Middle East
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Jonathan Phillips [Phillips, Jonathan]

CHAPTER TEN ‘I should like you to know that a number of my people do not love me’ Triumph and Tensions at Constantinople, July—August 1203 IN SPITE OF the crusaders’ ...
( Category: Turkey August 25,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-10-12 | Author:Christopher Tyerman [Tyerman, Christopher]

While the long tradition of holy war continued to supply the emotional intensity for a range of Christian warfare, the Jerusalem war and its derivatives did not escape the scrutiny ...
( Category: Middle East August 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Hindley, Geoffrey [Hindley, Geoffrey]

A dramatic monument to Saladin was erected in Damascus in the twentieth century. Non-Muslims often suppose that there is a Koranic injunction against the depiction of the human form and ...
( Category: Military August 25,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ilan Berman [Berman, Ilan]

IRAN’S OBJECTIVES What, exactly, does Iran want in the Americas? Over the past decade and a half, Iran’s engagement with Central and South America has taken the form of a ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-03-01 | Author:Daniel Meyerson

“IT IS EASIER to understand humanity in general than to understand a single human being,” La Rochefoucauld tells us—a maxim which perfectly applies to Napoleon. For the role General Bonaparte ...
( Category: Middle East August 21,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:André Clot

9 The Greatest City of East and West The capital of the Byzantine Empire for fifteen centuries, Constantinople – Istanbul1 – naturally became the Ottomans’ capital as soon as they ...
( Category: Asia August 20,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-24 | Author:Lesley Hazleton

Thirteen News of Muhammad’s arrival spread fast. People ran out to greet him as he rode in, begging him to stop and accept their hospitality, but he turned everyone down. ...
( Category: Islam August 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Ibn Khaldun [Khaldun, Ibn]

application of the word fard'id to a particular discipline, or its restriction to estate division, is part of the technical terminology the jurists created when the various disciplines and terminologies ...
( Category: Islam August 14,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-03 | Author:Mark S. Smith [Smith, Mark S.]

PLACE: VERTICAL SPACE Heaven PLACE: HORIZONTAL SPACE SUPERNATURAL Just as the center bears a subdivision, the periphery likewise shows a distinction between what humans experience in the periphery and what ...
( Category: Judaism July 31,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-28 | Author:Israel Shahak [Shahak, Israel]

Major Features of Classical Judaism Let us therefore ignore those ‘dark ages’, and for the sake of convenience begin with the two centuries 1000-1200, for which abundant information is available ...
( Category: History & Theory July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Shlomo Sand [Sand, Shlomo]

PROTESTANTS AND THE COLONIZATION OF THE MIDDLE EAST Tel Aviv, the largest city in Israel, has no street named after British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, because at some point its ...
( Category: Nationalism July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-07 | Author:Rosalie David

THE ROYAL FAMILY AT AMARNA There has been speculation that Akhenaten’s cult grew out of his father’s own policy of identification with the sun’s disc and his personal deification; in ...
( Category: General July 26,2015 )
epub |ara | 2015-01-28 | Author:Michael Weiss & Hassan Hassan [Weiss, Michael]

10 CONVERTS AND “FIVE-STAR JIHADISTS” PROFILES OF ISIS FIGHTERS For this book we conducted interviews with dozens of ISIS associates who operate inside Syria and Iraq in a range of ...
( Category: Middle Eastern July 22,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1974-04-14 | Author:Immanuel Velikovsky [Velikovsky, Immanuel]

God's Land and Rezenu 1 The present chapter shows the conquest of Palestine by Thutmose III to have taken place, not in the Canaanite period, but in the days of ...
( Category: Egypt July 21,2015 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2015-01-16 | Author:Bill Cooper

“Since writing this article, C. R. Conder's work on "The Tell-Amarna Tablets" (London, 1893) has appeared. The translation of the letters from Jerusalem, though only of six of them, may ...
( Category: Israel & Palestine July 20,2015 )