Messianic Beliefs and Imperial Politics in Medieval Islam analyzes the role of Muslim messianic and apocalyptic beliefs in the development of the 'Abbasid Caliphate to highlight connections between charismatic authority and institutional developments in the early ninth century. Hayrettin Yücesoy studies the relationship between rulers and religion to advance understanding of th...(展开全部)

萧公权（1897年-1981年），生于江西南安（今大余县），萧叔玉之弟。早年就读于清华大学，后赴美留学。1926年回国，历任南开、东北、燕京、清华、四川、光华、台湾、华盛顿等大学教授。1948年，选作中央研究院第一届院士。 后去台湾，寻又赴美，长期从事研究、教学。1981年11月4日卒于美国。 萧公权先生治政治学，著有《中国政治思想史》、《康有为思想研究》、《政治多元论》、《宪政与民主》、《中国乡村》、《翁同龢与戊戌维新》等。卒后，全部著作由汪荣祖教授编为九卷本的《萧公权全集》。此人乃近百年来于文化变局中立定脚根、深入西方学术的领城，然后心平气和地在中西新旧各种学问之间，加以折衷调和、锤铸涵融，自成二家之言的中国人文学者。

萧公权（1897年-1981年），生于江西南安（今大余县），萧叔玉之弟。早年就读于清华大学，后赴美留学。1926年回国，历任南开、东北、燕京、清华、四川、光华、台湾、华盛顿等大学教授。1948年，选作中央研究院第一届院士。 后去台湾，寻又赴美，长期从事研究、教学。1981年11月4日卒于美国。 萧公权先生治政治学，著有《中国政治思想史》、《康有为思想研究》、《政治多元论》、《宪政与民主》、《中国乡村》、《翁同龢与戊戌维新》等。卒后，全部著作由汪荣祖教授编为九卷本的《萧公权全集》。此人乃近百年来于文化变局中立定脚根、深入西方学术的领城，然后心平气和地在中西新旧各种学问之间，加以折衷调和、锤铸涵融，自成二家之言的中国人文学者。

One of the most controversial episodes in the life of the Prophet Muhammad concerns an incident in which he allegedly mistook words suggested by Satan as divine revelation. Known as the Satanic verses, these praises to the pagan deities contradict the Islamic belief that Allah is one and absolute. Muslims today―of all sects―deny that the incident of the Satanic verses took plac...(展开全部)

One of the most controversial episodes in the life of the Prophet Muhammad concerns an incident in which he allegedly mistook words suggested by Satan as divine revelation. Known as the Satanic verses, these praises to the pagan deities contradict the Islamic belief that Allah is one and absolute. Muslims today―of all sects―deny that the incident of the Satanic verses took plac...(展开全部)

作者：乔治·胡拉尼（1913—1984），英国哲学家、历史学家和古典学者。出生于英国曼彻斯顿一个黎巴嫩基督教家庭。曾先后任教于巴勒斯坦的阿拉伯政府学院、密锡根大学近东学系、布法罗大学哲学系以及加州大学洛杉机分校。1978年曾被推举担任全美东方学会会长。其长期从教的布法罗大学在其退休后，还设立了“乔治·胡拉尼专题讲座”，专邀著名学者讲授近东与阿拉伯历史、哲学与文化。因其对哲学、古典文明和航海史等领域的研究，尤其是对中东文化的专业洞察力而受到学界广泛赞誉。 译者：孙博，1991年生于江苏徐州，2022年毕业于南京大学历史学院/中国南海研究协同创新中心，获历史学博士学位。现任中国矿业大学马克思主义学院讲师。研究领域为海上交通史、城市史。

Arab Seafaring in the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times. In this classic work George Hourani deals with the history of the sea trade of the Arabs in the Indian Ocean from its obscure origins many centuries before Christ to the time of its full extension to China and East Africa in the ninth and tenth centuries.

This groundbreaking book argues that in the Qin-Han period, there arose in China a regime of textual authority-one that overlapped but did not coincide with imperial authority. Drawing on a wide range of research and theory, Connery makes an original contribution to the analysis of early imperial elite culture, particularly in the fields of literature and linguistics, intellect...(展开全部)

What happens when historiography—the way historical events are committed to writing—shapes historical events as they occur? How do we read biography when it is truly “life-writing,” its subjects fully engaged with the historiographical rhetoric that would record their words and deeds? The Threshold, a study of the culture of historiography in early medieval China, explores the...(展开全部)