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GINGKO AUTUMN / WINTER 2018

JAVANMARDI

£40 | HISTORY, PERSIAN STUDIES

HBK, ROYAL

SEPTEMBER 2018

978-1909942-15-8

395pp | 22 ILLUSTRATIONS

BIPS PERSIAN STUDIES SERIES

Edited by Lloyd Ridgeon

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Javanmardi is one of those Persian terms that is heard frequently in discussions associated with Persian identity, and yet its precise meaning is so difficult to comprehend. A number of equivalents have been offered, including chivalry and manliness, and while these terms are not incorrect, javanmardi transcends them. The concept encompasses character traits of generosity, selflessness, hospitality, bravery, courage, honesty, truthfulness and justice, and yet there are occasions when the exact opposite of these is required for one to be a javanmard. The essays in this volume represent the sheer range, influence and importance that the concept has had in creating Persianate identities since the medieval era and across a vast geographical domain.

Lloyd Ridgeon is a Reader in Islamic Studies and Head of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Glasgow. His latest monograph is Jawanmardi: A Sufi Code of Honour (2011).

The Ethics and Practice of Persianate Perfection

Available as an e-book

‘The editor and contributors have provided a definitive framework for the understanding of a complex phenomenon which has so far proved difficult to grasp’

—Professor Paul Luft

THE CULINARY CRESCENT

£30 | HISTORY, FOOD, COOKERY

HBK, 156X240mm

OCTOBER 2018

978-1909942-25-7

235pp | ILLUSTRATED, OVER 70 RECIPES

A History of Middle Eastern Cuisine

Peter HeineTranslated by Peter Lewis

Peter Heine taught at the University of Münster and Bonn and until 2009 was Professor for Islamic Studies at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. Peter Lewis is the translator of such works as Roger Willemsen’s The Ends of the Earth and Johannes Fried’s Charlemagne.

The Fertile Crescent region has long been regarded as pivotal to the rise of civilisation. Alongside the story of human development, innovation, and progress, there is a culinary tradition of equal richness and importance. The Culinary Crescent shows Heine’s deep knowledge of the cookery traditions of the Umayyad, Abbasid, Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal courts. In addition to a fascinating history, Heine presents more than seventy recipes—from the modest to the extravagant—with dishes ranging from those created by the celebrity chefs of the bygone Mughal era, up to gastronomically complex presentations of modern times. Beautifully produced, designed for both reading and cooking, and lavishly illustrated throughout, The Culinary Crescent is sure to provide a delectable window into the history of food in the Middle East.

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The first ever history of pan-Middle Eastern food to be published in English


£30 | HISTORY, PERSIAN STUDIES

HBK, ROYAL

NOVEMBER 2018

978-1909942-18-9

293pp

The history of Pahlavi Iran has traditionally been written as prologue to the 1979 Iranian Revolution and firmly located within a national context. However, the reign of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1941-1979), marked in fact the high-point of Iran’s global interconnectedness. Never before, nor ever since, have Iranians felt the impact of global political, social, economic, and cultural forces so intimately in their national and daily lives, nor have Iranian actors played such an important global role, on battlefields, barricades, and in board rooms far beyond Iran’s borders. While engaging with its domestic historical narrative, The Age of Aryamehr seeks instead to address Iran’s place in the global history of the 1960s and 1970s and understand the interconnectedness engaged in those decades which in many ways made modern Iran.

Edited by Roham Alvandi

THE AGE OF ARYAMEHRLate Pahlavi Iran and

its Global Entanglements

Roham Alvandi is Associate Professor of International History at the London School of

Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is the author of Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah:

The United States and Iran in the Cold War (2014). Contributors: Claudia Castiglioni, H. E.

Chehabi, Maziyar Ghiabi, Ramin Nassehi, Robert Steele, Samine Tabatabaei, Cyrus Schayegh.

