Middle Eastern history

This study uses the private papers of Glubb Pasha to rethink the end of Britain''s imperial presence in the Middle East.

This study uses the private papers of Glubb Pasha to rethink the end of Britain''s imperial presence in the Middle East.

This book shows how Lewis was interested in the truths and falsehoods about human nature and how these conceptions manifest themselves in the public square.

From a single merchant''s list of baggage begins a history that explores the dynamic world of the medieval Indian Ocean.

An innovative exploration of the local histories of the Persianate world and its preoccupation with identity, authority, and legitimacy.

An innovative exploration of the local histories of the Persianate world and its preoccupation with identity, authority, and legitimacy.

Salafism in Jordan debunks stereotypes and presents the diversity of Salafism on a range of political and ideological issues.

Ayalon explores the birth of Arab printing, publishing, dissemination methods, and mass readership during the formative phase from 1800 to 1914.

Salafism in Jordan debunks stereotypes and presents the diversity of Salafism on a range of political and ideological issues.

Ayalon explores the birth of Arab printing, publishing, dissemination methods, and mass readership during the formative phase from 1800 to 1914.

John Calvin''s two kingdoms political thought offers a fresh paradigm for constructive Christian engagement in pluralistic liberal societies.

Oil Revolution chronicles the rise and fall of anti-colonial oil elites who forged a new international culture of economic dissent from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Explores how Alexander the Great has influenced literature, art and culture in Europe and the Middle East over two millennia.

Oil Revolution chronicles the rise and fall of anti-colonial oil elites who forged a new international culture of economic dissent from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Explores how Alexander the Great has influenced literature, art and culture in Europe and the Middle East over two millennia.

An examination of the concept of freedom in nineteenth-century Arabic political thought, and how it relates to other modern ideologies.

An examination of the concept of freedom in nineteenth-century Arabic political thought, and how it relates to other modern ideologies.

This book does away once and for all with the assumption that only religions of the book think systematically about god(s).

This book examines antagonism to Israel by East and West Germany, from the Six-Day War through the Cold War.

This book examines antagonism to Israel by East and West Germany, from the Six-Day War through the Cold War.

Nomadic Narratives explores long-term relationships between mobility, martiality, memory and identity in the desert expanses of the Thar.

A fundamental overhaul of modern Arab intellectual history, reassessing cultural production and political thought in the light of current scholarship.

A fundamental overhaul of modern Arab intellectual history, reassessing cultural production and political thought in the light of current scholarship.

This book examines the formation and transformation of Elam''s many identities through both archaeological and written evidence.

This book examines the formation and transformation of Elam''s many identities through both archaeological and written evidence.

A ground-breaking account of popular protest in the Middle East and North Africa from the eighteenth century to the present.

A ground-breaking account of popular protest in the Middle East and North Africa from the eighteenth century to the present.

Discusses the importance of intellectual networks and the formation of the republic of letters in Islamic history.

Discusses the importance of intellectual networks and the formation of the republic of letters in Islamic history.

An historical study of the culture and leadership of Jewish radical ultra-Orthodoxy in Hungary, Jerusalem and New York.

Text, translation and commentary for an ancient biographical work on the Emperor Augustus by his contemporary Nicolaus of Damascus.

This book offers a new narrative of the great ancient city Antioch''s origins, growth, and significance.

The Unfree Exercise of Religion shows that most of the 597 religious minorities in 177 countries experience rising levels of religious discrimination.

This comparative study examines how scriptures - the Bible and the Qur''an - were interpreted in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam throughout history.

This book offers a new narrative of the great ancient city Antioch''s origins, growth, and significance.

The Unfree Exercise of Religion shows that most of the 597 religious minorities in 177 countries experience rising levels of religious discrimination.

An historical study of the culture and leadership of Jewish radical ultra-Orthodoxy in Hungary, Jerusalem and New York.

Explores Byzantine perceptions of creation and different types of natural environments, and the principles underpinning such perceptions.

This book explores the political crisis that erupts when the Persian government falls to fanatics and a Jewish insider goes rogue.

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Humanitarian Invasion provides a history of international development and humanitarianism in Cold War Afghanistan.

Gagan D.

Humanitarian Invasion provides a history of international development and humanitarianism in Cold War Afghanistan.

This book explains how the leaders of the world''s largest Islamic organizations understand tolerance, explicating how politics works in a Muslim-majority democracy.

The first full-length, interdisciplinary study of the Greek performing arts - theatre, rhetoric and ritual - between antiquity and the Renaissance.

Scholars from several fields tell the story of the Hajj and explain its significance as one of the key events in the Muslim religious calendar.

Scholars from several fields tell the story of the Hajj and explain its significance as one of the key events in the Muslim religious calendar.

The first monograph on Islamic hospitals, this volume examines their origins, development, architecture, social roles, and connections to non-Islamic institutions.

The first monograph on Islamic hospitals, this volume examines their origins, development, architecture, social roles, and connections to non-Islamic institutions.

This book combines recent scholarship on Omani history with insights drawn from close analysis of Oman''s politics and international relations.