Middle East category: 7830 books
Iran
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Since the beginning of recorded history, Iran/Persia has been one of the most important world civilizations. Iran remains a distinct civilization today despite its status as a major Islamic state with broad regional influence and its deep integration into the global economy through its vast energy...
The Love of Strangers
What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise of Europe. Over the next four years, they lived both the low life and high life of Regency London, from being down...
Tribeswomen of Iran
Weaving Memories among Qashqa’i Nomads
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Since the revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted few Western scholars to conduct research in the country. Here Julia Huang provides a remarkable account of local tribal life in Iran and depicts a community largely beyond the scope and reach of foreign travellers and the Western...
by Roger Owen
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Monarchical presidential regimes in the Arab world looked as though they would last indefinitely—until events in Tunisia and Egypt made clear their time was up. This is the first book to lay bare the dynamics of a governmental system that largely defined the Arab Middle East in the twentieth century, and the popular opposition they engendered.
The War Against the Terror Masters
Why It Happened. Where We Are Now. How We'll Win.
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The War Against the Terror Masters is a must-read guide to the terrorist crisis. Michael A. Ledeen explains in startling detail how and why the United States was so unprepared for the September 11th catastrophe; the nature of the terror network we are fighting--including the state sponsors of that...
Blowback
How the West f*cked up the Middle East (and why it was a bad idea)
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
In August 1953, in a covert operation, the CIA and MI6 jointly overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh, installing the Shah in his place. Michael Luders illuminates the dark chain of cause and effect that flowed from this conveniently forgotten 'original sin'...
The History of Jihad
From Muhammad to ISIS
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
It is taken for granted, even among many Washington policymakers, that Islam is a fundamentally peaceful religion and that Islamic jihad terrorism is something relatively new, a product of the economic and political ferment of the twentieth century. But in The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS,...
by G. W. Bowersock
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Little is known about sixth-century Arabia. Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from Iberia to India. G. W. Bowersock illuminates this obscure yet most dynamic period in Islam, exploring why arid Arabia proved to be fertile ground for Muhammad’s message and why it spread so quickly to the wider world.
The Dönme
Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This book tells the story of the Dönme, the descendents of Jews who resided in the Ottoman Empire and converted to Islam along with their messiah, Rabbi Shabbatai Tzevi, in the seventeenth century. For two centuries following their conversion, the Dönme were accepted as Muslims, and by the end of...
Shattered Dreams of Revolution
From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The Ottoman revolution of 1908 is a study in contradictions—a positive manifestation of modernity intended to reinstate constitutional rule, yet ultimately a negative event that shook the fundamental structures of the empire, opening up ethnic, religious, and political conflicts. Shattered Dreams...
Ottoman Brothers
Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
In its last decade, the Ottoman Empire underwent a period of dynamic reform, and the 1908 revolution transformed the empire's 20 million subjects into citizens overnight. Questions quickly emerged about what it meant to be Ottoman, what bound the empire together, what role religion and ethnicity would...
Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism
Attraction and Repulsion
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The first book to present an analysis of Arab response to fascism and Nazism from the perspectives of both individual countries and the Arab world at large, this collection problematizes and ultimately deconstructs the established narratives that assume most Arabs supported fascism and Nazism leading...
The Crescent Moon and the Magen David
Turkish-Israeli Relations Through the Lens of the Turkish Public
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The nationalist outlook of the Turkish state since the beginning of the Republican era in 1923 targeted uniform identity formation. While Turkey did not recognize the existence of ethnic identities as long as they were Muslim, non-Muslims were challenging this ideal. During this social engineering,...
by Joel Schalit
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Publicize to major dailies, weeklies, radio/TV; Schalit’s book will appeal to readers across the political spectrum; the Obama Administration’s approach to Middle East politics will figure prominently in the book.