Middle Eastern history

Long before Muhammed preached the religion of Islam, the inhabitants of his native Arabia had played an important role in world history as both merchants and warriorsArabia and the Arabs provides the only up-to-date, one-volume survey of the region and its peoples, from prehistory to the coming of IslamUsing a wide range of sources - inscriptions, poetry, histories, and archaeological evidence - Robert Hoyland explores the main cultural areas of Arabia, from ancient Sheba in the south, to the deserts and oases of the north.

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

The Middle East is often portrayed as oppressively patriarchal and homophobic.

A rich and nuanced study of the Arabian Nights in world cultures, analysing the celebration, appropriation, and translation of the stories over time.

What is the relationship between the medieval crusades and the problems of the modern Middle East?

Presentations of offerings to the emperor-king on anniversaries of his accession became an important imperial ritual in the court of Franz Joseph I.

Making a country great again is a theme for nationalist authoritarians.

Since its emergence in the 1920s, Iraqi-Kurdish theatre was used as a tool of national identity building and modernisation.

This book concentrates on the formative period of the Gaza Strip and the bordering Israeli Gaza Frontier Area, considering them as a distinct geographic region that might best be understood as an integral unit of analysis.

Die Germanische Altertumskunde Online wird – wie bereits das in ihr aufgegangene Reallexikon – durch Ergänzungsbände begleitet.

Saudi Arabia, the West and the Security of the Gulf (1986) considers the geopolitical environment of the Arab Gulf and the nature and threats to Western interests in the region.

A new perspective on Iranian politics and culture in the 1960s-1970s documenting the ''Westoxification'' discourses adopted by the Pahlavi State.

Warum prägt Gewalt den Nahen Osten seit über hundert Jahren?

Traditionally, in general studies of the First World War, the Middle East is an arena of combat that has been portrayed in romanticised terms, in stark contrast to the mud, blood, and presumed futility of the Western Front.

«‹Eine neue Geschichte der Welt› – dieses Buch verdient den Titel voll und ganz.

This fast-paced and timely book from Vijay Prashad is the best critical primer to the Middle East conflicts today, from Syria and Saudi Arabia to the chaos in Turkey.

This book offers a new interpretation of the rich narratives of Arab secularism, contending that secularism as a set of ideas and a social movement is destined to loom large on the political and legal horizon of most Arab states.

Turkey's economy is a complex mix of modern industry, a traditional agricultural sector, and a rapidly growing private sector.

Little known in the United States and Western Europe, the Sudan is nevertheless a country of major importance in international affairs.

Collective memory transforms historical events into political myths.

Provincializing the history of the Ottoman Empire, this book provides a critical approach to the projects of 'modernity' that took place in the Eastern Mediterranean over the past two centuries.

During the New Kingdom (c.

Of the many ancient civilizations we are aware of, few are smaller than the ancient Kingdom of Israel.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt des Herodes des Großen, einer der schillerndsten und umstrittensten Figuren der antiken Geschichte.

Histories of Palestine in the pre-1948 period usually assume the emergent Arab-Zionist conflict to be the central axis around which all change revolves.

Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman writer, to colonial and postcolonial cultures in which European language has become so thoroughly ingrained?

The Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups.

Azmi Bishara's book on the Syrian Revolution is one of the most comprehensive and profound works on the subject published to date.

Kirkuk is Iraq's most multilingual city, for millennia home to a diverse population.

Offers a new way of understanding classical Islamic theories holding that divine revelation is necessary for the knowledge of norms.

This book links sectarianism in Iraq to the failure of the modern nation-state to resolve tensions between sectarian identities and concepts of unified statehood and uniform citizenry.

Eine historische Reise durch Istanbul, von Justinian bis Erdoğan: Der Historiker Malte Fuhrmann lebt seit vielen Jahren in der Stadt am Bosporus - hier erzählt er von den Geistern der Stadt, die in den alten Gemäuern allgegenwärtig sind, von aufständischen Janitscharen und plündernden Kreuzrittern, von Hofintrigen und blutig aufgelösten Gewerkschaftsdemonstrationen.

A fascinating history of nineteenth century Eastern Mediterranean port cities, re-examining European influence over the changing lives of their urban populations.

The linguistic and cultural relations between the North Germanic and the Alemannic tribes are a controversial area of research with a long tradition.

The Ghazi Sultans were frontier holy-warrior kings of late medieval and early modern Islamic history.

The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Arab uprisings of 2010-11 left indelible imprints on the Middle East.

Since the age of Alexander the Great, waves of foreign armies have invaded the Middle East and South Asia to plunder their vast treasures.

The Arab theatre and cinema are among the most neglected subjects in the studies of Oriental literature and research into the history of theatre.

Today, almost a generation has passed since the Iran-Iraq war and the memory of it is set to diminish with each passing generation.

Qur'anic idiomaticity, in its all aspects, poses a great deal of challenge to Qur'an readers, learners, commentators, and translators.

This book illustrates how a dominant political party, the Mapai, under the leadership of P.