Middle Eastern history

An original and empirically grounded analysis of the Gulf monarchies and their role in shaping the political economy of the Middle East.

This unique study spotlights the role of masculinity in Iranian history, linking masculinity to social and political developments.

A new history of Islamic practice told through the aesthetic reception of medieval religious objects.

Revealing how the one community of the faith in the Qur''an, the umma, affects competing politics of identity in the Muslim world.

This volume brings together two groups engaged with understanding the relationships between religion and violence.

An alternate approach to Islamic art emphasizing literary over historical contexts and reception over production in visual arts and music.

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.

An insider''s account and analysis of the largest concentration of constitutional reform since the end of the cold war.

Examines the demographic shifts in the Middle East and North Africa, placing them in their social, political and economic contexts.

Presents an account of the rise of Erdogan''s AKP, showing how the politicisation of religion has roots in the period of early nation-building in Turkey.

A new understanding of the transformation of Anatolia to a Muslim society in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries based on previously unpublished sources.

Challenges the widely held assumption that the Neolithic saw an overall cognitive revolution.

A new understanding of the transformation of Anatolia to a Muslim society in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries based on previously unpublished sources.

Challenges the widely held assumption that the Neolithic saw an overall cognitive revolution.

An accessible introduction to the political history of Jordan, including new material on the major events of the last decade.

Drawing on extensive interviews, Hartshorn explains how labor became a revolutionary topic prior to the Arab Uprisings of 2010–2011.

A new critical look at Mani''s life to establish a proper historical foundation for the study of this fascinating thinker.

Provides a close analysis of theʿAqila, a group collectively liable for blood money payments, in Islamic law and history.

An examination of militant Islamists in Tripoli, Lebanon during the 1980s, showing how they were shaped by both grand ideologies and local contexts.

Illuminates the centrality of courtliness in the political and cultural life of the Deccan in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

This volume brings together two groups engaged with understanding the relationships between religion and violence.

A critical overview and re-evaluation of the origins and development of the ''special'' relations between Israel and the United States.

A new critical look at Mani''s life to establish a proper historical foundation for the study of this fascinating thinker.

A new history of Islamic practice told through the aesthetic reception of medieval religious objects.

A comprehensive survey of the social, political and economic features, forces and evolution of the Kurds from 1400 to the present.

Using newly-uncovered archival evidence, Jeff Eden sheds unprecedented light on the lives of slaves ensnared by the Central Asian slave trade.

Provides a close analysis of theʿAqila, a group collectively liable for blood money payments, in Islamic law and history.

An accessible introduction to the processes which shape politics and economics in contemporary Turkey.

A rich and nuanced study of the Arabian Nights in world cultures, analysing the celebration, appropriation, and translation of the stories over time.

A fresh look at Iranian popular culture and women''s role within this prior to the 1979 Revolution.

Analyses the ideological writings of a scholarly and unusual Byzantine emperor dedicated to distinctively Orthodox Christian principles.

A study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the sultan''s harem in Istanbul under the Ottoman Empire.

A fresh look at Iranian popular culture and women''s role within this prior to the 1979 Revolution.

Explores marriage, sexual relations, and family law in late antique Christianity using the writings of Ephrem the Syrian.

Explores marriage, sexual relations, and family law in late antique Christianity using the writings of Ephrem the Syrian.

Studying intellectual trends in Iran in a global historical context, this new intellectual history challenges many dominant paradigms in Iranian historiography.

Through the lens and experiences of civil society, Fortier demonstrates the volatility of democratization following the downfall of Tunisia''s authoritarian regime duringin the 2010–11 uprisings.

An accessible introduction to the political history of Jordan, including new material on the major events of the last decade.

Treats Herodotus'' compelling narrative of the Battle of Marathon.

In Trump, White Evangelical Christians, and American Politics, political scientists Anand Edward Sokhey and Paul A.

Considers political theologies formulated in Iran and Israel over the course of the twentieth century.

Treats Herodotus'' compelling narrative of the Battle of Marathon.

A history of Egypt''s first teacher-training school, exploring 130 years of tension over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modernized public spheres.

This unique window into Muslim identities provides scholars and students with important up-to-date data about real Muslims living in Israel.

Explores aspects of the private lives and interpersonal ties, between the personal and communal domains of early Sufis.

This book describes the emergence of Muslim scholarly communities from the origins of Islam until the mid-tenth century.

Psycho-nationalism explores the psychological and political roots of national identity and how these are often utilised by governments.

Psycho-nationalism explores the psychological and political roots of national identity and how these are often utilised by governments.

This book describes the emergence of Muslim scholarly communities from the origins of Islam until the mid-tenth century.

Examines the changing meanings Americans invested in their country''s intensifying relationship with Israel from the 1950s to the 1980s.