Middle Eastern history

A profoundly different way of looking the Israeli-Palestinian conflictReporting from Jerusalem for The New York Times and Fox News respectively, Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin, witnessed a decades-old conflict transformed into a completely new war.

Die Herausgeber, Vertreter der Fächer Altes Testament und Alte Geschichte, legen mit Kollegen anderer Disziplinen zusammen ein interkulturelles Projekt zur Gesetzgebung in antiken Gesellschaften vor.

Mazandaran and Astarabad was first published as volume VII of the new series of the E.

This new edition covers the political, economic and social developments in Saudi Arabia since 9/11 to the present day.

DAS GRANDIOSE MEISTERWERK, DER KLASSIKER ZUR GESCHICHTE DER ARABISCHEN WELT, von den Anfängen des Islam bis heute.

The Middle East is the region in which the first act of cyber warfare took place.

Explores how early Christianity sought to define its relationship to speakers of foreign languages.

Entanglements explores the clash of cultures and personalities among fishermen, scientists, and whale advocates struggling to save both the endangered North Atlantic right whale and the livelihoods of thousands of Atlantic coastal families.

This book examines the making of the present day Iranian, Iraqi and Turkish boundary, shedding new light on some of the most contentious issues of today.

This book examines the ideological and socio-political discourses shaping the remembrance and representation of Britain and the Cyprus conflict of 1974 within Greek Cypriot society.

The volume comprises lightly annotated translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them.

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

Daniel Goffman''s lucid and accessible book examines Ottoman relations with Europe in the Early Modern period.

A multivocal account of why Egypt's defeated revolution remains a watershed in the country's political history.

This epic biography, a gripping insider's account, is a long-overdue chronicle of the life and times of Mohammad Reza Shah, who ruled from 1941 to 1979 as the last Iranian monarch.

From 1984 to 1991, Israel conducted a series of dramatic rescues, bringing thousands of Ethiopian Jews to the state of Israel.

Although the Kurds have attracted widespread international attention, Iranian Kurdistan has been largely overlooked.

This book, first published in 1997, provides a careful and balanced behind-the-scenes account of the intricate diplomatic activity of the period between the first and second Arab-Israeli wars.

Over the past two hundred years, encounters between Iran and Russia have been both rich and complex.

This revised edition builds upon and updates its twin themes of Turkey's continuing incorporation into the capitalist world and the modernization of state and society.

Few topics in the news are more hotly contested than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict-and news coverage itself is always a subject of debate.

Does America's "e;pro-Israel lobby,"e; including the legendary American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), have as much power as is commonly believed?

Within hours of the September 11 attacks, Sean M.

'Wonderfully written and characteristically brilliant' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Elegant, readable .

Research on the Mamluk period has so far remained relatively silent about the Mamluk descendants, who are often referred to by the Arabic term awlad al-nas (roughly: children of the elite).

What does revolution mean in the Middle East?

This revised and updated version of William Hale's Turkish Foreign Policy 1774-2000 offers a comprehensive and analytical survey of Turkish foreign policy since the last quarter of the eighteenth century, when the Turks' relations with the rest of the world entered their most critical phase.

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

The Making of the Modern Chinese State: 1600-1950 offers an historical analysis of the formation of the modern Chinese state from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth centuries, providing refreshing and provocative interpretations on almost every major issue regarding the rise of modern China.

This book brings together new and original work by forty two of the world's leading scholars of Indo-European comparative philology and linguistics from around the world.

Humanitarian Invasion provides a history of international development and humanitarianism in Cold War Afghanistan.

This book, first published in English in 1964, examines a wide range of topics concerning society in the Arab East.

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

In 1860, Damascus was a sleepy provincial capital of the weakening Ottoman Empire, a city defined in terms of its relationship to the holy places of Islam in the Arabian Hijaz and its legacy of Islamic knowledge.

Founded in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, the Imperial School for Tribes (Asiret Mektebi) was an initiative by Sultan Abdulhamid II to bring the sons of prominent Arab tribal leaders to Istanbul for a world-class education and transform them into loyal Ottoman future military and governmental leaders.

Winner of the 2022 PIASA Anna M.

British discourse during the Mandate, with its unremitting convergence on the problematic 'native question', and which rested on racial and cultural theories and presumptions, as well as on certain givens drawn from the British class system, has been taken for granted by historians.

First published in 1985, Turkey: Coping with Crisis is a comprehensive survey of the Turkish experience tracing the Turks through the ages to provide the background essential to understanding contemporary Turkey.

Who Owns the Land?

The conclusion of World War I and the subsequent breakup of the Ottoman Empire led to theindependence of a number of Arab nations and resulted in a Western scramble for roles ofcontrol and influence over them.

From award-winning journalist Jack Shenker, The Egyptians is the essential book about Egypt and radical politicsIn early 2011, Cairo's Tahrir Square briefly commanded the attention of the world.

This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa.

"e;Opening the enormous metal gate, the guard suddenly took away my blindfold and asked me, tauntingly, if I would recognize my parents.

Jurji Zaidan was one of the leading thinkers of the Arab renaissance.

The discovery of the pulmonary transit of blood was a ground-breaking discovery in the history of the life sciences, and a prerequisite for William Harvey's fully developed theory of blood circulation three centuries later.

This book engages with, and contests, the 'new sociology of nature'.