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Presents the life, times and legacy of the Muslim philosopher Al-Kindi.
Sidelined after a colleague's blunder, CIA agent Brooke Chandler envisions a way to halt an Al Qaeda plot to set off a massive nuclear explosion and begins a race against time that returns him to Lebanon, where nothing is quite as it seems.
Governance in the Middle East is topic of interest to scholars, activists and policy makers. The currently proposed book is intended to present the first comprehensive framework of the question of governance in the Middle East in its various forms and manifestations: political, economic, and government performance.
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This authoritative dictionary provides expansive coverage on the most important people, organizations, events, movements, and ideas from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. This new edition has been updated to reflect recent developments and contains new entries on people, organizations and events that have come to prominence, or had a major impact, in the last year. Recent new entries include [b]Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), Brexit, Donald Trump, Erna Solberg, Justin Trudeau,[/b] and [b]Moon Jae In[/b]. Maps complement the text to allow for easy reference, and tables include lists of office-holders for countries and organizations and winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. This dictionary is updated regularly throughout the year, and via annual new editions, ensuring that all recent developments are included in its coverage. It is a reliable resource for students of history, politics, and international relations as well as for journalists, policy-makers, and general readers interested in the modern world.
Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half of the thirteenth century it was also the pre-eminent centre of power in the largest land-based empire the world has ever seen. This third volume of Christoph Baumer's extensively praised and lavishly illustrated new history of the region is above all a story of invasion, when tumultuous and often brutal conquest profoundly shaped the later history of the globe. The author explores the rise of Islam and the remarkable victories of the Arab armies which - inspired by their vital, austere and egalitarian desert faith - established important new dynasties like the Seljuks, Karakhanids and Ghaznavids. A golden age of artistic, literary and scientific innovation came to a sudden end when, between 1219 and 1260, Genghiz Khan and his successors overran the Chorasmian-Abbasid lands. Dr Baumer shows that the Mongol conquests, while shattering to their enemies, nevertheless resulted in much greater mercantile and cultural contact between Central Asia and Western Europe.
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İslamiyet nasıl bir toplum yapısı ve hangi değerler sistemi içinde doğdu? İslam'ı Yunan felsefesiyle buluşturan ve bir kültür devrimine yol açan çeviri akımı, hangi sınıf temelinde ve ne gibi dürtülerle ortaya çıktı? Kuran'ı “Allah'ın yaratılmış sözü kabul eden ve tarihselleştiren Mutezile mensupları ne istiyorlardı? Abbasi döneminde iktidar olan bu aydınlanmacı akım, Halife Mütevekkil döneminde nasıl karanlığa boğuldu? Bu şekilde “içtihat kapısı”nın kapanması, nasıl 18. yüzyıldan itibaren İslam dünyasını sömürgeleşme sürecine soktu? İran, Afganistan ve Mısır'da Cemaleddin Afgani, Hindistan'da Seyit Ahmet Han sömürgecilik...