Middle East category: 7830 books
Jews and Muslims in the Arab World
Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Jews and Muslims in the Arab World highlights the effects of historical memory on the Arab-Israel conflict, demonstrating that both Jews and Arabs use stories of distant pasts to create their identities and shape their politics. Whether real or imagined, the past filtered through their collective...
Sectarian Politics in the Gulf
From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
One of Foreign Policy's Best Five Books of 2013, chosen by Marc Lynch of The Middle East Channel
Beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq and concluding with the aftermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings, Frederic M. Wehrey investigates the roots of the Shi'a-Sunni divide now dominating the Persian...
by Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2004
TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY BY SHAYKH FADHLALLA HAERI
The Hikam, or Wisdom, of the great Sufi Master Ibn `Ata 'Allah al-Iskandari has long been acknowledged as an essential and classic masterwork of the Islamic science of enlightenment. Ibn `Ata 'Allah exemplified the ultimate model of a Sufi...
The Heart of the Qur'an
An Introduction to Islamic Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
"Neither as Christians or Jews, nor simply as intellectually responsible individuals," says Hixon, "have members of Western civilization been sensitively educated or even accurately informed about Islam." As tensions between America and the Middle East grow, we should promote cross-cultural...
Islamic Reform and Conservatism
Al-Azhar and the Evolution of Modern Sunni Islam
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The famed reform debates at al-Azhar Madrasa in nineteenth-century Cairo, one of the most influential centres of religious study in Sunni Islam, were enormously influential for twentieth-century Islamic thought. Here Indira Gesink offers a revisionist history of these debates over curricular and administrative...
Islamicate Societies
A Case Study of Egypt and Muslim India Modernization, Colonial Rule, and the Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
The basic contention of this study is that the colonial rule had far more serious consequence than it has been realized. It radically transformed the nature of the Islamic societies of Egypt and Muslim India to that of an ‘Islamicate’societies. This affected the religious, cultural, social, and...
Divine Inspirations
Music and Islam in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia brings together the work of 11 international scholars into an unprecedented volume focused on religion and performance in a nation celebrated for its extraordinary arts, religious diversity, and natural beauty. The resulting collection provides a panoramic...
Iran
Politics, History and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This book offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine.
Iran, being a revolutionary society, experienced two great revolutions within the short span of just seventy years, from the 1900s to the 1970s. Both were massive revolts of the society...
Early Orientalism
Imagined Islam and the Notion of Sublime Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The history of western notions about Islam is of obvious scholarly as well as popular interest today. This book investigates Christian images of the Muslim Middle East, focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, when the nature of divine as well as human power was under particularly...
Life and Death in ISIS
How the Islamic State Builds Its Caliphate
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Who is ISIS? The terrifying violence the group has inflicted in Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere has shocked the world. With many calling for the U.S. to intervene, it’s necessary to know the nature of this threat to Middle East stability. Learn how ISIS uses social media to lure new members―even large...
Persian Gulf Command
A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
A new history of the long-overlooked WWII theater in Iran and Iraq, its unrecognized significance, and its impact on local society and politics
This dynamic history is the first to construct a total picture of the experience and impact of World War II in Iran and Iraq. Contending that these...
by Keith Kahn-Harris
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Diaspora Jews are no longer unified in their support for Israel. Anger, aggression and verbal abuse between Jews has broken out. The author, explores the causes of the conflicts and describes his own innovative efforts at conflict resolutionAnalysing the various groupings - left, right, secular...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Historiography is the study of the methodology of writing history, the development of the discipline of history, and the changing interpretations of historical events in the works of individual historians. Exploring the historiography of Persian art and architecture requires a closer look at a diverse...
Bus on Jaffa Road
A Story of Middle East Terrorism and the Search for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
As the morning sunlight crept over the limestone walls of Jerusalem’s old city, two young Americans flagged down a bus and got on. It was 6:45 a.m., February 25, 1996 -- an otherwise ordinary Sunday in Israel. Two US citizens who were studying in Israel, Sara Duker and Matthew Eisenfeld, settled...