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2024 |
![]() ![]() Author: Smith Mackintosh Tim Publisher: Almutawassit € 17,00
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2022 |
![]() ![]() Author: Mackintosh-Smith Tim Publisher: Einaudi Un caleidoscopico viaggio lungo 3000 anni di storia dei popoli arabi: dalle prime tribù all'avvento clamoroso dell'islam, dalle tragiche lacerazioni politiche della modernità alle insurrezioni delle primavere arabe. Con la lingua araba come indiscussa sovrana, fonte inimitabile di poesia e sacralità, di identità e di cultura condivisa. In questo saggio magistrale, Tim Mackintosh-Smith ripercorre quasi tremila anni di storia, facendo rivivere davanti ai nostri occhi i popoli e le tribù della penisola arabica che hanno conquistato moltissime terre e diffuso la loro lingua in Asia e in Africa. Mackintosh-Smith fa risalire le origini di questo processo agli albori della stessa lingua araba, molto prima dell'avvento dell'islam, e fa dell'arabo, parlato e scritto, uno degli assi che definiscono l'identità culturale condivisa dagli arabi nel corso dei millenni. Risalendo alla poesia preislamica e ai conflitti tra i beduini e i popoli sedentari d'Arabia, l'autore descrive la nascita della scrittura araba, la vita di Mu?ammad e le conquiste dell'islam, le crociate, le dinastie omayyadi e abbasidi, la magnificenza della Spagna islamica, il dominio turco, il colonialismo, l'ascesa e il declino del panarabismo, la moderna fioritura della lingua araba, le primavere arabe e il fondamentalismo. La storia dei popoli e della cultura araba nel corso di tre millenni, una storia epica in cui, più attuali che mai, risuonano nel presente gli echi del passato, sia in Occidente che in Oriente. € 40,00
Scontato: € 38,00
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1919 |
![]() ![]() Author: Tim Mackintosh-Smith Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS € 31,20
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1917 |
![]() ![]() Author: Al-sirafi Abu Zayd, MacKintosh-Smith Tim (TRN), Benite Zvi Ben-Dor (FRW), Kennedy Philip F. (EDT) Publisher: New York Univ Pr € 13,40
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1916 |
![]() ![]() Author: MacKintosh-Smith Tim Publisher: Collectors Library € 13,50
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![]() ![]() Author: Tim Mackintosh-Smith Publisher: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Pu € 15,50
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![]() ![]() Author: Tim Mackintosh-Smith Publisher: Bloomsbury Export Editions € 15,80
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1914 |
![]() ![]() Author: Al-sirafi Abu Zayd, Ibn Fadlan Ahmad, MacKintosh-Smith Tim (EDT), Montgomery James (EDT), Kennedy Philip F. (EDT) Publisher: New York Univ Pr Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences.Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes on the lands and peoples of the Indian Ocean, from the Somali headlands to China and Korea. The early centuries of the Abbasid era witnessed a substantial network of maritime trade—the real-life background to the Sindbad tales. In this account, we first travel east to discover a vivid human landscape, including descriptions of Chinese society and government, Hindu religious practices, and natural life from flying fish to Tibetan musk-deer and Sri Lankan gems. The juxtaposed accounts create a jigsaw picture of a world not unlike our own, a world on the road to globalization. In its ports, we find a priceless cargo of information; here are the first foreign descriptions of tea and porcelain, a panorama of unusual social practices, cannibal islands, and Indian holy men—a marvelous, mundane world, contained in the compass of a novella. In Mission to the Volga, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia. This colorful documentary by Ibn Fadlan relates the trials and tribulations of an embassy of diplomats and missionaries sent by caliph al-Muqtadir to deliver political and religious instruction to the recently-converted King of the Bulghars. During eleven months of grueling travel, Ibn Fadlan records the marvels he witnesses on his journey, including an aurora borealis and the white nights of the North. Crucially, he offers a description of the Viking Rus, including their customs, clothing, tattoos, and a striking account of a ship funeral.Mission to the Volga is also the earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic—a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. Together, the stories in Two Arabic Travel Books illuminate a vibrant world of diversity during the heyday of the Abbasid empire, narrated with as much curiosity and zeal as they were perceived by their observant beholders. € 37,80
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![]() ![]() Author: MacKintosh-Smith Tim Publisher: Overlook Pr Arguably the most fascinating and least understood country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fantastic. A country long regarded by classical geographers as a fabulous land where flying serpents guarded sacred incense groves, while medieval Arab visitors told tales of disappearing islands and menstruating mountains. Our current ideas of this country at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula have been hijacked by images of the terrorist strongholds, drone attacks, and diplomatic tensions. But, as Mackintosh-Smith reminds us in this newly updated book, there is another Arabia. Yemen may be a part of Arabia, but it is like no place on earth. € 17,00
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2004 |
![]() ![]() Author: MacKintosh-Smith Tim, Yeoman Martin (ILT) Publisher: Random House Inc In 1325, the great Arab traveler Ibn Battutah set out from his native Tangier in North Africa on pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned nearly thirty years later, he had seen most of the known world, covering three times the distance allegedly traveled by the great Venetian explorer Marco Polo—some 75,000 miles in all. Captivated by Ibn Battutah's account of his journey, the Arabic scholar and award-winning travel writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith set out to follow in the peripatetic Moroccan's footsteps. Traversing Egyptian deserts and remote islands in the Arabian Sea, visiting castles in Syria and innumerable souks in medieval Islam's great cities, Mackintosh-Smith sought clues to Ibn Battutah's life and times, encountering the ghost of “IB” in everything from place names (in Tangier alone, a hotel, street, airport, and ferry bear IB's name), to dietary staples to an Arabic online dating service— and introducing us to a world of unimaginable wonders. By necessity, Mackintosh-Smith's journey may have cut some corners (“I only wish I had the odd thirty years to spare, and Ibn Battutah's enviable knack of extracting large amounts of cash, robes and slaves from compliant rulers.”) But in this wry, evocative, and uniquely engaging travelogue, he spares no effort in giving readers an unforgettable glimpse into both the present-day and fourteenth-century Islamic worlds. € 17,00
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2003 |
![]() ![]() Author: Battutah Ibn, MacKintosh-Smith Tim Publisher: Pan Macmillan Ibn Battutah?ethnographer, bigrapher, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist?was just 21 when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgramage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another 29 years, traveling instead through more than 40 countries on the modern map, covering 75,000 miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as far east as China, and as far south as Tanzania. He wrote of his travels, and comes across as a superb ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian, and occasional botanist and gastronome. With this edition by Mackintosh-Smith, Battuta's Travels takes its place alongside other indestructible masterpieces of the travel-writing genre. € 16,10
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