Barnaby Rogerson
Forfatter af The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad: And the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism
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Barnaby Rogerson is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Heirs of Muhammad: Islam's First Century and the Origins of the Sunni-Shia Schism, The Prophet Muhammad: A Biography, and A History of North Africa. He has lived and worked in many parts of the Arab world, and currently lives vis mere in London, where he has a day job as Publisher at Eland Books. vis mindre
Image credit: Barnaby Rogerson outside the Saharan fortress of Bou Njem, in the Libyan desert (photograph © Don Mcullin)
Værker af Barnaby Rogerson
Rogerson's Book of Numbers: The Culture of Numbers---from 1,001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the World (2013) 50 eksemplarer
Os Últimos Cruzados 3 eksemplarer
North Africa Travel, No 1 1 eksemplar
'Mad about madder' (Cornucopia, Issue 24) 1 eksemplar
Marrocos 1 eksemplar
Profetul Mahomed. O biografie 1 eksemplar
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- 1960-05-17
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- Writer and publisher Barnaby Rogerson has travelled and written extensively on North Africa and the Levant.
Barnaby started travelling young, following his father around the naval bases of the world. He studied history at the University of St Andrews, worked for a number of publishers as well as the press office of the Afghanistan Support Committee. Subsequently, he researched and wrote guidebooks to Morocco, Tunisia, Istanbul, Cyprus and Libya before writing a History of North Africa (now in its fourth edition). He has also written a biography of ‘The Prophet Muhammad’ which was followed by the story of first four Caliphs of Islam, ‘The Heirs of the Prophet’. Over the last twenty years he has contributed numerous travel articles, book reviews and historical essays on various North African and Islamic themes for various newspapers and magazines which are stored at www.barnabyrogerson.com
Barnaby’s most recent work, ‘The Last Crusaders’, was published in 2010 and is centred on the 150 year war (1415-1578) fought between the Hapsburg, Ottoman, Moroccan and Portugese monarchs for the control of the Mediterranean shore and the trade routes of the old world. He is currently writing a book on Roman North Africa as well as a small volume on Sacred Numerology. He has led dozens of tours over the last 20 years to the historical monuments of Morocco, Turkey, Tunisia, Libya, Mali, Niger, Western Desert of Egypt and Algeria.
His day job is running Eland Publishing with his partner Rose Baring, which specializes in keeping the classics of travel literature in print. The hundred or so titles of this growing list can be viewed at www.travelbooks.co.uk
Barnaby has led many tours to North Africa for Eastern Approaches.
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Over the past four decades, Barnaby Rogerson has been fortunate to travel extensively across North Africa. He has visited with his family, as a writer and as a guide. He has delved into the richly complicated vein of history there, choosing six people from history that have intrigued him, that didn't fit into a standard historical narrative and until now have been mere footnotes of history. Beginning with Queen Dido of Carthage he moves onto a well-known general Hannibal, son of Hamilcar and a Berber general Masinissa who was to prove his nemesis. We next encounter Juba II an African King before the Romans intrude with Septimius Severus. Lastly is St. Augustine a Christian saint. All of these people had a significant impact on the countries in North Africa leaving behind ruins, legacy and myths.
Woven into the six stories of the people who formed ancient North Africa, is Rogerson's other love, travel. Details have been discovered whilst sitting on picnic rugs under the shade of an olive tree, taking groups of slightly nervous people up into the hills of Algeria to see the pyramids of Juba. Swimming off Leptis Magna, the ruined Roman city on the Libyan shore is an evocative scene, and is something that he tries to do every visit to this part of the coast, but it is also a time to catch up with old friends a uncover a little more about the place as they study the mosaics. The stories of Hannibal in North Africa, most famous for walking elephants across the Alps when battling Rome, are of a part of his life not often heard about and the tale of his final battle against the mighty Roman army that was to see the end of Carthage.
