Middle East category: 7830 books
Summary and Analysis of Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Based on the Book by Joby Warrick
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Joby Warrick’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed...
Cultures in Conflict : Christians Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery
Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 1995
Hailed as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies" in The New York Times Book Review Bernard Lewis stands at the height of his field. "To read Mr. Lewis" wrote Fouad Ajami in The Wall Street Journal "is to be taken through a treacherous terrain by the coolest and most reassuring of guides. You are in...
by Steve Harris
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Dubai, one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates. It is rather like an independent city-state and is the most modern and progressive emirate in the UAE, developing at an unbelievable pace in the tourist and trade sectors especially....
Buraimi
The Struggle for Power, Influence and Oil in Arabia
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Buraimi is an oasis in an otherwise bleak desert on the border between Oman and the UAE. In the early twentieth century, it shot to notoriety as oil brought the world's attention to this corner of the Arabian Peninsula, and the ensuing battle over energy resources between regional and global superpowers...
The Ethical Soundscape
Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Charles Hirschkind's unique study explores how a popular Islamic media form-the cassette sermon-has profoundly transformed the political geography of the Middle East over the last three decades.
An essential aspect of what is now called the Islamic Revival, the cassette sermon has become omnipresent...
Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs
Politics and Authority from Cordoba to Cairo and Baghdad
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
What was the relationship between government and religion in Middle Eastern history? In a world of caliphs, sultans, and judges, who exercised political and religious authority? In this book, Ali Humayun Akhtar investigates debates about leadership that involved ruling circles and scholars of jurisprudence...
by Michael J. Totten
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
In the Wake of the Surge is a gripping first-person narrative that tells the story of the Kurds, the Arabs, and the Americans in Iraq during one of the most violent and wrenching periods in that country’s history. Award-winning foreign correspondent Michael J. Totten visited Iraq seven times between...
by David Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Medieval Persia 1040-1797 charts the remarkable history of Persia from its conquest by the Muslim Arabs in the seventh century AD to the modern period at the end of the eighteenth century, when the impact of the west became pervasive. David Morgan argues that understanding this complex period of Persia’s...
The Longest Journey
Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year, millions of pilgrims from throughout the Dar al-Islam, or Islamic world, stretching from Morocco east to Indonesia, make the trip to Mecca as one of the five...
State of Failure
Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The biggest obstacle to Palestinian statehood may not be Israel
In September 2011, president Mahmoud Abbas stood before the United Nations General Assembly and dramatically announced his intention to achieve recognition of Palestinian statehood. The United States roundly opposed the move then,...
by Ilan Pappé
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Israel is not the only ‘new’ state around, but it is one of the few states whose legitimacy is still questioned, and its future affects the future of the Middle East as a whole and probably the stability of the international system. The reasons for this unique reality lie in its past and the particular...
Israeli Identity
Between Orient and Occident
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
For many years before and after the establishment of the state of Israel, the belief that Israel is a western state remained unchallenged. This belief was founded on the predominantly western composition of the pre-statehood Jewish community known as the Yishuv. The relatively homogenous membership...
US Foreign Policy and Global Standing in the 21st Century
Realities and Perceptions
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
This book examines US foreign policy and global standing in the 21st Century.
The United States is the most powerful actor in world politics today. Against this backdrop, the present volume examines how the foreign policies pursued by Presidents’ George W. Bush and Barack Obama have affected...
The Mexican Mahjar
Transnational Maronites, Jews, and Arabs under the French Mandate
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Migration from the Middle East brought hundreds of thousands of people to the Americas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the time the Ottoman political system collapsed in 1918, over a third of the population of the Mashriq, i.e. the Levant, had made the transatlantic journey....