Cotton Climate And Camels In Early Islamic Iran
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Cotton Climate And Camels In Early Islamic Iran
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Author : Richard W. Bulliet
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2009-08-22
Cotton Climate And Camels In Early Islamic Iran written by Richard W. Bulliet and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-22 with History categories.
A boom in the production and export of cotton turned Iran into the richest region of the Islamic caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries. Yet in the eleventh century, Iran's primacy ended as its agricultural economy entered a steep decline. Richard W. Bulliet advances several provocative explanations, for example that the boom in cotton production paralleled the spread of Islam and that Iran's agricultural decline stemmed from a significant cooling of the climate that lasted more than a century. Substantiating his argument with innovative quantitative research and scientific discoveries, Bulliet first establishes the relationship between Iran's cotton industry and Islam and then outlines the evidence for what he terms the "Big Chill." He then focuses on a lucrative but temperature-sensitive industry of cross-breeding one-humped and two-humped camels, concluding with an unusual concatenation of events that had a profound and long-lasting impact not just on the history of Iran but on the development of the world.
Cotton Climate And Camels In Early Islamic Iran
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Author : Richard W. Bulliet
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2009
Cotton Climate And Camels In Early Islamic Iran written by Richard W. Bulliet and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Agriculture categories.
A boom in the production and export of cotton turned Iran into the richest region of the Islamic caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries. Yet in the eleventh century, Iran's primacy ended as its agricultural economy entered a steep decline. Richard W. Bulliet advances several provocative explanations, for example that the boom in cotton production paralleled the spread of Islam and that Iran's agricultural decline stemmed from a significant cooling of the climate that lasted more than a century. Substantiating his argument with innovative quantitative research and scientific discoveries, Bulliet first establishes the relationship between Iran's cotton industry and Islam and then outlines the evidence for what he terms the "Big Chill." He then focuses on a lucrative but temperature-sensitive industry of cross-breeding one-humped and two-humped camels, concluding with an unusual concatenation of events that had a profound and long-lasting impact not just on the history of Iran but on the development of the world.
The One Donkey Solution
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Author : Richard Bulliet
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2011-04
The One Donkey Solution written by Richard Bulliet and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04 with Fiction categories.
A Harvard professor, an evangelical preacher, a self-described Rabbi, a German dominatrix, and the proprietor of a Scottish donkey refuge walk into bar... The End Times dominate their discussion. Agreeing that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are all true religions, and recognizing that each faith prophesies a Messiah riding on a donkey, they debate two scenarios: The three-donkey solution one donkey per Savior with the three racing to see who can get to Jerusalem fi rst. Or the one-donkey solution the true Messiah being the one whose devotees can corral the immortal messianic donkey that has previously borne Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad. Eight years elapse. The donkey genome is decoded. American evangelicals and Iran's messianic President Ahmadinejad deploy secret agents to lay hands on the sacred donkey as identifi ed by its DNA. The reader follows Toots, the feisty daughter of the refuge owner, and her boyfriend Fritz, a student of the dominatrix, as they seek to escape from these nefarious groups. Israeli intelligence and a sweet and devout CIA agent come to realize that the DNA search can be circumvented by getting hold of Fritz, who has actually encountered, and conversed with, the one true messianic donkey: Ya'fur. And then there is Ya'fur's evil brother Ufair.
Chakra
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Author : Richard Bulliet
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2014-06-30
Chakra written by Richard Bulliet and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-30 with Fiction categories.
Lee Ingalls is living in Kokand, the capital of an obscure Central Asian republic. Her husband, a US Commerce Department consultant, introduces local entrepreneurs, only recently freed from Soviet rule, to the joys of capitalism. But as a scholar of the ancient Vedic language that was spoken in the region five thousand years earlier, Lee came to Kokand with other expectations. Now she is bored by her husband's ambition and disgusted by the amorous President of the republic, whom she is tutoring in English. Then an incredibly ancient artifact is discovered on the floor of the Aral Sea, and she is plunged into an adventure that calls on all her fortitude and knowledge. Ancient myth becomes current reality as she transforms her life in an effort to save the world.
Parable And Politics In Early Islamic History
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Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2010
Parable And Politics In Early Islamic History written by Tayeb El-Hibri and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Social Science categories.
Tayeb El-Hibri draws on medieval Islamic chronicles to remap the origins of Islamic political and religious orthodoxy, offering an insightful critique of both early and contemporary Islam and the concerns of legitimacy shadowing various rulers. He also highlights the Islamic reinterpretation of biblical traditions.
Mamluk Cairo A Crossroads For Embassies
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Author : Frédéric Bauden
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-01-07
Mamluk Cairo A Crossroads For Embassies written by Frédéric Bauden and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-07 with History categories.
Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies gathers twenty-eight essays that offer the most up-to-date insight into the diplomacy and diplomatics of the Mamluk sultanate with Muslim and non-Muslim powers.
Water On Sand
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Author : Alan Mikhail
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-11-09
Water On Sand written by Alan Mikhail and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-09 with Science categories.
From Morocco to Iran and the Black Sea to the Red, Water on Sand rewrites the history of the Middle East and North Africa from the Little Ice Age to the Cold War era. As the first holistic environmental history of the region, it shows the intimate connections between peoples and environments and how these relationships shaped political, economic, and social history in startling and unforeseen ways. Nearly all political powers in the region based their rule on the management and control of natural resources, and nearly all individuals were in constant communion with the natural world. To grasp how these multiple histories were central to the pasts of the Middle East and North Africa, the chapters in this book evidence the power of environmental history to open up new avenues of scholarly inquiry.
The Wheel
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Author : Richard W. Bulliet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Wheel written by Richard W. Bulliet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
A visually rich, analytical history of the key cycles in a revolutionary technology.
Empires And Barbarians
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Author : Peter Heather
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-03-04
Empires And Barbarians written by Peter Heather and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-04 with History categories.
Empires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds--the undeveloped barbarian world and the sophisticated Roman Empire--into remarkably similar societies and states. The book's vivid narrative begins at the time of Christ, when the Mediterranean circle, newly united under the Romans, hosted a politically sophisticated, economically advanced, and culturally developed civilization--one with philosophy, banking, professional armies, literature, stunning architecture, even garbage collection. The rest of Europe, meanwhile, was home to subsistence farmers living in small groups, dominated largely by Germanic speakers. Although having some iron tools and weapons, these mostly illiterate peoples worked mainly in wood and never built in stone. The farther east one went, the simpler it became: fewer iron tools and ever less productive economies. And yet ten centuries later, from the Atlantic to the Urals, the European world had turned. Slavic speakers had largely superseded Germanic speakers in central and Eastern Europe, literacy was growing, Christianity had spread, and most fundamentally, Mediterranean supremacy was broken. Bringing the whole of first millennium European history together, and challenging current arguments that migration played but a tiny role in this unfolding narrative, Empires and Barbarians views the destruction of the ancient world order in light of modern migration and globalization patterns.
Iran In The Early Islamic Period
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Author : Bertold Spuler
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2014-11-06
Iran In The Early Islamic Period written by Bertold Spuler and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-06 with History categories.
This book presents a translation of Bertold Spuler’s groundbreaking work on the transformation of Iran from a Persian Zoroastrian Empire to a province of the Arab Muslim Empire to a land divided by a number of Persian and Turkish kingdoms.