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Author : Cosmas (Indicopleustes)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Kosma Aigyptiou Monachou Christianikē Topographia written by Cosmas (Indicopleustes) and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Wagner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191075701
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Penultimate Curiosity written by Roger Wagner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all human religions. It has, in many cultures, shaped and motivated a more down to earth scientific interest in the physical world, which could therefore be described as penultimate curiosity. These two manifestations of curiosity have a history of connection that goes back deep into the human past. Tracing that history all the way from cave painting to quantum physics, this book (a collaboration between a painter and a physical scientist that uses illustrations throughout the narrative) sets out to explain the nature of the long entanglement between religion and science: the ultimate and the penultimate curiosity.
Author : L. Potter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230618456
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Persian Gulf in History written by L. Potter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the history of the Persian Gulf from ancient times until the present day, leading authorities treat the internal history of the region and describe the role outsiders have played there. The book focuses on the unity and identity of Gulf society and how the Gulf historically has been part of a cosmopolitan Indian Ocean world.
Author : Frederick F. Anscombe
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231108386
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Ottoman Gulf written by Frederick F. Anscombe and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What caused the decline of the Ottoman empire in the Persian Gulf? Why has history credited only London, not Istanbul, with bringing about the birth of the modern Gulf States? Using the Ottoman imperial archives, as well as European and Arab sources, Anscombe explains how the combination of poor communication, scarce resources, and misplaced security concerns undermined Istanbul's control and ultimately drove the Gulf shaikhs to seek independence with ties to the British.
Author : John R. Hinnells
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780191513503
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (135 download)
Download or read book The Zoroastrian Diaspora written by John R. Hinnells and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-04-28 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the distinctive Zoroastrian experience, and what is the common diasporic experience? The Zoroastrian Diaspora is the outcome of twenty years of research and of archival and fieldwork in eleven countries, involving approximately 250,000 miles of travel. It has also involved a survey questionnaire in eight countries, yielding over 1,840 responses. This is the first book to attempt a global comparison of Diaspora groups in six continents. Little has been written about Zoroastrian communities as far apart as China, East Africa, Europe, America, and Australia or on Parsis in Mumbai post-Independence. Each chapter is based on unused original sources ranging from nineteenth century archives to contemporary newsletters. The book also includes studies of Zoroastrians on the Internet, audio-visual resources, and the modern development of Parsi novels in English. As well as studying the Zoroastrians for their own inherent importance, this book contextualizes the Zoroastrian migrations within contemporary debates on Diaspora studies. John R. Hinnells examines what it is like to be a religious Asian in Los Angeles or London, Sydney or Hong Kong. Moreover, he explores not only how experience differs from one country to another, but also the differences between cities in the same country, for example, Chicago and Houston. The survey data is used firstly to consider the distinguishing demographic features of the Zoroastrian communities in various countries; and secondly to analyse different patterns of assimilation between different groups: men and women and according to the level and type of education. Comparisons are also drawn between people from rural and urban backgrounds; and between generations in religious beliefs and practices, including the preservation of secular culture.
Author : Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857733095
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Sasanian Era written by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest volume in "The Idea of Iran" series concentrates on the Sasanian period. Seizing power from the previous dynasty - the Parthians - the Sasanians ruled Iran and most of the ancient Near East from 224 until 642 CE. They are particularly fascinating because of their adherence to Zoroastrianism, an ancient dualistic Iranian religion named after the prophet Zarathustra (or, in Greek, Zoroaster). The Sasanians expressed the divine aspect of their rule in a variety of forms, such as on coins, rock reliefs and silver plates, and architecture and the arts flourished under their aegis. Sasanian military success brought them into conflict with Rome, and later Byzantium. Their empire eventually collapsed under the force of the Arab army in AD 642, when Zoroastrianism was replaced with Islam.Engaging with all the major aspects of Sasanian culture, twelve eminent scholars address subjects which include: early Sasanian art and iconography; early Sasanian coinage; religion and identity in the Sasanian empire; later Sasanian orality and literacy; and state and society in late antique Iran. The volume in question arguably comprises the most complete and comprehensive treatment of the Sasanian civilization yet to be published in English.
