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Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization

Door Justin Marozzi

Categorie	Geschiedenis Midden-Oosten
Boeknummer	#407667-XS24
Titel	Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization
Auteur	Marozzi, Justin
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Druk	1e druk
Uitgeverij	London : Allan Lane
Jaar van uitgave	2019
ISBN10	0241199042
ISBN13	9780241199046
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original grey boards, dust jacket, illustrated with photographs in colour, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and swathes of the Indian subcontinent, while Europe cowered feebly at the margins. For centuries the caliphate was both ascendant on the battlefield and triumphant in the battle of ideas, its cities unrivalled powerhouses of artistic grandeur, commercial power, spiritual sanctity and forward-looking thinking, in which nothing was off limits. Islamic Empires is a history of this rich and diverse civilization told through its greatest cities over the fifteen centuries of Islam, from its earliest beginnings in Mecca in the seventh century to the astonishing rise of Doha in the twenty-first. It dwells on t... (Lees verder)he most remarkable dynasties ever to lead the Muslim world - the Abbasids of Baghdad, the Umayyads of Damascus and Cordoba, the Merinids of Fez, the Ottomans of Istanbul, the Mughals of India and the Safavids of Isfahan - and some of the most charismatic leaders in Muslim history, from Saladin in Cairo and mighty Tamerlane of Samarkand to the poet-prince Babur in his mountain kingdom of Kabul and the irrepressible Maktoum dynasty of Dubai. It focuses on these fifteen cities at some of the defining moments in Islamic history: from the Prophet Mohammed receiving his divine revelations in Mecca and the First Crusade of 1099 to the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and the phenomenal creation of the merchant republic of Beirut in the nineteenth century.
Pagina's	440
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 20,00

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