Middle Eastern history

Offers new and cutting-edge research on the role of drugs in Iranian society and government.

Focuses on the economic history of the community of Rome from the Iron Age to the early Republic.

Whether on a national or a personal level, everyone has a complex relationship with their closest neighbors.

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.

What role do ideas play in state-building and state activity?

This book presents a social, political, cultural, and socioeconomic history of Iranian Kurdistan since the 1979 Revolution.

The global Muslim population includes a large number of lineal descendants and relatives of the Prophet Muhammad.

This book examines the interchange of architecture and ritual in the Middle and Late Byzantine churches of Constantinople (ninth to fifteenth centuries).

This study of El Cid, first published in English in 1934, is by the leading authority on the medieval history and literature of Spain.

With its title borrowed from Machiavelli, The Persian Prince goes far beyond Machiavelli's wildest imagination as to how to rule the world.

Why is the 1798 Napoleonic invasion of Egypt routinely accepted as a watershed moment between premodern and modern in general histories on the Middle East?

In "Mahdi: Hoffnung der Schia" entführt uns Mohammad Jafari in die tiefen theologischen und sozialen Schichten des schiitischen Islams, indem er die facettenreiche Erwartung der Rückkehr des 12.

Step into the violent world of the 13th century, where the European states of the Levant battled with Muslim powers for control of Jerusalem.

For the past several decades, scholars have studied and written about the Iranian constitutional revolution with the 1979 Islamic Revolution as a subtext, obscuring the secularist trend that characterized its very nature.

Theological Stains offers the first in-depth study of the development of art music in Israel from the mid-twentieth century to the turn of the twenty-first.

Psycho-nationalism explores the psychological and political roots of national identity and how these are often utilised by governments.

A riveting, revealing and news-making account of the CIA's interrogation of Saddam, written by the CIA agent who conducted the questioning.

Iran is home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East, outside of Israel.

This book, first published in 1970, provides a description of the standard Arabic language used today as the universal means of written communication throughout the Arab world and in formal spoken communication (vernaculars differ both from each other and from the standard language).

An introduction to the history of Iran since 1800, covering key events up to the current Islamic Republic.

The chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the beleaguered Jewish people, as a phoenix ascending of ancient legend, achieved national self-determination in the reborn State of Israel within three years of the end of World War II and of the Holocaust.

Nuclear power has for the most part dominated Western media and academic analyses concerning Iranian foreign policy in recent years.

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A groundbreaking biography of the mysterious Levantine prince Fakr ad-Din.

Courts were the most important frameworks for the production, performance, and evaluation of literature in medieval Islamic civilization.

This book introduces readers to Abu Bakr al-Razi (known in Latin as Rhazes), one of the most innovative and divisive figures of the early philosophical tradition in the Islamic world.

Abrams takes you inside the White House to understand how American policy toward Israel and the Palestinians was really made.

What we understand by the 'Middle East' has changed over time and across space.

Is the idea of the "e;Middle East"e; simply a geopolitical construct conceived by the West to serve particular strategic and economic interests-or can we identify geographical, historical, cultural, and political patterns to indicate some sort of internal coherence to this label?

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A popular history of the Arab invasions that carved out an empire from Spain to ChinaToday's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed.

Twenty essays by renowned scholars explore contact between Greece and the Ancient Near East through the medium of prose fiction.

Gershon Baskin's memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Israel with his family.

Under the leadership of a sagacious and patriotic ruler, who wasn't only cautious about the security of his state but was acting to stabilize worldwide peace by means of keeping the Middle East secure from the danger of Communism, the third most powerful Army Aviation in the world was born and flourished, its efficiency proven during its role defending Iran during the war with Iraq, 1980-88.

This comprehensive exploration of language and literacy in the multi-lingual environment of Roman Palestine (c.

Provides an historical narrative to the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) and the relationship between it and its supporters in Turkey.

Medieval Persia 1040-1797 charts the remarkable history of Persia from its conquest by the Muslim Arabs in the seventh century AD to the modern period at the end of the eighteenth century, when the impact of the west became pervasive.

A fascinating and vivid picture of the perils and promises of nocturnal life in cities in the early modern Middle East.

This groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran), from the emergence of complex states to the conquest of Alexander the Great.

The author of the best-selling State of the World Atlas builds a unique contemporary understanding of the factors and forces at play by homing in on the key events, themes, resources and relationships.

This book, first published in 1931, shows in a simple, sound and lucid manner how the genius of two poets (Omar Khayyam and FitzGerald) brought together by the genius of an Orientalist (Professor Cowell) culminated in a very strange, very beautiful and profound English poem.