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  • ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY IN MEDIEVAL ANATOLIA
    A.C.S. PEACOCK / BRUNO DE NICOLA
    Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia offers a comparative approach to understanding the spread of Islam and Muslim culture in medieval Anatolia. It aims to reassess work in the field since the 1971 classic by Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization which treats the process of transformation from a Byzantinist perspective. Si...

    $1,240.00

  • EARLY SELJUQ HISTORY
    A.C.S. PEACOCK
    This book investigates the early history of the Seljuq Turks, founders of one of the most important empires of the mediaeval Islamic world, from their origins in the Eurasian steppe to their conquest of Iran, Iraq and Anatolia. The first work available in a western language on this important episode in Turkish and Islamic history, this book offers a new understanding of the eme...

    $1,560.00

  • MEDIAEVAL ISLAMIC HISTORIOGRAPHY AND POLITICAL LEGITIMACY
    A.C.S. PEACOCK
    The Tarikhnamah is a history of the world and the oldest surviving work of Persian prose. This book examines it as a political and cultural document and why it became such an influential work in the Islamic world. ...

    $1,320.00

  • FOOD FOR THE GODS
    D. P. S. PEACOCK / A. C. S. PEACOCK / DAVID WILLIAMS
    The story of incense is one of the most intriguing in both eastern and western culture. From the first millennium BC to the present day it has been sought after and valued on a par with precious metals or gems. Although incense was a luxury, it was consumed in prodigious quantities by the ancient world, in temples and at funerals, but also in private homes. The papers in this v...

    $537.34