Christopher De Bellaigue
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The Lion House
The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent
- Random House Uk, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957869-7
EAN 9780099578697
'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History at its most gripping' Telegraph'The most daring history book of the year. Unforgettable' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Venice, 1522.Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he needs to wage total war - and his sights are set on ...
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The Islamic Enlightenment
The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason
- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957870-3
EAN 9780099578703
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017'An eye-opening, well-written and very timely book' Yuval Noah Harari'The best sort of book for our disordered days: timely, urgent and illuminating' Pankaj Mishra'It strikes a blow...for common humanity' Sunday TimesThe Muslim world has often been accused of a failure to modernise and adapt. Yet in this sweeping narrative ...
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- Random House, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-242-7
EAN 9781847922427
The Muslim world has often been accused of a failure to modernise, reform and adapt. But, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day, Islamic society in its Middle Eastern heartlands has in fact been transformed by modern ideals and practices, including the adoption of modern medicine, the emergence of women from ...
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Patriot of Persia
Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup
- Bodley Head, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-108-6
EAN 9781847921086
On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bed-ridden 72-year-old. His name was Muhammad Mossadegh and his crimes had been to flirt with Communism and nationalise his country's oil industry, for forty years in British hands. To Winston Churchill, the Iranian prime minister was a lunatic, ...
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