The Compassionate and Benevolent: Jewish Ruling Elites in the Medieval Islamicate World 3110712873, 9783110712872

The Compassionate and Benevolent: Jewish Ruling Elites in the Medieval Islamicate World 3110712873, 9783110712872

This is a monograph about the medieval Jewish community of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Through deep analy

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Heidegger in the Islamicate World 9781786606211

Philosophical debates, many of them involving the appropriation of modern Western philosophical doctrines, are a crucial

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Heidegger in the Islamicate World 9781786606204, 9781786606211

Philosophical debates, many of them involving the appropriation of modern Western philosophical doctrines, are a crucial

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Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social History 9781784539542, 9780755617913, 9780755617890

In the early medieval Islamic world (800–1300 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and c

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Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World: ʿAbdīshōʿ of Nisibis and the Apologetic Tradition (Oxford Oriental Monographs) 2021941266, 9780192846761, 0192846760

Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World: ʿAbdīshōʿ of Nisibis and the Apologetic Tradition is the first monog

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Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World 9780812294002

In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewi

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Masculinity and the Ruling of the World 9780648803614

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Rulers and Ruling Families in Early Medieval Europe: Alfred, Charles the Bald and Others 0367197715, 9780367197711

First published in 1999, the ideas and practices involved in early medieval royal family politics are the central theme

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Rulers and Ruling Families in Early Medieval Europe: Alfred, Charles the Bald and Others 0367197715, 9780367197711

First published in 1999, the ideas and practices involved in early medieval royal family politics are the central theme

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The Sexual Extremities of the World : Studies of the Ruling Passion In Places High and Low

In this book — written by one of the most authoritative of modern sexologists — there is an indication that the vision o

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