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Subject: Religion
Afro-Cuban Myths: Yemaya and Other Orishas
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Lachatañeré, Romulo (translated by Christine Ayorinde; illustrated by Siegfried Kaden; introduction by Jorge Castellanos)
Subject: Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, World Literature
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A moving collection of myths and tales, Afro-Cuban Myths was first published in 1938 under the title Oh, Mío Yemayá! These stories lead readers into a marvelous and magical world: the extraordinary imaginations of Afro-Cubans. Destined to become a classic …
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Age of the Caliphs: A History of the Muslim World
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Spuler, Bertold
Subject: Middle East, Religion
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“In this concise history of the Muslim countries [which begins with Rome, Persia, and the pre-Islamic Bedouins and ends with the fall of Bagdad to the Mongols in 1258], Spuler has provided the educated reader with a reliable presentation. The …
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Al-Narshakhi’s The History of Bukhara
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Narshakhi, Abu Bakr Muhammad (translated and edited by Richard N. Frye)
Subject: Middle East
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Al-Narshakhi’s The History of Bukhara is unusual among histories of Middle Eastern cities because it provides a broad and perceptive overview of urban life of the time, as opposed to the standard biographies of religious leaders.
Richard Frye’s translation from …
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Ancient South Arabia: From the Queen of Sheba to the Advent of Islam
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Schippman, Klaus (translated by Allison Brown)
Subject: Middle East, Archaeology,Relion
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At a crossroads between Africa, Asia, and Europe, the South Arabian kingdoms were major commercial and cultural players in world history. Their art and architecture, and especially their irrigation system, featuring a gigantic dam high in the mountains, give witness …
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Anti-Americanism in the Islamic World
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Faath, Sigrid
Subject: Middle East, Religion, U.S. History
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Anti-Americanism is a far from homogenous phenomenon — even in the Islamic world, where the press would sometimes want to convince us that a near-unanimous hostility to the United States exists. This book, by dint of on-the-ground research into Muslim …
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Aspects of Avicenna
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Wisnovsky, Robert, editor
Subject: Middle East, Religion, World Literature
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The philosopher and physician Abû ‘Alî al-Husayn ibn ‘Abdallâh ibn Sînâ (d. 1037 c.e.), known in the West by his Latinized name Avicenna, was one of the most influential thinkers of the Islamic and European Middle Ages. Yet for a …
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Beauty in Arabic Culture
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Behrens-Abouseif, Doris
Subject: Middle East, Religion
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Arabic Islamic thought allowed the development of autonomous norms of beauty that were independent of moral or religious criteria. The artistic work was viewed separately from the divine scheme and was free of metaphysical associations.
Beauty, however, had a significant …
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Between Pit and Pedestal: Women in the Middle Ages
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Williams, Marty; Echols, Anne
Subject: European History, Women's History
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“A fascinating and highly readable survey.” — Library Journal
“Crusader and concubine, laundress and troubadour, mystic and midwife and miniaturist, beguine and bondwoman and the bersatrix rocking the cradle of kings — all find their rightful place in this …
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Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History
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Hopkins, J. F. P. and Nehemiah Levtzion, editors
Subject: Africa, Middle East
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From the eighth century onwards, the Muslim townsfolk of North Africa were well aware that fifty stages away across the desert to the south lay a land inhabited by black people which was the source of gold, ivory …
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