Ibn Tulun Brenda Murdoch

Ibn Tulun Brenda MurdochIbn Tulun (83584), the son of a Turkic slave, became the founder of the first independent state in Egypt since antiquity, and builder of Egypts short lived third capital of the Islamic era, al Qatai and its great congregational mosque. After recounting the story of Ibn Tulun and his successors, architectural historian Tarek Swelim presents a topographic survey of al Qatai, a city lost since its complete destruction in 905. He then provides a detailed

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Werner Conn spent his early childhood in Berlin and was sent to the UK on the Kindertransport when life became very difficult for Jews

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This sourcebook presents editions and translations of seven 14th- and 15th-century texts that advance our understanding of gender