Middle Eastern history

This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare.

A broad introduction to a major turning point in human development, this book guides the reader through the emergence of civilization in Mesopotamia, when city life began and writing was invented.

Jews and Muslims in the Arab World highlights the effects of historical memory on the Arab-Israel conflict, demonstrating that both Jews and Arabs use stories of distant pasts to create their identities and shape their politics.

THE TERRORIST MASSACRE COMMITTED BY HAMAS AGAINST INNOCENT ISRAELIS ON OCTOBER 7, 2023 BROUGHT GREAT TRAUMA TO THE STATE OF ISRAEL.

Resting on the multifaceted and multicultural voices of women - secular and religious, old-timers and newcomers, at the center or on the periphery of their communities - it brings into sharper focus rarely raised issues related to gender borders and to the private and public spheres.

An innovative exploration of how colonial interventions in Afghanistan have been made possible through representations of the country as ''backward''.

This volume presents a comparison of seven major religious reformers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: For Islam, Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani, Muhammad 'Abduh and Muhammad Rashid Rida; for Hinduism, Dayananda Sarasvati and Swami Shraddhananda; for Confucianism, K'ang Yu-wei and Liang Ch'i-ch'ao.

The book investigates modern Qur'an commentaries in South Asia and engages with how Muslim scholars have imagined and assessed their past intellectual heritage.

With the fifth book of the Konika ancient mathematics reached a climax.

This extensive examination of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, Iraq, Germany, and the EU focuses on the history and development of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) and its impact on transnational security, human rights, and democratization.

In 2003, after two years of negotiations, a group of prominent Israelis and Palestinians signed a model peace treaty.

The Alawis or Alawites are a minority Muslim sect, predominantly based in Syria, Turkey and Lebanon.

Michel Henry was one of the leading French philosophers of the twentieth century.

The Kurdish territory of Rojava in Syria has become a watchword for radical democracy, communalism and gender equality.

An exploration of Islamic law from the perspective of women and gender.

Turkey and the West: From Neutrality to Commitment considers the formulation of Turkish foreign policy in the post-Ataturk period of 1938 to 1958 and discusses Turkey's uneasy shift from neutrality to become a member of the Western Alliance.

This work aims to distill the findings of a wide variety of scholarly disciplines into a coherent narrative of the Qur'an's history, from the first oral recitation to the four published Variants in active circulation today.

Beirut is a city divided.

The chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the beleaguered Jewish people, as a phoenix ascending of ancient legend, achieved national self-determination in the reborn State of Israel within three years of the end of World War II and of the Holocaust.

For the past hundred years, much has been written about the early editions of Christian texts discovered in the region that was once Roman Egypt.

A comprehensive survey of the social, political and economic features, forces and evolution of the Kurds from 1400 to the present.

In the years following Nasser's rise to power, the demographic landscape and the economy of Egypt underwent a profound change.

The Angel is an award-winning expose about the sensational life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian senior official who spied for Israel.

Die Inkunabel Peregrinatio in terram sanctam des Bernhard von Breydenbach war ein Bestseller seiner Zeit.

Reading Arabia traces the evolving tradition of British Orientalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, examining the role of mass print culture in constructing the British public's perception of "e;Arabia.

Urbanism in ancient society has now become an important topic for both classical and ancient Near Eastern scholars.

Examines both the early modern reception and the ancient context of the Sumerian temple sculptures created during the Early Dynastic period.

"e;[This is] a subject of such relevance and importance that one wonders why nobody else dealt with it in book form before.

The period since the Second World War saw a spectacular transformation of the Kuwaiti economy, making it one of the world's major oil states with one of the highest per capita incomes.

Israel's 1977 political election resulted in a dramatic defeat for the ruling Labor movement, which had enjoyed more than four decades of economic, political, and cultural dominance.

Wenn Antizionismus und Antisemitismus aufeinandertreffen: Die DDR als inoffizieller Kriegsgegner Israels.

In the decade following the first Gulf War, most observers regarded it as an exemplary effort by the international community to lawfully and forcefully hold a regional aggressor in check.

Originally published in 1973, this volume consists of a sequence of essays in religious thinking, responsive to the impact of Quranic style and emphasis.

States across the Muslim world are faced with challenges associated with a perpetual cycle of conflict and violence organized along sectarian lines.

Zhand Shakibi presents a new interpretation of the political and social dynamics of the last decade of the Shah's rule that challenges the binary view of pro-West Shah and anti-West Ayatollah by drawing attention to the Pahlavi state's reaction to the intellectual and societal backlash against cultural and moral Occidentalism in its last decade.

Der Minotaurus – halb Mensch, halb Stier – ist eine der faszinierendsten Gestalten der antiken Mythologie.

The Arab-Israeli Conflict explains what the term "e;Arab-Israeli Conflict"e; refers to, providing an accurate and dispassionate description of the current situation, its origins, as well as the people involved and their motivations.

An innovative and comprehensive exploration of revolutions from the French Revolution of 1789 to the most recent 2011 Arab uprisings.

Shulgi-simti is an important example of a woman involved in sponsoring religious activities though having a family life.

A Commerce of Knowledge tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company in Syria during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

In the last decade of the twentieth century and on into the twenty-first, Israelis and Palestinians saw the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords, the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the escalation of suicide bombings and retaliations in the region.

A comprehensive examination of this deeply traditional Christian religion as it confronts modernityThough the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt is among the oldest Christian communities in the world, it remained relatively unknown outside of Egypt for most of its existence.

In this comprehensive study, Gat looks at British policy in the period leading up to the Six-Day War.

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has attracted the interest of politicians and academicians, and generated extensive research, since the tract first appeared in the early twentieth century.

The Middle East is, and has always been, of major global economic and political importance.

The Formation of Modern Lebanon (1985) examines the critical period around the 1920 establishment of Greater Lebanon and its impact on the political development of the country.