This book is set in the era of Prophet Muhammad when the revolution of Islam began to take root in the Arabian desert, and when the Prophet of Allah had established the Islamic state of Madinah to secure the future and the destiny of the Muslims.
Zwischen Persien und Washington klafft ein Riss aus Missverständnissen: Der Sturz Mossadeghs 1953, die Geiselnahme 1979, Sanktionen und Atomstreit wurzeln in gegenseitiger Fremdheit – westliche Arroganz trifft auf orientalische Ehre, Säkularismus auf Islamische Revolution.
Raja Shehadeh, ganador del premio Orwell de escritura política en 2008, abogado de derechos humanos y el escritor palestino más destacado en la actualidad, detalla la historia del conflicto palestino-israelí: desde la creación del Estado de Israel en 1948, que desencadenó el desplazamiento obligado de la población palestina, creando fracturas que siguen estallando de forma violenta y trágica hoy en día, hasta el fracaso de los acuerdos de Oslo, el progresivo endurecimiento de la ocupación de los territorios palestinos y las crecientes fracturas en la clase política israelí, para la que un enemigo común palestino es un bálsamo útil.
El delicado tablero de Oriente Próximo se ha visto sacudido con la crisis del Covid-19 y la caída de los precios en el mercado del petróleo, lo que tendrá consecuencias en Europa, como suele ser habitual.
A devastating, meticulous account of the history of Israel s destruction of Gaza from an acclaimed architect and investigator'Urgent and essential' DAVID WENGROW'Extraordinary' ILAN PAPP Eyal Weizman is one of the world s leading experts on the relationship between violence, conflict and the environment, both built and natural.
The story of the ancient world s most spectacular library, and the civilization that created it'A thrilling trip back to Mesopotamia, birthplace of horoscopes and algorithms via the abundant records they left behind, written on clay tablets absorbing hums with life' - Mathew Lyons, Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating and rich in detail provides an excellent survey of Mesopotamian literary classics.
A harrowing account on the frontlines of the war between Israel and Hamas, The October 7 War tells the story of how Hamas surprised Israel with its deadly attack, killing more than 1,000 people and kidnapping more than 250.
On March 3, 1924, Abdulmecid II boarded a train from Istanbul into exile, carrying the title of Caliph - spiritual leader of the world's Sunni Muslims - for the last time in history.
Dieses Buch beleuchtet, wie Echos aus dem Goldenen Horn auf die frühe globale Weltpolitik einwirken, und spürt der diplomatischen Resonanz hinter dem historischen Wandel nach.
Dieses Buch untersucht, wie sich institutionelle Machtgefüge und geopolitische Parameter verschieben, wenn ein langanhaltender territorialer Konflikt traditionelle Annahmen über staatliche Souveränität herausfordert.
Als der Gaza-Konflikt zwischen 2024 und 2026 erneut eskalierte, richteten sich die Augen der Welt auf eine Region, deren Leid und politische Symbolkraft kaum zu trennen waren.
The author approaches the intricate process of nation-building in Israel through an examination of transformations which took place within a major development sector, rural land settlement, during Israel's first decade of statehood.
Ranging from studies on Sufism and the Koran to discussion of nineteenth and twentieth-century Arabic literature, these essays on the law and literature of Islamic society illustrate the unique vision of one of the world's great Orientalists.
Cohen examines the struggle leading to the creation of the state of Israel, placing British evacuation of Palestine in the context of Britain's postwar weakness.
On the basis of new evidence from the Ottoman archives in Istanbul, Karl Barbir challenges the current interpretation of Ottoman rule in Damascus during the eighteenth century.
Oman, a state in southeastern Arabia, is a prime example of a country that has not benefited greatly from modernization, but instead has fallen into economic and political insignificance as a result of economic and technological innovations introduced by the West.
In this monumental work, Raphael Patai opens up an entirely new field of cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity to the nineteenth century.
Since the opening of the Ottoman Archives, research on the history of the Ottoman Empire prior to 1800 has resulted primarily in the publication of individual financial and administrative records, sometimes with analysis.
Steven Wasserstrom undertakes a detailed analysis of the "e;creative symbiosis"e; that existed between Jewish and Muslim religious thought in the eighth through tenth centuries.
Surveying the population and revenue of six Palestinian cities-Jerusalem, Hebron, Gaza, Ramie, Nabulus, and Safed-in the sixteenth-century, Amnon Cohen and Bernard Lewis consider the numbers, composition, and distribution of the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish population, and discuss the different headings of revenue, the manner of assessment and collection, the yield, and the destination of the money collected.
Waqfs, or religious endowments, have long been at the very center of daily Islamic life, establishing religious, cultural, and welfare institutions and serving as a legal means to keep family property intact through several generations.
Drawing on intensive firsthand experience gained during the most successful years of Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, Harold Saunders explains the complexities of the peace process: it was not just a series of negotiated agreements but negotiation embedded in a larger political process.
Semitic words and names appear in unprecedented numbers in texts of the New Kingdom, the period when the Egyptian empire extended into Syria-Palestine.
Democracy-building efforts from the early 1990s on have funneled billions of dollars into nongovernmental organizations across the developing world, with the U.
Five hundred years ago the great walled city of Constantinople fell under the relentless siege of the Ottoman Turks led by Sultan Mehmed II, Mehmed the Conqueror.
The dramatic story of Lady Hester Stanhope - a wilful beauty turned bohemian adventurer - who left England as a young woman, unashamedly enjoyed a string of lovers and established her own exotic fiefdom in the Lebanese mountains where she died in 1839.
In this book, the distinguished scholar Hanna Batatu presents a comprehensive analysis of the recent social, economic, and political evolution of Syria's peasantry, the segment of society from which the current holders of political power stem.
Selten zuvor hat ein Buch in solch einem Detailreichtum und mit so großer Erzählkraft die Geschichte der Beziehungen zwischen Juden und Muslimen nachgezeichnet.
