Middle Eastern history

This book explores the serious and far-reaching impacts of Little Ice Age climate fluctuations in Ottoman lands.

The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire.

This handbook offers an overview of the main issues regarding the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual and artistic history of the Iberian Peninsula during the period of Muslim rule (eighth-fifteenth centuries).

Is the Armenian Genocide a strictly historical matter?

How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belongingIn the winter of 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno, Italy.

Kuwait has among the highest levels of personal incomes in the Middle East and the best oil reserves to production ratios of all the exporting states.

This book is a decisive contribution to the study of Kurdish history in Syria since the mandatory period (1920-1946) up to nowadays.

RLE: Persia is a Routledge Library Editions set that reissues five out-of-print classics that examine the history and culture of this key country in the Middle East.

The Nahda (lit.

During much of the twelfth century the Crusaders dominated the military scene in the Levant.

How the United States pivoted from containment to regime change in Iraq between the Gulf War and September 11, 2001.

"e;Offers us a fascinating new perspective on the Second World War-its impact on local societies in the Middle East.

Going beyond Orientalist tropes of female fighters, this book traces the history, ideology, and everyday practices of the Kurdish Women''s Movement.

What is the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Indonesia?

Since the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery.

Landscape and animals have been fundamental elements of Turkish culture from the Ottomans to the present day.

A history of the Abbasid Caliphate from its foundation in 750 and golden age under Harun al-Rashid to the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258.

Here is a blueprint for a new interdisciplinary approach that decompartmentalizes disciplines for the study of this district of the Achaemenid Empire including Syria, Phoenicia, Palestine and Cyprus.

From the point of view of economic history, the ideal way to study any institution of commercial law would be to compare the information contained in legal codes and treatises with the material relating to its application in economic life as manifested by actual contracts, letters, and business records found in archives and other repositories.

This book explores why Islam becomes politicized in some countries and not in others, comparing diverse cases including Turkey, Algeria, and Senegal.

In recent years there has been a remarkable surge in Iranian films expressing contentious issues which would otherwise be very difficult to discuss publicly inside the Islamic Republic of Iran - such as the role of clergy in Iranian society.

We Belong to the Land, the gripping autobiography of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Elias Chacour, capture his life's work toward peace and reconciliation for Israeli Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

Iranian ambitions in the Persian Gulf and rivalries with Arab neighbours are subject to intense - and heated - speculation, controversy and debate.

This book investigates the practice of constructing cities in the ancient Near East, bringing together architecture and cultural history.

Dieser Band enthält die überarbeiteten Versionen von Vorträgen, die während der ersten fünf internationalen Symposien für Altorientalische Sprachen und Kulturen in den Jahren 1998 bis 2004 an der Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Tartu, Estland, von Wissenschaftlern aus Deutschland, England, den USA, Finnland und neuerdings auch Russland gehalten wurden.

Avinoam Patt examines the relationship between two of the most significant events in modern Jewish history, the Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel.

Until the 1970s Oman was an isolated, almost medieval kingdom, virtually unknown to the outside world.

A new interpretation of Charlemagne, examining how the Frankish king and his men learned to govern the first European empire.

This is the first serious attempt to understand modern Iraq through a close examination of the political discourse used by the Ba'th regime and its leader, Saddam Hussein.

Concubines and Courtesans contains sixteen essays that consider, from a variety of viewpoints, enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history.

A remarkable book analysing the importance of oratory for transmitting religious knowledge, legitimising rulers and inculcating moral values in the medieval Islamic world.

This book examines the ideological and socio-political discourses shaping the remembrance and representation of Britain and the Cyprus conflict of 1974 within Greek Cypriot society.

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

What do we owe Iraq?

Much traditional historiography consciously and unconsciously glosses over certain discourses, narratives, and practices.

Gardens of Hell examines the human side of one of the great tragedies of modern warfare, the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War.

The history of Tanzimat in the Ottoman Empire has largely been narrated as a unique period of equality, reform, and progress, often framing it as the backdrop to modern Turkey.

The nineteenth century was, for many societies, a period of coming to grips with the growing, and seemingly unstoppable, domination of the world by the "e;Great Powers"e; of Europe.

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

In this wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Matthew S.

This illustrated textbook covers the full history of the Ottoman Empire, from its genesis to its dissolution.

The Bidun ( without nationality ) are a stateless community based across the Arab Gulf.

The Dream of Zion tells the story of the Jewish political effort to restore their ancient nation.

The Companion to Ancient Israel offers an innovative overview of ancient Israelite culture and history, richly informed by a variety of approaches and fields.

Jordan is one of the most important countries of the Fertile Crescent.