Middle East category: 7830 books
Arab Approaches to Conflict Resolution
Mediation, Negotiation and Settlement of Political Disputes
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
This book examines Arab approaches to mediation, negotiation and settlement of political disputes.
This book proposes that two clusters of independent variables are potentially responsible for the distinctive nature of Arab conflict resolution. Firstly, those linked with Arab political regimes...
Everyday Piety
Islam and Economy in Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Working and living as an authentic Muslim—comporting oneself in an Islamically appropriate way—in the global economy can be very challenging. How do middle-class Muslims living in the Middle East navigate contemporary economic demands in a distinctly Islamic way? What are the impacts of these...
by Behnaz A. Mirzai
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Slavery in the Middle East is a growing field of study, but the history of slavery in a key country, Iran, has never before been written. This history extends to Africa in the west and India in the east, to Russia and Turkmenistan in the north, and to the Arab states in the south. As the slave trade...
The Charity of War
Famine, Humanitarian Aid, and World War I in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
With the exception of a few targeted aerial bombardments of the city's port, Beirut and Mount Lebanon did not see direct combat in World War I. Yet civilian casualties in this part of the Ottoman Empire reached shocking heights, possibly numbering half a million people. No war, in its usual understanding,...
Palestinians in Jerusalem and Jaffa, 1948
A Tale of Two Cities
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Between November 1947 and May 1948 war between the Palestinian Arab community and the Jewish community encompassed Palestine, with Jerusalem and Jaffa becoming focal points in the conflict due to their centrality, size and symbolic importance.
Palestinians in Jerusalem and Jaffa, 1948 examines...
Islands and International Politics in the Persian Gulf
The Abu Musa and Tunbs in Strategic Context
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2008
The position of the Persian Gulf as the main highway between East and West has long given this region special significance both within the Middle East and in global affairs more generally. This book examines the history of international relations in the Gulf since the 1820s as great powers such as...
Eleanor Roosevelt
Palestine, Israel and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Memorialised as a US heroine and an iconoclastic humanitarian who sought to protect society’s marginalised, Eleanor Roosevelt also, at times, disappointed contemporaries and biographers with some of her stances. Examining a period of her life that has not been extensively explored, this book challenges...
by Elie Kedourie
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Except for Israel, the Middle East remains largely untouched by the democratic revolution that swept across Eastern Europe and the former USSR. This book aims to explain and analyze the reasons why despotism or religious fundamentalism continue to control the Middle Eastern countries.
by F. A. Ridley
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
A history and Marxist analysis of the institutions of the Persian/Syrian Ismaeli sect founded by Hassan-ibn-Sabah ('The Old Man of the Mountain') known as 'The Assassins'. In Ridley's view the Assassin's unique claim to distinction in the eyes of history is that "they represent a sect that evolved...
Sufism and Society
Arrangements of the Mystical in the Muslim World, 1200–1800
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
In recent years, many historians of Islamic mysticism have been grappling in sophisticated ways with the difficulties of essentialism. Reconceptualising the study of Islamic mysticism during an under-researched period of its history, this book examines the relationship between Sufism and society in...
Mawlana Mawdudi and Political Islam
Authority and the Islamic state
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Mawlana Mawdudi was one of the most influential and important Islamic thinkers of the modern world, whose brand of political Islam has won widespread acceptance in South and South East Asia as well as the Middle East. He was not only an Islamic scholar, but also a journalist and political activist...
The Kurds and US Foreign Policy
International Relations in the Middle East since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This book provides a detailed survey and analysis of US–Kurdish relations and their interaction with domestic, regional and global politics. Using the Kurdish issue to explore the nature of the engagement between international powers and weaker non-state entities, the author analyses the existence...
Imperial Designs
War, Humiliation & the Making of History
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Since the age of Alexander the Great, waves of foreign armies have invaded the Middle East and South Asia to plunder their vast treasures. In Imperial Designs, Deepak Tripathi offers a powerful and unique analysis of how this volatile region has endured the manipulation and humiliation of war, especially...
Islam against the West
Shakib Arslan and the Campaign for Islamic Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
This book gives a unique perspective on the interwar history of the Middle East. By telling the life story of one man, it illuminates the political and cultural struggles of an era. Shakib Arslan (1869–1946) was a leading member of the generation of Ottoman Arabs who came to professional maturity just...