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Preliminary Material /I. Goldziher -- Introduction /I. Goldziher -- Chapter One /I. Goldziher -- Chapter Two /I. Goldziher -- Chapter Three /I. Goldziher -- Chapter Four /I. Goldziher -- Chapter Five /I. Goldziher -- Chapter Six /I. Goldziher -- Chapter Seven /I. Goldziher -- Chapter Eight /I. Goldziher -- Supplements /I. Goldziher -- Annotation 1 /I. Goldziher -- Annotation 2 /I. Goldziher -- Bibliography /I. Goldziher -- Index /I. Goldziher.

"A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual conflict and the geopolitics of empire. It examines the Persian Buyids' takeover of the great Arab caliphate in Iraq, the counter-Crusade under Saladin, and the literature of sovereignty in Spain and Italy at the cusp of the Renaissance. The question of high culture--who best qualified as a poet, the function of race and religion in forming a courtier, what languages to use in which official ceremonies--drove much of medieval writing, and even policy itself. From the last moments of the Abbasid Empire, to the military campaign for Jerusalem, to the rise of Crusades literature in spoken Romance languages, authors and patrons took a competitive stance as a way to assert their place in a shifting imperial landscape."--Back cover

"In A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen, Ingrid Hehmeyer describes the three-way relationship between water, land, and humans from ancient to medieval and premodern times. As illustrated in case studies from four sites, individual ecosystems necessitated different engineering and management approaches in order to make good use of the scarce water resources for both irrigated agriculture and domestic consumption. Material remains and written sources provide the evidence for a comprehensive examination of continuity and change; technical and managerial struggles, failures, and successes; the question of technology transfer; the impact of the religion of Islam on water use and allocation; and people's reactions in times of severe crisis."-- Back cover