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By: N/A
Price: $5.95
Publisher: Travelers' Tales/Solas House: December 2007
Seller ID: 278502
ISBN: 1932361480
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By: Aaron J. Klein
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Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: January 2007
Seller ID: 302020
ISBN: 0812974638
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Publisher: Yale University Press: August 2010
Seller ID: 316163
ISBN: 0300167989
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In this accessibly written history, Amira K. Bennison contradicts the common assumption that Islam somehow interrupted the smooth flow of Western civilization from its Graeco-Roman origins to its more recent European and American manifestations. Instead, she places Islamic civilization in the longer trajectory of Mediterranean civilizations and sees the 'Abbasid Empire (750-1258 CE) as the inheritor and interpreter of Graeco-Roman traditions.
At its zenith the 'Abbasid caliphate stretched over the entire Middle East and part of North Africa, and influenced Islamic regimes as far west...
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By: Ari Shavit
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Publisher: Spiegel & Grau: May 2013
Seller ID: 307083
ISBN: 0385521707
Binding: Hardcover
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By: Arthur Stratton
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Publisher: Scribner: January 1971
Seller ID: 338517
ISBN: 068412582x
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
By: Avi Shlaim
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: January 2001
Seller ID: 55564
ISBN: 0393321126
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By: Awwad, Sami
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Publisher: N/A: January 1000
Seller ID: 389595
ISBN: B001VGYZRG
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By: B. J. Kelly
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Publisher: Basic Books: April 1991
Seller ID: 329688
ISBN: 0465004164
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By: Baruch Kimmerling, Joel S. Migdal
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Publisher: Harvard University Press: July 1998
Seller ID: 308591
ISBN: 0674652231
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Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: January 2005
Seller ID: 244242
ISBN: 083864077X
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By: Bernard Lewis
Price: $3.95
Publisher: Harper Perennial: January 2003
Seller ID: 220127
ISBN: 0060516054
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For centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement -- the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed. The West won victory after victory, first on the battlefield and then in the marketplace.
In this elegantly written volume, Bernard Lewis, a renowned authority an Islamic affairs, examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to make sen...
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By: Bernard Lewis
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Publisher: Harper Perennial: January 2003
Seller ID: 237633
ISBN: 0060516054
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For centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement -- the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed. The West won victory after victory, first on the battlefield and then in the marketplace.
In this elegantly written volume, Bernard Lewis, a renowned authority an Islamic affairs, examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to make sen...
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By: Bernard Lewis
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Publisher: Harper Perennial: January 2003
Seller ID: 300478
ISBN: 0060516054
Binding: Trade Paperback
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For centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement -- the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed. The West won victory after victory, first on the battlefield and then in the marketplace.
In this elegantly written volume, Bernard Lewis, a renowned authority an Islamic affairs, examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to make sen...
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Price: $11.95
Publisher: Dover Pubns: January 1980
Seller ID: 306275
ISBN: 0486238253
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Price: $3.95
Publisher: Pocket: May 1977
Seller ID: 319236
ISBN: 0671785893
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By: Danny Rubinstein
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Publisher: Three Rivers Press: January 1993
Seller ID: 359263
ISBN: 0812921496
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By: David K. Shipler
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Publisher: Crown: August 1986
Seller ID: 89139
ISBN: 081291273X
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By: David K. Shipler
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Publisher: Penguin Books: May 2002
Seller ID: 111261
ISBN: 0142002291
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By: David Meir-Levi
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Publisher: Encounter Books: December 2007
Seller ID: 192147
ISBN: 1594031924
Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Fairhurst Press: July 2004
Seller ID: 381859
ISBN: 0974823325
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