A Thousand Golden Cities: 2,500 Years of Writing from Afghanistan and its People
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An anthology celebrating the rich and captivating history, culture and politics of Afghanistan.
Justin Marozzi Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)
Justin Marozzi is een vooraanstaand reisschrijver, historicus en journalist wiens werk zich vaak verdiept in het Midden-Oosten en de moslimwereld. Met een diepgaand begrip van complexe culturele en politieke landschappen onderneemt Marozzi reizen om vergeten verhalen te ontdekken en historische contexten te onderzoeken die het heden vormgeven. Zijn schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door scherpe inzichten, meeslepende verhalen en een talent om persoonlijke ervaringen te verbinden met bredere historische gebeurtenissen. Zijn boeken nodigen lezers uit tot avontuurlijke ontdekkingstochten door geschiedenis en hedendaags leven.
The Arab Conquests
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The story of the Muslim conquests of the 7th and 8th centuries AD, when armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant, southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula, destroying two great empires in the process.
A history of the rich and diverse civilizations over fifteen centuries of Islam seen through its greatest cities. Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and swathes of the Indian subcontinent, while Europe cowered feebly at the margins. For centuries the caliphate was both ascendant on the battlefield and triumphant in the battle of ideas, its cities unrivaled powerhouses of artistic grandeur, commercial power, spiritual sanctity, and forward-looking thinking, in which nothing was off limits. Islamic Empires is a history of this rich and diverse civilization told through its greatest cities over the fifteen centuries of Islam, from its earliest beginnings in Mecca in the seventh century to the astonishing rise of Doha in the twenty-first. Marozzi brilliantly connects the defining moments in Islamic history: from the Prophet Mohammed receiving his divine revelations in Mecca and the First Crusade of 1099 to the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and the phenomenal creation of the merchant republic of Beirut in the nineteenth century, and how this world is continuing to change today.
Islamische Imperien
Die Geschichte einer Zivilisation in fünfzehn Städten | »Eine herausragende Geschichte des Islam.« Peter Frankopan
Islamic Empires
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- 17 uur lezen
Marozzi's expertly crafted narrative captures the rich, varied and often complex nature of Islamic civilization by offering glimpses of not just its leaders and their institutions but also its cultural shifts through history
Tamerlane (1336-1405)-the tartar successor to Genghis Khan-ranks with Alexander the Great as one of the world's greatest conquerors. His armies were ferocious, feared throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe. They blazed through Asia like a firestorm, razing cities, torturing captives, and massacring enemies. Anyone who dared defy Tamerlane was likely decapitated, and towers of bloody heads soon became chilling monuments to his power throughout Central Asia. By the end of his life, Tamerlane had imposed his iron rule, as well as a refined culture, over a vast territory-from Syria to India, from Siberia to the Mediterranean. Justin Marozzi traveled in the footsteps of this infamous and enigmatic emperor of Samarkand (in modern Uzbekistan) to tell the story of this cruel, cultivated, and powerful warrior.