Edward Wadie Said. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient

Chelsea House Publications, 2009. - 152 pages. - (Great Empires of the Past). Beginning about 1200 CE, the Mali, Songhay, and Ghana empires spread their sequential influence across the western horn of Africa, making advances in trade, language, culture, and economy. Influenced heavily by Islam in their later periods, these empires flourished and grew under a series of powerful leaders, including one, Mansa Musa, whose skills were celebrated in E...

Oxford University Press, 2002 Проблематика книги Бернарда Льюиса, профессора Принстонского университета, известного востоковеда и специалиста по истории Ближнего Востока, может быть подытожена лаконичной формулой: `Нереформируемость Ближнего Востока: кто виноват? `. Анализируя некоторые аспекты истории стран этого региона и их взаимоотношений с Западом, автор предлагает свою гипотезу исторических закономерностей. В течение многих столетий ислам...

BRILL, 2010 - 282 p. ISBN10: 9004184279 ISBN13: 9789004184275 For four decades Abraham L. Udovitch has been a leading scholar of the medieval Islamic world, its economic institutions, social structures, and legal theory and practice. In pursuing his quest to understand and explain the complex phenomena that these broad rubrics entail, he has published widely, collaborated internationally with other leading scholars of the Middle East and medieva...

Lnd.: Taylor & Francis, 2002. - 238 p. This is an introduction to the history of the Muslim East from the rise of Islam to the Mongol conquests. It explains and indicates the main trends of Islamic historical evolution during the Middle Ages, and will help the non-Orientalist to understand something of the relationship between Islam and Christendom in those centuries. J.J. Saunders discusses the mission of Muhammad, the Arab conquests, the r...

Indiana University Press, 2010, 250 pages "Islamophobia" is a term that has been widely applied to anti-Muslim ideas and actions, especially since 9/11. The contributors to this provocative volume explore and critique the usefulness of the concept for understanding contexts ranging from the Middle Ages to the modern day. Moving beyond familiar explanations such as good Muslim/bad Muslim stereotypes or the "clash of civilizations," they describe...

Oxford: Osprey, 2003. - 95 р. In July 1956 Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal and triggered a crisis. Despite extensive diplomacy, war soon resulted. Britain and France joined Israel in a coalition against Egypt; their goals included capturing Sinai and the Suez Canal and toppling the Egyptian government. Before striking, the three nations synchronized their attacks: Israel started the conflict and France and Britain joined two days later. Israel...