites through Roman Rule to World War 2 (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R621 R561 Discovery Miles 5 610 Save R60 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Order and Compromise: Government Practices in Turkey from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Early 21st Century (Hardcover): Marc... Order and Compromise: Government Practices in Turkey from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Early 21st Century (Hardcover)
Marc Aymes, Benjamin Gourisse, Elise Massicard
R5,821 Discovery Miles 58 210 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Order and Compromise questions the historicity of government practices in Turkey from the late Ottoman Empire up to the present day. It explores how institutions at work are being framed by constant interactions with non-institutional characters from various social realms. This volume thus approaches the state-society continuum as a complex and shifting system of positions. Inasmuch as they order and ordain, state authorities leave room for compromise, something which has hitherto been little studied in concrete terms. By combining in-depth case studies with an interdisciplinary conceptual framework, this collection helps apprehend the morphology and dynamics of public action and state-society relations in Turkey. Contributors are: Marc Aymes, Olivier Bouquet, Nicolas Camelio, Nathalie Clayer, Anouck Gabriela Corte-Real Pinto, Berna Ekal, Benoit Fliche, Muriel Girard, Benjamin Gourisse, Sumbul Kaya, Noemi Levy Aksu, Elise Massicard, Jean-Francois Perouse, Clemence Scalbert Yucel, Emmanuel Szurek and Claire Visier.

Overlapping Cosmologies In Asia - Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches (Hardcover): Bill M Mak, Eric Huntington Overlapping Cosmologies In Asia - Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches (Hardcover)
Bill M Mak, Eric Huntington
R3,999 Discovery Miles 39 990 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The history of cosmology is often understood in terms of the development of modern science, but Asian cosmological thought and practice touched on many aspects of life, including mathematics, astronomy, politics, philosophy, religion, and art. Because of the deep pervasion of cosmology in culture, many opportunities arose for transmissions of cosmological ideas across borders and innovations of knowledge and application in new contexts. Taking a wider view, one finds that cosmological ideas traveled widely and intermingled freely, being frequently reinterpreted by scholars, ritualists, and artists and transforming as they overlapped with ideas and practices from other traditions. This book brings together ten diverse scholars to present their views on these overlapping cosmologies in Asia. They are Ryuji Hiraoka, Satomi Hiyama, Eric Huntington, Yoichi Isahaya, Catherine Jami, Bill M. Mak, D. Max Moerman, Adrian C. Pirtea, John Steele, and Dror Weil.

Catalogue of Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Leiden University and Other Collections in the Netherlands - Minor... Catalogue of Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Leiden University and Other Collections in the Netherlands - Minor Collections (English, Turkish, Hardcover)
Jan Schmidt
R6,246 Discovery Miles 62 460 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

From as early as the 1600s, Dutch scholars and scholarship have displayed a keen interest in the studies of the Islamic world. Over the centuries, they have collected a wealth of source texts in various languages, Turkish texts being prominent among them. The present catalogue is the fourth and final volume in a series that covers the Turkish manuscripts preserved in public libraries and museums in the Netherlands. The volume gives a detailed description of Turkish manuscripts in minor Dutch collections, found in libraries and museums in Amsterdam, Groningen, The Hague, Leiden, Rotterdam and Utrecht, which hitherto have received little or no attention.

Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World (Hardcover): Christoph Mauntel Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World (Hardcover)
Christoph Mauntel
R3,211 Discovery Miles 32 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the medieval world, geographical knowledge was influenced by religious ideas and beliefs. Whereas this point is well analysed for the Latin-Christian world, the religious character of the Arabic-Islamic geographic tradition has not yet been scrutinised in detail. This volume addresses this desideratum and combines case studies from both traditions of geographic thinking. The contributions comprise in-depth analyses of individual geographical works as for example those of al-Idrisi or Lambert of Saint-Omer, different forms of presenting geographical knowledge such as TO-diagrams or globes as well as performative aspects of studying and meditating geographical knowledge. Focussing on texts as well as on maps, the contributions open up a comparative perspective on how religious knowledge influenced the way the world and its geography were perceived and described int the medieval world.

Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union (Hardcover): Felix Wemheuer Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
Felix Wemheuer
R1,938 Discovery Miles 19 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An authoritative study of food politics in the socialist regimes of China and the Soviet Union During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this rigorous and thoughtful study, Felix Wemheuer analyzes the historical and political roots of these socialist-era famines, in which overambitious industrial programs endorsed by Stalin and Mao Zedong created greater disasters than those suffered under prerevolutionary regimes. Focusing on famine as a political tool, Wemheuer systematically exposes how conflicts about food among peasants, urban populations, and the socialist state resulted in the starvation death of millions. A major contribution to Chinese and Soviet history, this provocative analysis examines the long-term effects of the great famines on the relationship between the state and its citizens and argues that the lessons governments learned from the catastrophes enabled them to overcome famine in their later decades of rule.

The Confucian-Legalist State - A New Theory of Chinese History (Hardcover): Dingxin Zhao The Confucian-Legalist State - A New Theory of Chinese History (Hardcover)
Dingxin Zhao
R3,151 Discovery Miles 31 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Confucian-Legalist State analyzes the history of China between the 11th century BCE and 1911 under the guidance of a new theory of social change. It centers on two questions. First, how and why China was unified and developed into a bureaucratic empire under the state of Qin in 221 BCE? Second, how was it that, until the nineteenth century, the political and cultural structure of China that was institutionalized during the Western Han dynasty (206 BCE - 8 CE) showed great resilience, despite great changes in demography, socioeconomic structure, ethnic composition, market relations, religious landscapes, technology, and in other respects brought by rebellions or nomadic conquests? In addressing these two questions, author Dingxin Zhao also explains numerous other historical patterns of China, including but not limited to the nature of ancient China's interstate relations, the logics behind the rising importance of imperil Confucianism during the Western Han dynasty and behind the formation of Neo-Confucian society during the Song dynasty (960-1279 CE), the changing nature of China's religious ecology under the age of Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism, the pattern of interactions between nomads and sedentary Chinese empires, the rise and dominance of civilian government, and China's inability to develop industrial capitalism without the coercion of Western imperialism.

Ghenko - The Mongol Invasion of Japan, 1274-81 (Hardcover): Nakaba Yamada Ghenko - The Mongol Invasion of Japan, 1274-81 (Hardcover)
Nakaba Yamada
R757 Discovery Miles 7 570 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A ferocious conflict between Mongol and Samurai
The Japanese word 'Ghenko' is the term employed for the Mongol invasion of Japan. The event was an immensely significant one for the Japanese and it remained so for centuries because, in part, the defeat of the invaders was attributed to divine intervention. There can be little doubt that Japan's salvation had much to do with the fact that they are an island race and in that they have much in common with other islanders, Great Britain among them, who on more than one occasion might claim the sea as their principal and most powerful ally. Indeed. the author of this book draws parallels with Britain and the Spanish Armada. The Mongols had rapidly risen to power during the 13th century and had created an unstoppable empire that spread over huge areas of land from the Yellow Sea of Asia to the Danube in Europe. Although massively stronger than the Japanese, the Mongols attacked the Japanese islands, attempting domination by invasion and yet were repulsed with finality. To modern students of military history the contents of this book has a compelling allure, since there can be no doubt that in the Mongol warrior and the Japanese Samurai there resided a martial spirit and expertise which, perhaps inevitably, could not both exist in the same sphere, but which in collision could not fail to instigate conflict of the most singular kind. This account of the clash between the ultimate warriors of their day analyses this time of warfare in superb detail. An essential addition to the library of anyone interested in the warfare of the East.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

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