Middle East category: 7830 books
Human Security in Turkey
Challenges for the 21st century
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This edited volume explores human security challenges in the context of Turkey.
Turkey occupies a critical geopolitical position between Europe, the Middle East and the Caucasus. It is an important peace-broker in regional conflicts and a leading country in peacekeeping operations, and has...
Spirits of Palestine
Gender, Society, and Stories of the Jinn
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2004
The Palestinian Muslim village of Artas is cradled in the lap of four mountains in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Although Artas has experienced the violence of Israeli occupation, Spirits of Palestine does not focus exclusively on the villagers' experiences of violence, terrorism, or loss. This...
Arab Spring
Negotiating in the Shadow of the Intifadat
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Beginning in January 2011, the Arab world exploded in a vibrant demand for dignity, liberty, and achievable purpose in life, rising up against an image and tradition of arrogant, corrupt, unresponsive authoritarian rule. These previously unpublished, country-specific case studies of the uprisings...
Mujùn
Libertinism in Medieval Muslim Society and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
This book is about an aspect of mediaeval Arabic culture and literature known in Arabic as mujùn (roughly 'libertinism, licentiousness, frivolity, indecency, profligacy, shamelessness, impertinence', etc.), a concept that students of mediaeval Arabic texts may find rather hard to define but which...
by Abraham Kuyper
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
At the beginning of the twentieth century, famed theologian Abraham Kuyper toured the Mediterranean world and encountered Islam for the first time.
Part travelogue, part cultural critique, On Islam presents a European imperialist seeing firsthand the damage colonialism had caused and the value...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Remembering the Crusades and Crusading examines the diverse contexts in which crusading was memorialised and commemorated in the medieval world and beyond. The collection not only shows how the crusades were commemorated in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, but also considers the longer-term remembrance...
by Lonely Planet, Jenny Walker, Paul Clammer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher*
Lonely Planet’s Jordan is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Dive kaleidoscopic coral gardens in the Red Sea, channel Lawrence of Arabia and stay...
by Sean Goforth
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
Two of the most prominent trends in world affairs over the past decadethe projection of American power abroad and high energy priceshave made for some strange bedfellows. Flush with oil revenues, autocratic governments in Venezuela, Iran, and Russia have tried to counter U.S. influence not only in Latin...
Intervention, Ethnic Conflict and State-Building in Iraq
A Paradigm for the Post-Colonial State
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
External intervention by the U.N. and other actors in ethnic conflicts has interfered with the state-building process in post-colonial states. Rear examines the 1991 uprisings in Iraq and demonstrates how this intervention has contributed to the problems with democratization experienced in the post-Saddam...
by James Budd
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Much of this book is a record of the time the author spent between 1965 and 1970 as an English teacher in Aneiza – a provincial town in central Saudi Arabia. In an entertaining series of anecdotes, he describes the daily life and customs of its people, his relations with colleagues and students...
by Stephen M. Walt
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
How are alliances made? In this book, Stephen M. Walt makes a significant contribution to this topic, surveying theories of the origins of international alliances and identifying the most important causes of security cooperation between states. In addition, he proposes a fundamental change in the...
Muslim Rebels
Kharijites and the Politics of Extremism in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
The Kharijites were the first sectarian movement in Islamic history, a rebellious splinter group that separated itself from mainstream Muslim society and set about creating, through violence, an ideal community of the saved. Their influence in the political and theological life of the nascent faith...
Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why?
The Psychology and Sociology of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why? is the shocking landmark government study that predicted who would terrorize the United States and how they would do it. In an attempt to profile what members of society join terrorist groups such and commit acts of violence, the report drew on government documents...
The Making of the Arab Intellectual
Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
In the wake of the Ottoman Empire’s nineteenth-century reforms, as guilds waned and new professions emerged, the scholarly ‘estate’ underwent social differentiation. Some found employment in the state’s new institutions as translators, teachers and editors, whilst others resisted civil servant...