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• Author(s): Aḥmad Ibn Al-Balādhurī | Philip Khuri Hitti • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralTranslated by Dr. Philip Khûri Hitti in 1916, The Origins of the Islamic State, or the Kitâb ...

• Author(s): Guy Le Strange • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralOriginally published in 1890 and translated from "the works of the medieval Arab geographers," Palestine under the Moslems...

• Author(s): Ibn Battuta | Samuel Lee • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Expeditions & DiscoveriesHe journeyed farther than his near contemporary Marco Polo, though Muslim scholar Ibn Battuta (1304-c. 1...

• Author(s): Syed Ameer Ali • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralThe Spirit of Islam is considered one of the best and most well-written sources of information on the life of Mohammed the...

• Author(s): Guy Le Strange • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralThe Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1905, is an anthology of geograp...

• Author(s): Walter Melville Patton • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralWritten in both English and Arabic, Ahmed Ibn Hanbal and the Mihna is the biography of the famous and beloved Imam...

• Author(s): Richard F. Burton • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Middle EasternNotorious for the delight he took in tweaking the sexual taboos of the Victorian age-as well as the delight he took in the res...

• Author(s): Al-Ghazzali | Al-Ghazzali | W. H. T. Gairdner • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralThe Mishkat Al-Anwar, literally translated "The Niche for Lights," is a theological and phi...

• Author(s): Richard F. Burton • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Middle EasternNotorious for the delight he took in tweaking the sexual taboos of the Victorian age-as well as the delight he took in the res...

• Author(s): Hilaire Belloc • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralFirst published in 1922, The Mercy of Allah describes the civilization of the Arabs through the extraordinary tales a weal...

• Author(s): David S. Margoliouth • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralAdapted from a series of lectures delivered at the University of London in 1913, this is a strikingly clearheaded an...

• Author(s): J. M. Rodwell | David S. Margoliouth • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Essays"The Koran" is the holy book of Islam, considered by Muslims to be the divine word of God and a spiritual guide for...

• Author(s): Ibn Khallikan | William Macguckin De Slane • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Bibliographies & IndexesIbn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, or Deaths of Eminent Men and History of the So...

• Author(s): Ibn Khallikan • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Bibliographies & IndexesIbn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, or Deaths of Eminent Men and History of the Sons of the Epoch, was the note...

• Author(s): Ibn Khallikan | William Macguckin De Slane • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Bibliographies & IndexesIbn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, or Deaths of Eminent Men and History of the So...

• Author(s): Ely Banister Soane • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: GeneralThe place names are familiar to anyone who watches the evening news: Kurdistan. Kirkuk. Mosul. Baghdad. In the early 1900s, author E...

• Author(s): Edward W. Lane | Stanley Lane-Poole • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Middle EasternCompiled over many years in the 1800s by Edward William Lane, The Arabic-English Lexicon is a massive Arabic...

• Author(s): Charles Leonard Irby | James Mangles • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralTravels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and the Holy Land is a detailed journal from two commanders in th...