Middle East History
azw3 |eng | 2019-06-16 | Author:Captivating History [History, Captivating]

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org Around that same time, Khosrow assumed direct control of the southern borders from the subordinate Arabian king. This vassal kingdom was established around the same time as the ...
( Category: Middle East History March 8,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-01-07 | Author:Jan Cleere

On September 7, 1872, Sarah gave birth to son Frank Brooks Upham at Camp Apache. She had three more children over the ensuing years. John Southworth Upham was born on ...
( Category: Middle East History March 5,2021 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-18 | Author:Fatima Mernissi [FATEMA MERNISSI]

THE BAN ON IMAGES In Arabic the word for image is al-sura. And today the only word we have for photographer is musawwir. Everyone has noticed the irritation shown by ...
( Category: Middle East History March 4,2021 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-15 | Author:Catlos, Brian A.;

The “Palace of Pleasures” (Aljafería Palace, Zaragoza); exterior. Turol Jones, 2004 (Creative Commons) Under his patronage, Zaragoza became an important center of both Arabic and Hebrew letters and home to ...
( Category: Middle East History March 4,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dennis P. Hupchick

On 20 August the two opposing armies drew up in formal two-line battle formations facing one another a bit north of the Byzantine encampment above Ankhialos and astride the coastal ...
( Category: Middle East History March 4,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jessica Carlisle

3.3 Hearing Marital Disputes in the Marrakesh Court: Making Discord the Norm Moroccan divorce practices were still evolving when I did my fieldwork three years after legal reform and there ...
( Category: Middle East History March 4,2021 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-08 | Author:Aziz Al-Azmeh [Al-Azmeh]

Space, time and divinity reconfigured The subordination of multiple divinities to the supreme deity involved two major movements, the one conceptual and the other practical, at once cultic and social. ...
( Category: Middle East History March 4,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-28 | Author:Hodos, Tamar

5.10 Circular structure at Sabucina. Sixth century BCE. From Hodos 2006, figure 3.20. Reproduced with permission. Drawing by Sue Grice. Even more interesting are the temple models from Sabucina, one ...
( Category: Middle East History March 3,2021 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Gordon Thomas [Thomas, Gordon]

11 THE EXECUTIONER Hauptsturmführer Theodor Dannecker arrived in Rome by train on the evening of October 8, 1943. He was thirty years old, a slim, lantern-jawed bachelor and his height, ...
( Category: Catholicism March 3,2021 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-10 | Author:David Jacobs [Jacobs, David]

After the death or departure of a particularly strong and active leader, citizens frequently look forward to a period of calmer, though still efficient rule. During such periods, the entire ...
( Category: Middle East History March 3,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-15 | Author:David B. Ruderman

There is nothing subtle or hidden about Margoliouth’s unflattering portrait of the hypocritical Alslop who professes Christian charity through his “friends of Israel” association while speaking ill of all converts ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People Biographies March 1,2021 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:John Grehan

57. At 0600, BROKE reported that she had berthed alongside in Algiers harbour and was landing troops, and a few minutes later that she had little difficulty in entering. 58. ...
( Category: Middle East History March 1,2021 )
mobi |eng | 2021-01-31 | Author:Madawi Al-Rasheed

6 WOMEN AND RIGHTS I Am My Own Guardian. Twitter hashtag by Saudi women in support of abolishing the guardianship system Arguably, Saudi women have been excluded from the nation ...
( Category: Middle East History February 28,2021 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-28 | Author:Olsen, Glenn W. [Olsen, Glenn W.]

V The Church at the Turn to the Third Millennium In the last chapter I gave some consideration to the views of the French thinker Marcel Gauchet, who believes that ...
( Category: Middle East History February 27,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sandeep Balakrishna

Flushed with the decisive victory over Prithviraja Chahamana, Muhammad marched into Ajmer, captured it, slaughtered thousands of its inhabitants who had dared to oppose him, and ‘reserved the rest for ...
( Category: Middle East History February 27,2021 )