(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649034991)
A must read for any social historian of the region.”—The American Historical ReviewThe individual lives of African slaves in the Middle East, with a new afterword, new in paperback In the ninetee...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674294141)
A nuanced history of seafaring communities in the Indian Ocean, where the force of British imperial power depended on the expertise of local divers and sailors to feed a global demand for pearls.In the late nineteenth century, thous...Loe edasi...
This book asks how democratic values and civic culture can take shape without equal rights, and even without a state. Focusing on the Kurdish experience across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, it draws on fieldwork, survey research, and historical ana...Loe edasi...
**SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the presentSlavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history...Loe edasi...
In Search of Worldviews argues that in-depth anthropological studies are the best data-driven way to provide accurate information from local perspectives on everyday topics such as womens roles, why Islam is overtaking other major religions, why dem...Loe edasi...
This unique study pioneers a new philosophical claim in nationalism and theological studies. Arab nationalism and Salafism, a religious movement, are reviewed, and Arab nationalism is asserted to function inside Salafi thought throughout Arab histor...Loe edasi...
States torn by violent conflicts such as civil wars may survive rather than collapse and disappear. The history of Lebanon from the civil war, Syria since 2011, and Iraq after the 2003 invasion explains why disintegration may be balanced by resilien...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108836531)
States torn by violent conflicts such as civil wars may survive rather than collapse and disappear. The history of Lebanon from the civil war, Syria since 2011, and Iraq after the 2003 invasion explains why disintegration may be balanced by resilien...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009683371)
This remarkable new history cuts through the many myths that have obscured the extraordinary life-story of Emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir (r. 16581707). Contesting simplistic narratives, Faruqui presents a richly researched and deeply nuanced picture o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503645431)
Over the decades of the nineteenth century, Egypt changed dramatically, from a minor Ottoman province to a major player in global markets and a British colonial territory. Integral to this transformation was legal reform: the Islamic system was re...Loe edasi...
Over the decades of the nineteenth century, Egypt changed dramatically, from a minor Ottoman province to a major player in global markets and a British colonial territory. Integral to this transformation was legal reform: the Islamic system was re...Loe edasi...
Sari: Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399560566)
While Stalin’s Great Terror has been extensively studied, this is the first book to uncover the fate of Iranian communists and migrant workers in the Soviet Union during the 1930s purges. It reveals how foreign nationals, particularly Iranians, we...Loe edasi...
Sari: Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399553339)
The 18th-century ‘interregnum’ between the Safavid and Qajar dynasties remains woefully understudied in Iranian history, regarded as a turbulent and inconsequential gap between two major dynastic periods. This book, however, argues that this perio...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399561266)
Fills a 400-year gap in Syrian history, based on the largest and most significant source for medieval Syria. Syria down to Saladin is the first comprehensive historical study of post-Umayyad Syria based on Ibn ?Asakir’s Ta’rikh m...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399554978)
This book rethinks Gulf urbanism by placing the infrastructure, planning and spatial politics of Kuwait at the centre of analysis. Offering an alternative to oil-centred narratives, it examines the impact of British indirect rule on the built envi...Loe edasi...
Charities and Politics in Bashar al-Asad’s Syria analyses the renewal and revival of the role of Syrian charities during Bashar al-Asad’s first 10 years in power (2000-2010) in order to understand the political engineering deployed by the Syri...Loe edasi...
The History of Architectural Education in the Middle East and North Africa explores the varied socio-political landscapes within which different architectural programs and schools were established across the region. It addresses a significa...Loe edasi...
Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World offers the first dedicated examination of the phenomenon of rebellion across the early Islamicate world. It combines discourse analysis with a return to long-neglected social-historical a...Loe edasi...
Frank Scholten set out to produce an illustrated Bible, instead returning with captivating documentation of the modernist transformations and intimate views of Palestine from 1921-1923. He documented Palestine as the British Mandate was formally b...Loe edasi...
The Sasanian Empire was one of the most significant empires of late antiquity. As the dominant force in the Middle East, spanning Egypt, India and Mesopotamia, the Sasanian kings from Ardashir I (224CE) ruled an imperial, centrally administrated, mul...Loe edasi...
This book is a study of the experiences and writings of Lillias Hamilton, a nineteenth century English woman physician at the Court and in the harem of Amir ‘Abd al-Rahman, King of Afghanistan....Loe edasi...
In the early Islamic age, the city of Balkh was one of the largest and most influential cities in the world. Situated on the northern plains of modern Afghanistan, Balkh flourished from the 7th to the 13th centuries, home to a wide variety of schola...Loe edasi...
Mohammad Reza Pahlavis third book, published on the eve of the revolution that would lead to his exile, gives his assessment of the progress of Iran in the 15 years since the launching of his White Revolution in 1963 and his vision for his country...Loe edasi...
This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of the West, in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists. Beginning with the writings of Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Lorenzo Casini...Loe edasi...
