Clifford Edmund Bosworth

السلالات الإسلامية الحاكمة

The Mediaeval Islamic Underworld: The Arabic jargon texts: the Qaṣīda sāsāniyyas of Abū Dulaf and Ṣafī d-Dīn

The Islamic dynasties: a chronological and genealogical handbook

the Banu Sasan in Arabic society and literature. The arabic jargon texts

The mediaeval islamic underworld

Bernard Lewis

A. L. Udovitch

Roger Mervyn Savory

Bernard Lewis's work has covered all periods, and most countries, of the Islamic Middle East. This festschrift, written by some of his numerous colleagues, friends, and former students, includes some of the most distinguished orientalists, historians, and social scientists of our time and is a fitting tribute to Professor Lewis's scholarship. The contributions range, geographically, from "On Chinese Rhubarb" to "The Jewish Courtier Class in Late Eighteenth-Century Morocco" and, topically, from "The Concept of Authority in Islamic Thought" to "A Forgotten Ottoman Romance" and "Safety in Numbers: Reflections on the Middle Eastern Balance of Power". Taken together, the fifty-two essays constitute a variegated collection of studies on a many-sided and important civilisation. The collections are assembled under three major headings: The Classical and Medieval Islamic World; Ottoman Studies and The Modern Middle East.

Essays in Honor of Bernard Lewis

The Islamic World from Classical to Modern Times

The Banū Sāsān in Arabic Society and Literature. The Banū Sāsān in Arabic life and lore

The Mediaeval Islamic Underworld

A Chronological and Genealogical Handbook

The Islamic Dynasties

M.S.Asimov

History of Civilizations of Central Asia

The Akhbar al-dawla al-saljuqiyya is one of the key primary documents on the history of Western Persia and Iraq in the 11th and 12th centuries. This book provides an accessible English translation and commentary on the text, making available to a new readership this significant work on the pre-modern history of the Middle East and the Turkish peoples. The text is a chronicle of the Seljuq dynasty as it emerged within the Iranian lands in the 11th and 12th centuries, dominating the Middle Eastern lands, from Turkey and Syria to Iran and eastern Afghanistan. During this formative period in the central and eastern Islamic lands, they inaugurated a pattern of Turkish political and military dominance of the Middle East and beyond, from Egypt to India, in some cases well into the 20th century. Shedding light on many otherwise obscure aspects of the political history of the region, the book provides a more detailed context for the political history of the wider area. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of Middle Eastern history and is an important addition to the existing literature on the Seljuq dynasty.

A Translation with Commentary of the Akhbar al-dawla al-saljuqiyya

The History of the Seljuq State

This book contains articles on historic cities of the Islamic world, ranging from West Africa to Malaysia, which over the centuries have been centres of culture and learning and of economic and commercial life, and which have contributed much to the consolidation of Islam as a faith and as a social and political institution. The articles have been taken from the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, completed in 2004, but in many cases expanded and rewritten. All have been updated to include fresh historical information, with note of contemporary social developments and population statistics. The book thus delineates the urban background of Islam has it has evolved up to the present day, highlighting the role of such great cities as Cairo, Istanbul, Baghdad and Delhi in Islamic history, and also brings them together in a rich panorama illustrating one of mankind's greatest achievements, the living organism of the city.

Historic Cities of the Islamic World

Abū al-Faz̤l Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī

Mohsen Ashtiany

This is the first complete translation, with detailed commentary, of the surviving volumes of Beyhaqi's massive project. The historian's writings, dealing with the years 1030–1041, combine astute criticism and wry humor with an unobtrusive display of mastery of the learned literature of the time, both in Arabic and Persian.

(the History of Sultan Masʻud of Ghazna, 1030-1041)

The History of Beyhaqi

The Medieval History of Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia

In 26 well-chosen research essays, this volume celebrates the 70th birthday of Professor C.E. Bosworth FBA, the distinguished Middle East Historian.

Studies in Honour of Clifford Edmund Bosworth

Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb

Includes articles on Muslims of every age and land, on tribes and dynasties, on the crafts and sciences, on political and religious institutions, on the geography, ethnography of the various countries and on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. Its scope encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire and all other Islamic countries.

The Encyclopaedia of Islam

Clifford Edmund Bosworth

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