In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but
largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives …

This fascinating history explores the ceremony of the oath of allegiance to the caliph from the
time of the Prophet Muhammad until the fragmentation of the caliphate in the late ninth and …

In 929 CE, the eighth Umayyad ruler of al-Andalus (Islamic Iberia) assumed caliphal titles
and prerogatives. Against the ambitions of his contemporary rivals, the Abbasids and the …

The term'Islamic cities' has been used to refer to cities of the Islamic world, centring on the
Middle East. Academic scholarship has tended to link the cities of the Islamic world with …

Archaeological research and ancient records have been combined in this work to provide a
comprehensive account of the buildings of Merv, an oasis city in the middle of the …

This article is a historical study of maritime trade between Tang China and early Islamic Iraq,
in the seventh to tenth centuries. While the existence, in this period, of merchant …

Abstract Historically Persian Garden symbolizes a well-ordered landscape, which is mostly
associated with the leisure and enjoyment of the kings. However here it is read as inevitable …

The history of imperial dynasties in West Asia is replete with examples of remarkable urban
foundations. Two notable instances are the Sasanian Ardašīr-xwarrah and the Abbasid …

The particular examples of indigenisation under discussion here quite likely belong to the
post-Imperial period, often known as the'time of fragments' or'sil bu'i dus'. When referring to …

The work of Jaroslav Stetkevych has exemplified for Arabists the contemporary concern with
the ways that language, performance and rhetoric reflect and constitute individuals and …