This book presents a social, political, cultural, and socioeconomic history of Iranian Kurdistan since the 1979 Revolution. This book presents a social, political, cultural, and socioeconomic history of Iranian Kurdistan since th...Loe edasi...
Paul Moawad, Dawn Chatty, Annika Rabo, Stacy D. Fahrenthold
Sari: Refugees and Migrants within the Middle East
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649034823)
A powerful contribution to ongoing debates on refugees, borders, and camps and the politics of waitingThe Lebanese–Syrian borderscape is predominantly porous and ambiguous, without an actual border control, and is incessantly contes...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503645677)
Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the Ottoman Empire fashioned a new language called Western Armenian. Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, Jennifer Manoukian studies the evolution of an ever-chang...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526176233)
This book examines the role of artefacts and design practice in representing and commemorating a new political community of Turks within the cultural transformation from empire to nation-state between 1908-50s. It offers an expanded understanding of...Loe edasi...
This book examines the radicalization of beliefs, tactics and oppression by a dominant governing group when faced with a subordinate group’s historic quest for basic human rights dating back for five centuries. This book examines th...Loe edasi...
Timur and His Family is the first comprehensive study on the structure of the Timurid dynasty in Central Asia and Iran. It presents an annotated edition of Hafiz-i Abrus Mu izz al-ansab with introductory chapters on specific topics....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649034991)
A must read for any social historian of the region.”—The American Historical ReviewThe individual lives of African slaves in the Middle East, with a new afterword, new in paperback In the ninetee...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674294141)
A nuanced history of seafaring communities in the Indian Ocean, where the force of British imperial power depended on the expertise of local divers and sailors to feed a global demand for pearls.In the late nineteenth century, thous...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Israel Numismatic Society, ISBN-13: 9789657849415)
This two-volume monograph focuses on the Samarian minting authority during the Persian period. This coinage represents one of the earliest and most varied official coinages produced in the southern Levant, likely being issued from the late fifth cen...Loe edasi...
This book asks how democratic values and civic culture can take shape without equal rights, and even without a state. Focusing on the Kurdish experience across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, it draws on fieldwork, survey research, and historical ana...Loe edasi...
**SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the presentSlavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history...Loe edasi...
A groundbreaking reassessment of the legacy of the enigmatic Shah Ismail.Seyed Javad Miri presents Shah Ismail not merely as a historical figure but as a mystic, poet, and thinker who profoundly influenced Iranian and g...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855807967)
Inspiring and hopeful discussion of how we can live together in a world that is both deeply divided and undeniably shared. In a region divided by violence, walls, fences, and checkpoints, Voices of Reason analyzes critically cross-boundar...Loe edasi...
In Search of Worldviews argues that in-depth anthropological studies are the best data-driven way to provide accurate information from local perspectives on everyday topics such as womens roles, why Islam is overtaking other major religions, why dem...Loe edasi...
Analyzes British-Yishuv relations in 1941–42, revealing limited cooperation shaping defenses and future Jewish Brigade.In May 1941 a string of German victories, a pro-Nazi revolt in Iraq and a hostile Vichy-led collaborationist government in Syria su...Loe edasi...
This unique study pioneers a new philosophical claim in nationalism and theological studies. Arab nationalism and Salafism, a religious movement, are reviewed, and Arab nationalism is asserted to function inside Salafi thought throughout Arab histor...Loe edasi...
States torn by violent conflicts such as civil wars may survive rather than collapse and disappear. The history of Lebanon from the civil war, Syria since 2011, and Iraq after the 2003 invasion explains why disintegration may be balanced by resilien...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108836531)
States torn by violent conflicts such as civil wars may survive rather than collapse and disappear. The history of Lebanon from the civil war, Syria since 2011, and Iraq after the 2003 invasion explains why disintegration may be balanced by resilien...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009683371)
This remarkable new history cuts through the many myths that have obscured the extraordinary life-story of Emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir (r. 16581707). Contesting simplistic narratives, Faruqui presents a richly researched and deeply nuanced picture o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503645431)
Over the decades of the nineteenth century, Egypt changed dramatically, from a minor Ottoman province to a major player in global markets and a British colonial territory. Integral to this transformation was legal reform: the Islamic system was re...Loe edasi...
Over the decades of the nineteenth century, Egypt changed dramatically, from a minor Ottoman province to a major player in global markets and a British colonial territory. Integral to this transformation was legal reform: the Islamic system was re...Loe edasi...
Sari: Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399560566)
While Stalin’s Great Terror has been extensively studied, this is the first book to uncover the fate of Iranian communists and migrant workers in the Soviet Union during the 1930s purges. It reveals how foreign nationals, particularly Iranians, we...Loe edasi...
Sari: Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399553339)
The 18th-century ‘interregnum’ between the Safavid and Qajar dynasties remains woefully understudied in Iranian history, regarded as a turbulent and inconsequential gap between two major dynastic periods. This book, however, argues that this perio...Loe edasi...
