Middle Eastern history

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Winner of the Latifeh Yarshater book prize 2024Covering the Pahlavi modern nation-state as well as the Islamic regime, this book examines the crucial shifts that affected Sunnite and subaltern women once Shi'ism became the state religion after the Iranian Revolution.

Of the great ancient civilizations, that of Persia is the least known and the most enigmatic.

The Ottoman Empire was unprepared for the massive conflict of World War I.

Medieval Christian Nubia is often a neglected period of medieval African history.

A history of the development of the Kurdish national movement in Iran which reflects on seven decades of the movement from 1947.

An extraordinary collection of essays by Nobel Peace laureates and leading scholars on the concluded Iraq War, The Iraq War and its Consequences is the First and Only book that brings together more than 30 Nobel Peace laureates and eminent scholars to offer opinions, analyses and insights on the war that has drawn both widespread opposition and strong support.

A collection of articles and studies discussing early Islamic tenets and beliefs based on Islamic traditions and literature.

During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the fertile islands of Zanzibar and Pemba became of central importance to East Africa's growing contact with the international economy as the ruling dynasty encouraged trade in cloves, slaves and ivory.

Leading scholars offer a critical evaluation of the life and legacy of China''s most famous - some would say infamous - son.

Der Autor stellt anhand einer Analyse antiker Vorstellungen und Begriffe vom Lehrer, Schüler und Studenten Ausbildungswege, Bildungsideale und literarische Bildung in hellenistischer Zeit dar.

When the Ottomans commenced their modernizing reforms in the 1830s, they still ruled over a vast empire.

The West Asian states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran have over the last few decades represented an arc of crisis.

The countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEM) and those in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are crucial to the development of the world economy.

How progressive doctors, medical institutions, and state forces in Turkey use forensic methods to detect, erase, and reveal evidence of state violenceForensic Fantasies explores the role of medical documentation and evidence in uncovering human rights violations.

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This book brings together an inter-disciplinary group of Palestinian, Israeli, American, British and Irish scholars who theorise 'the question of Palestine'.

Through a microhistory of a small province in Upper Egypt, this book investigates the history of five world empires that assumed hegemony in Qina province over the last five centuries.

The Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) is a cornerstone of the Islamic Republic of Iran's existence.

The wars that the new state of Medina wages against tribes in the Arabian Peninsula, after the death of Muhammad, have been known traditionally as Hurub al-Riddah to denote an apostasy from Islam and forcible reconversion.

The formative period of Islam remains highly contested.

Iran ist wieder in den Fokus der Weltpolitik gerückt.

This is the story of a tragic confrontation between two national movements contesting the same small piece of land, a clash that has become one of the most intractable issues in modern times.

Designed for classroom use, The First Anglo-Afghan Wars gathers in one volume primary source materials related to the first two wars that Great Britain launched against native leaders of the Afghan region.

The discovery of oil brought enormous change to the Gulf.

First published in 1934, The Winning of the Sudan details the British conquest of the country following the fall of Khartoum and the death of General Gordon.

Imam Nawawi's commentary on Sahih Muslim is one of the most highly regarded works in Islamic thought and literature.

First Published in 1987 The Yezidis: A Study in Survival traces the origin of Yezidi community's religion, describes the discovery of the people by Western travellers in the early nineteenth century and details the Yezidi community's traumatic history and their status in the 80s.

After over a century of intensive colonial rule and nearly eight years of revolutionary warfare, Algeria emerged in a state of total economic decrepitude and political backwardness.

Ancient Persia in Western History is a measured rejoinder to the dominant narrative that considers the Graeco-Persian Wars to be merely the first round of an oft-repeated battle between the despotic 'East' and the broadly enlightened 'West'.

A conceptually rich, historically informed study of the contested politics emerging out of decades of authoritarian neoliberalism in Egypt.

This study examines the political sources of violence against religious minorities in India.

The emergence of Turkish nationalism prior to World War I opened the way for various ethnic, religious, and cultural stereotypes to link the notion of the "e;Other"e; to the concept of national identity.

Hamas has ruled Gaza and the lives of the two million Palestinians who live there since 2006.

Covering the Arab-Israeli conflict from its origins to the present, this valuable resource traces the evolution of this ongoing, seemingly unresolvable dispute through a wide array of primary source documents.

This book, first published in 1932, conducts a thorough survey of the modern state of Turkey as it stood in the period between the wars.

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When the state of Israel was established in 1948, not all Palestinians became refugees: some stayed behind and were soon granted citizenship.

A comprehensive overview of the history of Turkey ranging from the earliest Neolithic civilizations, to the establishment of the Republic in 1923, to the present-day tenure of President Erdogan.

In einer Ära politischer Umwälzungen und zerbrechender Imperien erhebt sich Tepedelenli Ali Pascha zu einer der schillerndsten und kontroversesten Persönlichkeiten des späten Osmanischen Reiches.

Using original, difficult-to-gather survey data, Zeira advances a new theory of participation in anti-regime protest that focuses on the mobilizing role of state institutions.

This book examines the process of secularization in the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th century through an analysis of the transformation and abolition of Islamic Caliphate.

Scholar, mystic and visionary, Ibn 'Alwan lived through the transition from Ayyubid to Rasulid rule in thirteenth-century Yemen.

Shaykh Mithqal al-Fayiz's life spanned a period of dramatic transformation in the Middle East.

This book presents a thematic collection of hagiographical stories of Sufi saints, often referred to as friends of Gods.

The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Arab uprisings of 2010-11 left indelible imprints on the Middle East.