Major Works

Originally published 1983.This book explores the nature of the social history of education. It examines what aspects of the history of education have been neglected and why...

Originally published 1978. This volume examines the purpose and the functioning of the present education system in England...

Originally published in 1970, this volume provides a survey of the wide field of the development of education since 1800...

Originally published in 1926, this volume charts the achievements of Edward Thring, arguably the most original and striking figure in the schoolmaster world of England in the nineteenth century...

The first truly comprehensive grammar of the Greek language to be produced, concentrating on the real patterns of use in today's Greek...

The first truly comprehensive grammar of the Greek language to be produced, concentrating on the real patterns of use in today's Greek...

Originally published in 1983, in this volume W Montgomery Watt looks at the meeting of Christianity and Islam, how they see and have seen each other, and considers how they can aid each other in dealing with the problems of the world today. _x000D_  ..

When first published in 1926, this book aroused much controversy. The theory expounded in the book was that Islamic sources in general, and the writings of Ibn al-`Arabi in particular, formed the basis of Dante’s poem Divine Comedy, the poem which symbolised the whole culture of medieval Christianit..

A lively debate is currently being conducted in the social sciences around the concepts of "tribe", "segmentary societies" and "Islam in society". This wide-ranging collection by thirteen distinguished anthropologists contributes to the debate by examining various segmentary Islamic tribal societies..

Originally published in 1986, this volume deals with the historical, philosophical and psychological concepts found in Islamic medical practices, and covers Islamic ideas on physiological, pathological, curative and preventative medicine...

Originally published in 1986, this volume deals with the historical, philosophical and psychological concepts found in Islamic medical practices, and covers Islamic ideas on physiological, pathological, curative and preventative medicine...

Originally published in 1958, this volume discusses the attacks on Occasionalism made by Averroes and St.Thomas Aquinas...