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The first history of Iran during the1960s and 1970s written with a global perspective


£30 | HISTORY, POLITICS

HBK, ROYAL

DECEMBER 2018

978-1909942-98-1

600pp

Published with Chatham House

Ali M. Ansari

IRAN, ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY

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The surprise election of Hassan Rouhani in 2013 and his re-election in 2017 has focussed the world’s attention on the dynamics between Islam and democracy in Iran after the hiatus of the Ahmadinejad presidency. With comparisons being drawn between Rouhani and his predecessors but one, the reformist president Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005), there has never been a better time for a review and detailed analysis of the rise and fall of the reform movement in Iran. This revised and updated edition with a new introduction and conclusion incorporates more recent work on the presidential election crisis of 2009, along with the election of Rouhani in 2013 and 2017, and an additional essay on the idea of reformism in Iran.

Ali M. Ansari is Professor of Modern History and Founding Director of the Institute

for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of

Edinburgh. With Gingko, he edited Iran's Constitutional Revolution of 1906 (2016).

The most comprehensive account of the politics of reform in Contemporary Iran

The Politics of Managing Change


£35 | RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS

HBK, ROYAL

NOVEMBER 2018

978-1909942-20-2

282pp

Market globalisation, technology, climate change and post-colonial political forces are all forging a new world while religious narratives are galvanising peoples and reimagining political and social order. Some are repressive, fundamentalist imaginations. Others could be described as post-religious, such as the evolution of universal human rights out of the European Christian tradition. But the question of the compatibility of these religious world views is perhaps the most pressing issue in global stability today. What scope for dialogue is there between the Jewish, Muslim and Christian ways of imagining the future? How can we engage with these multiple imaginations to create a shared peaceful future? This interdisciplinary volume of both new and well-known scholars explores how religious narratives interact with the contemporary geopolitical climate.

Edited by James Walters

RELIGIOUS IMAGINATIONS

James Walters is Director of the LSE Faith Centre which works to promote global interfaith leadership. He is Chaplain and senior lecturer in practice at the LSE.

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‘Serious, sophisticated and timely… a breath of fresh air in a stale international debate’

—John Casson, British Ambassador to Cairo (2014-18)

How Narratives of Faith are Shaping Today's World


£30 | RELIGION, ISLAM, CHRISTIANITY

HBK, ROYAL

NOVEMBER 2017

978-1909942-08-0

160pp | 6 COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS

Karl-Josef KuschelTranslated by Simon Pare

CHRISTMAS AND THE QUR'AN

The familiar and heart-warming story of Christmas is one of hope, encapsulated by the birth of the infant Jesus. It is also a story which unites two faiths often been at odds with one another. The accounts of the Nativity given by the Evangelists Luke and Matthew find their parallels in surahs 3 and 19 of the Qur’an which take up the Annunciation to Mary, the Incarnation of the Holy Spirit and the Nativity. This is a sensitive and precise analysis of the Christmas story as it appears both in the Gospels and the Qur’an and shows startling similarities as well as significant differences. Exploring how Christians and Muslims read these scriptures, Kuschel reveals an intertwining legacy that serves as a base for greater understanding.

Karl-Josef Kuschel is Professor Emeritus of Catholic Theology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He taught the theology of culture and inter-religious dialogue and was the Deputy Director of Institute of Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Studies.

‘...a subject of great importance for a more intelligent dialogue between Islam and the Christian tradition. [...] it is a pleasure to welcome the English translation

of this book from a seasoned and creative scholar’ —Dr. Rowan Williams


THE PHOENIX MOSQUE AND THE PERSIANS OF MEDIEVAL HANGZHOU

£50 | CULTURAL HISTORY, ISLAM

HBK, ROYAL

JULY 2018

978-1909942-88-2

273pp | ILLUSTRATED

BIPS PERSIAN STUDIES SERIES

Edited by George Lane

In the early 1250s the Mongol Emperor Mongke Khan sent out his younger brothers Qubilai and Hulegu to consolidate his grip on power. Hulegu was welcomed into Iran while his older brother, Qubilai, continued to erode the power of the Song emperors of southern China. In 1276 he finally forced their submission and peacefully occupied their capital, Hangzhou. The city enjoyed a revival as the cultural capital of a united China and was home to a prosperous and influential community of Persians throughout the great Mongol Empire. In 1281, one of their number built the Phoenix Mosque in the heart of the city where it still stands today. This study of the mosque and the Ju-jing Yuan cemetery casts light on an important and transformative period in Chinese history, and perhaps the most important period in Chinese Islamic history.

