Middle East category: 7830 books
by Wendy Pullan, Maximilian Sternberg, Lefkos Kyriacou
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
The Struggle for Jerusalem’s Holy Places investigates the role of architecture and urban identity in relation to the political economy of the city and its wider state context seen through the lens of the holy places.
Reflecting the broad disciplinary backgrounds of the authors, this book...
by Oscar E. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
“Together these books provide the definitive history of the USMC’s tank forces . . . Very highly recommended” (Military Modelcraft International).
Marine Corps Tank Battles in Korea: A detailed and gripping account of the little-known Marine tank engagements during the Korean War, from...
The Arab Spring and Arab Thaw
Unfinished Revolutions and the Quest for Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
What were the unifying principles or strategies that governed the protest movements that swept the Middle East and North Africa in the spring of 2011? Who were the protestors and how did the different authoritarian regimes respond to them? How did regional and international institutions react to a...
Palmyra
An Irreplaceable Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless of its actual origins, it was an influential city, serving for centuries as a caravan stop for...
Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam
Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2002
Five centuries after the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain, Europe is once again becoming a land of Islam. At the beginning of a new millennium, and in an era marked as one of globalization, Europe continues to wrestle with the issue of national identity, especially in the context of its Muslim...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
In recent years, there has been growing interest in Turkey, stemming from the country’s developing role in regional and global politics, its expanding economic strength, and its identity as a predominantly Muslim country with secular political institutions and democratic processes. This Handbook...
Lebanon
A History, 600 - 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its vicinity. He offers a fresh perspective on the antecedents of modern multi-communal Lebanon, tracing the consolidation of Lebanon's Christian, Muslim, and Islamic derived sects from...
Intellectuals and Reform in the Ottoman Empire
The Young Turks on the Challenges of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
This book uncovers Young Turk political and social ideas at the end of the nineteenth century, during the intellectual phase of the movement.
Analysing the life in exile of two of the most charismatic leaders of the Young Turk movement, Ahmed Rıza and Mehmet Sabahattin, the book unravels...
The Late Ottoman Empire and Egypt
Hybridity, Law and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Law and identification transgressed political boundaries in the nineteenth-century Levant. Over the course of the century, Italo-Levantines- elite and common- exercised a strategy of resilient hybridity whereby an unintentional form of legal imperialism took root in Egypt.
This book...
The Young Turks and the Ottoman Nationalities
Armenians, Greeks, Albanians, Jews, and Arabs, 1908–1918
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
The years 1908 to 1918 are frequently viewed as the period when the Ottoman Empire fell into decline, but in this volume, Feroz Ahmad argues that the Empire was not in decline but instead had come face to face with a widespread process of decolonization. Its colonies, stimulated by the idea of nationalism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
The Ottoman empire as a political entity comprised most of the present Middle East (with the principal exception of Iran), north Africa and south-eastern Europe. For over 500 years, until its disintegration during World War I, it encompassed a diverse range of ethnic, religious and linguistic communities...
The Making of Selim
Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The father of the legendary Ottoman sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, Selim I ("The Grim") set the stage for centuries of Ottoman supremacy by doubling the size of the empire. Conquering Eastern Anatolia, Syria, and Egypt, Selim promoted a politicized Sunni Ottoman* identity against the Shiite Safavids...
by Isaiah Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
In this book, Isaiah Friedman examines one of the most complex problems that bedeviled Middle East politics in the interwar period, one that still remains controversial. The prevailing view is that during World War I the British government made conflicting commitments to the Arabs, to the French,...
How Happy to Call Oneself a Turk
Provincial Newspapers and the Negotiation of a Muslim National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The modern nation-state of Turkey was established in 1923, but when and how did its citizens begin to identify themselves as Turks? Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey's founding president, is almost universally credited with creating a Turkish national identity through his revolutionary program to "secularize"...