The essays in Islamic Ecumene address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan are members of a broad cultural unit. Although the Muslim inhabitants of these lands speak dozens of languages, represent numerous ethnic groups, and practice diverse forms of Islam, they are united by shared practices and worldviews...(展开全部)

View a video on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities" </p> This book is a work of major importance for the development of environmental and behavioral biology; it covers the classification, evolution, anatomy, physiology, and behavior of the higher social insects--ants, social wasps and bees, and termites. Mr. Wilson reinterprets...(展开全部)

View a video on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities" </p> This book is a work of major importance for the development of environmental and behavioral biology; it covers the classification, evolution, anatomy, physiology, and behavior of the higher social insects--ants, social wasps and bees, and termites. Mr. Wilson reinterprets...(展开全部)

This book will be immensely helpful to those who wish to orient themselves to what has become a very large body of literature on medieval Islamic history. Combining a bibliographic study with an inquiry into method, it opens with a survey of the principal reference tools available to historians of Islam and a systematic review of the sources they will confront. Problems of meth...(展开全部)

This book will be immensely helpful to those who wish to orient themselves to what has become a very large body of literature on medieval Islamic history. Combining a bibliographic study with an inquiry into method, it opens with a survey of the principal reference tools available to historians of Islam and a systematic review of the sources they will confront. Problems of meth...(展开全部)

本书作者纳菲斯•艾哈迈德（1911—1982，Nafis Ahmad），是杰出的教育家和地理学家。毕业于英国伦敦政治经济学院，曾任印度加尔各答大学及加尔各答伊斯兰学院地理系主任。创建达卡大学地理学系，任教授，直到1971年退休。其间还担任达卡大学科学学院院长。荣获1961年度的巴基斯坦总统授予的荣誉勋章。是孟加拉地理学会创会会长，英国皇家地理学会及美国地理学会会员。 译者姚继德，云南大学西南亚研究所所长，教育部国别研究基地云南大学伊朗研究中心主任、教授，博士生导师。主要从事中国—伊朗关系史、伊朗学、伊斯兰教与世界民族研究。教育部重大委托项目“中东古地图中的中国与中国南海研究”主持人。著译作品有《唐代中国与大食穆斯林》《云南伊斯兰教史》《元明文献中的忽鲁谟斯》《伊朗学在欧洲和东亚》《伊斯兰教什叶派》等28部，在国内外发表学术论文和译文100余篇。 译者...(展开全部)

In treating memory as a cultural rather than an individual faculty, this book provides an account of how bodily practices are transmitted in, and as, traditions. Most studies of memory as a cultural faculty focus on written, or inscribed transmissions of memories. Paul Connerton, on the other hand, concentrates on bodily (or incorporated) practices, and so questions the current...(展开全部)

"Full of rare and exact information.... A distinguished work."— New York Review of Books The 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...(展开全部)

Turning the traditional focus of western scholarship on its head, Professor Bernard Lewis, author of THE MIDDLE EAST (Phoenix Press) and one of the world's foremost experts on Islamic history, examines the sources and nature of Muslim knowledge of the West. His lively book explores the subtle ways in which Europe and Islam have influenced each other over seven centuries, retell...(展开全部)