Middle Eastern history

On the morning of October 7, 2023, Bar Kupershtein saved hundreds of lives at Israel's Nova music festival.

'Bold, vital and urgent .

This multi-volume set is the catalogue for the famed Mingana Collection of Syriac and Arabic manuscripts.

A lyrical, haunting, multi-generational memoir of one family's tempestuous century in Iraq from 1900 to the present.

Every region around the world has a version of the Fountain of Youth myth.

An English translation of the first collection of modern Arabic poetry.

The nationalist outlook of the Turkish state since the beginning of the Republican era in 1923 targeted uniform identity formation.

This monumental eight-volume history of Syria in Arabic begins with the earliest peoples of the region, the Hittites and Phoenicians.

The nationalist outlook of the Turkish state since the beginning of the Republican era in 1923 targeted uniform identity formation.

A powerful and insightful narrative of a journey - once violently interrupted and here resumed - through one of the most compelling regions on earth.

The author responds to criticism against his prior publications, when his conclusions were based foremost on the relevant archaeological findings.

The book describes different facets of the Greek-Turkish conflict (1919-23) through the eyes of of the Australian press.

This volume examines the historical end of the Platonic tradition in relation to creation theories of the natural world through Neoplatonist philosopher Proclus (412-485) elaboration of an investigation of Plato's theory of metaphysical archetypal Forms.

Erol Haker's second book on Turkey's Jews is the personal account of growing up during the 1930s and 1940s, when nationalist pressures on non-Turks were at their greatest.

I Kath'imas Anatoli is a collection of papers by Richard Clogg on the Greeks inhabiting Ottoman Anatolia.

In this volume, Father Joseph Naayem, based on his experiences and conversations with others, narrates the horrors experienced by the Chaldean Christians prior to World War I at the hands of the Turks.

Chase describes three tripods found in Etruscan tombs and discusses the extent to which they represent Etruscan adoption of Greek tripod-offering customs.

This doctoral dissertation explores the mythical position of Constantinople among Russian intellectuals in the nineteenth century.

A study of the Jewish community in Istanbul and how it was transformed by the Ottoman reform movement of the nineteenth century.

A deeply inspiring collection of poetic reflections on the meaning of life.

Strategies and Struggles is the first full-length work on the diplomatic efforts of Britain and Turkey to secure their interests during the Lausanne Conference following the First Wold War.

Indeed a classic of accessible archaeological writing, Burrows' study of ancient Crete was one of the main contributors to the commencement of modern understanding of the Minoans.

Ignaz Goldziher was a pre-eminent scholar of Islam during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

This is a pioneering historical investigation of the Assyrian, Chaldean, and Syrian Christian minorities during World War I, who suffered the same fate as the Armenians.

Kate Elderkin presents an enjoyable overview not only of the nature of children's dolls in Antiquity, but the customs surrounding their use and subsequent dedication when the owner reached adulthood.

This book collects six studies on the interactions between Ottomans and Safavids in the early sixteenth century.

A study of the role of local translators in the embassies and consulates of European powers in the Ottoman Empire.

This book is one of the most reliable sources on the beginnings of Islamic statehood.

This book studies the Great Power rivalries of the twentieth century concerning Soviet access to the Turkish Straits and the impact they had on the relations with Turkey.

This book gives a detailed picture of the Baqubah refugee camp by the commandant of the camp.

This monumental eight-volume history of Syria in Arabic begins with the earliest peoples of the region, the Hittites and Phoenicians.

This work is a collection of essays by Aryeh Smuelevitz on Turkey between the years 1976 and 1982, a period of political turmoil and violence which culminated in a military coup.

The proceedings of a conference on Turkish-Spanish relations at the time of Cervantes.

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This book investigates the relationship between Turks and Jews in the Turkish Republic.

A collection of essays written to honour the famous scholar of Turkish language, Geoffrey Lewis.

In Being Another Way, Dustin Klinger recounts the history of how medieval Arabic philosophers in the Islamic East grappled with the logical role of the copula ';to be,' an ambiguity that has bedeviled Western philosophy from Parmenides to the analytic philosophers of today.

A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusadersThroughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation.

A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusadersThroughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation.

Model Citizens of the State: The Jews of Turkey during the Multi-Party Period is about the history of the Turkish Jews from 1950 to present.

Model Citizens of the State: The Jews of Turkey during the Multi-Party Period is about the history of the Turkish Jews from 1950 to present.

Antoun Issa powerfully captures his mother's true experiences of love, heartbreak and new hope during the violence of civil war.

A Palestinian prisoner s memoir of thirty years captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him This is the story of a wall that somehow chose me as the witness of what it said and didNasser Abu Srour grew up in a refugee camp in the West Bank, on the outskirts of Bethlehem.

The term 'Bedouins' was given to nomads who came from or lived in the desert, and consisted of a sedentary population (from the badia - desert).

The Druzes are one of the smallest, least studied, and most esoteric religious communities in the Middle East.

For over a century, the conflict between the Arabs and Jews has remained the most intractable problem confronting the world.

'An epic account myth-busting Bull writes with knightly brio and packs a great deal of local and global history into his authoritative book Pratinav Anil, The TimesA major new history of the epic siege of the island fortress of MaltaEven as the great siege began it was understood by both sides to be an epic a potentially decisive encounter between an uneasy assortment of soldiers, native Maltese, adventurers and Knights Hospitaller on a strategically crucial but near waterless island and a vast, seemingly all-powerful Ottoman armada.

The term 'Bedouins' was given to nomads who came from or lived in the desert, and consisted of a sedentary population (from the badia - desert).

The Druzes are one of the smallest, least studied, and most esoteric religious communities in the Middle East.

For over a century, the conflict between the Arabs and Jews has remained the most intractable problem confronting the world.