e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Pouwels, Randall Lee, 1944-
Subjects
Islamic civilization.
Middle East.
Africa.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Pouwels, Randall Lee, 1944-
by title:
The African and Midd...
by call number:
956.01 P879a
Search the Web
Pouwels, Randall Lee, 1944-
Islamic civilization.
Middle East.
Africa.
MARC Display
The
African
and
Middle
Eastern
world
,
600-1500
/ Randall L. Pouwels.
by
Pouwels, Randall Lee, 1944-
Oxford University Press, 2005.
Call #:
956.01 P879a
Subjects
Islamic civilization.
Middle
East.
Africa.
Series
Medieval and early modern
world
.
ISBN:
0195176731
0195222652 (California ed.)
0195221575 (set)
Description:
175 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-[169]) and index.
Contents:
The land of the Arabian nights in the year 600 C.E -- From the Sahara to the rain forest: Africa around 600 C.E -- The messenger of Allah: Muhammad and the beginning of Islam -- The sword of Allah: the Islamic expansion, 632-750 -- The house of Islam, the first worldwide civilization -- The
world
of the Muslim mind: art and science, philosophy and mysticism -- The glory of the west: al-Andalus and the Maghrib -- Camels and ships: early kingdoms of Africa -- Allah comes to west Africa: the empires of Mali and Songhay -- In majesty he reigns: smiths and divine kings of the forest civilizations -- The emperor's giraffe: Swahili civilization in east Africa -- "There's treasure in those hills!" Bantu-speaking civilizations of central and southern Africa -- Cannons rule the day: the Ottoman Empire.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Halifax North Memorial Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
956.01 P879a
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.