Renaissance Emir - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Renaissance Emir write by T.J. Gorton. This book was released on 2014-07-30. Renaissance Emir available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A groundbreaking biography of the mysterious Levantine prince Fakr ad-Din. The year is 1613: the Ottoman Empire is at its height, sprawling from Hungary to Iraq, Morocco to Yemen. One man dares to challenge it: the Prince of the mysterious Druze sect in Mount Lebanon, Fakhr ad-Din. Yielding before a mighty army sent to conquer him, he—astonishingly—takes refuge with the Medici in Florence at the height of the Renaissance. Fakhr ad-Din took along with him a diverse party of Moslem, Christian, and Jewish Levantines on their first visit to the “Lands of the Christians.” During his five-year stay in Italy, he fights to persuade Popes, Grand-Dukes and Viceroys to support a grand plan: a new Crusade to wrest the Holy Land from the Ottomans, giving Jerusalem back to Christendom and himself a crown. This groundbreaking biography of Fakhr ad-Din, Prince of the Druze, is based on the author’s vivid new translations of contemporary sources in Arabic and other languages. It brings to life one remarkable man’s beliefs and ambitions, uniquely illuminating the elusive interface between Eastern and Western culture.
The History of Galilee, 1538–1949
The History of Galilee, 1538–1949 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of Galilee, 1538–1949 write by M. M. Silver. This book was released on 2022-01-28. The History of Galilee, 1538–1949 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study of Galilee in modern times reaches back to the region's Biblical roots and points to future challenges in the Arab-Jewish conflict, Israel's development, and inter-faith relations. This volume covers an array of subjects, including Kabbalah, the rise of Palestinian nationalism, modern Christian approaches to Galilee's past and present, Zionist pioneering, the roots of the Arab-Jewish dispute, and the conflict's eruption in Galilee in 1948. The book shows how the modernization of Galilee intertwined with mystical belief and practice, developing in its own grassroots way among Palestinians, Orthodox Jews, Christians, and Druze, rather than being a byproduct of Western intervention. In doing so, The History of Galilee, 1538–1949: Mysticism, Modernization, and War offers fresh, challenging perspectives for scholars in the history of religion, military history, theology, world politics, middle eastern studies, and other disciplines.
Women in the Ottoman Empire
Women in the Ottoman Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in the Ottoman Empire write by Suraiya Faroqhi. This book was released on 2023-01-26. Women in the Ottoman Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is an often ignored but fundamental fact that in the Ottoman world, as in most empires, there were 'first-class' and 'second class' subjects. Among the townspeople, peasants and nomads subject to the sultans, who might be Muslims or non-Muslims, adult Muslim males were first-class subjects and all others, including Muslim boys and women, were of the second class. As for the female members of the elite, while less privileged than the males, in some respects their life chances might be better than those of ordinary women. Even so, they shared the risks of pregnancy, childbirth and epidemic diseases with townswomen of the subject class and to a certain extent, with village women as well. Thus, the study of Ottoman women is indispensable for understanding Ottoman society in general. In this book, the agency of women from a diverse range of class, religious, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds is, for the first time, woven into the social and political history of the Ottoman Empire, from the early-modern period to its dissolution in 1918. Suraiya Faroqhi charts the history of elite and non-elite women in thematic chapters concentrating on urban women, family life, work, slavery, education and survival in times of war. In the process the book introduces readers to the key sources, primary and secondary, necessary to reconstruct and understand the ways that females navigated social, legal and economic constraints, through the central prisms of family relations, work and charity. The first introductory social history of women in the Ottoman Empire, and including a timeline and extended further reading section, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of Ottoman history and the history of women in the Middle East.
Mythology and Diplomacy in the Age of Exploration
Mythology and Diplomacy in the Age of Exploration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mythology and Diplomacy in the Age of Exploration write by Adam Knobler. This book was released on 2016-11-28. Mythology and Diplomacy in the Age of Exploration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the relationship between medieval European mythologies of the non-Western world and the initial Portuguese and Spanish voyages of expansion and exploration to Africa, Asia and the Americas. From encounters with the Mongols and successor states, to the European contacts with Ethiopia, India and the Americas, as well as the concomitant Jewish notion of the Ten Lost Tribes, the volume views the Western search for distant, crusading allies through the lens of stories such as the apostolate of Saint Thomas and the stories surrounding the supposed priest-king Prester John. In doing so, Knobler weaves a broad history of early modern Iberian imperial expansion within the context of a history of cosmologies and mythologies.
Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond, 14th to 18th Centuries
Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond, 14th to 18th Centuries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond, 14th to 18th Centuries write by . This book was released on 2019-05-06. Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond, 14th to 18th Centuries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume aims to show through various case studies how the interrelations between Jews, Muslims and Christians in Iberia were negotiated in the field of images, objects and architecture during the Later Middle Ages and Early Modernity.
