Middle Eastern history

For decade the Falashas - the Black Jews of Ethiopia - have fascinated scholars.

Two thousand years ago, Antioch on the Orontes River was the third most important city in the Roman Empire.

These essays represent a summation of Piotr Steinkeller's decades-long thinking and writing about the history of third millennium BCE Babylonia and the ways in which it is reflected in ancient historical and literary sources and art, as well as of how these written and visual materials may be used by the modern historian to attain, if not a reliable record of histoire evenementielle, a comprehensive picture of how the ancients understood their history.

Syrian-Kurdish Intersections in the Ottoman Period is a collection of essays on different aspects of the history of the Kurdish people in Syria under the Ottoman Empire, by specialists from Canada, Cyprus, Germany, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Syria, Turkey, and the United States.

This textbook offers a systematic and up-to-date introduction to politics and society in the Middle East.

This is a critical edition and translation of the medieval local history of Balkh, known as Fada?

From the Rif War to the rebellion of 1958, the Berbers (Imazighen) have played a central role in the history of Moroccan resistance to colonialism in the twentieth century.

In diesem fesselnden Werk entfaltet der Historiker Ferdinand J.

Part of the rich legacy of the Middle East is a poetic record stretching back five millennia.

Explores the composite cultural and political milieu of pre-Islamic Arabia, situating its history within the broader late antique context.

The crusades are often seen as epitomising a period when hostility between Christian West and the Muslim Near East reached an all time high.

An examination of the Israeli regime, looking at its diverse aspects in order to explore its democratic nature – or otherwise.

Azerbaijan's Soviet and post-Soviet political history has been tumultuous and varied, particularly with regard to the struggle for independence, democracy and sovereignty.

This book, first published in 1985, examines the whole problem of peacemaking in the Arab-Israel conflict.

In the 'encyclopaedic' fourteenth century, Arabic chronicles produced in Mamluk cities bore textual witness to both recent and bygone history, including that of the Fatimids (969–1171CE).

The memoirs of Wasif Jawhariyyeh are a remarkable treasure trove of writings on the life, culture, music, and history of Jerusalem.

This book presents an anthropological study of the Qur'an, offering an unprecedented challenge to some of the epistemological and metaphysical assumptions of the tawhidic discourses.

Al-Tanuki was a judge who was born in Basra and lived in Baghdad during the tenth century CE.

A provocative study of the devastating impact of climate change across the eastern Mediterranean in the tenth and eleventh centuries.

Maral Jefroudi presents a comprehensive picture of one of the largest migration waves in contemporary history by analyzing refugees' interactions with the Turkish State, the UNHCR, and within the community of Iranians in transit after the 1979 revolution.

The Middle East is a continuing crisis area in world politics.

The comparative study of Persian historiography of the early modern Islamic empires, the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals.

It has been one of Zionism's foremost credos that so long as Jews continued their millenarian dispersal as small minorities in countless countries around the globe, antisemitism would remain unabated.

The Hittites in the Late Bronze Age became the mightiest military power in the Ancient Near East.

Treats Herodotus'' compelling narrative of the Battle of Marathon.

In 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world's first zero-carbon city: Masdar City.

Exploring the movement of peoples, perfumes, and spices across vast distances in this period of medieval history across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, this book examines the role of Arab merchants in trade between and among the Caliphal and Carolingian elites.

"En esta incisiva e iluminadora obra el historiador israelí Ilan Pappé revela cómo más de un siglo de coacción política cambió el mapa de Oriente Medio.

Contested City offers a history of state-society relations in Baghdad, exploring how city residents managed through periods of economic growth, sanctions, and war, from the oil boom of the 1950s through the withdrawal of US troops in 2011.

Focusing on authoritarian rule, unresolved economic challenges, and external dependency, the volume explains the salient political and economic features of contemporary Egypt against the backdrop of its history since the beginning of the 19th century.

Although much of the primary information about the Parthian period comes from coins, there has been much new research undertaken over the past few decades into wider aspects of both the Parthian and Sassanian Empires including the Arsacid Parthians, and their material culture.

Is the Armenian Genocide a strictly historical matter?

Sicker examines the early stages of the process by which Palestine, an obscure and relatively miniscule backwater of the Ottoman Empire, became a critical factor in the history and convoluted politics of the modern Middle East.

Based on parts one and two of Ira Lapidus''s history, this book traces the transformation of pre-modern Islamic societies and their transfusion globally.

When World War I began, Karnig Panian was only five years old, living among his fellow Armenians in the Anatolian village of Gurin.

The revolutionary year of 1958 epitomizes the height of the social uprisings, military coups, and civil wars that erupted across the Middle East and North Africa in the mid-twentieth century.

The 1570s marked the beginning of an age of pervasive piracy in the Mediterranean that persisted into the eighteenth century.

The concept of jihad holds a prominent place in Islamic thought and history.

Hamid Naficy is one of the world's leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus.

The first volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae covers the inscriptions of Jerusalem from the time of Alexander to the Arab conquest in all the languages used for inscriptions during those times: Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Syrian, and Armenian.

This anthology examines and deconstructs what Israeli security looks like and how its various security identities have evolved both before the establishment of the state and in the years and decades since 1948.