Middle Eastern history

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

This book analyzes rabbinic responses to drought and disaster, revealing how the Talmudi grapples with problems of power, ethics, and ecology in Jewish late antiquity.

This book analyzes rabbinic responses to drought and disaster, revealing how the Talmudi grapples with problems of power, ethics, and ecology in Jewish late antiquity.

A new interpretation of Charlemagne, examining how the Frankish king and his men learned to govern the first European empire.

This book traces the history of the Israeli Right since its inception and its struggle to gain power.

A new interpretation of Charlemagne, examining how the Frankish king and his men learned to govern the first European empire.

This book investigates the intellectual currents among Ottoman and North African scholars of the early modern period.

This book investigates the intellectual currents among Ottoman and North African scholars of the early modern period.

In light of recent Supreme Court decisions, this book defends traditional religious protections under the First Amendment.

This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death and in the following centuries.

This book traces the history of the Israeli Right since its inception and its struggle to gain power.

This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death and in the following centuries.

Reference volume examining historical evidence from the last 4000 years to analyse earthquakes in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East.

Examines dynamic tensions between authority and autonomy across the Achaemenid Persian Empire, providing a valuable new way of considering imperial structure and development.

Reference volume examining historical evidence from the last 4000 years to analyse earthquakes in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East.

A vivid revisionary account of the reign of Baldwin IV of Jerusalem.

At birth, Amal's father looked at her and said, I see hope in her face.

This book sheds new light on those who inherit Spinoza''s thought and its consequences materially rather than metaphysically.

Centered on legal discourses of Islam''s first six centuries, this book analyzes juristic writings on the topic of rape.

This book examines how Ottomans were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe''s Christian kingdoms.

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

Centered on legal discourses of Islam''s first six centuries, this book analyzes juristic writings on the topic of rape.

This book examines how Ottomans were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe''s Christian kingdoms.

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

This book surveys royal marriage cases to explore how popes dealt with the marriage problems of kings, especially dissolutions and dispensations.

This book argues that Zionism is only a coherent political stance when it is intelligently rooted in Judaism.

This book explores the development of interpretations of Qur''ānic verses on gender roles in testimony, human creation and marriage.

Bridging African and Arab histories, this book examines the relationship between Islam, nationalism and the evolution of identity politics from late 19th Century to World War II.

This contextual analysis of Islamic financial law challenges our understanding of both Islamic law and global financial markets.

This contextual analysis of Islamic financial law challenges our understanding of both Islamic law and global financial markets.

This book explores the development of interpretations of Qur''ānic verses on gender roles in testimony, human creation and marriage.

Examines human rights in relation to religion and the role of religion in perennial issues of war and peace.

The Second Formation of Islamic Law offers a new periodization of Islamic legal history in the eastern Islamic lands.

This book considers the rarely studied but pervasive concepts of doubt that medieval Muslim jurists used to resolve problematic criminal cases.

Yaron Ayalon explores the Ottoman Empire''s history of natural disasters and its responses on a state, communal, and individual level.

This book investigates the intent and policy of Nazi Germany in the Arab world from 1933 to 1944.

This well-illustrated study investigates the symbolic dimensions of painted maps as products of ambitious early modern European courts.

This book investigates the intent and policy of Nazi Germany in the Arab world from 1933 to 1944.

Lauren Ristvet rethinks the narratives of state formation by investigating the interconnections between ritual, performance, and politics in the ancient Near East.

The Second Formation of Islamic Law offers a new periodization of Islamic legal history in the eastern Islamic lands.

This book considers the rarely studied but pervasive concepts of doubt that medieval Muslim jurists used to resolve problematic criminal cases.

A comparative study of the politics, religion, and culture of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires between 1300 and 1923.

A history of the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth.

A panoramic vision of Islamic cultures and societies from the origins of Islam to 1800.

A comparative study of the politics, religion, and culture of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires between 1300 and 1923.

A history of the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth.

A panoramic vision of Islamic cultures and societies from the origins of Islam to 1800.

This book reconstructs the role of midwives in medieval to early modern Islamic history.

Lauren Ristvet rethinks the narratives of state formation by investigating the interconnections between ritual, performance, and politics in the ancient Near East.

Yaron Ayalon explores the Ottoman Empire''s history of natural disasters and its responses on a state, communal, and individual level.