George Lane is a Senior Teaching Fellow in History of the Middle East and Central Asia at SOAS, University of London. Contributors: Qing Chen is a graduate of SOAS, University of London. Alexander Morton (1942-2011) was director of BIPS.

‘...opens new avenues for the study of the mobility, economy and cultural presence of Persianised individuals (mainly from Central Asia) in medieval China’

—Dr Bruno de Nicola, Goldsmiths, University of London


OTTOMAN EXPLORATIONSOF THE NILE

Robert Dankoff, Nuran Tezcan Michael D. Sheridan

£40 | HISTORY, OTTOMAN STUDIES

HBK, ROYAL

MARCH 2018

978-1909942-16-5

462pp | ILLUSTRATED

IPEF SERIES (with the ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY)

Before the time of Napoleon, the most ambitious effort to explore and map the Nile was undertaken by the Ottomans, as attested by two monumental documents: an elaborate map and a lengthy travel account. Both were achieved at about the same time (c. 1685) and both by the same man. Evliya Çelebi’s account of his Nile journeys, in the tenth volume of his Book of Travels was first published in 1938. The map, held in the Vatican Library, has been studied since at least 1949. Ottoman Explorations of the Nile provides an accurate translation of the original travel account and the maps themselves are reproduced in greater detail. This volume gives equal weight to the two parts allowing readers to study the map or the text independently, while also using each to elucidate and accentuate the details of the other.

Robert Dankoff is Professor Emeritus of Turkish and Islamic Studies, University of Chicago. His co-author, Associate Professor Nuran Tezcan, joined the faculty of Bilkent University’s Department of Turkish Literature in 2003. Michael D. Sheridan has recently finished his Ph.D. in Ottoman History at Bilkent University in Ankara.

Evliya Çelebi’s ‘Matchless Pearl These Reports of the Nile’ map and his accounts of the Nile

and the Horn of Africa in The Book of Travels

‘In this splendid volume, Evliya Çelebi’s richly-annotated Nile map is published in full for the first time. [...] A substantial contribution to our appreciation of an unsung adventurer.’

—Caroline Finkel, author of The Evliya Çelebi Way


THE MERCANTILE EFFECT

Edited by Sussan Babaie & Melanie Gibson

£50 | ART, HISTORY OF ART

HBK, 240 mm x 250 mm (PORTRAIT)

NOVEMBER 2017

978-1909942-10-3


A lavishly illustrated collection of papers delivered at the third Gingko conference. Held in Berlin in 2016, this meeting brought together a group of established and early-career scholars to discuss how the movement of Armenian, Indian, Chinese, Persian, Turkish and European merchants and their trade goods spread new ideas and new technologies across Western Asia in the early modern era. Operating through the newly-established Dutch, English and French East India companies, as well as much older mercantile networks, prestigious exotic commodities – silk, ivory, books and glazed porcelains – were transported east and west. The collected essays in this volume introduce a fascinating array of subjects, all of them indicative of the impact of transcultural exchanges during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Sussan Babaie is the Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Melanie Gibson is the Senior Editor of the Gingko Library Arts Series. She was Visiting Professor at New College of the Humanities, London.

Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World during the 17th and 18th Centuries

‘This elegant volume [...] is a pioneer effort, an exclusively art-historical offering on the formative era of modernity that are the 17th and 18th centuries in what

is called the Islamicate world’ —Oriental Ceramics Society Journal

Series Editor: Melanie Gibson

ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE OF YEMEN

£35 | ARCHITECTURE, HISTORY OF ART

PBK WITH FLAPS,240mmx250mm (PORTRAIT)

JUNE 2017

978-1909942-07-3

240 PAGES |100 ILLUSTRATIONS, 20 MAPS

Edited by Trevor H. J. Marchand

Twenty chapters, authored by leading scholars from around the world, explore the astonishing variety of building styles and traditions that have evolved over millennia in a region of diverse terrains, extreme climates and distinctive local histories. Generations of highly-skilled masons, carpenters and craftspeople have deftly employed the materials-to-hand and indigenous technologies to create urban architectural assemblages, gardens and rural landscapes that sit harmoniously within the natural contours and geological conditions of southern Arabia. This book raises awareness of Yemen’s long history of cultural creativity, and of the very urgent need for international collaboration to protect it and its people from the destructive forces that have beset the region.

