The philosopher and physician Abû ‘Alî al-Husayn ibn ‘Abdallâh ibn Sînâ (d. 1037 c.e.), known
in the West by his Latinized name Avicenna, was one of the most influential thinkers of the Islamic and European Middle Ages. Yet for a ...
This collection of essays explores the ways that memories of African slavery and the slave
trade persist into the present, as well as the effect those memories have in shaping political, social, economic, and religious behavior today. The articles take ...
Capoeira is a unique music-dance-sport-play activity created by African slaves in Brazil, and Candomblé is
a hybrid religion combining Catholic and African beliefs and practices. The two are closely interconnected. Capoeira and Candomblé have for centuries made up a coherent ...
The Caucasus has fascinated humanity for millennia. A natural crossroads aconstellationscovernd a perpetual borderland, the
region has often been described as the meeting place of East and West, Europe and Asia, Christendom and Islam. The Caucasus Mountains are home to ...
Cuentos is a bilingual anthology of twelve short stories, many of which appeared in the
1960s in the English-language magazine The San Juan Review, co-founded by Kal Wagenheim and Augusto Font. Written by six of Puerto Rico’s leading writers, the ...
Medieval Fez was a main center of education, art, and commerce from the 13th to
the 16th centuries after the Berber tribe of the Marīnids seized power in Morocco and moved the capital from Marrakesh to Fez. As non-Arabs they ...
In vivid and engaging style, Douglas Brookes uses the royal tomb of Sultan Mahmud II
as a window onto the past, exploring the insights the tomb reveals about Ottoman culture in its splendid last decades. Woven into the tale are ...
The final volume in this highly acclaimed series ushers in the twentieth century, the bloodiest
in world history, and arguably the century that saw more accelerated and profound changes than any previous era. The book begins by examining the vicious ...