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Trans-Saharan Africa in World History by Ralph A. AustenPublication Date: 2010-04-19
During the heyday of camel caravan traffic--from the eighth century CE arrival of Islam in North Africa to the early twentieth-century building of European colonial railroads that linked the Sudan with the Atlantic--the Sahara was one of the world's great commercial highways, bringing gold,slaves, and other commodities northward and sending both manufactured goods and Mediterranean culture southward into the Sudan. Historian Ralph A. Austen here tells the remarkable story of an African world that grew out of more than one thousand years of trans-Saharan trading.
The Silk Roads : a new history of the world by Peter FrankopanPublication Date: 2017-03-07
Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South Asia has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent years. Frankopan teaches us that to understand what is at stake for the cities and nations built on these intricate trade routes, we must first understand their astounding pasts.
The thirteenth tribe : the Khazar empire and its heritage by Arthur KoestlerISBN: 9780394402840
Publication Date: 1976-07-12
This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by the forces of Ghengis Khan, but evidence indicates that the Khazars themselves migrated to Poland and formed the cradle of Western Jewry.
Islam and Trade in Sierra Leone by Alusine Jalloh (Editor); David E. Skinner (Editor)Publication Date: 1997-04-01
Contents: Islam in the northern hinterland and its influence on the development of the Sierra Leone colony -- Trade and Islam in Sierra Leone, 18th-20th centuries -- Alhaji Momodu Allie: Muslim Fula entrepreneur in colonial Sierra Leone -- Religion, gender, and education in Northern Sierra Leone, 1896-1992 -- Muslim Fula merchants and the motor transport business in Freetown, 1961-1978 -- Islamic organization and influence in Sierra Leone, 1930-1990 -- Popular Islam and political expression in Sierra Leone -- The effects of Arab Foreign Aid on Sierra Leone's economic growth: a quantitative analysis
The Golden Age of Islam by Maurice Lombard; Joan Spencer (Contribution by); Jane Hathaway (Introduction by)Publication Date: 2003-10-01
Maurice Lombard portrays the Islamic world as the center of civilization at a time when the West was primitive and backward. Its reach extended from Cordoba to Samarkand, and it maintained and developed the tradition of wealth, cultural and artistic achievement, and thriving urban life which it had absorbed from its predecessors, the civilizations of Greece, Egypt, and Persia and the ancient cities of the Middle East. It is this Islamic economy and civilization which the author portrays at its height and brilliantly sets into its context of satellite, in part semi-civilized, peripheral worlds.
The Great Caliphs: the golden age of the 'Abbasid Empire by Amira K. BennisonPublication Date: 2009
Amira K. Bennison contradicts the common assumption that Islam somehow interrupted the smooth flow of Western civilization from its Graeco-Roman origins to its more recent European and American manifestations. Instead, she places Islamic civilization in the longer trajectory of Mediterranean civilizations and sees the 'Abbasid Empire (750-1258 CE) as the inheritor and interpreter of Graeco-Roman traditions. At its zenith the 'Abbasid caliphate stretched over the entire Middle East and part of North Africa, and influenced Islamic regimes as far west as Spain.
Islamic Economics: a short history by Ahmed Abdel-Fattah El-Ashker; Rodney WilsonPublication Date: 2006-01-01
The study covers Muslim economic thought from the emergence of Islam, long before economics became a separate discipline with distinctive analytical tools. The economic environment in ancient Arabia from which Islam emerged is examined, and the economic concepts in the Qur'an and Sunnah are discussed, as well as the thinking of early Muslim jurists. Detailed consideration is given to Islamic economic thought during the dynasties of the Umayyads and the Abbasids, periods of administrative and economic reform, as well as of much latter developments under the Ottomans, Safawids and Moghuls.
Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: filling the "great gap" in European economics by S. M. GhazanfarPublication Date: 2004-06-02
This book is a collection of papers on the origins of economic thought discovered in the writings of some prominent Islamic scholars, during the five centuries prior to the Latin Scholastics, who include St. Thomas Aquinas. This period was labelled by Joseph Schumpeter as representing the 'great gap' in economic history. However, during this period the Islamic civilization was one of the most fertile grounds for intellectual developments in various disciplines, including economics, and this book attempts to fill that blind-spot in the history of economic thought.
The thirteenth tribe : the Khazar empire and its heritage by Arthur KoestlerISBN: 9780394402840
Publication Date: 1976-07-12
This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by the forces of Ghengis Khan, but evidence indicates that the Khazars themselves migrated to Poland and formed the cradle of Western Jewry.
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