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Product Description: This encyclopaedia contains articles on distinguished Muslims, on tribes and dynasties, on crafts and sciences, on political and religious institutions, on the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the various countries as well as on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities...read more

Product Description: Nishapuri flourished in the 12th century and wrote a succinct history in Persian of the Saljuq Turks, a tribal group from Central Asia who in the 11th century established a vast empire, enduring for some century and a half and bringing about lasting changes to the ethnic composition and the patterns of land utilisation in the northern tier of the Middle East...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This volume of al-T'abari's History has a particularly wide sweep and interest. It provides the most complete and detailed historical source for the Persian empire of the Sasanids, whose four centuries of rule were one of the most glorious periods in Persia's long history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This text sets out the state of our knowledge of the Islamic world. It embraces articles on distinguished Muslims of every age and land, on tribes and dynasties, on the crafts and sciences, on political and religious institutions, on the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the various countries...read more

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Product Description: This text is part of a work that presents a guide to the Islamic world. Articles cover topics as varied as: tribes and dynasties; crafts; sciences; political and religious institutions; geography, ethnography, flora and fauna; and history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities...read more

Product Description: For more information about the Encyclopeadia of Islam Online visit www.encislam.brill.nl to view a free demo or to place your order. "The Encyclopaedia of Islam" (New Edition) sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World...read more