Forthcoming Titles

By Terry Bennett, with an introduction by Martin Uden

With a wide range of pictures by the photographic pioneers who first travelled to the country, including stereoscopes, glass slides and albumen prints – all reproduced in duotone – plus hand-tinted photographs reproduced in colour, readers of this book will for the first time be able to see the people, the landscape, the town-life and the traditional crafts and costumes of Korea at the turn of the last century.

By Ibrahim Ibn Abdul Aziz Al-Bishr

Numerous questions have been asked by some critics about the nature of the judicial system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In response to such questions, this short book, translated from the original Arabic and published in association with the King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives, endeavours to present some aspects of the judicial system from an official Saudi point of view, and to demonstrate how it honours human rights.

By Asaf Hussain

This book examines the development of medieval Islamic civilization which at its peak between the 8th and 16th centuries made enormous and innumerable contributions in the fields of science, philosophy and the arts. This is then contrasted with the post-Islamic civilization extant today, which is riven by conflicts and confusion in its search for a true vision of Islam.

By Edward Rae

First published in 1877, this book recounts the author’s travels from Tripoli in present-day Libya to the city of Kairouan in modern Tunisia. Of particular interest is Rae’s daring visit to the holy city of Kairouan (Kairwan). Rae was one of the earliest non-Muslims to visit and offers a stirring account of his reception and a detailed description of the city and its main buildings.

By Rosalyn Maqsood, with revisions by Ann Jousiffe and Lewis Baker

With the help of this guidebook, the visitor can relive the wonder Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, the ‘discoverer’ of Petra, must have felt when he looked for the first time on this most famous lost city.