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The myth of minority : cultural change in Valencia in the thirteenth century at the time of the conquests of James I of Aragon
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Pride and Hope: Reviving Bam and its Cultural Landscape
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Sand Daughter
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The Case History in Medieval Islamic Medical Literature: Tajārib and Mujarrabāt as Source
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Qādīs and the political use of the mazālim jurisdiction under the Abbāsids
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The conquest of Khūzistān: a historiographical reassessment
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Ammianus Marcellinus and Procopius of Caesarea: The Eastern Campaigns of Julian and Justinian, 4th and 6th centuries A.D
By using both of these historians it is hoped that the Persian campaigns of Julian and Justinian will be made clearer in the context of the emperors and their goals and flaws.
The Regicide of the Caliph al-Amīn and the Challenge of Representation in Medieval Islamic Historiography
Fifty years after its founding in A.D.762 as the ideal political center of the Abbasid caliphate, Baghdad underwent its first destructive siege during the civil war between the two sons of Haruin al-Rasid, al-Amin and al-Ma’mun.
The Development of Hindu-Arabic and Traditional Chinese Arithmetic
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Warrior Geopolitics: Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and the Kingdom of Heaven
Ridley Scott’s three movies, “Gladiator”, “Black Hawk Down” and most recently “The Kingdom of Heaven” explore the morality and identity of warriors. They do so in exotic landscapes and settings that emphasize the confrontation with danger as external and frequently unknowable and political violence as something that has complicated geographies.
Iran under Mongol domination: The effectiveness and failings of a dual administrative system
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Courtly Patronage of Ancient Sciences in Post-Classical Islamic
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Christian Europe and Mongol Asia: First Medieval Intercultural Contact Between East and West
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The Byzantines in Medieval Arabic Poetry: Abu Firas’ “Al-Rumiyyat” and the Poetic Responses of al-Qaffal and Ibn Hazm to Nicephore Phocas’ “Al-Qasida al-Arminiyya al-Malʿuna” (The Armenian Cursed Ode)
The Byzantines in Medieval Arabic Poetry: Abu Firas’ “Al-Rumiyyat” and the Poetic Responses of al-Qaffal and Ibn Hazm to Nicephore Phocas’ “Al-Qasida al-Arminiyya…
The Muhtasib as Guardian of Public Morality in the Medieval Islamic City
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When did Islamic science die (and who cares)?
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The Human in the Monster: Images of Divs (Demons) in 14th to 16th Century Shahnamas
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The trip of the Great Persian Embassies to Byzantium during the reign of Justinian I (527-565) and its logistics
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The Great Caliphs: the Golden Age of the ‘Abbasid Empire
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Bazgazul, seigneur de Ballaquie À la recherche du valaque musulman de steppe
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Aladdin’s Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
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