A SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Fascinating and important' Natalie Haynes, author of Stone Blind 'Monumental and vividly imagined' Daily Telegraph 'Wonderfully entertaining' Sunday Times 'Lively and engrossing ' Literary ReviewOn a sparsely populated Egyptian coastline, Alexander the Great sketched his vision of a metro...

Uma fascinante viagem através dos milénios, que revela a vibrante trajetória de Alexandria, uma das cidades mais importantes da história da humanidade.Fundada por Alexandre, o Grande, a cidade de Alexandria floresceu como um centro de cosmopolitismo e saber, sendo palco de importantes marcos histórico-culturais que moldaram o nosso mundo. Embora Alexandre nunca tenha visto a sua obra concluída, a sua visão foi determinante para o nascimento de uma megalópole onde o conheci...

Shakespeare and Terrorism delves into how extremists have responded to Shakespeare – whether they’ve attacked him or been inspired by him – and investigates what the playwright and his works can tell us about the nature, psychology, and consequences of terror.Literary critic and historian Islam Issa takes readers on a journey from Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon and London to a variety of locations: from Western Europe to the Balkans to the US, from North Africa to the P...

An original, authoritative and lively cultural history of the first modern city, from pre-Homeric times to the present day.My dad had always told me about our city's magnificence, and as I looked at the new library in Alexandria it finally hit home. This is no ordinary library, I reflected. And this is no ordinary city.Combining rigorous research with myth and folklore, Alexandria is an au...

The first full-length study of the reception of John Milton’s (1608-74) writings in the Arab-Muslim world, this book examines the responses of Arab-Muslim readers to Milton’s works, and in particular, to his epic poem: Paradise Lost. It contributes to knowledge of the history, development, and ways in which early modern writings are read and understood by Muslims. By mapping the literary and more broadly cultural consequences of the censure, translation and abridgement of Milton’s works in...

Global Milton and Visual Art showcases the aesthetic appropriation and reinterpretation of the works and legend of the early modern English poet and politician John Milton in diverse eras, regions, and media: book illustrations, cinema, digital reworkings, monuments, painting, sculpture, shieldry, and stained glass. It innovates an inclusive approach to Milton’s literary art, especially his masterpiece Paradise Lost, in global contemporary aesthetics via intertextual and interdisciplinary ...

The rapid pace of progress in the Islamic financial market and investment space, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath and recovery, has provided the necessary challenges to build a strong case for Islamic investment. This timely and unique book focuses on the foundations of Islamic financial markets and institutions in the context of various products, their market application, Islamic asset management, and regulation.The authors provide a thorough overview of Islami...

Et si la patience était bien plus qu’une simple endurance ?Dans un monde où tout va vite, où l’attente est devenue insupportable et l’épreuve perçue comme une injustice, La patience en Islam nous invite à revenir à l’essentiel. Ce livre explore en profondeur l’une des plus grandes vertus de l’islam : la sabr.À travers des versets du Coran, des paroles prophétiques et des enseignements authentiques, cet ouvrage dévoile la richesse spirituelle de la patience, non pas comme un...

Milton Across Borders and Media is an unprecedented collaboration that demonstrates the breadth of John Milton's international reception across diverse media from the seventeenth century through today. This volume presents new essays on the adaptation of Milton's works into various languages and media around the world. Part I poses questions about how we can effectively situate and engage with Milton's works within the multimedia networks of the present day. Part II 'Interlingual ...

Digital Milton is the first volume to investigate John Milton in terms of our digital present. It explores the digital environments Milton now inhabits as well as the diverse digital methods that inform how we read, teach, edit, and analyze his works. Some chapters use innovative techniques, such as processing metadata from vast archives of early modern prose, coding Milton’s geographical references on maps, and visualizing debt networks from literature and from life. Other chapte...