Táto séria sa ponorí do bohatej a rozmanitej histórie Blízkeho východu, skúma kľúčové udalosti, kultúry a civilizácie, ktoré formovali región. Od starovekých ríší po moderné národy, každý zväzok ponúka hlboký ponor do spletitých príbehov a vplyvných osobností. Čitatelia sa môžu tešiť na pútavé rozprávanie, ktoré osvetľuje zložitú minulosť tejto fascinujúcej časti sveta. Séria je ideálna pre každého, kto sa zaujíma o históriu, politiku a sociálny vývoj Blízkeho východu.
The Berber identity movement in North Africa was pioneered by the Kabyles of Algeria. But a preoccupation with identity and language has obscured the fact that Kabyle dissidence has been rooted in democratic aspirations inspired by the political traditions of Kabylia itself, a Berber-speaking region in the north of Algeria.
The retreat of the Byzantine army from Syria in around 650 CE, in advance of the approaching Arab armies, is one that has resounded emphatically in the works of both Islamic and Christian writers, and created an enduring motif: that of the Islamic-Byzantine frontier. For centuries, Byzantine and Islamic scholars have evocatively sketched a contested border: the annual raids between the two, the line of fortified fortresses defending Islamic lands, the no-man's land in between and the birth of jihad. In their early representations of a Muslim-Christian encounter, accounts of the Islamic-Byzantine frontier are charged with significance for a future 'clash of civilizations' that often envisions a polarised world. A. Asa Eger examines the two aspects of this frontier: its physical and ideological ones. By highlighting the archaeological study of the real and material frontier, as well as acknowledging its ideological military and religious implications, he offers a more complex vision of this dividing line than has been traditionally disseminated. With analysis grounded in archaeological evidence as well the relevant historical texts, Eger brings together a nuanced exploration of this vital element of medieval history.