Middle Eastern history

How can a nation's archaeological treasures help explain its history, especially one as richly complex as Syria's?

Hardly a day passes when Israel is not in the news.

A Concise History of the Middle East provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of this region.

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First published in 1985, Turkey: Coping with Crisis is a comprehensive survey of the Turkish experience tracing the Turks through the ages to provide the background essential to understanding contemporary Turkey.

This multi-volume set of reissued classics brings together a collection of titles that touch on many key aspects of the history of the Middle East.

A fourteen centuries old consensus by Islamic religious authorities has upheld the belief that God has granted husbands the right to beat their wives.

Contends that the roots of Christian belief come not from Judaea but from Egypt*; Shows that the Romans fabricated their own version of Christianity and burned the Alexandrian library as a way of maintaining political power*; Builds on the arguments of the author's previous books The Hebrew Pharaohs of Egypt, Moses and Akhenaten, and Jesus in the House of the PharaohsIn Christianity: An Ancient Egyptian Religion author Ahmed Osman contends that the roots of Christian belief spring not from Judaea but from Egypt.

Courts and the complex phenomenon of the courtly society have received intensified interest in academic research over recent decades, however, the field of Islamic court culture has so far been overlooked.

Continuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial New York Times and Globe and Mail #1 bestselling author of Infidel and Nomad makes a powerful plea for a Muslim Reformation as the only way to end the horrors of terrorism, sectarian warfare and the repression of women and minorities.

Gehen Sie mit Hanna Klenk auf eine archäologische Pilgerreise durch das Heilige Land.

Winner of the 2022 London Hellenic PrizeOn the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, an essential guide to the momentous war for independence of the Greeks from the Ottoman Empire.

An Iranian American journalist recounts his headline-making captivity in Tehran in "e;a memoir that reads like a thriller"e; (The New York Times Book Review).

The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.

The first in-depth look at how postwar thinkers in Egypt mapped the intersections between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thoughtIn 1945, psychologist Yusuf Murad introduced an Arabic term borrowed from the medieval Sufi philosopher and mystic Ibn 'Arabi-al-la-shu'ur-as a translation for Sigmund Freud's concept of the unconscious.

It has been one of Zionism's foremost credos that so long as Jews continued their millenarian dispersal as small minorities in countless countries around the globe, antisemitism would remain unabated.

The fourth century is often referred to as the first Christian century, and for the Jews a period of decline and persecution.

This book is the first published English-language translation of the significant History of Islamic Spain by Ibn al-Qutiya (d.

Elaborate and sensational gifts were the hallmark of Mamluk diplomacy.

This volume explores cuisine in Israel, including the country's food culture history, important dishes, current food issues, and more.

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

Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization.

The story of the miners of Zonguldak presents a particularly graphic local lens through which to examine questions that have been of major concern to historians most prominently, the development of the state, the emergence of capitalism, and the role of the working classes in these large processes.

The history of medicine in non-European countries has often been characterized by the study of their native "e;traditional"e; medicine, such as (Galenico-)Islamic medicine, and Ayurvedic or Chinese medicine.

Israel''s Armor provides a foundational history of the Israel lobby and its influence on American foreign policy.

This book examines the most turbulent period in the history of Jordan's ruling house, the six years following the assassination of the kingdom's founder, Abdullah (1951-1957).

This volume provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world.

The “epic and stirring story” of 4,000 years of Judaism—told by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author (Jewish Quarterly).

This book is the first on the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa during Ottoman rule.

A number of ritual texts have been handed down from the Hittite capital of Hattusha, written by authors from Kizzuwatna, a region in South-eastern Anatolia.

This three-volume set of previously out-of-print titles closely examines three key aspects of Muslim Spain: the Muslim conquest and settlement, together with its political and economic administration; spirituality in the region; and El Cid and the Spanish reconquest.

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

How the Middle East can achieve political change and social progressThe Middle East is in upheaval: a widening chasm between state and society, the failure of governing elites to address citizens' genuine grievances, massive economic mismanagementall made worse by repeated interventions by Western powers.

The attempt in 2004 to draft an interim constitution in Iraq and the effort to enact a permanent one in 2005 were unintended outcomes of the American occupation, which first sought to impose a constitution by its agents.

This book deals with the lasting impact and the formative legacy of removal, dispossession and the politics of genocide in the last decade of the Ottoman Empire.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Turkey relentlessly persecuted any form of Kurdish dissent.

The creation of the Library of Alexandria is widely regarded as one of the great achievements in the history of humankind - a giant endeavour to amass all known literature and scholarly texts in one central location, so as to preserve it and make it available for the public.

In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria between 1860 and 1914.

Strangers in Yemen is a study of travel to Yemen in the nineteenth century by Jews, Christians and Muslims.

James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the archaeologist.

The attempt in 2004 to draft an interim constitution in Iraq and the effort to enact a permanent one in 2005 were unintended outcomes of the American occupation, which first sought to impose a constitution by its agents.