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Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age
The year 922 saw a series of remarkable face-to-face encounters in the steppes between Bukhara and the Middle Volga. Ibn Fadlan was an intrepid member of a diplomatic and religious …
Imperial Muslims
Explores the social consequences of Britain's creation of an Indian Ocean empire that brought millions of Muslim subjects under a single political umbrella for the first time in …
Muslim-Christian Polemics across the Mediterranean
In Muslim-Christian Polemics across the Mediterranean Diego R. Sarrio Cucarella provides an exposition and analysis of Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi's (d. 684/1285) Splendid Replies to …
Russian-Muslim Confrontation in the Caucasus
This book presents two extraordinary texts - The Shining of Swords by Al-Qarakhi and a new translation for a contemporary readership of Leo Tolstoy's Hadji Murat - illuminating the …
Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian Discourse
Broadens the perspective of recent work on the discourse of the Muslim Other in medieval Christendom by investigating pertinent texts, art, and artefacts, situating these local …
Franks, Muslims and Oriental Christians in the Latin Levant
Steven Runciman characterized intellectual life in the Frankish Levant as 'disappointing'; Joshua Prawer claimed that the Franks refused to open up to the East's intellectual …
Turkish Myth and Muslim Symbol
Turks ruled the Middle East for a millennium and eastern Europe for many centuries and it is an undoubted fact that they moulded the lands under their dominion. It is therefore …
Representations of Indian Muslims in British Colonial Discourse
This study questions current views that Muslims represented a secure point of reference for the British understanding of colonial Indian society. Through revisionary readings of a …
Muslims under Sikh Rule in the Nineteenth Century
Though the history of Sikh-Muslim relations is fraught with conflict, this book examines how the policies of Sikh rulers attempted to avoid religious bigotry and prejudice at a …
Court Cultures in the Muslim World
Courts and the complex phenomenon of the courtly society have received intensified interest in academic research over recent decades, however, the field of Islamic court culture …
Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages
The conflict and contact between Muslims and Christians in the Middle Ages is among the most important but least appreciated developments of the period from the seventh to the …
Changing World of a Bombay Muslim Community, 1870 - 1945
Muslims formed a disparate and unwieldy community in Bombay in the nineteenth century. The Islam that was professedly held in common by various groups could barely provide a sense …