Middle Eastern history

What was the world like, and what was going on in it, around the time of Jesus' death?

The Iranian Constitutional Revolution was the twentieth century's first such political movement in the Middle East.

The art of interpreting Holy Scriptures flourished throughout the culturally heterogeneous pre-modern Orient among Jews, Christians and Muslims.

Exploring the concept of 'colonial cultures,' this book analyses how these cultures both transformed, and were transformed by, their various societies.

The concept of jihad holds a prominent place in Islamic thought and history.

After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's government encouraged substantial American investment in education and aid.

This book covers the contemporary politics and economic development of the four countries of North Africa - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya.

With more than 250 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of conflict in the Holy Land, this illuminating book will help students understand the volatile history of Palestine and Israel and its impact on the rest of the world.

In 1943, Lebanon gained its formal political independence from France; only after two more decades did the country finally establish a national central bank.

Across the Middle East in the postWorld War I era, European strategic moves converged with late Ottoman political practice and a newly emboldened Zionist movement to create an unprecedented push to physically divide ethnic and religious minorities from Arab Muslim majorities.

Addresses the central role of Jewish and Muslim women''s movements at the heart of the struggle over Jerusalem''s sacred spaces.

Russia's Turkish Wars examines the changing place of the Balkan population in Russian military thought, strategic planning, and occupation policies.

This set collects together a range of books that together examine a broad spectrum of issues relating to Kuwait.

Memoirs of diasporic Iranian-American authors are a unique and culturally powerful way in which Iran, its politics, and people are understood in the USA and the rest of the world.

Focused on three Egyptian revolutions-in 1919, 1952, and 2011-this edited book argues that each of these revolutions is a milestone which represents a meaningful turning point in modern Egyptian history.

The start of the twentieth century ushered in a period of unprecedented change in the Middle East.

Collective memory transforms historical events into political myths.

Yossi Beilin was a seminal figure during the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

An authoritative and detailed overview of early modern Jewish history, with chapters written by leading international experts.

Is it possible to generate "e;capitalist spirit"e; in a society, where cultural, economic and political conditions did not unfold into an industrial revolution, and consequently into an advanced industrial-capitalist formation?

The political, economic and social background to the Turkish and Middle Eastern scene is provided in this book, first published in 1964.

Saudi Arabia is no longer regarded as quite the invincible pillar of Islam it so recently seemed.

David Lesch is a modern-day Renaissance man whose work has spanned continents and allowed him to explore cultures near and far.

This book examines the politics of the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court, the most important experiment in constitutionalism in the Arab world.

Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel.

Today labor migrants mostly move south to north across the Mediterranean.

During the twilight years of the Ottoman Empire, the ethnic tensions between the minority populations within the empire led to the administration carrying out a systematic destruction of the Armenian people.

After a million deaths and twice that number injured, after the destruction of much of the infrastructure of Iran and Iraq, disruption of trade throughout the Gulf and the involvement of the USA and USSR, was the Gulf War a pointless exercise, a futile conflict which achieved nothing and left the combatants at the end of it all back in exactly the same position from which they started in 1980?

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

The uprisings of 2011, which erupted so unexpectedly and spread across the Middle East, once again propelled the armies of the region to the centre of the political stage.

Fully Revised & Updated Edition of the New York Times Bestselling and Highly Praised Book on ISIS With newly added material and breaking news including: Interview with a former ISIS spymaster Why ISIS is targeting Europe and the US What Russia wants in Syria Revelations on the brutal ideology of ISISWith brutal attacks in last year across the globeBrussels, Paris, Beirut, Egypt, Turkeythe Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has proved itself the greatest terrorist threat in the world today.

Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals.

First published in 1985, this study, focusing on Egypt, looks at the underlying reasons why certain political, economic and social events have taken place in the country's history.

This book examines the radicalization of beliefs, tactics, and oppression by a dominant governing group when faced with a subordinate group's historic quest for basic human rights dating back for five centuries.

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The period from about 1100 to 1350 in the Middle East was marked by continued interaction between the local Muslim rulers and two groups of non-Muslim invaders: the Frankish crusaders from Western Europe and the Mongols from northeastern Asia.

Following the devastation resulting from the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire beginning in 1915, the survivors of the massacres were dispersed across the Middle East, Europe and North and South America.

Research on the Mamluk period has so far remained relatively silent about the Mamluk descendants, who are often referred to by the Arabic term awlad al-nas (roughly: children of the elite).

Focused on the connections between archaeology and Israeli society, this book examines the development of Israeli archaeological research, taking historical, sociological, and political contexts into account.

Between November 1947 and May 1948 war between the Palestinian Arab community and the Jewish community encompassed Palestine, with Jerusalem and Jaffa becoming focal points in the conflict due to their centrality, size and symbolic importance.

The monetary history of a country provides important insights into its economic development, as well as its political and social history.

This book examines a key period in the formation of modern Egypt, the early years of military rule following the coup of 1952.

"e;A brilliant and bracing analysis of the Palestine question and settler colonialism .

The First World War, leading to the overthrow of the Qajar regime and replacement by Reza Shah, was pivotal in the history of modern Iran.