The Islamic Review
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 78
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Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200
Author: Heinrich Fichtenau
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780271043746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe struggle over fundamental issues erupted with great fury in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In this book preeminent medievalist Heinrich Fichtenau turns his attention to a new attitude that emerged in Western Europe around the year 1000. This new attitude was exhibited both in the rise of heresy in the general population and in the self-confident rationality of the nascent schools. With his characteristic learning and insight, Fichtenau shows how these two separate intellectual phenomena contributed to a medieval world that was never quite as uniform as might appear from our modern perspective.
Islamic Review and Muslim India
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 552
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA World of Chess
Author: Jean-Louis Cazaux
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2017-10-17
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 0786494271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith more than 400 illustrations, and detailed maps, this immense and deeply researched account of the history of chess covers not only the modern international game, derived from Persian and Arab roots, but a broad spectrum of variants going back 1500 years, some of which are still played in various parts of the world. The evolution of strategic board games, especially in India, China and Japan, is discussed in detail. Many more recent chess variants (board sizes, new pieces, 3-D, etc.) are fully covered. Instructions for play are provided, with historical context, for every game presented.
The Glory of the Empire
Author: Jean D'Ormesson
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2016-05-03
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 159017965X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Glory of the Empire is the rich and absorbing history of an extraordinary empire, at one point a rival to Rome. Rulers such as Basil the Great of Onessa, who founded the Empire but whose treacherous ways made him a byword for infamy, and the romantic Alexis the bastard, who dallied in the fleshpots of Egypt, studied Taoism and Buddhism, returned to save the Empire from civil war, and then retired “to learn to die,” come alive in The Glory of the Empire, along with generals, politicians, prophets, scoundrels, and others. Jean d’Ormesson also goes into the daily life of the Empire, its popular customs, and its contribution to the arts and the sciences, which, as he demonstrates, exercised an influence on the world as a whole, from the East to the West, and whose repercussions are still felt today. But it is all fiction, a thought experiment worthy of Jorge Luis Borges, and in the end The Glory of the Empire emerges as a great shimmering mirage, filling us with wonder even as it makes us wonder at the fugitive nature of power and the meaning of history itself.
Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture
Author: Alice Isabella Sullivan
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9004538461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume engages with notions of lateness and modernity in medieval architecture, broadly conceived geographically, temporally, methodologically, and theoretically. It aims to (re)situate secular and religious buildings from the 14th through the 16th centuries that are indebted to medieval building practices and designs, within the more established narratives of art and architectural history.
Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries
Author: Abdus Salam
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9789971509460
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The English Library
Author: Raymond Irwin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-12
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1000511340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1966, this book studied the background against which libraries in England have developed since classical times and the part they played in the formation of 20th Century bibliographic culture and bibliomania. Part 1 discusses the power of the written book in antiquity and follows the story from Greek and Roman times to Roman Britain and through Saxon and Medieval England to the Reformation. Part 2 traces the history of the Englishman’s study and his domestic library from its beginning to Victorian days and reveals how intimately it is related to our literature and culture. The spread of the art of reading in the 15th Century and its expansion among people of all classes in the 18th and 19th centuries are discussed in detail.
Understanding the Heavens
Author: Jean-Claude Pecker
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 606
ISBN-13: 3662044412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author, a well-known astronomer himself, describes the evolution of astronomical ideas, touching only lightly on most of the instrumental developments. Richly illustrated, the book starts with the astronomical ideas of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian philosophers, moves on to the Greek period and then on to the golden age of astronomy, that of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton. Finally, Pecker concludes with modern theories of cosmology. Written with astronomy undergraduates in mind, this is a fascinating survey of astronomical thinking.
