Middle East category: 7830 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this excellent book by the tells the story of more than 3,600 U.S. Marines who supported Operation Provide Comfort, an international relief effort in northern Iraq from 7 April to 15 July 1991. The term "monograph" was...
by Neville Teller
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Published to mark Israel's 60th anniversary, "One Man's Israel" is a fascinating collection of writing. Taken together, the 36 separate items chart the backdrop to the kaleidoscopic Israeli scene over the last thirty years. They include political commentary and some social comment, but also...
Religious Knowledge, Authority, and Charisma
Islamic and Jewish Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Utah Series in Middle East Studies
The issue of religious authority has long fascinated and ignited scholars across a range of disciplines: history, anthropology, the sociology of religion, and political science. Religious Knowledge, Authority, and Charisma juxtaposes religious leadership in...
by Omar L Rashed
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
History repeats. Looking at ours, that's a tragedy. But it doesn't have to. It doesn't have to if we, as individuals, don't let it. A Unique Elegy is about a man who stopped history in its tracks. Across the sands of time, the prince stood up to the tyrant of his time. He paid, and got the greatest return...
The Army and the Radical Left in Turkey
Military Coups, Socialist Revolution and Kemalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
In 1960s Turkey, the armed forces and the radical leftist movement provided two very dynamic, but very different, political forces. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, the majority of radical leftists in this period believed in the revolutionary potential of the armed forces in overthrowing the existing regime...
Shi'ite Lebanon
Transnational Religion and the Making of National Identities
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
By recasting the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East, Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr proposes a new framework for understanding Shi'ite politics in Lebanon. Her study draws on a variety of untapped sources, reconsidering not only the politics of the established leadership...
by H.A.R. Gibb
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Originally published in 1962, this book presents important studies on the history, literature and religion of the Islamic peoples as well as an appraisal of contemporary intellectual currents in the Middle East.
Part I interprets the basic political and cultural development in medieval Islam,...
From Khartoum to Jerusalem
The Dragoman Solomon Negima and his Clients (1885–1933)
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In 2014, a collection of papers was found on eBay: a scrapbook, inside which was written 'Testimonial Book of Dragoman Solomon N. Negima'. The letters pasted into the testimonial book bear recommendations of Negima's services as dragoman – a combination of tourist guide and interpreter – in the...
NAZMY - LOVE IS MY RELIGION
EGYPT, TRAVEL, AND A QUEST FOR PEACE
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Egypt is a mysterious and magical place. And thanks to Mohamed Nazmy, tens of thousands of travelers have experienced it. Nazmy, a self-made businessman, travel expert, Quest Travel company founder, mentor and spiritual consciousness-raiser, builds bridges between people from the West to the Middle...
Militant Islam
A sociology of characteristics, causes and consequences
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Militant Islam provides a sociological framework for understanding the rise and character of recent Islamic militancy. It takes a systematic approach to the phenomenon and includes analysis of cases from around the world, comparisons with militancy in other religions, and their causes and consequences.
The...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Council of War: A History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1942—1991 follows in the tradition of volumes previously prepared by the joint History Office dealing with JCS involvement in national policy, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Adopting a broader view than earlier volumes, it surveys the...
Superpowers, Rogue States and Terrorism
Countering the Security Threats to the West
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Numerous books have attempted to assess the generational threat from Jihadist-inspired terrorism but few offer any positive advice on solutions. Islamist terrorism is today a fact of life and its potency is vividly illustrated by outrages in otherwise secure Western democracies not to mention overt...
by John Witcombe
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
An ancient Bible prophecy reveals the agenda of today’s determined Islam.
Islam—the world’s second-largest religion—has big plans. Its goal? Nothing less than to bring the nations of this world under the influence of Islam and the rule of its sharia law.
Beginning in A.D....
by Major Charles L. Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The next desert war the United States fights could be against an enemy more comparable to us in training, motivation, and technology than the recent conflict in the Persian Gulf. The Middle East is a dangerous part of the world where we have limited experience in the use of high technology weapons,...