Middle Eastern history books

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The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World

The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction...

Author: Eugene Rogan
ISBN: 9780241646908
Format: Hardback
$75.00

The dramatic history of a massacre in Damascus, and the collapse of the old Ottoman world order This remarkable...  Read More >>

Europe's Eastern Christian Frontier

Europe's Eastern Christian Frontier

Author: Alice Isabella Sullivan (Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture and Director of Graduate Studies, Tufts University)
ISBN: 9781641890793
Format: Paperback
$52.67

This book addresses Christendom's eastern frontier, the principality of Moldavia: its political, economic, and cultural...  Read More >>

Turkish Politics and 'The People': Mass Mobilisation and Populism

Turkish Politics and 'The People': Mass Mobilisation...

Author: Spyros A Sofos
ISBN: 9781399502863
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Explores the transformations of the notion of 'the people' from the late Ottoman to current Turkish political discourses...  Read More >>

Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict After the Second Intifada

Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict...

Author: Ned Curthoys ,  Isabelle Hesse
ISBN: 9781474499743
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Studies literary representations of Israel and Palestine that challenge mainstream political and historical discourses...  Read More >>

After the Guns Fall Silent: Peace or Armageddon in the Middle-East

After the Guns Fall Silent: Peace or Armageddon in the...

Author: Mohamed Sid-Ahmed
ISBN: 9781032768090
Format: Hardback
$179.00

First published in 1976, After the Guns Fall Silent is an important Arab statement on the Middle East crisis. The...  Read More >>

The Hammam through Time and Space

The Hammam through Time and Space

Author: Julie Peteet
ISBN: 9780815638322
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Offers a fascinating tour through the rich cultural history of hammams, or baths, in the Mediterranean and Middle...  Read More >>

Chaim Weizmann: A Biography

Chaim Weizmann: A Biography

Author: Jehuda Reinharz ,  Motti Golani
ISBN: 9781684581962
Format: Hardback
$65.95

"A magisterial biography of Israel's first president. In Chaim Weizmann: A Biography, Jehuda Reinharz and Motti...  Read More >>

The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar

The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference...

Author: Andrew M. Gardner
ISBN: 9781501775017
Format: Paperback
$73.79

"""This book is concerned with how the extraordinary demography and proportions of migration and how global human...  Read More >>

An Empire of Many Cultures: Bahá’íS, Muslims, Jews and the British State, 1900–20

An Empire of Many Cultures: Bahá’íS, Muslims, Jews and...

Author: Diane Robinson-Dunn
ISBN: 9781526169211
Format: Hardback
$194.99

Based upon original research and bringing to life the words and actions of Bah', Muslim, and Jewish leaders during...  Read More >>

The Hammam through Time and Space

The Hammam through Time and Space

Author: Julie Peteet
ISBN: 9780815638315
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Offers a fascinating tour through the rich cultural history of hammams, or baths, in the Mediterranean and Middle...  Read More >>

Veil Obsessed: Representations in Literature, Art, and Media

Veil Obsessed: Representations in Literature, Art, and...

Author: Umme Al-wazedi ,  Afrin Zeenat
ISBN: 9780815638421
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Challenges the dialogue around the veil, exploring its symbolic, religious, and cultural significance. Scholars...  Read More >>

The New-Old Land of Israel

The New-Old Land of Israel

Author: Norman Bentwich *Deceased*
ISBN: 9781032761848
Format: Hardback
$179.00

First published in 1960, The New-Old Land of Israel deals particularly with the excavations which have amazingly...  Read More >>

Palestine To-day and Tomorrow: A Gentile's Survey of Zionism

Palestine To-day and Tomorrow: A Gentile's Survey of...

Author: John Holmes
ISBN: 9781032762623
Format: Hardback
$189.00

First published in 1930, Palestine To-day and Tomorrow provides a comprehensive overview of John Haynes Holmes’s...  Read More >>

Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala: Religion That Matters

Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala: Religion That Matters...

Author: Fouad Gehad Marei ,  Yafa Shanneik
ISBN: 9789004691339
Format: Hardback
$314.16

Examining manifestations and transformations of multi-sensorial expressions and experiences of Shiʿi Islam, Shiʿi...  Read More >>

The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar

The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference...

Author: Andrew M. Gardner
ISBN: 9781501774980
Format: Hardback
$343.20

"""This book is concerned with how the extraordinary demography and proportions of migration and how global human...  Read More >>

The Dragon's Tale

The Dragon's Tale

Author: Tanis Helliwell
ISBN: 9781987831481
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Dragons have been working with our world for eons. Now, these wise teachers have returned once more to tell us of...  Read More >>

History of the Arab Invasions: The Conquest of the Lands: A New Translation of al-Baladhuri's Futuh al-Buldan

History of the Arab Invasions: The Conquest of the Lands:...

Author: Ahmad b. Yahya al-Baladhuri ,  Hugh Kennedy (SOAS, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9780755637447
Format: Paperback
$80.00

Ahmad bin Yahuya al-Baladhuri's History of the Arab Invasions is perhaps the most important single source for the...  Read More >>

The Religion of Ancient Egypt

The Religion of Ancient Egypt

Author: W M Flinders Petrie
ISBN: 9781389667954
Format: Paperback
$29.21

The Religion of Ancient Egypt is a classic religious studies text by the great pioneering English egyptologist,...  Read More >>

Island and Empire: How Civil War in Crete Mobilized the Ottoman World

Island and Empire: How Civil War in Crete Mobilized...

Author: Uğur Z. Peçe
ISBN: 9781503639232
Format: Paperback
$55.99

In the 1890s, conflict erupted on the Ottoman island of Crete. At the heart of the Crete Question, as it came to...  Read More >>

Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean

Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean...

Author: Katherine Pangonis
ISBN: 9781474614139
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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A Little Season in the Big Picture

A Little Season in the Big Picture

Author: Kerry L Barger
ISBN: 9781034870210
Format: Hardback
$51.65

"Have you seen the Big Picture? It is impossible, unless you understand how each piece of history's puzzle fits...  Read More >>

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