Professor C.E. Bosworth FBA is a Middle East historian of world stature. In this volume his friends and colleagues come together to honour his 70th birthday. Th

In 26 well-chosen research essays, this volume celebrates the 70th birthday of Professor C.E. Bosworth FBA, the distinguished Middle East Historian.

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Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic his

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