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 illustrated introduction offers a fresh approach to the history of the Islamic world from its origins to the present day. Told in six chapters, arranged both chronologically and thematically, and richly enhanced with outstanding images, it provides an illuminating insight into the material culture produced from West Africa to Southeast Asia through art and artifacts, peopl...(展开全部)

阿蒂西•塔西尔（Aatish Taseer），出生于英国，现为《时代周刊》记者。父亲是穆斯林（巴基斯坦旁遮普省省长），母亲是锡克教徒（印度资深记者）。塔西尔能流利地说法语、印地语、乌尔都语、旁遮普语和英语，现居伦敦和德里。

阿蒂西•塔西尔（Aatish Taseer），出生于英国，现为《时代周刊》记者。父亲是穆斯林（巴基斯坦旁遮普省省长），母亲是锡克教徒（印度资深记者）。塔西尔能流利地说法语、印地语、乌尔都语、旁遮普语和英语，现居伦敦和德里。

阿蒂西•塔西尔（Aatish Taseer），出生于英国，现为《时代周刊》记者。父亲是穆斯林（巴基斯坦旁遮普省省长），母亲是锡克教徒（印度资深记者）。塔西尔能流利地说法语、印地语、乌尔都语、旁遮普语和英语，现居伦敦和德里。

We in the west share a common narrative of world history—that runs from the Nile Valley and Mesopotomia, through Greece and Rome and the French Revolution, to the rise of the secular state and the triumph of democracy. But our story largely omits a whole civilization that until quite recently saw itself at the center of world history, and whose citizens shared an entirely diffe...(展开全部)

作者簡介 塔米‧安薩里（Tamim Ansary，1948-） 塔米‧•安薩里生於阿富汗喀布爾，並且在當地接受中壆育直到移民美國奧勒岡州。他所著的回憶錄《喀布爾之西，紐約之東（West of Kabul， East of New York）》被選為舊金山2008年當年度的選書(ONE BOOK ONE CITY)，另外和阿富汗地雷爆炸的遇難者法拉•阿瑪迪（Farah Ahmadi）共同寫作了紐約時報暢銷書《另一邊的天空（The Other Side of the Sky）》。塔米姆•安薩里是一些小學歷史教科書的主要作者。他每個月都會為Encarta.com網站撰寫專欄文章，並且在San Francisco Chronicle，Salon，Alternet， TomPaine.com, Edutopia, Parade, L.A. Time等媒體...(展开全部)

We in the west share a common narrative of world history—that runs from the Nile Valley and Mesopotomia, through Greece and Rome and the French Revolution, to the rise of the secular state and the triumph of democracy. But our story largely omits a whole civilization that until quite recently saw itself at the center of world history, and whose citizens shared an entirely diffe...(展开全部)

With breathtaking command of medieval Muslim sources as well as the vast literature on medieval European and Muslim culture, Carole Hillenbrand has produced a book that shows not only how the Crusades were perceived by the Muslims, but how the Crusades affected the Muslim world - militarily, culturally, and psychologically.

作者簡介 卡蘿‧希爾布蘭登（Carole Hillenbrand） 西元1943年生，英國人，現為愛丁堡大學伊斯蘭與中東學系榮譽教授。早年曾先後就讀於劍橋、牛津與愛丁堡大學，並於1979年以〈賈濟拉史（西元1100年至1150年）：出自伊本・阿茲拉克・法理奇所著編年史（The history of the Jazīra 1100-1150 : the contribution of Ibn Al-Azraq Al-Fāriqī）〉一文，獲愛丁堡大學博士學位。其後留校任教，至西元2000年升任該校伊斯蘭歷史之教授一職，直至2008年退休，轉任榮譽教授至今。 在希爾布蘭登教授之學術生涯中，除了英國學術社群，如愛丁堡皇家學會（Royal Society of Edinburgh）、皇家歷史學會（Royal Historical Society）、皇家亞洲學...(展开全部)