Damascus, first published in 2005, was the first account in English of the history of the city, bringing out the crucial role it has played at many points in the region’s past. It traces the story …
The celebrated Great Mosque of Damascus was built in the early eighth century by the Umayyad caliph al-Wal? d b.'Abd al-Malik. This book provides a detailed study of this Mosque. …
In The Talisman, a fictional account of the Christian crusaders' adven tures in Palestine, Sir Walter Scott tells of a meeting between Richard the Lionhearted and the Saracen king …
Upon the death of Saladin in 1193, his vast empire, stretching from the Yemen to the upper reaches of the Tigris, fell into the hands of his Ayyubid kinsmen. These latter parceled his …
As a result of an unprecedented phenomenon in human history, the two World Wars in this century-the most unfortunate and degrading experience of mankind as well as the …
www.torrossa.com/it/resources/an/5213692This imperfect study is possible, of course, only because of the labours of others before, to whom I have tried to do justice in the Introduction as well as the footnotes. The Bibliography …
On the basis of new evidence from the Ottoman archives in Istanbul, Karl Barbir challenges the current interpretation of Ottoman rule in Damascus during the eighteenth century. He …
www.torrossa.com/it/resources/an/5203573This book was written while I was Sutasoma Research Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. The community at Lucy provided me with a very warm and supportive …
The steel of Damascus blades, which were first encountered by the Crusaders when fighting against Muslims, had features not found in European steels — a characteristic wavy …
Michael Chamberlain focuses on medieval Damascus to develop a new approach to the relationship between the society and culture of the Middle East. The author argues that …