Middle Eastern history

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This monumental book traces the origins and development of mathematics in the ancient Middle East, from its earliest beginnings in the fourth millennium BCE to the end of indigenous intellectual culture in the second century BCE when cuneiform writing was gradually abandoned.

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

This book, first published in 1984, examines the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and UAE.

This book is the first on the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa during Ottoman rule.

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Since the Shah went into exile and the Islamic Republic was established in 1979 in the wake of the Iranian Revolution, the very idea of monarchy in Iran has been contentious.

The critics of Charles George Gordon accused him of vacillation and of instability of character.

In a world where power is both fleeting and eternal, Emperor Frederick I, known as Bar-barossa, rose as a towering figure of the medieval era.

The role of women in politics in the Gulf is a much-debated and often little-understood subject in the West.

From Ramallah to New York, Tel Aviv to Porto Alegre, people around the world celebrate a formidable, transnational Palestinian LGBTQ social movement.

This insightful analysis looks at the power struggles of 1920-1926, a time during which the Ottoman Empire was replaced by a secular and modernist Turkish nationalist regime.

Examining how memory, intergenerational transmission, and kinship work together, Relative Strangers sheds light on Romani life in Palestine.

This landmark book probes Muslims' attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies.

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The brilliant kaleidoscope of everyday creativity in Israel is thrown into relief in this study, which teases out the abiding national tensions and contradictions at work in the expressive acts of ordinary people.

As the leaders of a revolutionary, nationalist regime, the Egyptian Free Officers who came to power following the 1952 Revolution committed themselves to the attainment of goals associated with modernization, namely rapid economic development based on State planning and industrialization and the political mobilization of society along State-decreed lines.

For many people, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia evokes images of deserts, camels, and oil, along with rich sheikh in white robes, oppressed women in black veils, and terrorists.

This book examines the memories of those affected by the Palestinian war of 1948, and how it has been mythologized over time.

In the long literary history of the Middle East, the notion of 'the beloved' has been a central trope in both the poetry and prose of the region.

In championing the work of local scholars, especially female, this volume begins to fill a politically imposed lacuna in the English language reporting of high quality research in one of the most formative regions for the development of human civilization.

A history of the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth.

Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.

Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel.

This book, first published in 1994, analyses the entire length of Iran's international boundaries.

When the state of Israel was established in 1948, not all Palestinians became refugees: some stayed behind and were soon granted citizenship.

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

The Armenian contribution to Ottoman photography is supposedly well known, with histories documenting the famous Ottoman Armenian-run studios of the imperial capital that produced Orientalist visions for tourists and images of modernity for a domestic elite.

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Museums of the Arabian Peninsula offers new insights into the history and development of museums within the region.

Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi's great poem, the Mathnawi is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism.

Dedicated to the renowned Safavid historian Roger Savory, this book brings together a collection of studies on the Safavid state of Iran (1501-1722) from the perspectives of political, social, literary, and artistic history.

The Arab media is in the midst of a revolution that will inform questions of war and peace in the Middle East, political and societal reform, and relations between the West and the Arab World.

How did Iran remain distinctively Iranian in the centuries which followed the Arab Conquest?

Originally published in 1952, al-Din, by prominent Egyptian scholar Muhammad Abdullah Draz (1894 1958), has been critically acclaimed as one of the most influential Arab Muslim studies of universal 'religion' and forms of religiosity in modern times.

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Iranian ambitions in the Persian Gulf and rivalries with Arab neighbours are subject to intense - and heated - speculation, controversy and debate.

The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the United States in the last five years.

During the British Mandate for Palestine (1922-1948), Arabs and Jews repeatedly used the law to gain leverage and influence international opinion, especially in three dramatic and largely forgotten trials involving two issues: the interplay between conflicting British promises to the Arabs and Jews during World War I, and the parties' rights and claims to the Wailing Wall.