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Saqi Essentials S. eBook Series

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  • An Imam in Paris

    Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831)

    by Rifa'a Al-Tahtawi ...
    Translated by Daniel L. Newman ...
    Series Book 0 - Saqi Essentials S.
    In the 1820s, Rifa`a Rafi` al-Tahtawi, a young Muslim cleric, was a leading member of the first Egyptian educational mission to Paris, where he remained for five years, documenting his observations of European culture. His account, Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz, is one of the earliest and most influential records of the Muslim encounter with Enlightenment-era European thought, introducing ... Read more

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  • Orientalism

    by Edward W. Said ...
    **A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. • With a new foreword by Ussama Makdisi"Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." —The New York Times**In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Worlds at War

    The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    Spanning two and a half millennia, Anthony Pagden’s mesmerizing Worlds at War delves deep into the roots of the “clash of civilizations” between East and West that has always been a battle over ideas, and whose issues have never been more urgent.Worlds At War begins in the ancient world, where Greece saw its fight against the Persian Empire as one between freedom and slavery, between monarchy and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Levant

    Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean

    by Philip Mansel ...
    Levant is a book of cities. It describes the role of Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut as windows on the world, escapes from nationality and tradition, centres of wealth, pleasure and freedom. By their mix of races and religions, they challenge stereotypes. France and Britain liberated the area through their schools, while conquering it through arms. They were not only manipulators but manipulated, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Muslim Discovery of Europe

    by Bernard Lewis, Ph.D. ...
    "Full of rare and exact information…A distinguished work." —New York Review of BooksThe eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came together, through trade and war, crusade and diplomacy. The ebb and flow between these two worlds for seven hundred years, illuminated here by a brilliant historian, is ... Read more

    $13.67 CAD

  • Scheherazade Goes West

    Different Cultures, Different Harems

    by Fatema Mernissi ...
    Throughout my childhood, my grandmother Yasmina, who was illiterate and grew up in a harem, repeated that to travel is the best way to learn and to empower yourself. "When a woman decides to use her wings, she takes big risks," she would tell me, but she was convinced that if you didn't use them, it hurt....So recalls Fatema Mernissi at the outset of her mesmerizing new book. Of all the lessons ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Trickster Travels

    A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

    by Natalie Zemon Davis ...
    An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readersAl-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian ... Read more

    $20.87 CAD

  • Europe and the Islamic World

    A History

    by John Tolan, Henry Laurens, Gilles Veinstein ...
    A sweeping history of Islam and the West from the seventh century to todayEurope and the Islamic World sheds much-needed light on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness of their inextricably intertwined histories, refuting once and for all the misguided notion of a "clash of civilizations" between the Muslim world and Europe. In this landmark book, three eminent ... Read more

    $69.02 CAD

  • The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam

    Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam

    by G.W. Bowersock ...
    Series series Emblems of Antiquity
    Just prior to the rise of Islam in the sixth century AD, southern Arabia was embroiled in a violent conflict between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs. Though little known today, this was an international war that involved both the Byzantine Empire, which had established Christian churches in Ethiopia, and the Sasanian Empire in Persia, which supported the Jews in what became a proxy war ... Read more

    $34.55 CAD

  • Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939

    by Albert Hourani ...
    Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939 is the most comprehensive study of the modernizing trend of political and social thought in the Arab Middle East. Albert Hourani studies the way in which ideas about politics and society changed during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, in response to the expanding influence of Europe. His main attention is given to the ... Read more

    $33.11 CAD

  • Cracking the Egyptian Code

    The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion

    by Andrew Robinson ...
    In 1799 Napoleon's army uncovered an ancient stele in the Nile delta. Its inscription, recorded in three distinct scripts--ancient Greek, Coptic, and hieroglyphic--would provide scholars with the first clues to unlocking the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs, a language lost for nearly two millennia. More than twenty years later a remarkably gifted Frenchman named Jean-Francois Champollion ... Read more

    $25.19 CAD

  • The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque

    Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam

    by Sidney H. Griffith ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world's Christians lived and worshipped under Muslim rule. Just who were the Christians in ... Read more

    $43.37 CAD