Trevor H.J. Marchand is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and has received the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Rivers Memorial Medal (2014).

‘An important scholarly contribution. [...] Required reading for anyone interested in the heritage of Yemen and its future.’

—Michele Lamprakos, BFSA Bulletin

Available in PDF

Buildings that Fill my Eye


ART, TRADE AND CULTURE IN THE ISLAMIC

WORLD AND BEYOND

£60 | ART, HISTORY OF ART

HBK, 240 mm x 300 mm (PORTRAIT)

NOVEMBER 2016

978-1909942-90-5


Edited by Alison Ohta, Michael Rogers, Rosalind Wade Hadon

Contributors: Moya Carey, Nikolaos Vryzidis, Rachel Ward, Bernard O'Kane, Bahia Shehab, Jeremy Johns, Helen Philon, Bora Keskiner, Ünver Rüstem, Mehmet Baha Tanman, Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan, Scott Redford, Rosalind Wade Haddon, Sami de Giosa, Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu, George Manginis, Melanie Gibson, Mehreen Chida-Razvi, Alison Ohta, J.M. Rogers, Malini Roy, Javad Golmohammedi, Maria Sardi, Tim Stanley.

The essays in this volume bring to light the artistic exchanges that occurred between successive Islamic dynasties and those further afield in China, Armenia, India and Europe from the 12th to the 19th centuries. All the articles present original research, many of them taking advantage of innovative scientific means allowing us to look at already familiar objects in a new light.

‘Without a doubt will prove a major resource for scholars and students ofIslamic art for years to come. The first publication in the Gingko Art Series, this

beautiful volume makes for a big splash and augurs Gingko's ascent as a major publisher of Islamic art and architecture’

—Professor Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan

From the Fatimids to the Mughals


MAKING THE MODERNMIDDLE EAST

£14.99 | HISTORY

PBK, TRADE

MAY 2017

978-1909942-99-8

39Opp | 1 MAP

Edited by TG FraserAndrew Mango

Robert McNamara

TG Fraser is Professor Emeritus at Ulster University. Andrew Mango (1926-2014) was a renowned history of Turkey and the author of the definitive biography of Atatürk (2002). Robert McNamara is currently a Senior Lecturer in International History at Ulster University.

In 1914, the Middle East was still dominated, as it had been for some four centuries, by the Ottoman Empire. By 1923, its political shape had changed beyond recognition as the result of the insistent claims of Arab and Turkish nationalism and of Zionism. This book examines that historic transformation, taking as its focus the work of three leaders.

The Hashemite Emir Feisal hoped to head an Arab kingdom in Syria but was thwarted by the French. The Turkish war hero Mustafa Kemal defied the imperial ambitions of the European powers, inspiring a new Turkish nationalism and founding a secular republic on the ruins of a defeated empire. The Russian-born scientist Chaim Weizmann seized the chance to secure the Balfour Declaration in favour of Zionism from the British in 1917, and then successfully argued for a British mandate for Palestine which would carry this out.

BACKLIST

Hafiz, Goethe and the Gingko | £25 | 978-1909942-82-0 | Poetry | hbkThe Makers of the Modern Middle East | £35 | 9781-909942-00-4 | History | hbkEast-West Divan | £50 | 978-1909942-02-8 | Essays | hbkDemocracy is the Answer | £30 | 978-1909942-71-4 | Politics | hbkNew Thinking in Islam | £28 | 978-1909942-73-8 | Religion | hbkPagan Christmas | £40 | 978-1909942-84-4 | Anthropology | hbkIran's Constitutional Revolution of 1906 | £65 | 978-1909942-91-2 | History | hbkOn Literature and Philosophy | £28 | 978-1909942-77-6 | Criticism, Essays | hbkEssays of the Sadat Era | £28 | 978-1909942-80-6 | Politics, Essays | hbkMemories of a Bygone Age | £30 | 9781909942-86-8 | Biography | hbkThe First World War and Its Aftemath | £56 | 978-1909942-75-2 | History | hbk

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