Eric Tagliacozzo & Shawkat M. Toorawa 
Hajj [PDF ebook] 
Pilgrimage in Islam

Religious diversity is one of the toughest challenges that today’s European societies face in their search for identity, equality and cohesion in an increasingly globalised world. This book engages c …

This book introduces students and professional historians to the main areas of concern in the history of emotions. It discusses how the emotions intersect with other lines of historical research rela …

The Rise of Contemporary Conservatism in the United States offers students an accessible introduction to the history of modern American conservatism. The author provides a concise but substantial dis …

Beginning with the extraordinary rescript by Tsar Nicholas II in August 1898 calling the world”s governments to a disarmament conference, this book charts the history of the two Hague peace conferen …

Forensic Narratives in Athenian Courts breaks new ground by exploring different aspects of forensic storytelling in Athenian legal speeches and the ways in which forensic narratives reflect normative …

Parting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome proposes that the magic-working of antiquity was in r …

Published in 1994: The period surveyed in this anthology extends from the eve of Christianity”s triumph, in the third century, to the new age of expansion in the fifteenth century, an age marked by …

For many years, Ottomanist historians have been accustomed to study the Ottoman Empire and/or its constituent regions as entities insulated from the outside world, except when it came to ”campaigns …