朱莉娅•斯图亚特（Julia Stuart），英国新生代畅销作家、记者。在校学习法语、西班牙语和新闻学，曾赴法国与西班牙教授英语，并在新闻界打拼多年，1999年获得国际特赦组织英国媒体奖期刊类奖（Amnesty International UK Media Awards）。 斯图亚特极擅长描写恋爱中笨拙的男子。他们不善言辞，不懂得抓住机会，不会讨人欢心、曲意奉承。胸中纵有柔情万千，却无法宣之于口，他们只会沉着脸，闷闷地努力，守护着自己内心的一方小天地。

Barber Guillaume Ladoucette has always enjoyed great success in his tiny village in southwestern France, catering to the tonsorial needs of Amour-sur-Belle's thirty-three inhabitants. But times have changed. His customers have grown older--and balder. Suddenly there is no longer a call for Guillaume's particular services, and he is forced to make a drastic career change. Since ...(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)

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)

"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)

When thinking of intrepid travelers from past centuries, we don't usually put Muslim women at the top of the list. And yet, the stunning firsthand accounts in this collection completely upend preconceived notions of who was exploring the world. Editors Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma recover, translate, annotate, and provide historical and cultural ...(展开全部)

Trickster Travels (2006) views Italy, Spain, Morocco and other parts of North Africa and West Africa through the lens of Leo Africanus's pioneering geography. It has appeared in four translations, with three more on the way.In Trickster Travels (2006), she describes how the early 16th-century North African Muslim "Leo Africanus" (Hasan al-Wazzan) managed to live as a Christian ...(展开全部)