The 2003 yearbook contains many publications on ancient and medieval Western philosophy.

Historians Dominique and Janine Sourdel identify a classical period in Islamic civilization, beginning in 622 AD – with the preaching of Muhammad – and ending in the 13th century, the era of the disintegration of the great Islamic empire, which once stretched from Spain to India from west to east and from sub-Saharan Africa to the Black and Caspian Seas from south to north. This great empire is...

This is a collection of selected works by a leading specialist in the history and philosophy of Ismailism – one of the most secretive branches of Shia Islam.

Stefan Zweig was enchanted with Mary Stuart, whose life he perceived as immensely paradoxical and from whom he perceived a ‘inexhaustible attraction of mystery.’ Thus, he investigated the queen of Scotland and Elizabeth I's fierce rival through the lens of a novelistic biography. Zweig is the undisputed master of this genre: he meticulously details the tumultuous life of this amazing woman, who...

The author of this book, V.V. Galin, is well-known to readers for his books ‘Forbidden Political Economy,’ ‘The Political Economy of War,’ etc. This book shows how the triumph of liberal ideas in the world inevitably leads to war. This was the case at the beginning of the 20th century and in the 1930s, and the same is happening now. Why is the triumph of ‘democracy’ a dead end in the...

In 1960, Adolf Eichmann took to the defendant’s box in Jerusalem and insisted that he was no ‘manager of the Holocaust,’ as his accusers claimed, just a smalltime bureaucrat following orders. Like countless others, Hannah Arendt—covering the trials for The New Yorker—believed him. Eichmann Before Jerusalem challenges this history for the first time, completely reassessing Eichmann’s story and...

Книга «Демократия в Америке» не сухой учебник, а живое исследование: де Токвиль опирается на путешествие по стране, беседы с политиками, судьями, простыми гражданами и шаг за шагом собирает картину того, как работает демократия. Читатель увидит, как устроены местные собрания, выборные должности, суды присяжных, политические партии, пресса и гражданские ассоциации от городских советов до...

Томас Эдвард Лоуренс (1888-1935) - британский археолог, путешественник, военный, шпион, писатель и дипломат. Благодаря своим действиям во время арабского восстания против Османской империи в 1916-1918 годах получил прозвище Аравийский. Автор мемуаров ‘Семь столпов мудрости’, принесших ему всемирную славу. В своей книге ‘Восстание в пустыне’, давно признанной классикой британской...