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The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 28
The initial years (126-145) of al-Manṣūr's reign presented several significant challenges to nascent ʿAbbāsid hegemony, and the resulting confrontations constitute the central focus of this section of Ṭabarī's Tarikh. After Abu Jafar succeeded his brother Abū Al-ʿabbās as caliph, the second of the ʿAbbāsid dynasty, he moved against his recalcitrant uncle, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī, and against the potential threat that he perceived in the person of the commander in Khurasan, Abu Muslim. Eliminating the latter and containing the former freed the caliph to address a series of other onslaughts and insurrections. Starting with the year 144, however, Ṭabarī turned to this volume's p...
Patterns of Political Leadership
Study of the relationship between the characteristics of governing elites and inter-state conflict in the Middle East.
New Arabian Studies Volume 2
New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion. It provides authoritative information intended to appeal to both the specialist and general reader. Both the traditional and the modern aspects of Arabia are covered, excluding contemporary controversial politics. Contributions by Hussein Abdullah al-Amri, Madawi Al-Rasheed, W. J. Donaldson, A. B. D. R. Eagle, Andrey Korotayev, Richard I. Lawless, Eric Macro, Brian Marshall, Mikhail Rodionov, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Martine Vanhove and Jerzy Zdanowski
24 Company Book - TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS SERVICES
This book is the largest referral for Turkish companies.
Medea’s Long Shadow in Postcolonial Contexts
This interdisciplinary volume explores the ancient Greek myth of Medea and its global analogues found in other mythic and folk tales of deadly, exiled women, such as those of La Malinche and La Llorona, examining the connections between these figures and their depictions from antiquity to modernity. The book considers the figure of the foreign woman, her exile, fratricide, and infanticide, in its ancient Greek form and in global, postcolonial receptions in a range of media, including drama, film, novels, and the visual arts. The chapters illuminate the contradictions of considering the classical Medea as a central reference point for analysis of other female figures from peripheral territori...
Lobbys zitronengelber Zirkuswagen
Direktor Terminus, seines Zeichens Direktor des Insektenzirkus Terminus lädt zu einer Bücherrevue ein. Betroffen sind hierbei sämtliche Bücher aus unserer gelben Serie, und zwar: "Spatz auf die Tonnen", "Nichts Neues vom Nichts" , "Von Anmerkung und Geisterhand" sowie "Wenn der Widder Chikago spielt". Und wer wäre besser prädestiniert, die vier gelben Bücher zu präsentieren wie der gelbe Zitronenfalter Lobby? Welcher so nebenbei Terminus Stellvertreter, dies aber wirklich nur so ganz nebenbei erwähnt. Vor allem ist Lobby mithilfe des Spiegels am Garderobentisch in seinem zitronengelben Zirkuswagen in der Lage, zu den verschiedenen Schauplätzen der vier Bücher zu schalten. Doch kom...
