Nomads in the Middle East

ISBN-13: 9780521816298

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 12-02-2021

Pages: 294

Product Dimensions: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d

Series: Themes in Islamic History

Manz, Beatrice Forbes: - Beatrice Forbes Manz is Professor of History at Tufts University where she teaches the history of the Middle East and Inner Asia, with a particular interest in pastoral nomads. She is the author of The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane and Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2007) which was awarded the Houshang Pourshariati Book Award in Iranian Studies, and the best-seller The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane (Cambridge University Press, 1989). She is also the author of numerous articles and chapters in collected words on the history of the Timurids, the Mongol Empire and nomad societies, including in The New Cambridge History of Islam, The Cambridge History of Inner Asia and The Cambridge History of War.