Middle East category: 7830 books
by Helena Christos
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
For the anointed, death is not a threat. It’s a promise.In the complexly ethereal and dangerous place that is Israel, boys and girls are afflicted by poverty, power and politics. Life is difficult for many and there are no easy answers. It is within such struggle that hope emerges.When...
by Blaque Hough
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
In English it takes two words to say “law” and “religion” and those two words carry two different bundles of meaning. In Arabic and Turkish, traditionally one word, din, meant both.Splitting or uniting the ideas and assumptions behind those words makes an enormous difference in the...
by Haifa Zangana, Ferial J. Ghazoul
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
“With passion and commitment,” an exiled Iraqi woman recounts her time organizing resistance to Saddam Hussein and imprisonment in Abu Ghraib (Nawal El Saadawi, author of Zeina).
In 1970s Iraq, the Ba’ath Party was at the height of its influence in the Middle East and popularity throughout...
by Jamal Wakim
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In this book, Dr. Jamal Wakim argues that the success or failure of Syria's policies is directly linked to the degree to which these policies accord with those of Iraq, Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and that it has been subject throughout its history to competition between the forces occupying the...
Slaves of One Master
Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In this wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Matthew S. Hopper examines the interconnected themes of enslavement, globalization, and empire and challenges previously held conventions regarding Middle Eastern slavery and British...
Iran Rising
The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
On the fortieth anniversary of the 1978–79 Iranian revolution, a definitive political picture of the Islamic Republic
When Iranians overthrew their monarchy, rejecting a pro-Western shah in favor of an Islamic regime, many observers predicted that revolutionary turmoil would paralyze the...
Turkey and the Politics of National Identity
Social, Economic and Cultural Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
In the first decade of the twenty-first century Turkey experienced an extraordinary set of transformations. In 2001, in the midst of financial difficulties, the country was under IMF stewardship, yet it has recently emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world. And on the international...
The Palestinian National Revival
In the Shadow of the Leadership Crisis, 1937–1967
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Former Israeli intelligence officer Moshe Shemesh offers a fresh understanding of the complex history and politics of the Middle East in this new analysis of the Palestinian national movement. Shemesh looks at the formative years of the movement that emerged following the 1948 War and traces the leaders,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The United States and Saudi Arabia share a robust and complex security partnership today. This study explores the origins and development of U.S.-Saudi security cooperation between the late...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This volume brings together a set of key articles, along with a new introduction to contextualize them, on the role of Turkish peoples in the Western Asiatic world up to the 11th century. Such topics as the geographical and environmental original milieux of these peoples in the forest zone and steppelands...
Old Texts, New Practices
Islamic Reform in Modern Morocco
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
In 1910, al-Mahdi al-Wazzani, a prominent Moroccan Islamic scholar completed his massive compilation of Maliki fatwas. An eleven-volume set, it is the most extensive collection of fatwas written and published in the Arab Middle East during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Al-Wazzani's...
The Middle Path of Moderation in Islam
The Qur'anic Principle of Wasatiyyah
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Winner of the I.R. Iran World Award for Book of the Year In The Middle Path of Moderation in Islam, leading Islamic law expert Mohammad Hashim Kamali examines the concept of wasatiyyah, or moderation, arguing that scholars, religious communities, and policy circles alike must have access to this governing...
Shari'a Scripts
A Historical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
A case study in the textual architecture of the venerable legal and ethical tradition at the center of the Islamic experience, Sharīʿa Script**s is a work of historical anthropology focused on Yemen in the early twentieth century. There—while colonial regimes, late Ottoman reformers, and early...
Islamic Reform and Arab Nationalism
Expanding the Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (1880s-1930s)
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Bridging African and Arab histories, this book examines the relationship between Islam, nationalism and the evolution of identity politics from late 19th Century to World War II. It provides a cross-national, cross-regional analysis of religious reform, nationalism, anti-colonialism from Zanzibar...