Middle East category: 7830 books
Routledge Revivals: Medieval Islamic Civilization (2006)
An Encyclopedia - Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East.
First published in 2006, Medieval Islamic Civilization examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the 7th and 16th centuries. This...
Syria in Ruins: The Dynamics of the Syrian Civil War
The Dynamics of the Syrian Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
The current crises involving ISIS have attracted worldwide attention to the complex politics and cultural panorama of the Middle East, including Syria. Political analyst and author David S. Sorenson discusses the ongoing civil war in Syria from its origins, to its key players, and to its propagation...
Troubled Triangle
The United States, Turkey, and Israel in the New Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
In the years after 2009, the once-warm relations between Turkey and Israel have deteriorated sharply. To complicate matters further, both countries are close partners of the United States. In April 2011, veteran Middle East analyst and policymaker William B. Quandt brought leading scholar-practitioners...
Defining Neighbors
Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict persists, aspiring peacemakers continue to search for the precise territorial dividing line that will satisfy both Israeli and Palestinian nationalist demands. The prevailing view assumes that this struggle is nothing more than a dispute over real estate. Defining...
All Strangers Are Kin
Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
An American woman determined to learn the Arabic language travels to the Middle East to pursue her dream in this “witty memoir” (Us Weekly).
The shadda is the key difference between a pigeon (hamam) and a bathroom (hammam). Be careful, our professor advised, that you don’t ask a waiter,...
by Richard Bulliet
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2004
Conventional wisdom maintains that the differences between Islam and Christianity are irreconcilable. Pre-eminent Middle East scholar Richard W. Bulliet disagrees, and in this fresh, provocative book he looks beneath the rhetoric of hatred and misunderstanding to challenge prevailing—and misleading—views...
Britain's Moment in Palestine
Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917-1948
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
In 1917, the British issued the Balfour Declaration for military and strategic reasons. This book analyses why and how the British took on the Palestine Mandate. It explores how their interests and policies changed during its course and why they evacuated the country in 1948.
During the first...
The Political Right in Israel
Different Faces of Jewish Populism
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
This book takes a fresh look at the trajectories of Israeli politics since the election of Likud in 1977, examining how right wing parties have adopted populist policies in order to carve out an identity and win support at the polls. As such it demonstrates how populism has become a hugely significant...
The Jihadist Threat
The Re-conquest of the west?
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
This timely and controversial book examines the international and domestic threats to the West from Jihadism. It joins the dots in the Middle East, Asia and Africa and explains what it means for the home front, mainly Britain but also continental Europe and the USA. More Brits are trying to join the...
Muslim Democratic Parties in the Middle East
Economy and Politics of Islamist Moderation
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
A.Kadir Yildirim and other scholars have used the term "Muslim Democrat" to describe moderate Islamist political parties, suggesting a parallel with Christian Democratic parties in Europe. These parties (MDPs) are marked by their adherence to a secular political regime, normative commitment to the...
Muslim Midwives
The Craft of Birthing in the Premodern Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This book reconstructs the role of midwives in medieval to early modern Islamic history through a careful reading of a wide range of classical and medieval Arabic sources. The author casts the midwife's social status in premodern Islam as a privileged position from which she could mediate between...
by Alan M. Dershowitz
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
"No one knows more about Israel's existential dilemma than Alan Dershowitz-or writes about it better. From its explosive beginning to its startling climax, THE TRIALS OF ZION excites and intrigues, even as it depicts the unique dangers of a lethal part of the world. This is a terrific novel."
-Richard...
Shattered Hopes
Obama's Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
President Barack Obama’s first trip abroad in his second term took him to Israel and the Palestinian West Bank, where he despondently admitted to those waiting for words of encouragement, “It is a hard slog to work through all of these issues.” Contrast this gloomy assessment with Obama’s...
Under the Shadow
Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Turkey stands at the crossroads of the Middle East--caught between the West and ISIS, Syria and Russia, and governed by an increasingly forceful leader. Acclaimed writer Kaya Genc has been covering his country for the past decade. In Under the Shadow he meets activists from both sides of Turkey's...