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Italy and the Islamic World

By: Ali Humayun Akhtar

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Italy and the Islamic World tells the story of how Italian cities have been centres of international exchange for centuries, linking Europe with the most storied marketplaces of the Middle East and North Africa. From the Ancient Roman period and the Renaissance to the rise of the Italian Republic, Italy has been a global crossroads for more than two millennia. In Ali Humayun Akhtar's new picture of European history, Italy's debates about trade with its southern neighbours evoke an earlier era of encounters - one that sheds light on where the EU is heading today.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1399519646

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9781399519649

Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs

Politics and Authority from Cordoba to Cairo and Baghdad

By: Ali Humayun Akhtar

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Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs

Politics and Authority from Cordoba to Cairo and Baghdad

By: Ali Humayun Akhtar

What was the relationship between government and religion in Middle Eastern history? In a world of caliphs, sultans, and judges, who exercised political and religious authority? In this book, Ali Humayun Akhtar investigates debates about leadership that involved ruling circles and scholars of jurisprudence and theology. At the heart of this story is a medieval rivalry between three caliphates: the Umayyads of Cordoba, the Fatimids of Cairo, and the Abbasids of Baghdad. In a fascinating revival of Late Antique Hellenism, Aristotelian and Platonic notions of wisdom became a key component of how these caliphs debated their authority as political leaders. By tracing how these political debates impacted the theological and jurisprudential scholars and their own conception of communal guidance, Akhtar offers a new picture of premodern political authority and the connections between Western and Islamic civilizations. It will be of use to students and specialists of the premodern and modern Middle East.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316858111

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9781316858110

Italy and the Islamic World

By: Ali Humayun Akhtar

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1399519638

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9781399519632

Philosophers, Sufis and Caliphs

By: Ali Humayun Akhtar

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This book investigates the relationship between government and religion in Middle Eastern history from Morocco to Egypt and Iraq.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107182018

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9781107182011

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China and the Making of the Modern World

By: Ali Humayun Akhtar

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China and the Making of the Modern World

By: Ali Humayun Akhtar

A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A century before Columbus, Beijing sent a series of diplomatic missions across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean that paved the way for China's first modern global era. 1368 maps China's ascendance from the embassies of Admiral Zheng He to the arrival of European mariners and the shock of the Opium Wars. In Ali Humayun Akhtar's new picture of world history, China's current rise evokes an earlier epoch, one that sheds light on where Beijing is heading today. Spectacular accounts in Persian and Ottoman Turkish describe palaces of silk and jade in Beijing's Forbidden City. Malay legends recount stories of Chinese princesses arriving in Melaka with gifts of porcelain and gold. During Europe's Age of Exploration, Iberian mariners charted new passages to China, which the Dutch and British East India Companies transformed into lucrative tea routes. But during the British Industrial Revolution, the rise of steam engines and factories allowed the export of the very commodities once imported from China. By the end of the Opium Wars and the arrival of Commodore Perry in Japan, Chinese and Japanese reformers called for their own industrial revolutions to propel them into the twentieth century. What has the world learned from China since the Ming, and how did China reemerge in the 1970s as a manufacturing superpower? Akhtar's book provides much-needed context for understanding China's rise today and the future of its connections with both the West and a resurgent Asia.

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Stanford University Press

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1503631516

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9781503631519

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Italy and the Islamic World

Italy and the Islamic World

Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs

Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs

Italy and the Islamic World

Italy and the Islamic World

Philosophers, Sufis and Caliphs

Philosophers, Sufis and Caliphs

1368

1368

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