Middle Eastern history

This thought-provoking book, the first of its kind in the English language, reexamines the fifty-year-old nation of Israel in terms of its origins as a haven for a persecuted people and its evolution into a multi- cultural society.

This highly original book brings into focus the sexual discourses manifest in a wealth of little-studied source material-medical texts, legal documents, religious literature, dream interpretation manuals, shadow theater, and travelogues-in a nuanced, wide-ranging, and powerfully analytic exploration of Ottoman sexual thought and practices from the heyday of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth.

This highly original historical and political analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict combines the unique perspectives of two prominent segments of the Middle Eastern puzzle: Israeli Jews and the Palestinian citizens of Israel.

Israel's military court system, a centerpiece of Israel's apparatus of control in the West Bank and Gaza since 1967, has prosecuted hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.

Inspired by stories he heard in the West Bank as a child, Hillel Cohen uncovers a hidden history in this extraordinary and beautifully written book-a history central to the narrative of the Israel-Palestine conflict but for the most part willfully ignored until now.

Epic Encounters examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their "e;interests"e; in the Middle East.

Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality.

This is an ambitious, meticulous examination of how U.

From the stony desolation of Jordan's desert, it is but a step through a doorway into the bath house of the Qusayr 'Amra hunting lodge.

This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research.

Possessors and Possessed analyzes how and why museums-characteristically Western institutions-emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire.

This incisive study adds a new dimension to discussions of Egypt's nationalist response to the phenomenon of colonialism as well as to discussions of colonialism and nationalism in general.

Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have?

In this skillful analysis, Leslie Peirce delves into the life of a sixteenth-century Middle Eastern community, bringing to light the ways that women and men used their local law court to solve personal, family, and community problems.

Tomaz Mastnak's provocative analysis of the roots of peacemaking in the Western world elucidates struggles for peace that took place in the high and late Middle Ages.

In an rewarding new study, Tucker explores the way in which Islamic legal thinkers understood Islam as it related to women and gender roles.

Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century.

Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians.

Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.

New translations of Persian literature into French, the invention of the Aryan myth, increased travel between France and Iran, and the unveiling of artefacts from ancient Susa at the Louvre Museum are among the factors that radically altered France's perception of Iran during the long nineteenth century.

Here the late Raphael Patai (1910-1996) recreates the fascinating world of Jewish seafaring from Noah's voyage through the Diaspora of late antiquity.

Surrounded on all sides by Islam, the beloved Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew continues to impact the world for Christ from his seat in Constantinople, a city central to Christian history.

An ethnographic study set in Uzbekistan which shows how Muslims practise and celebrate their religion despite a repressive government.

A pioneering study of the causes and consequences of the rivalry and collapse of the great Ottoman and Russian empires.

This book analyzes the development of the Israeli economy in its historical context.

A reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion''s intellectual origins and actual role as the founding father of Israel.

A reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion''s intellectual origins and actual role as the founding father of Israel.

An archaeological analysis of Asia Minor, the area equated with much of modern-day Turkey, from 20,000 to 2,000 BC.

An ethnographic study set in Uzbekistan which shows how Muslims practise and celebrate their religion despite a repressive government.

A pioneering study of the causes and consequences of the rivalry and collapse of the great Ottoman and Russian empires.

This book analyzes the development of the Israeli economy in its historical context.

The first comprehensive history of the Turkish economyThe population and economy of the area within the present-day borders of Turkey has consistently been among the largest in the developing world, yet there has been no authoritative economic history of Turkey until now.

This second edition considers how the ''global war on terror'' has changed the way the West views the Islamic world.

The true story of the Taliban’s remarkable resurgence in Pakistan and war-torn Afghanistan more than a decade after the U.

This book examines the early history of the biblical Philistines who migrated to the Levant during the early twelfth century BC.

This book contains three essays that examine three forms of anti-Zionism and their use of the Holocaust to delegitimize Israel.

Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul.

This book is an introduction to the fundamentals of Islamic law and its history.

The first systematic treatment of political resistance and rebellion in Islamic law.

The surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of the modern stateCoping with Defeat presents a historical panorama of the Islamic and Catholic political-religious empires and exposes striking parallels in their relationship with the modern state.

In a convincing reinterpretation of early Islamic history, Wilferd Madelung examines the conflict which developed after the death of Muhammad for control of the Muslim community.

This book examines the early history of the biblical Philistines who migrated to the Levant during the early twelfth century BC.

Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul.

Traces the history of refugees and migrants within a reconstructed twentieth-century Middle East.

This book offers a perspective on the previously ignored history of the Shiites as a constituent of Lebanese society.

An examination of the violence perpetrated against women in politically conflicted or militarized areas.

This text was the first full-length study using network analysis to concentrate on the ancient world.

Revisionist account of the Ottoman Empire''s fateful decision to enter the First World War in 1914.

This book is a comprehensive study of the Iraq Wars in the context of the revolution in military affairs debate.

This book is an introduction to the fundamentals of Islamic law and its history.