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  • An Ottoman Traveller

    Selections from the Book of Travels by Evliya Çelebi

    Edited by Robert Dankoff ...
    Evliya Çelebi is the greatest travel writer of the Ottoman Empire. Born in Istanbul in 1611, he started travelling in 1640 and continued for over forty years, stopping eventually in Cairo where he died in about 1685. He collected his lively and eclectic observations into a ten-volume manuscript the Seyahatname, or Book of Travels. For the first time in English, this selection gives a taste of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ottoman Explorations of the Nile

    Evliya Çelebi’s Map of the Nile and The Nile Journeys in the Book of Travels (Seyahatname)

    by Robert Dankoff, Nuran Tezcan, Michael D. Sheridan ...
    Before the time of Napoleon, the most ambitious effort to explore and map the Nile was undertaken by the Ottomans, as attested by two monumental documents: an elaborate map, with 475 rubrics, and a lengthy travel account. Both were achieved at about the same time—c. 1685—and both by the same man.Evliya Çelebi’s account of his Nile journeys, in the tenth volume of his Book of Travels (Seyahatname), ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Early Mystics in Turkish Literature

    by Mehmed Fuad Koprulu ...
    Translated by Gary Leiser, Robert Dankoff ...
    Series series Routledge Sufi Series
    This book is a translation of one of the most important Turkish scholarly works of the twentieth century. It was the masterpiece of M.F. Koprulu, one of Turkey’s leading, and most prolific, intellectuals and scholars. Using a wide variety of Arabic, and especially Turkish and Persian sources, this book sheds light on the early development of Turkish literature and attempts to show the continuity ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

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  • The Feast of Roses

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    by Indu Sundaresan ...
    **"Arich historical tapestry...Sundaresan colors the life of a fascinating woman whose female wiles inspired the Taj Mahal" (Booklist).The love story of Emperor Jahangir and Mehrunnisa, begun in the critically praised debut novel The Twentieth Wife, continues in Indu Sundaresan's lush second novel, The Feast of Roses.Here, Mehrunnisa comes into Jahangir's harem as his twentieth and last wife. This ... Read more

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  • Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness

    Arab Travellers in the Far North

    by Ibn Fadlan ...
    In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking customs, dress, table manners, religion and sexual practices, as well as the only eyewitness account ever written of a Viking ship cremation.Between the ... Read more

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  • Travels with a Tangerine

    A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

    by Tim Mackintosh-Smith ...
    Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, travelling three times the distance Marco Polo covered. Spiritual backpacker, social climber, temporary hermit and failed ambassador, he braved brigands, blisters and his own prejudices. The outcome was a monumental travel classic ... Read more

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  • The Southern Gates Of Arabia - A Journey In The Hadbramaut

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    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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  • The Book of Contemplation

    Islam and the Crusades

    by Usama ibn Munqidh ...
    The volume comprises lightly annotated translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them. ... Read more

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  • The Indu Sundaresan Collection

    The Twentieth Wife, Feast of Roses, and Shadow Princess

    by Indu Sundaresan ...
    Internationally bestselling author Indu Sundaresan's “Taj Trilogy,” now available as an ebook boxed set, features three of her most critically acclaimed novels transporting readers back in time to India's renowned Mughal Empire.THE TWENTIETH WIFE:An enchanting historical epic of grand passion and adventure, this debut novel tells the captivating story of one of India's most controversial empresses ... Read more

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  • The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt

    by Elizabeth Payne ...
    Series series Landmark Books
    For more than 3,000 years, Egypt was a great civilization that thrived along the banks of the Nile River. But when its cities crumbled to dust, Egypt’s culture and the secrets of its hieroglyphic writings werealso lost. The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt explains how archaeologists have pieced together their discoveries to slowly reveal the history of Egypt’s people, its pharaohs, and its golden days. ... Read more

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  • Suleiman the Magnificent: Sultan of the East

    by Harold Lamb ...
    An outstanding scholar of the East, author Harold Lamb here presented another one of his brilliant, carefully worked, and blazingly colorful tapestries of a man and his era - in this case, it is Suleiman, wisest and strongest of the Sultans of Turkey, who lived during the dying days of the Renaissance. Suleiman was building an invincible empire to the East. Drawn at first by temperament and ... Read more

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