Middle Eastern history

Ahmed El Shamsy''s The Canonization of Islamic Law is a detailed history of the birth of classical Islamic law.

This book, first published in 1971, details the Muhammad 'Arif manuscript which propagates the project of the Hejaz railway connecting Damascus with Medina and Mecca.

The resurgence of Palestinian nationalism in the wake of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war tended to overshadow the fact that Palestinian national consciousness is not a new phenomenon, but traces its origins back to the time when the first stirrings of nationalism were being felt in many parts of the under-developed world.

Israel's relations with each of the superpowers was determined by global factors.

Providing a detailed account of Israel's foreign policy towards the Cyprus question between 1946 and the declaration of Cypriot independence in August 1960, Gabriel Haritos examines the international and regional factors which shaped Israel's approach to diplomatic relations with the independent Republic of Cyprus.

An authoritative introduction to ISIS-now expanded and revised to bring events up to the presentThe Islamic State stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes.

Following the Tet Offensive, a shift in U.

The history of modern Israel is a fiercely contested subject.

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

The world has seldom been as dangerous as it is now.

What does it mean to be an intellectual in Egypt today?

Israel is not the only 'new' state around, but it is one of the few states whose legitimacy is still questioned, and its future affects the future of the Middle East as a whole and probably the stability of the international system.

Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture discusses the unicum manuscript of the Hadith Bayad wa Riyad, the only illustrated manuscript known to have survived for more than eight centuries of Muslim and Arabic-speaking presence in present-day Spain.

The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development.

What is a homeland?

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has once again captured world attention?

Palestinian civilians engaged in numerous acts of unarmed resistance during the second intifada.

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

This extensive examination of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, Iraq, Germany, and the EU focuses on the history and development of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) and its impact on transnational security, human rights, and democratization.

The final years of the Ottoman Empire were catastrophic ones for its non-Turkish, non-Muslim minorities.

Oil Companies in the International System (1978) provides an original and wide-ranging examination of the impact that the leading oil companies have had on international relations.

In April 2003, after brief combat, Baghdad fell under US control and the Coalition Provisional Authority was formed to maintain order until a new Iraqi government became a reality.

Focussing on events in the Anatolian town of Tokat during the final two decades of the great Ottoman legal and administrative reforms known as the Tanzimat (1839-76), this book applies elements of social networking theory to analyze and assess the establishment of local governments across the Middle East.

The present volume contains thirteen articles based on work presented at the "e;XX.

First scholarly, multi-disciplinary re-assessment of Howard Carter's discovery and excavation of Tutenkhamun's tomb and the impact of the find on our understanding of the material culture of Ancient Egypt.

This volume is a general survey of the history of Jordan from ancient times to the present.

This is one of the first books in English to explore Arab responses to Western culture and values in modern Arab literature.

This learned and engaging study casts new light on the nature of religion in pre-Islamic Iran.

Of the approximately seven million Palestinian refugees around the world, more than 650,000 are living in camps along the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The Tail Wags the Dog is an intensely controversial book about Middle Eastern politics.

Now in an updated and expanded third edition, this is a widely acclaimed history of Palestine centred on the experiences of everyday Palestinians.

Communities of Style examines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200-600 BCE).

Syria is now one of the most important countries in the world for the documentary film industry.

Babylon: for eons its very name has been a byword for luxury and wickedness.

As a GI reporter for the 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam, the author--"e;an enlisted man writing primarily for enlisted men"e;--chronicled the experiences of combat soldiers in newspaper and magazine articles.

With the fifth book of the Konika ancient mathematics reached a climax.

In the wake of the 1979 Iranian revolution, relations between states in the Middle East were reconfigured and reassessed overnight.

The bitter struggle of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, against the Turkish state has delivered inspirational but often tragic stories.

As a linguist with the U.

The Libyan Oil Industry (1980) gives a narrative and analysis of the economic consequences of the discovery and production of oil in Libya, from the searches for oil by the major oil companies to the establishment of Libya as one of the main exporters in the world.

Analyses contentious politics in Tripoli, Lebanon''s Sunni city, and the relations between Islamist and sectarian groups in governing the city.

In the wake of the Ottoman Empire's nineteenth-century reforms, as guilds waned and new professions emerged, the scholarly 'estate' underwent social differentiation.

The "e;Synagoge"e; (Gk: collection of useful word explanations) is one of the most important lexicographical sources from early Byzantine times.

Attitudes toward homosexuality in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic-visible and tolerated on one hand, prohibited by Islam on the other.

The compelling life story of Armenian ceramicist David Ohannessian, whose work changed the face of Jerusalem-and a granddaughter's search for his legacy.

Der vierte Band des Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae umfasst die Inschriften der Gebiete Iudaeas und Idumaeas von der Zeit Alexanders bis zum Ende der byzantinischen Herrschaft im 7.

Amongst the riches of nineteenth century India, as the British fought their way across Mughal territory, an orphaned streetgirl ends up at court with the ear of the Emperor.

The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning--some ancient, some mythical, some religious--that it feels like an unreal city, even to the people who call it home.