Middle Eastern history

Based on archival and primary sources in Persian, Hebrew, Judeo-Persian, Arabic, and European languages, Between Foreigners and Shi'is examines the Jews' religious, social, and political status in nineteenth-century Iran.

When this book was first published in 1958, Arabia was even then one of the least known corners of the globe.

Examines the ''Nahda'', a cultural renaissance in the Arab world, through the utopian visions of Arab intellectuals during the nineteenth century.

This comprehensive collection addresses the important question of political parties in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Refine your heart and mind with the wisdom of Islamic spirituality"e;To live a meaningful life-one that brings us joy, contentment and fulfillment-we have to do the inner spiritual work of becoming a more complete human being.

Sa’d ad-Din Taftazani is regarded as one of the most influential authors in 14^th century Islamic intellectual history.

The revised edition of this comprehensive survey follows the political, military, religious, economic, and diplomatic history of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from pre-Muhammad times to the present day.

In Sacred Violence, renowned medieval historian Jill N.

The first genocide of the twentieth century remains unrecognized and unpunished.

The true story of a vigilante group of Holocaust survivors who conspired to kill six million GermansNakam (Hebrew for "e;vengeance"e;) tells the story of "e;the Avengers"e; (Nokmim), a group of young Holocaust survivors led by poet and resistance fighter Abba Kovner, who undertook a mission of revenge against Germany following the crimes of the Holocaust.

For over a decade the Middle East has monopolized news headlines in the West.

A richly sourced account of diplomatic practice in the British mission to Istanbul from 1661 to 1807.

EU policy-makers have in the past decade endeavoured to formulate a substantial redefinition of the organisation's international ambitions.

The decades-long resilience of Middle Eastern regimes meant that few anticipated the 2011 Arab Spring.

The economy of Kuwait is almost wholly dependent on oil.

"e;A brilliant and bracing analysis of the Palestine question and settler colonialism .

This collection of previously out-of-print titles examines the state of Turkey in both its Ottoman and modern incarnations.

The influence of the ulema, the official Sunni Muslim religious scholars of the Ottoman Empire, is commonly understood to have waned in the empire's last century.

Translating a collection of the most important descriptions of the Turks found in medieval Arabic texts into English, this book aims at delineating the coming of the Turkic people in the eleventh century, their military successes in Iran and Iraq, and the emergence of the sultanate.

In the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty.

This reference work is an ideal resource for anyone interested in better understanding the controversial Iraq War.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe.

Buraimi is an oasis in an otherwise bleak desert on the border between Oman and the UAE.

A study of the writings of Ibn Barrajān, an influential pioneer of intellectual mysticism in the Muslim West.

This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death and in the following centuries.

Shared water resources in Israel and Palestine are often the site of political, economic, historical, legal and ethical contestation.

This is the fantastical, yet real, story of the merchants of Bethlehem, the young men who traveled to every corner of the globe in the nineteenth century.

Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire examines the role of mercenary figures in negotiating relations between the United States and the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century.

A Raid on the Red Sea is the thrilling, real-life tale of illegal gun-running in the Middle East.

The Gay Girl in Damascus Hoax explores the vulnerability of educated and politically engaged Westerners to Progressive Orientalism, a form of Orientalism embedded within otherwise egalitarian and anti-imperialist Western thought.

This book provides a comprehensive study on the proclamation of Holy Scriptures as an enacted celebration, as well as its function as a performance within sacralized theatrical spaces.

We know the current political narrative: Iran is dangerous, full of terrorists and weapons of mass destruction.

Nasser's Gamble draws on declassified documents from six countries and original material in Arabic, German, Hebrew, and Russian to present a new understanding of Egypt's disastrous five-year intervention in Yemen, which Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser later referred to as "e;my Vietnam.

The purpose of the book is twofold: first, to give an accurate and reasonably complete narrative account of the Armenian events of 1909 and their aftermath in the province of Adana and the developments leading up to and following them; and equally importantly, to provide an interpretive framework that makes some sense out of this episode in Ottoman history.

The nexus of urban governance and human migration was a crucial feature in the modernisation of cities in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century.

This book explores the reasons for the creation of humanity on Earth from the perspective of ancient and contemporary Muslim thinkers, aiming to lay the outlines of a Qur?

This 2005 book surveys the religious history of the peoples of the Near East from 600–1800.

Tell Ahmar – also known as Masuwari, Til Barsib and Kar-Shalmaneser in the first millennium BCE – was first inhabited in the sixth millennium, during the Ubaid period, and progressively developed to become a regional center and, in the eighth and seventh centuries, a provincial capital of the Assyrian empire.