Middle Eastern history

Oil revenues have made Libya rich since 1961, when oil exports began.

In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical analysis, Finkelsteins study stands alone.

This book, first published in 1977, discusses the Muslim contribution to mathematics during the golden age of Muslim learning from the seventh to the thirteenth century.

This book studies the unique concept of Jewish peoplehood and its survival over the centuries in the face of many challenges.

Changes in economic and social conditions throughout the Middle East have been profound, and perhaps nowhere has this been more evident than in the field of urban development and town planning.

Exploration usually demands the qualities of bravery, curiosity and organising ability.

First published in 1985, this is a comprehensive study of the Middle East's most strategic country, set against the background of the Islamic heritage of Iran and the rise and fall of the Pahlavi dynasty.

Why are the names of the chief characters in the biblical Book of Esther those of Mesopotamian deities?

The increasingly vibrant political culture emerging in Lebanon and Syria in the 1930s and early 1940s is key to the understanding of local approaches towards the Nazi German regime.

This book proposes a new means of identifying how Greek and Syrian identities were expressed in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East.

In the spring of 2001, George W.

In this book, author Nader Moumneha Canadian senior policy adviser of Lebanese descent examines the research of the formation and evolution of the Christian resistance in Lebanon he performed as a graduate student at the American University of Beirut in the early 1990s.

Egypt was the first of the Arab-speaking Muslim countries to come into close contact with modern European states.

Die Herausgeber, Vertreter der Fächer Altes Testament und Alte Geschichte, legen mit Kollegen anderer Disziplinen zusammen ein interkulturelles Projekt zur Gesetzgebung in antiken Gesellschaften vor.

Incorporating published and archival material, this volume fills an important gap in the history of the Jewish experience during World War II, describing how the war affected Jews living along the southern rim of the Mediterranean and the Levant, from Morocco to Iran.

In 1894 Great Britain invited 'Abd al-Rahman Khan, the amir of Afghanistan, to England for a state visit.

The profound effects of the British Empire's actions in the Arab World during the First World War can be seen echoing through the history of the 20th century.

The early Arab conquests pose a considerable challenge to modern-day historians.

Sufi Castigator investigates the writings of Ahmad Kasravi, one of the foremost intellectuals in Iran.

In Uzbekistan, Central Asia's most populous country, Islam has been an ever-present factor in the lives of its people and a contentious force for political officials trying to build a secular and authoritarian government.

Canadian Zionists of the 1930s were anxious to involve their government in the Palestine question.

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

Four thousand years ago, Egyptian society struggled with the downfall of the Old Kingdom, which brought an end to material success and introduced anarchy and chaos.

In The Color Black, Beeta Baghoolizadeh traces the twin processes of enslavement and erasure of Black people in Iran during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Cultural expressions of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have a rich tradition, communal narratives, and spiritual connectivity.

The continuing crisis in Syria has raised a question mark over the common perception of Middle Eastern affairs as an offshoot of global power politics.

Although the Arabian Peninsula is the heartland of Islam and of the Arab world, for decades it did not receive the attention it deserves from scholars and writers.

The overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003 in Iraq opened the door for Kurdish nationalists to move toward outright independence.

Since the early 1990s, Iraq (and its former dictator, Saddam Hussein) has been a fixture in Western media.

This collection of essays, first published in 1958, presents analyses by some 34 specialists on key political and social trends in the Middle East.

Truly an essential reference for today's world, this detailed introduction to the origins, events, and impact of the adversarial relationship between Arabs and Israelis illuminates the complexities and the consequences of this long-lasting conflict.

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With nearly sixty percent of Americans initially against a pre-emptive war without sanction from the United Nations, and even higher anti-war numbers in most other nations of the world, the 2003 war against Iraq quickly became an enormous public relations challenge for the George W.

The early decades of the Cold War presented seemingly boundless opportunity for the construction of "e;laboratories"e; of American society abroad: microcosms where experts could scale down problems of geopolitics to manageable size, and where locals could be systematically directed toward American visions of capitalist modernity.

During the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, German universities were at the forefront of scholarship in Oriental studies.

"e;Are we the same, I wonder, when all our surroundings, association, acquaintances are changed?

Moses Maimonides, bekannt als der Rambam, zahlt zu den einflussreichsten Denkern des Mittelalters.

The first monograph on Islamic hospitals, this volume examines their origins, development, architecture, social roles, and connections to non-Islamic institutions.

Since the Gezi uprisings in June 2013 and AKP's temporary loss of parliamentary supremacy after the June 2015 general elections, sharp political clashes, ascending police operations, extra-judicial executions, suppression of the media and political opposition, systematic violation of the constitution and fundamental human rights, and the one-man-rule of President Erdogan have become the identifying characteristics of Turkish politics.

This book studies the role of youth movements in the Arab uprisings of 2010 and 2011, and the regime''s responses to these movements.

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

Until the recent uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, the resilience of authoritarian regimes seemed a fundamental feature of regional politics.