“…"Sacred Rivals focuses on French Catholic ideas about Islam and Arab-ness-"Catholic orientalism"-in the context of religious culture wars in France and missionary work in colonial Algeria. …”

“…Sacred Rivals focuses on French Catholic ideas about Islam and Arab-ness-"Catholic orientalism"-in the context of religious culture wars in France and missionary work in colonial Algeria. …”

“…A vast amount of documents relating to administration and social life were produced and yet, unlike Ottoman and Arabic documents, Persian historical resources have received very little critical attention. …”

“…By the time of its independence in 1946, it had the most firmly embedded state structures in the Arab world. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Yoav Alon examines how the disparate clan networks of Jordan were integrated into the Hashemite monarchy, with the help of the British colonial administrators. …”

“…For centuries, pilgrims carved their names on the columns flanking the southern entrance to the Holy Sepulchre Church in Jerusalem in a variety of scripts – Greek, Latin, Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Syriac, and Slavonic. …”

“…This book investigates for the first time the role of the Bible in the Christian-Iberian chronicles from 8th to 12th centuries against the background of of the Arab/Berber foreign rule over major parts of the medieval Iberian Pensinula. …”

“…El análisis de las fuentes árabes y latinas permite mostrar cómo los actores políticos y económicos contribuyen a la evolución de estas redes, primero en los países islámicos, y luego, a partir del siglo xi, en una economía mundial en desarrollo que conecta África, la Europa latina y Asia. …”