Middle East category: 7830 books
Islam and World History
The Ventures of Marshall Hodgson
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Published in 1974, Marshall Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societies in a global perspective, Hodgson challenged the orientalist paradigms that had stunted the development of Islamic studies and provided an alternative...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Benny Morris is the founding father of the New Historians, a group of Israeli scholars who have challenged long-established perceptions about the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their research rigorously documented crimes and atrocities committed by the Israeli armed forces, including...
Proche et Moyen-Orient contemporain
Géographie, économie, histoire et politique
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Le terme Moyen-Orient, qui traduit l'expression anglo-saxonne Middle East, n'apparaît qu'au début du XXe siècle pour désigner cette zone médiane entre Proche et Extrême-Orient, centrée sur le golfe Persique. Si les Américains l'étendent parfois du Maroc au Pakistan, les Européens la définissent plus volontiers comme un arc de...
Gaza
Preparing for Dawn
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
A coastal civilisation open to the world. A flourishing port on a major international trading route. This was Gaza’s past. Can it be its future? Today, Gaza is home to a uniquely imprisoned people, most unable to travel to the West Bank, let alone Israel, where tens of thousands once worked, and unable...
Great Power Discord in Palestine
The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry into the Problems of European Jewry and Palestine 1945-46
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
A reconstruction of the proceedings of the "Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry into the problems of European Jewry and Palestine, 1945 to 1946". This study places the inquiry within the wider context of Anglo-American relations in the Middle East.
Warriors of God
Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Acclaimed author James Reston, Jr.'s Warriors of Godis the rich and engaging account of the Third Crusade (1187-1192), a conflict that would shape world history for centuries and which can still be felt in the Middle East and throughout the world today. James Reston, Jr. offers a gripping narrative...
by Michael J. Totten
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Award-winning foreign correspondent Michael J. Totten embeds with U.S. Army soldiers in Baghdad during the Surge. They were sent out as bait to lure an insurgent commander, but instead find themselves stalked in the dark by a shadowy faceless militia.
Michael J. Totten is a foreign correspondent...
by Jessica Fishman
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Having grown up in Minnesota, Jessica Fishman moves to a land in the Middle East that is full of idiosyncrasies, terrorists, and beautiful, olive-skinned men. When she arrives in Israel, she is a wide-eyed immigrant hoping to survive on Zionism. But instead of working the land on a kibbutz or being...
Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies
The Living Links to the Prophet
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
The global Muslim population includes a large number of lineal descendants and relatives of the Prophet Muhammad. These kinsfolk, most often known as "sayyid" or "sharif," form a distinct social category in many Muslim societies, and their status can afford them special treatment...
Islam and the Baha'i Faith
A Comparative Study of Muhammad ‘Abduh and ‘Abdul-Baha ‘Abbas
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
Muhammad ‘Abduh (1849-1905) was one of the key thinkers and reformers of modern Islam who has influenced both liberal and fundamentalist Muslims today. ‘Abdul-Baha (1844-1921) was the son of Baha’ullah (1817-1892), the founder of the Baha’i Faith; a new religion which began as a messianic...
Clash of Identities
Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
By revisiting the past hundred years of shared Palestinian and Jewish-Israeli history, Baruch Kimmerling reveals surprising relations of influence between a stateless indigenous society and the settler-immigrants who would later form the state of Israel. Shattering our assumptions about these two...
Mandatory Separation
Religion, Education, and Mass Politics in Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Is religion a source of political stability and social continuity, or an agent of radical change? This question, so central to contemporary conversations about religion and extremism, has generated varied responses over the last century. Taking Jewish and Islamic education as its objects of inquiry,...
by Michael J. Totten
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
In this classic riveting dispatch from Iraq award-winning foreign correspondent Michael J. Totten embeds with a unit of battle-hardened American soldiers as they hunt the elusive terrorist commander Haji Jawad—who wore a suicide vest everywhere he went—in the fetid slums of Sadr City, Baghdad,...
Haféz
Teachings of the Philosopher of Love
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2004
An exploration of the Persian poet’s spiritual philosophy, with original translations of his poetry
• Features extensive insight into the meanings and contexts of the poetry and philosophies of this spiritual teacher
• Includes over 30 complete poems by Haféz, including “The...