Middle East category: 7830 books
The Convenient Terrorist
Two Whistleblowers’ Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
An insider’s tell-all account of one of the darkest chapters of the War on Terror: “A must-read for anyone trying to understand our post-9/11 world” (J. Malcolm Garcia, author of The Khaarijee).
The Convenient Terrorist is the definitive inside account of the capture, torture, and detention...
Arrows of the Night
Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
In 1958, Ahmad Chalabi’s wealthy Shiite family was exiled from Iraq after a revolution that ultimately put Saddam Hussein in power. The young Chalabi devoted his life to restoring his family to prominence. His first coup attempt was in 1963 at age nineteen, while on a school break from MIT. His...
Kurds and the State in Iran
The Making of Kurdish Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE
In early 1946, Kurds declared an independent republic in north-west Iran. The Mahabad Republic, as it became known, was the first time that the Kurds experienced self-rule in the modern era. Although short-lived, the Republic had a formative...
Revolution without Revolutionaries
Making Sense of the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and between countries with extraordinary speed. Several years on, however, it has caused limited shifts in structures of power, leaving much of the old political and social order intact....
The Diplomacy of Impartiality
Canada and Israel, 1958-1968
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
The Diplomacy of Impartiality is an analysis of a major decade in Canadian–Israeli relations, dealing with significant events that led to the Six-Day War of 1967 and its aftermath. Using primary documentation from the National Archives of Canada and the Israeli State Archives, Zachariah Kay shows...
The American University of Beirut
Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Since the American University of Beirut opened its doors in 1866, the campus has stood at the intersection of a rapidly changing American educational project for the Middle East and an ongoing student quest for Arab national identity and empowerment. Betty S. Anderson provides a unique and comprehensive...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016
Investigates the causes, conduct, and consequences of the recent American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Understanding the United States’ wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is essential to understanding the United States in the first decade of the...
Logic, Rhetoric and Legal Reasoning in the Qur'an
God's Arguments
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Muslims have always used verses from the Qur'an to support opinions on law, theology, or life in general, but almost no attention has been paid to how the Qur'an presents its own precepts as conclusions proceeding from reasoned arguments. Whether it is a question of God's powers of creation, the rationale...
The Quran and the Secular Mind
A Philosophy of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
This book is concerned with the rationality and plausibility of the Muslim faith and the Qur'an, and in particular how they can be interrogated and understood through Western analytical philosophy. It also explores how Islam can successfully engage with the challenges posed by secular thinking.
The...
How to Read the Qur'an
A New Guide, with Select Translations
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
How to Read the Qur'an offers a compact introduction and reader's guide for anyone, non-Muslim or Muslim, who wants to know how to approach, read, and understand the text of the Qur'an.
Using a chronological reading of the text according to the conclusions of modern scholarship, Carl Ernst...
Sufism and Jewish-Muslim Relations
The Derekh Avraham Order in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
In Israel there are Jews and Muslims who practice Sufism together. The Sufi’ activities that they take part in together create pathways of engagement between two faith traditions in a geographical area beset by conflict.
Sufism and Jewish Muslim Relations investigates this practice of Sufism...
Jihad in Islamic History
Doctrines and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2008
What is jihad? Does it mean violence, as many non-Muslims assume? Or does it mean peace, as some Muslims insist? Because jihad is closely associated with the early spread of Islam, today's debate about the origin and meaning of jihad is nothing less than a struggle over Islam itself. In Jihad in Islamic...
Islam and Christianity
Theological Themes in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
In light of the widespread public perception of incompatibility between Islam and Christianity, this book provides a much-needed straightforward comparison of these two great faith traditions from a broad theological perspective. Award-winning scholar John Renard illuminates the similarities as well...
The Great Leap-Fraud
Social Economics of Religious Terrorism, Volume Ii: Islam and Secularization
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Based on a reassessment of primary documents from the beginning of Judaism through to the Reformation, author A. J. Deus evaluates the Judaic scriptures of the Jews, the Christians, and the Muslims for their potential to stir hatred, violence, and terrorism. He searches for messages in the scriptures...