In the `encyclopaedic' fourteenth century, Arabic chronicles produced in Mamluk cities bore textual witness to both recent and bygone history, including that of the Fatimids (969-1171CE). For in two centuries of rule over Egypt and North Africa, the Isma`ili Fatimids had left few self-generated historiographical records. Instead, it fell to Ayyubid and Mamluk historians to repr...(展开全部)

“How could I allow my soldiers to sail on this disloyal and cruel sea?” These words, attributed to the most powerful caliph of medieval Islam, Umar Ibn al-Khattab (634–644), have led to a misunderstanding in the West about the importance of the Mediterranean to early Islam. This body of water, known in Late Antiquity as the Sea of the Romans, was critical to establishing the ki...(展开全部)

“How could I allow my soldiers to sail on this disloyal and cruel sea?” These words, attributed to the most powerful caliph of medieval Islam, Umar Ibn al-Khattab (634–644), have led to a misunderstanding in the West about the importance of the Mediterranean to early Islam. This body of water, known in Late Antiquity as the Sea of the Romans, was critical to establishing the ki...(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)

米歇尔·德·塞尔托（Michelde Certeau），1925年5月出生在尚贝里城。他是一位充满好奇心、才华横溢且不墨守成规的智者。在接受了扎实的哲学、古典文献学、史学和神学教育之后，他于1950年加入了耶稣会，并在1956年获授圣职，此后一直没有离开。作为一位研究从文艺复兴到古典时期神学文本的历史学家，塞尔托对人类学、语言学以及心理分析学的方法都饶有兴趣。在巴黎、欧洲、美洲培养了大量的学生。1984年7月，离开加利福尼亚大学，返回法国社会科学高等研究院，主讲《信仰的历史人类学》。1986年1月9日，因罹患癌症卒于巴黎。 塞尔托学术视野开阔，研究见解独到、立论坚实、结构严谨，思想上的严格要求始终贯穿于其研究当中。他坚信普通人也有着一种创造性，而非处于被动，每一个人都可以发明一种“适当的”方式，在生命丛林中开辟出一条道路。

米歇尔·德·塞尔托（Michelde Certeau），1925年5月出生在尚贝里城。他是一位充满好奇心、才华横溢且不墨守成规的智者。在接受了扎实的哲学、古典文献学、史学和神学教育之后，他于1950年加入了耶稣会，并在1956年获授圣职，此后一直没有离开。作为一位研究从文艺复兴到古典时期神学文本的历史学家，塞尔托对人类学、语言学以及心理分析学的方法都饶有兴趣。在巴黎、欧洲、美洲培养了大量的学生。1984年7月，离开加利福尼亚大学，返回法国社会科学高等研究院，主讲《信仰的历史人类学》。1986年1月9日，因罹患癌症卒于巴黎。 塞尔托学术视野开阔，研究见解独到、立论坚实、结构严谨，思想上的严格要求始终贯穿于其研究当中。他坚信普通人也有着一种创造性，而非处于被动，每一个人都可以发明一种“适当的”方式，在生命丛林中开辟出一条道路。

Awards Winner of the 2022 Dan David Prize for outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history Winner of the 2023 Medieval Academy of America Monica H. Green Prize for Distinguished Medieval Research Honorable Mention in the 2023 Middle East Medievalists Book Prize In Middle Eastern cities as early as th...(展开全部)

In order to perfectly describe the world, it is not enough to speak truly. In this ambitious and ground-breaking book, Theodore Sider argues that for a representation to be fully successful, truth is not enough; the representation must also use the right concepts-concepts that 'carve at the joints'-so that its conceptual structure matches reality's structure. There is an object...(展开全部)