Middle Eastern history

The British Army''s devastating effectiveness against colonial rebellion is exposed in this military history of Britain''s pacification of the Arab revolt in Palestine.

The first systematic global study of how Christians respond to persecution, presenting new research by leading scholars of global Christianity.

Through the eyes of northern Nigerian Qur''anic students, this book explores what it truly means to be young, poor, and Muslim.

Reinterpretation of the Danube frontier in Late Antiquity, drawing on literary, archaeological, and numismatic sources.

Using newly-uncovered archival evidence, Jeff Eden sheds unprecedented light on the lives of slaves ensnared by the Central Asian slave trade.

Drawing on case studies from Islamic history, Haider challenges assumptions about the nature of the sources shaping understandings of the early Muslim world.

This unique study spotlights the role of masculinity in Iranian history, linking masculinity to social and political developments.

Drawing on extensive interviews, Hartshorn explains how labor became a revolutionary topic prior to the Arab Uprisings of 2010–2011.

A longitudinal history of Islamic child custody law, challenging Euro-American exceptionalism to reveal developments that considered the best interests of the child.

Examines Iran''s Armenian community, shedding light on Muslim-Christian relations in Iran since the 1979 revolution.

Advances theorization of childhood in contexts of racialized settler-colonial political violence while acknowledging children''s power to interrupt it.

Through the lens and experiences of civil society, Fortier demonstrates the volatility of democratization following the downfall of Tunisia''s authoritarian regime duringin the 2010–11 uprisings.

A study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the sultan''s harem in Istanbul under the Ottoman Empire.

Examines the entrenchment of Salafism in Lebanese society while also highlighting the movement''s transnational links to the Persian Gulf.

With a focus on the political elite, Sadeghi-Boroujerdi analysis the intellectual and political trajectory of post-revolutionary Iranian reformism.

Considers political theologies formulated in Iran and Israel over the course of the twentieth century.

A history of Egypt''s first teacher-training school, exploring 130 years of tension over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modernized public spheres.

This unique window into Muslim identities provides scholars and students with important up-to-date data about real Muslims living in Israel.

Explores aspects of the private lives and interpersonal ties, between the personal and communal domains of early Sufis.

Uses a comparative analysis of case law in leading common law nations to demonstrate how religious discrimination is culturally determined.

Examines the changing meanings Americans invested in their country''s intensifying relationship with Israel from the 1950s to the 1980s.

A comprehensive global study of the political ideology of Christian Democracy, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.

Analyzes the labor experience of Israeli Palestinian women, arguing that state policies and widespread discrimination hinder their labor force participation and success.

Through a comparative study of Morocco and Tunisia, Feuer proposes a compelling theory accounting for complexities in religion-state relations across the Arab world.

How a distinctive approach to social policy led democracy to flourish in the Federal Republic of Germany despite its past.

A unique look at how cinema shaped the cosmopolitan society in Tehran through cultural exchanges between Iran and the world.

This book compares secularity in societies not shaped by Western Christianity, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

This is study of the lived experience of monastic reform within the troubled and violent landscape of twelfth-century Germany.

Examines Israel and its policing of minorities through the perceptions and experiences of four distinct minority groups.

A multifaceted study of Turkey''s diplomatic, economic, social and cultural relations with the Middle East in the interwar period.

Becoming Arab explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction fared in the face of nineteenth-century racial categorisation and control.

Tsui reveals the peculiarities of the Guomindang''s revolutionary enterprise, resituating Nationalist China in the moment of global radical right ascendancy.

Cutting-edge scholarship on post-war Arab intellectual history that challenges conventional thinking about authoritarianism, religion and revolution in the modern Middle East.

Charts the Ottoman Empire''s unique path to creating a realm of social life in which public opinion could be formed.

Introduces a little-known text and shows how Classical culture and Bible heroes helped Christians conceptualize Jewish history in late antiquity.

Analyses contentious politics in Tripoli, Lebanon''s Sunni city, and the relations between Islamist and sectarian groups in governing the city.

Offers an innovative reappraisal of the impact of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars on modern Islamic thought.

Maps Egypt''s political, economic and cultural connections throughout the Mediterranean and beyond between 500 and 1000 CE.

The first systematic analysis and explanation of the political success of the Israeli settler movement based on a novel theoretical framework and rich empirical analysis.

The first study of Israeli foreign policy towards the Middle East and selected world powers, since the end of the Cold War to the present.

A comprehensive diplomatic and military history of the Russian conquest of Central Asia, spanning the whole of the nineteenth century.

Interpreting Ibn ?

Interpreting Ibn ?

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Arab world has undergone a series of radical transformations.

»Der Weg der Vollkommenheit« ist eine aszetische Schrift, in die die Heilige Theresia das ganze mystische Gebetsleben einfließen lässt, vom Gebet der Sammlung an bis zum Gebet der Vereinigung.

Theresia von Jesu war eine Unbeschuhte Karmelitin, die noch in der heutigen Zeit weithin verehrt wird.

Theresia von Jesu war eine Unbeschuhte Karmelitin, die noch in der heutigen Zeit weithin verehrt wird.

The path to harmony lies between extremes.

In this impressive volume, leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the biblical world, the world in which prophets, poets, sages, and historians created one of our most important texts--the Bible.

Die drei arabischen"e; Prophetengeschichten des Koran sind bislang kaum erforscht.