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In a pyrotechnic display of cracking one- liners, cynical word play and comic observation, it mines three thousand years of wit and wisdom: from Martha Gellhorn to Confucius and from Pliny to Paul Theroux.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204996595890,"sku":"9781780602042","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781780602042_f6678584-33c9-4608-85f4-d62fa44c9524.jpg?v=1786025707"},{"product_id":"9781781257265","title":"The House Divided","description":"A Prospect 'History Book of the Year' 2024A Guardian 'Best Gift Book of 2024'A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance' Rory Stewart'Rogerson is an original - eloquent and always fascinating ... few British authors understand the Middle East so intimately and well' William DalrympleRecommended on The Rest is Politics and EmpireAt the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400-year-old schism between Sunni and Shia. To understand this divide and its modern resonances, we need to revisit its origins, which go back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632, the accidental coup that set aside the claims of his cousin and son-in-law Ali, and the slaughter of Ali's own son Husayn at Kerbala. These events, known to every Muslim, have created a slender faultline in the Middle East. The House Divided follows these narratives from the first Sunni and Shia caliphates, through the medieval caliphates and empires of the Arabs, Persians and Ottomans, to the contemporary Middle East. It shows how a complex range of identities and rivalries - religious, ethnic and national - have shaped the region, jolted by the seismic shift of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Rogerson's original approach takes the modern chessboard of nation states and looks at each through its particular history of empires and occupiers, minorities and resources, sheikhs and imams. The result is a book of wide-ranging empathy, understanding and insights.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54926389641589,"sku":"9781781257265","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781781257265_26bbd34f-c697-4922-8332-be1cbff996db.jpg?v=1786025463"},{"product_id":"9780349117577","title":"The Heirs Of The Prophet Muhammad","description":"The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the seventh-century and establish Islam and a new civilization. That the protagonists originated from the small oasis communities of central Arabia gives their adventures, their rivalries, their loves and their achievements an additional vivacity and intimacy. So that on one hand, THE HEIRS OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD is a swaggering saga of ambition, immense achievement, self-sacrificing nobility and blood rivalry, while on the other it allows us to understand some of the complexities of our modern world. For within this fifty-year span of conquest and empire-building, Barnaby Rogerson also identifies the seeds of discord that destroyed the unity of Islam, and traces the roots of the schism between Sunni and Shia Muslims to the rivalry of the two individuals who best knew and loved the Prophet: his cousin and son-in-law Ali and his wife Aisha.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56286008967541,"sku":"9780349117577","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349117577_1e0cbd8a-2822-4e26-af41-cc871bf1810a.jpg?v=1786013858"},{"product_id":"9780349115863","title":"The Prophet Muhammad","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Prophet Muhammad is a hero for all mankind.  In his lifetime he established a new religion, Islam; a new state, the first united Arabia; and a new literary language, the classical Arabic of the Qur'an, for the Qur'an is believed to be the word of God revealed to Muhammad by the angel Gabriel.  A generation after his death he would be acknowledged as the founder of a world empire and a new civilisation.\u003cbr\u003e    Any one of these achievements would have been more than enough to permanently establish his genius.  To our early twenty-first century minds, what is all the more astonishing is that he also managed to stay true to himself and retained to his last days the humility, courtesy and humanity that he had learned as an orphan shepherd boy in central Arabia.  If one looks for a parallel example from Christendom, you would have to combine the Emperor Constantine with St Francis and St Paul, an awesome prospect.\u003cbr\u003e    Barnaby Rogerson's elegant biography not only looks directly at the life of the Prophet Muhammad, but beautifully evokes for western readers the Arabian world into which he was born in 570 AD.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56286160519541,"sku":"9780349115863","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349115863_be9ac79e-2753-44dd-a97c-c0896e26be13.jpg?v=1786013817"},{"product_id":"9781911187882","title":"The Prophet Muhammad","description":"\u003cp\u003eIgnorance about Islam runs deep in the West – ignorance of its rites, its beliefs, and above all its prophet.  Who was Muhammad, the founder of Islam, and the man Muslims believe was God’s last prophet on earth? In this concise and colourful account, the acclaimed writer and broadcaster Barnaby Rogerson tells the story of the illiterate orphan who was raised in the desert and trained as a merchant on the camel trade routes that criss-crossed Arabia, before defying his tribe to found a new religion, establish a world language, and create an almost unstoppable force that only 100 years after his death has conquered an empire stretching from the Pyrenees to the Hindu Kush. It was when he was 40 that Muhammad experienced his first revelation on a mountainside outside Mecca, hearing the divine order: \"Recite!\"  From then until his flight from Mecca his tale is one of rejection and persecution, but it is also one of puzzling contradictions: why did he order the murder of a Jewish tribe? And why did he marry 10 times himself while restricting Muslims to four wives? 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The layout by award-winning designer Misha Anikst embodies the qualities often ascribed to these textiles: abstract, striking and minimalist. Guaranteed to speak to anyone with an interest in art, crafts and the Maghreb.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536485065077,"sku":"9781788843898","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781788843898.jpg?v=1788186370"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-barnaby-rogerson.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}