Author : Richard Nelson Frye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Ancient Iran written by Richard Nelson Frye and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Willem M. Floor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933823188
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (231 download)
Download or read book The Persian Gulf written by Willem M. Floor and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Persian Gulf during the eighteenth century is still little known. This gap is now being filled by the historian and renowned scholar Willem Floor, first with publication of The Persian Gulf: A Political and Economic History of Five Port Cities, 1500-1730, and now with The Persian Gulf: The Rise of the Gulf Arabs, The Politics of Trade on the Persian Littoral, 1747-1792. This study tells the fascinating story of the shift in trade from the lower to the upper Gulf, while there was also a partial shift of trade from the northern Persian coast to the southern Arab coast. It tells of the departure of first the Dutch then the British trading companies, and the rise of the local rulers who began to dominate political developments, whether it was the Imam of Oman in Masqat, the Qavasem in the Strait of Hormuz, the Ka'b in the Shatt al-Arab, Sheikh Naser in Bushire and Bahrain, Mir Mohanna in Dashtestan and at the head of the Gulf, and the 'Otobis at Kuwait, Bahrain and Zubara. And finally it tells of how, because of a lack of interest by the Persian and Ottoman governments in the region, the Bombay fleet of the East India Company increasingly used their naval power to protect commercial interests in the Gulf, which paved the way for a similar role played by the British Royal Navy in the nineteenth century.
Author : Dionisius A. Agius
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136201750
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Seafaring in the Arabian Gulf and Oman written by Dionisius A. Agius and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the seafaring communities of the Arabian Gulf and Oman in the past 150 years. It analyses the significance of the dhow and how coastal communities interacted throughout their long tradition of seafaring. In addition to archival material, the work is based on extensive field research in which the voices of seamen were recorded in over 200 interviews. The book provides an integrated study of dhow activity in the area concerned and examines the consciousness of belonging to the wider culture of the Indian ocean as it is expressed in boat-building traditions, navigational techniques, crew organisation and port towns. People of the Dhow brings together the different measures of time past, the sea, its people and their material culture. The Arabian Gulf and Oman have traditionally shared a common destiny within the Western Indian Ocean. The seasonal monsoonal winds were fundamental to the physical and human unities of the seafaring communities, producing a way of life in harmony with the natural world, a world which was abruptly changed with the discovery of oil. What remains is memories of a seafaring past, a history of traditions and customs recorded here in the recollections of a dying generation and in the rich artistic heritage of the region.
Author : G. Mirfendereski
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230107575
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book A Diplomatic History of the Caspian Sea written by G. Mirfendereski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-08-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of short stories that both inform and amuse, this book transports the reader across the windswept shores of the Caspian Sea and provides a provocative view of the wars, peace, intrigues, and betrayals that have shaped the political geography of this important and volatile region. The demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the eclipsing of the old Iranian-Soviet regime of the sea have given rise to new challenges for the regional actors and unprecedented opportunities for international players to tap into the area's enormous oil and gas resources, third in size only behind Siberia and the Persian Gulf. This book explores the historical themes that inform and animate the more immediate and familiar discussions about petroleum, pipelines, and ethnic conflict in the Caspian region.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Iran: The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian Periods written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles King
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191647772
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Black Sea written by Charles King and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lands surrounding the Black Sea share a colourful past. Though in recent decades they have experienced ethnic conflict, economic collapse, and interstate rivalry, their common heritage and common interests go deep. Now, as a region at the meeting point of the Balkans, Central Asia, and the Middle East, the Black Sea is more important than ever. In this lively and entertaining book, which is based on extensive research in multiple languages, Charles King investigates the myriad connections that have made the Black Sea more of a bridge than a boundary, linking religious communities, linguistic groups, empires, and later, nations and states.
Author : Beatrice Nicolini
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004137807
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Makran, Oman, and Zanzibar written by Beatrice Nicolini and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique contribution to the growing field of western Indian Ocean studies brings new light and new perspective on the early 19th century expansion of both Omani Sultan and the British. The important role played by the Baluch in East Africa is here discussed thanks to little known archive documents integrated with field work.
Author : James Onley
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199228108
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj written by James Onley and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007-11-22 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj tells the story behind one of the British Indian Empire's most forbidding frontiers: Eastern Arabia. Taking the shaikhdom of Bahrain as a case study, James Onley reveals how heavily Britain's informal empire in the Gulf, and other regions surrounding British India, depended upon the assistance and support of local elites.
Author : I. Gershevitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521200912
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Iran written by I. Gershevitch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. Lienhardt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0333985273
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (339 download)
Download or read book Shaikhdoms of Eastern Arabia written by P. Lienhardt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-03-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study captures the traditional social, economic and political systems of the Arab sheikhdoms of the Gulf. It represents a unique and in-depth insight into the complex and varied cultural patterns of the Arabs, Persians and the people of the East African Coast in the 1950s, before the advent of oil wealth radically altered the style of life and expectations of the people living in these sheikdoms. In a compelling narrative Lienhardt discusses the tribal structure, relations between men and women, the economics of pearl fishing, the growth of towns and the complex relationship between the ruling sheikhs and their subjects. His findings offer a key to the understanding of the political system and the transition from the tribal to the class system. Specialists on the Gulf and Middle East, social historians and anthropologists will find a wealth of new evidence and analysis in this invaluable and accessible combination of history and anthropology.
Author : Pietro Casola
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Canon Pietro Casola's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the Year 1494 written by Pietro Casola and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1907 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
