Middle Eastern history

This book offers a critical analysis of the European colonial heritage in the Arab countries and highlights the way this legacy is still with us today, informing the current state of relations between Europe and the formerly colonized states.

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Reveals how early Muslims devised and elaborated normative views concerning non-Muslim state officials at moments of intense competition.

The first English-language translation of former Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's penultimate book, published in Persian on the eve of the revolution that brought the downfall of the monarchy.

The crusades were among the longest and most bitter wars in human history and consisted of no less than seven major expeditions from Western Europe from the late 11th to the early 14th centuries for the purpose of wresting Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the control of the Muslims.

Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman writer, to colonial and postcolonial cultures in which European language has become so thoroughly ingrained?

An examination of temporary marriage, or sigheh, in Iran through the representation of women within modern novels, short stories and cinema.

The invention of the nation-state was the crowning achievement of the Sykes Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France in 1916.

An anthropologist deconstructs the notion of masculinity using twenty years of field research in the Cairo neighborhood of al-Zawiya.

The Jewish quarter of Jerusalem today seems like an organic fusion of a modern Israeli city with an ancient Jewish heritage.

Top World Guild Award WinnerThis book is about an idea namely, that Scripture mandates a Jewish return to the historical region of Palestine which in turn morphed into a political movement, rallied around a popular slogan ("e;A country without a nation for a nation without a country"e;), and eventually contributed to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.

Following the 1948 war and the creation of the state of Israel, Palestinian Arabs comprised just fifteen percent of the population but held a much larger portion of its territory.

Voices of Freedom: The Middle East and North Africa showcases essays from activists, journalists, novelists, and scholars whose areas of expertise include free speech, peace and reconciliation, alterity-otherness, and Middle Eastern and North African religions and literatures.

The nationalist outlook of the Turkish state since the beginning of the Republican era in 1923 targeted uniform identity formation.

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

This book offers a provocative retelling of Palestinian political history through an examination of the international commissions that have investigated political violence and human rights violations.

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.

One Land, Two States imagines a new vision for Israel and Palestine in a situation where the peace process has failed to deliver an end of conflict.

In the last fifteen years, psychologists have rediscovered culture and its influence on emotion, thought, and self.

In the course of the war against Mithridates VI of Pontus, the Romans advanced into the territories in the isthmus between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea in the first century BCE.

Before the 2011 uprisings, the Middle East and North Africa were frequently seen as a uniquely undemocratic region with little civic activism.

Der dschihadistische Terror ist zurück.

Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.

The first detailed commentary on Procopius'' Persian Wars, a rich source for many aspects of the reign of Justinian.

'The Zohar' was compiled and composed in Spain in the thirteenth century, and exerted a powerful influence on Jewish life in medieval ghettoes.

'Extremely convincing' - Electronic IntifadaFor decades we have spoken of the Israel-Palestine conflict, but what if our understanding of the issue has been wrong all along?

For years, Iranian academics, writers, and scholars have equated national development and progress with the reform of men's sexual behavior.

Between Empire and Nation tells the story of the transformation of the Muslim community in modern Bulgaria during a period of imperial dissolution, conflicting national and imperial enterprises, and the emergence of new national and ethnic identities.

Despite, or even because of their tumultuous history, Palestinians are renowned for being prolific cultural producers, creating many of the Arab world's most iconic works of literature.

The updated second edition of The War for Palestine presents the genesis of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

"e;A tour de force on the evolution of jihadism.

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

The Middle East remains the most politically volatile and militarily unstable region in the world.

Examining political and socioeconomic change in the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), this book, first published in 1987, focuses primarily on the quarter century following the overthrow of the imamate in 1962.

An expertly curated and annotated collection of declassified records, revealing the inner workings of US-Iran relations after 1978.

When protests erupted in response to the 2010 Egyptian parliament elections that were widely viewed as fraudulent, many wondered.

As the world becomes increasingly globalised Islam faces some important choices.

The Chalcolithic period in Cyprus has been known since Porphyrios Dikaios’ excavations at Erimi in the 1930s and through the appearance in the antiquities market of illicitly acquired anthropomorphic cruciform figures, often manufactured from picrolite, a soft blue-green stone.

Keefe's analysis dismantles the androcentric and theological assumptions which have determined the dominant reading of Hosea's metaphor of Israel as the adulterous wife of God.

In 1917, the British issued the Balfour Declaration for military and strategic reasons.