A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle EastIn this book, Craig Perry mines a remarkable cache of fragmentary documents preserved in an Egyptian synagogue to write a new history of slavery and the slave trade in the medieval Middle East.
In this provocative examination of collective identity in Jordan, Linda Layne challenges long-held Western assumptions that Arabs belong to easily recognizable corporate social groups.
A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle EastIn this book, Craig Perry mines a remarkable cache of fragmentary documents preserved in an Egyptian synagogue to write a new history of slavery and the slave trade in the medieval Middle East.
The Life and Legacy of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ: A Complete Biography offers a detailed, respectful, and well-researched account of the life of Islam's final Prophet.
**SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the presentSlavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history.
Henry Corbin and Ibn Sīnā: Epistemology, Hermeneutics, and the Imaginal WorldA philosophical journey into knowledge, imagination, and the transformation of human understanding.
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from a New York Times bestselling author and an expert on U.
A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusadersThroughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation.
A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusadersThroughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation.
A Palestinian prisoner s memoir of thirty years captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him This is the story of a wall that somehow chose me as the witness of what it said and didNasser Abu Srour grew up in a refugee camp in the West Bank, on the outskirts of Bethlehem.
'An epic account myth-busting Bull writes with knightly brio and packs a great deal of local and global history into his authoritative book Pratinav Anil, The TimesA major new history of the epic siege of the island fortress of MaltaEven as the great siege began it was understood by both sides to be an epic a potentially decisive encounter between an uneasy assortment of soldiers, native Maltese, adventurers and Knights Hospitaller on a strategically crucial but near waterless island and a vast, seemingly all-powerful Ottoman armada.
FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2026'Remarkable' GUARDIAN'Anyone disturbed and frightened by our current moral and intellectual morass should read it' PANKAJ MISHRAA leading genocide scholar explores the history of Zionism, Israel s lurch towards extreme oppression and violence, and why it stands accused of crimes against humanityProfessor Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv and served in the Israel Defence Forces during the Yom Kippur War.
Compiled by bestselling author susan abulhawa, an Arabic-English bilingual anthology of essays from eighteen young Palestinian writers trying to survive the genocide in Gaza.
The pioneering autobiographical story of a British Zionist in her fifties who moves to Israel and chooses to live among 25,000 Muslims in the all-Arab Israeli town of Tamra, a few miles from Nazareth.
A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020The gripping, untold story of how Saudi Arabia's secretive and mercurial new ruler rose to power.
Women have consistently been left out of the official writing of Lebanese history, and nowhere is this more obvious than in writing on the Lebanese Civil War.
When they initiated a war on drugs in 1979, Iran developed a reputation as having some of the world's harshest drug penalties and as an opponent of efforts to reform global drug policy.
A new look at the crusaders, which shows how they pursued long-term plans and clear strategic goals Medieval states, and particularly crusader societies, often have been considered brutish and culturally isolated.
Iran's modern history cannot be understood without tracing three interlocking forces: the vast oil wealth that made the country a target for foreign intervention, the coups and political manipulations that repeatedly disrupted its sovereign development, and the clerical establishment that ultimately channeled decades of accumulated grievance into revolutionary transformation.
Der moderne Iran ist das Produkt dreier Kräfte, die sich über ein Jahrhundert hinweg überlagert, bekämpft und gegenseitig geformt haben: Öl, politische Gewalt und religiöse Autorität.
The negotiations over Iran's nuclear program stand among the most complex diplomatic undertakings of the twenty-first century - conducted simultaneously at the table and through back channels, shaped as much by domestic political pressures in Washington, Tehran, and Brussels as by the technical details of uranium enrichment and inspection regimes.
From Anatolian frontiers to Vienna's gates, the Ottoman Empire spanned six centuries through military innovation, millet tolerance, and imperial bureaucracy.
Dieses Buch beleuchtet den langen und vielschichtigen Weg des iranischen Atomprogramms – von den ambitionierten Anfängen unter Schah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi bis zu den erbitterten Auseinandersetzungen mit der internationalen Gemeinschaft im 21.
Beneath the surface of modern Middle Eastern conflicts lies a network of pipelines, concession agreements, and energy corridors that rarely appear in headlines but consistently shape the decisions of states, militaries, and international powers.
