Caliphs And Kings

Author : Roger Collins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118730011
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caliphs and Kings written by Roger Collins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CALIPHS AND KINGS: SPAIN, 796-1031 The last twenty-five years have seen a renaissance of research and writing on Spanish history. Caliphs and Kings offers a formidable synthesis of existing knowledge as well as an investigation into new historical thinking, perspectives, and methods. The nearly three-hundred-year rule of the Umayyad dynasty in Spain (756-1031) has been hailed by many as an era of unprecedented harmony and mutual tolerance between the three great religious faiths in the Iberian Peninsula – Christianity, Judaism, and Islam – the like of which has never been seen since. And yet, as this book demonstrates, historical reality defies the myth. Though the middle of the tenth century saw a flowering of artistic culture and sophistication in the Umayyad court and in the city of Córdoba, this period was all too shortlived and localized. Eventually, twenty years of civil war caused the implosion of the Umayyad regime. It is through the forces that divided – not united – the disparate elements in Spanish society that we may best glean its nature and its lessons. Caliphs and Kings is devoted to better understanding those circumstances, as historian Roger Collins takes a fresh look at certainties, both old and new, to strip ninth- and tenth-century Spain of its mythic narrative, revealing the more complex truth beneath.

Author : Heather Ecker
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caliphs and Kings written by Heather Ecker and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Selections from the Hispanic Society of America, New York."

Author : Heather Ecker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caliphs and Kings written by Heather Ecker and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heather L. Ecker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caliphs and Kings written by Heather L. Ecker and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gregg Coodley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999077016
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good Monarchs written by Gregg Coodley and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Good Monarchs tells the stories of 18 of the best monarchs in history. The monarchs chosen are those who most tried to benefit the people of their nation from 641 BCE up to the present day. These leaders hail from 15 different countries and four continents.

Author : Hugh N. Kennedy
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780297830009
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Court of the Caliphs written by Hugh N. Kennedy and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Hugh Kennedy makes no apology for the 'fair share of booze and sex' involved in The Court of the Caliphs. Every element of his story is drawn from the original Arabic texts: 'the writers of the ninth and tenth centuries knew their rulers had their fair share of human frailties and were quite happy to describe them. To produce a sanitized and whitewashed version of history does no service to our understanding of the caliphate.' In this fast-paced and colourful narrative, Professor Hugh Kennedy takes us back to Baghdad and Samarra and the glory days of the Caliphate. From a rebellion planned in a remote desert town to the founding of Baghdad in AD 762, the rule of the Abbasid dynasty was looked back on as the golden era of the Islamic Conquest. The muslim world was ruled by a single sovereign, who waged holy war against the Byzantines and protected the holy cites of Mecca and Medina. For what was to be the last time in history, a mighty empire was based on the ancient Mesopotamian heartland that had once supported the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians. The Caliphs formed the model for succeeding muslim regimes. From military conquests to patronizing poetry, building palaces, and the formal structure of the court - harems, viziers, eunuchs and the tales of the Arabian Nights - the Abbasid Caliphate and offered a historical ideal for later empires and their rulers to aspire to. Yet the true story of this fascinating empire has been forgotten outside the academic world. And it deserves to be rescued: it is an epic story in every sense, with larger-than-life rulers, exotic slave girls, inventive tortures, and enough court intrigue to frighten a Borgia.

Author : Roger Collins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470754567
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visigothic Spain 409 - 711 written by Roger Collins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Spain in the period between the end of Roman rule and the time of the Arab conquest challenges many traditional assumptions about the history of this period. Presents original theories about how the Visigothic kingdom was governed, about law in the kingdom, about the Arab conquest, and about the rise of Spain as an intellectual force. Takes account of new documentary evidence, the latest archaeological findings, and the controversies that these have generated. Combines chronological and thematic approaches to the period. A historiographical introduction looks at the current state of research on the history and archaeology of the Visigothic kingdom.

Author : Iraj Bashiri
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781516503506
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Modern Iran written by Iraj Bashiri and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jason Porterfield
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1499463413
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Islamic Golden Age and the Caliphates written by Jason Porterfield and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Islamic empire arose spectacularly in the 7th century and exercised influence over a large geographic area until its fall to Mongol invaders in the 13th century. The rulers, called caliphs, ushered in a new Islamic civilization with customs and practices both distinct from and partially influenced by those of the areas it conquered. The reigns of these caliphates, including the Abbasid caliphate, which presided at the time of the Islamic Golden Age, are surveyed in this captivating volume. Readers will learn about the expansion of Islamic influence and the flourishing of scholarship in science, math, and more during this time.

Author : Janina M. Safran
Publisher : Harvard CMES
ISBN 13 : 9780932885241
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second Umayyad Caliphate written by Janina M. Safran and published by Harvard CMES. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Umayyad Caliphate recovers the Andalusi Umayyad argument for caliphal legitimacy through an analysis of caliphal rhetoric--based on proclamations, correspondence, and panegyric poetry--and caliphal ideology, as shown through monuments, ceremony, and historiography.