This fascinating account of his travels in this ancient landscape of North Africa is primarily focused on history, but as you'd expect, especially given Rogerson's day job, there are strong elements of travel woven into the narrative. I am guessing that there have been some liberties with the stories that he is telling, but in certain cases, there is precious little to go on to make the stories flow so well. History is often written by the victors, but Rogerson has followed each lead tenaciously to get the answers that he wanted. This book only contains six well know people, but there must be many stories from this part f the world still to be told. There are photos of the places visited scatter throughout, but If I had one minor gripe, it would have good to read more about his own travels in these lands.… (mere)
Woven into the six stories of the people who formed ancient North Africa, is Rogerson's other love, travel. Details have been discovered whilst sitting on picnic rugs under the shade of an olive tree, taking groups of slightly nervous people up into the hills of Algeria to see the pyramids of Juba. Swimming off Leptis Magna, the ruined Roman city on the Libyan shore is an evocative scene, and is something that he tries to do every visit to this part of the coast, but it is also a time to catch up with old friends a uncover a little more about the place as they study the mosaics. The stories of Hannibal in North Africa, most famous for walking elephants across the Alps when battling Rome, are of a part of his life not often heard about and the tale of his final battle against the mighty Roman army that was to see the end of Carthage.
This fascinating account of his travels in this ancient landscape of North Africa is primarily focused on history, but as you'd expect, especially given Rogerson's day job, there are strong elements of travel woven into the narrative. I am guessing that there have been some liberties with the stories that he is telling, but in certain cases, there is precious little to go on to make the stories flow so well. History is often written by the victors, but Rogerson has followed each lead tenaciously to get the answers that he wanted. This book only contains six well know people, but there must be many stories from this part f the world still to be told. There are photos of the places visited scatter throughout, but If I had one minor gripe, it would have good to read more about his own travels in these lands.… (mere)
A fascinating book that has a wonderful appendix covering important issues in and around the life of Aisha and other key and influential women in Medina during a foundational period of Islamic history. I worried about possible bias from the author, but it doesn't seem to affect this work much, but I need time to read it more carefully in conjunction with his other works.
OxTravels by Michael Palin
OxTravels is a collection of travel writing. It was put together to raise funds for Oxfam and contains stories by 36 travel writers. I picked it up largely due to the inclusion of Rory Stewart, author of The Places in Between]and The Prince of the Marshes. It turned out to contain writing by a number of other authors I enjoy such as William Dalrymple and Paul Theroux. Overall, the collection was excellent. While I enjoyed some stories more than others, I thought all were enjoyable at some level. The variety of locations and stories really made the book more readable and engaging.
For what it is worth, the piece by Rory Stewart was one of the stories that I found less engaging. While I think he is an excellent writer, his story in OxTravels is not what I would recommend as an introduction to Stewart.… (mere)
OxTravels is a collection of travel writing. It was put together to raise funds for Oxfam and contains stories by 36 travel writers. I picked it up largely due to the inclusion of Rory Stewart, author of The Places in Between]and The Prince of the Marshes. It turned out to contain writing by a number of other authors I enjoy such as William Dalrymple and Paul Theroux. Overall, the collection was excellent. While I enjoyed some stories more than others, I thought all were enjoyable at some level. The variety of locations and stories really made the book more readable and engaging.
For what it is worth, the piece by Rory Stewart was one of the stories that I found less engaging. While I think he is an excellent writer, his story in OxTravels is not what I would recommend as an introduction to Stewart.… (mere)
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Este livro fala do último grande conflito entre o Oriente e o Ocidente, do confronto titânico - nos séculos XV e XVI - entre o Cristianismo liderado pela casa de Habsburgo e o Império Otomano. E, embora se concentre nas grandes campanhas navais e na luta feroz pelo domínio da costa norte-africana, recria o conflito que, de certa forma, equivaleu à primeira guerra mundial. Afinal, o conflito espalhou-se pelas rotas mercantis do Atlântico, do Mar Vermelho, do Golfo Pérsico e do deserto do Sara. Havia mesmo um plano para levar a guerra até às Caraíbas. Consumiu nações e culturas, destruiu dinastias, arruinou cidades e reduziu a população das províncias. No entanto, as fronteiras por que lutou permanecem até aos dias de hoje: são linhas divisórias entre nações, línguas e religiões.… (mere)