One of the world's foremost commentators on religious affairs on the history (and destiny) of the world's most misunderstood religion. In the public …
One of the most prominent Muslim scholars and scientists of the medieval era, the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din Tusi (1201-1274) joined the Shi'a Niza…
One of the richest and most rewarding, yet at the same time least familiar, traditions of Muslim literature is that of the Shi'i Imami Ismailis. Altho…
Among the various Muslim communities that were articulating their doctrinal positions in the early Islamic centuries, one in particular was known deri…
Of the few surviving Nizari Ismaili texts from the Alamut period, the Haft bab (Seven Chapters), which outlines the basic tenets of Ismaili philosophi…
Mount Sion is that part of Tunbridge Wells, in Kent, often called 'the old village', between the Grove and Cumberland Walk, with Claremont Road at the…
The Silk Road is a route from the edges of the European world to the central plains of China. For thousands of years, its history has been a traveller…
A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visi…
The importance of this collection lies in its origins: for the first time, leading Saudi Arabian historians have created a history of the Arabian Peni…
This book is a unique record of the people, deals and events that have driven the stock market since 1945. Written in a down-to-earth, journalistic st…
Since the mid-nineteenth century the East Coast Main Line has been one of the major routes from London to northern England and to Scotland. It has see…
Liddell Hart's History of the First World War first appeared in 1930 and is widely regarded as one of the greatest, most cogent accounts of the confli…
John Wright's concise history of Libya begins in the prehistoric Sahara and concludes with the bloody overthrow of the Gadafi regime and the emergence…
A House in Corfu is the story of one of the most beautiful places on earth, still astonishingly unspoilt, on the west coast of Corfu. In the early 196…
