Middle Eastern history

How a group of Iranian students sought love and learning in Jane Austen's LondonIn July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy.

For many Muslims, there is an inseparable connection between sound and meaning, particularly when it comes to Islamic verse and scripture.

The result of years of critical analysis of Israeli media law, this book argues that the laws governing Israeli electronic media are structured to limit the boundaries of public discourse.

The Republican People's Party (RPP), also know as the CHP (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi), stands as the main opposition party - one of two major political currents, second only to the Erdooan's AK Party.

This book is an attempt to explain how, in the face of increasing religious authoritarianism in medieval Islamic civilization, some Muslim thinkers continued to pursue essentially humanistic, rational, and scientific discourses in the quest for knowledge, meaning, and values.

Schon als 1922 die Nachricht von der Entdeckung des Grabs von Tutanchamun um die Welt ging, berichtete National Geographic aus erster Hand.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Charakter und Authentie der muslimischen Überlieferung über das Leben Mohammeds" verfügbar.

How was the Jewish tradition reinvented in Russian-Jewish literature after a long period of assimilation, the Holocaust, and decades of Communism?

What do we owe Iraq?

Ottoman Turkey's coastal provinces in the early nineteenth century were economic powerhouses, teeming with innovation, wealth and energy a legacy of the Ottoman s outward-looking and trade-orientated diplomacy.

Struggling for Time examines how time is used as a mechanism of control by the Israeli state and a site of mundane resistance among Palestinian agriculture professionals.

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Traces Abdallah Azzam''s path from a West Bank village to the battlefields of Afghanistan and explains why jihadism went global.

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In the 1970s, one of the most torrid and forbidding regions in the world burst on to the international stage.

The Ottoman revolution of 1908 is a study in contradictions-a positive manifestation of modernity intended to reinstate constitutional rule, yet ultimately a negative event that shook the fundamental structures of the empire, opening up ethnic, religious, and political conflicts.

Following the 1953 coup that toppled the democratically elected government of Mossadeq and restored the rule of the Shah in Iran, Mostafa Sho';aiyan became a key figure on the country's militant left.

The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon left us stunned, angry, and uncomprehending.

No event in post World War II diplomacy has been more written about than the Suez crisis of 1956-and for good reason: it signaled the fall of British power and influence in the Middle East.

In September 1978, William Quandt, a member of the White House National Security Council staff, spent thirteen momentous days at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, where three world leaders were holding secret negotiations.

The November 1970 coup that brought Hafiz al-Asad to power fundamentally transformed cultural production in Syria.

This modern study of the Iran-Iraq War utilizes newly available primary materials to analyze American policy towards the war and question the veracity of the United States' claims of strict neutrality.

This comprehensive account examines the growing conflict between Arab and Jew in Palestine that first surfaced clearly in the pivotal years 1933-1939, and which proved to be an irreconcilable rift once the leadership of both peoples refused to accept minority status.

This book uncovers Young Turk political and social ideas at the end of the nineteenth century, during the intellectual phase of the movement.

Most books dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict see events through the eyes of policy-makers, generals or diplomats.

This book studies the role of youth movements in the Arab uprisings of 2010 and 2011, and the regime''s responses to these movements.

Wallace Lyon was Provincial Administrator and Administrative Inspector in northern Iraq - an area known unofficially as 'Kurdistan' - between 1918 and 1945.

Debates on the world historical place of the Ottoman Empire in the last few decades have been conducted mainly in Turkey, but increasingly concepts have been introduced into the conversation from the study of European, Chinese and Central Asian history.

In the wake of September 11th instant theories have emerged that try to root Osama Bin Laden's attacks on Wahhabism.

What is the nature of the Qur'an?

This book charts the history of Iran''s sexual revolution from the nineteenth century to today.

Terrorism, radicalization and violent extremism dominate sociological, political and cultural concerns in today's polarized social and political world.

In recent years, Islam whether via the derivatives of 'Political Islam' or 'Islamism' has come to be seen as an 'activist' force in social and political spheres worldwide.

A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient worldIn the late 8th and early 7th centuries BCE, Scythian warriors conquered and unified most of the vast Eurasian continent, creating an innovative empire that would give birth to the age of philosophy and the Classical age across the ancient worldin the West, the Near East, India, and China.

This volume brings together the results of the symposium on 'Economic Development under Prolonged Occupation' held at Oxford University in January 1986.

This volume provides a series of contributions on the crucial aspects relating to the Bible and the Late Bronze Age period.

A revised history of Egypt''s doctrine of the unity of the Nile Valley, tracing its struggle from monarchy to revolution.

Riverbend, the young Iraqi woman whose “articulate, even poetic prose packs an emotional punch,” continues her blog from her hometown of Baghdad (The New York Times).

"e;I swear by all that's Holy, I will never come anywhere near the Palestine problem once I liberate myself from this trap.

This book examines the relationship between several of the most prominent American biblical archaeologists and Zionism.

In Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima, Alyssa Gabbay examines episodes in pre-modern Islamic history in which individuals or societies recognized descent from both men and women.

In emergency medicine, "e;the golden hour"e; is the first hour after injury during which treatment greatly increases survivability.

This volume brings together scholarship from both established scholars and early career academics to provide fresh insights and new research on the cinema of Iran.

In the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman government sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as "e;empty.