Middle East category: 7830 books
The Dream
A Diary of a Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In 1980, Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas traveled to Lebanon to film a documentary about the country's Palestinian refugee camps, during which time he kept a diary of his impressions. The Dream: A Diary of a Film is Malas's haunting chronicle of his immersion in the life of the camps, including Shatila,...
The Road to Martyrs' Square
A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
Don't expect to find here the usual clichés about suicide bombers and what drives them. In this unique study, Anne Marie Oliver and Paul Steinberg render the story of two intertwining, often clashing journeys. The authors lived for six months with a Palestinian refugee family in Gaza at the beginning...
Rhythms of Time
Reconnecting Palestine's Past
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Rhythms of Time: Reconnecting Palestine's Past looks at how Palestine lost its past, how in can be reconnected and why the past is important for Palestine's present. Palestine’s past is crucial to its future. The way the past is understood has profound implications for the contemporary Israeli-Palestinian...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Strategic mobility, the capability to transport military forces rapidly across intercontinental distances into an operational theater, lies at the heart of US military strategy. Nowhere has the importance of strategic mobility been more evident than in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, the military...
The Muslim Brotherhood
Hasan al-Hudaybi and ideology
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the most influential Islamist organisations today. Based in Egypt, its network includes branches in many countries of the Near and Middle East. Although the organisation has been linked to political violence in the past, it now proposes a politically moderate ideology.
The...
Reading the Qur'an
The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
"I grew up reading the Qur'an on my mother's lap," writes Ziauddin Sardar. "It's an experience I share with most Muslim children. And so it is that our connection to the Qur'an is infused with associations of the warmest and most enduring of human bonds." In Reading the Qur'an, Sardar--one of Europe's...
Witches, Whores, and Sorcerers
The Concept of Evil in Early Iran
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Early Iranians believed evil had to have a source outside of God, which led to the concept of an entity as powerful and utterly evil as God is potent and good. These two forces, good and evil, which have always vied for superiority, needed helpers in this struggle. According to the Zoroastrians, every...
by Recep Dogan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
We tried to show Muhammad's exemplary life so people can eradicate themselves of misconceptions and the Muslims can follow His way and represent Islam in the best form. The books which cover the biography of the Prophet usually give chronological information about His life; however, do not give...
by Vandestra Sakura
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Prophet Yaqub also known as Jacob, is a prophet in Islam who is mentioned in the Qur'an. He is acknowledged as a patriarch of Islam. Muslims believe that he preached the same monotheistic faith as did his forefathers: Ibrahim, Ishaq and Ismail. Yaʿqūb is mentioned 16 times in the Qur'an. In the...
by Hisham Mortada
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Written with the non-Muslim reader in mind, this book analyses the principles and values established by Islamic tradition to govern the social and physical environments of Muslims.
The picture of Islam that emerges from this work is of a way of life with social ideals. Relying on the Qur'an and Sunna,...
Political Decision Making and Non-Decisions
The Case of Israel and the Occupied Territories
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
This book examines Israel’s relationship and political decision-making process towards the Occupied Territories from the aftermath of the Six Day War to the Labour Party’s electoral defeat in 1977.
The period represents the first decade of Israel’s occupation of the Occupied Territories...
Iraq
The Search for National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
The 1990-1991 crisis in the Middle East and the disturbances that followed, threw the deep-seated divisions within the Iraqi population into focus. This book examines the complexities of the internal cultural, political and religious conflict within the modern state of Iraq.
Iranian-Russian Encounters
Empires and Revolutions since 1800
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Over the past two hundred years, encounters between Iran and Russia have been both rich and complex. This book explores the myriad dimensions of the Iranian-Russian encounter during a dramatic period which saw both Iran and Russia subject to revolutionary upheavals and transformed from multinational...
New Perspectives on the Qur'an
The Qur'an in its Historical Context 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
This book continues the work of The Qur’ān in its Historical Context, in which an international group of scholars address an expanded range of topics on the Qur’ān and its origins, looking beyond medieval Islamic traditions to present the Qur’ān’s own conversation with the religions and...