Middle East category: 7830 books
Sufi Bodies
Religion and Society in Medieval Islam
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Between 1300 and 1500 C.E. a new form of Sufi Islam took hold among central Islamic peoples, joining individuals through widespread networks resembling today's prominent paths and orders. Understanding contemporary Sufism requires a sophisticated analysis of these formative years. Moving beyond a...
The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition
A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
For the first time in English, a catalog of the world through fourteenth-century Arab eyes—a kind of Schott’s Miscellany for the Islamic Golden Age
An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogs everything known to exist...
The Emergence of Modern Shi'ism
Islamic Reform in Iraq and Iran
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
This book takes a fresh look at the foundations of modern Islam. Scholars often locate the origins of the modern Islamic world in European colonialism or Islamic reactions to European modernity. This study, however, focuses on the rise of Islamic movements indigenous to the Middle East, which developed...
by Oliver Leaman
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Assuming no prior knowledge, The Qur'an: A Philosophical Guide is an introduction to the Qur'an from a philosophical point of view.
Oliver Leaman's guide begins by familiarizing the readers with the core theories and controversies surrounding the text. Covering key theoretical approaches and...
Textual Relations in the Qur'an
Relevance, Coherence and Structure
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
Representing a new development in the study of Qur'anic text, this book tackles the issue of Qur'anic text structure by fusing the fields of linguistics and Qur'anic studies.
The Qur'an contains many long suras covering diverse topics but with no apparent common context within which such variety...
Patriot of Persia
Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Christopher de Bellaigue, a former contributor to The Economist, brings to light the fascinating story of one of the great anti-colonial heroes of the twentieth century: Muhammad Mossadegh, the great Iranian leader whose untimely demise resulted in the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and a man who has...
by Alan Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Like England’s Charles II, the Ottoman Empire took “an unconscionable time dying.” Since the seventeenth century, observers had been predicting the collapse of this so-called Sick Man of Europe, yet it survived all its rivals. As late as 1910, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents. Unlike...
Rumi: Daylight
A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1999
The spiritual influence of Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) is increasing among people of diverse beliefs throughout the western world. Rumi is now recognized here in the West, as he has been for seven centuries in the Middle East and Western Asia, as one of the greatest literary and spiritual figures...
Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia
The Umma Below the Winds
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Drawing on previously unavailable archival material, this book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage. The award winning author Laffan contrasts the latter experience with life in Cairo, where some Southeast Asians were drawn...
by William Allen Perry 2nd
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2016
This exotic eBook about Arabia is full of stories related to my experiences in KOSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), those passed to me by Arabian workmates and friends, plus those earlier in my life which led to this odyssey. KOSA is the main subject, but the countries around it have stories too which...
The Antiquities of Constantinople
With a Description of its Situation, the Conveniencies of its Port, its Publick Buildings, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture, and other Curiosities of that City. With Cuts explaining the Chief of
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Antiquities of Constantinople is an amazing account of Constantinople written during the 16th century.
by Toby Manhire
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
A year that shook a region and the world: how it happened and what it means.Spontaneous, unforeseen and contagious, the uprisings of the Arab Spring took everyone - participants included - by surprise. Like revolutions in other times and places, they seemed impossible beforehand and inevitable afterwards.In...
To Save an Empire
A Novel of Ottoman History
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
In 1877, when Russia attacks the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Abdülhamit II must fight a devastating war to preserve his ethnically diverse territories that stretch across three continents. At home, he feels threatened from within by Mithat Pasha, a respected reformer, who has popular support for a constitution...
Islamic Monuments in Cairo
The Practical Guide; New Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Cairo's Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can equal Cairo's spectacular heritage, nor trace its historical and architectural development with such clarity. The discovery of this historic core, first...