The Crusader Storm traces the rise and fall of the Crusader States from the First Crusade to Saladins conquest of Jerusalem, exploring how diverse cultures collided, coexisted, and reshaped the medieval Middle East. Through the eyes of rulers, rebe...Loe edasi...
In just eleven days, Syrias decades-long dictatorship fell, ending the Assad era. Blending history, reportage, and personal accounts, this book explores the revolutions roots, its staggering costs, and the uncertain future of a nation on the brink o...Loe edasi...
Saudi Arabia, the West and the Security of the Gulf (1986) considers the geopolitical environment of the Arab Gulf and the nature and threats to Western interests in the region. It also examines the political, economic and other Gulf resources that...Loe edasi...
Turkish Nationalism and Western Civilization (1959) presents Ziya Gökalps synthesis of nationalism, Islam and Western civilization. Gökalp (18761924) deserves the attention of social practitioners for his insight into the problems of accommodating n...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649033703)
A broad critical history of the transformation of religious thought in Egypt from ancient to modern periodsWhen a civilization disappears, its heritage does not vanish. It survives in different potentially hybrid forms and becomes p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649035059)
The inside story of one of the most successful US foreign aid programs in the Middle East in recent decadesWhat happens when the United States launches an unconventional foreign aid program in the aftermath of a national u...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Doubleday & Co Inc., ISBN-13: 9780385550314)
A moving, harrowing and compulsively readable portrait of the lives of Iranians across five decades, tracing the promise of the 1979 revolution and a people’s undying spirit of resistanceIn 1979, a revolution in Iran swept aside a mona...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780197803028)
Vladimir Putins full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has cast a spotlight on Russias burgeoning partnership with Iran. Moscow looked to Tehran for drones and ammunition to fuel its so-called special military operation, and Irans support for Ru...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783112238615)
Epidemics have shaped human history, yet studies of their ancient attestations remain a developing field. This volume examines how epidemics were conceptualized, experienced, and responded to in Mesopotamia from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BCE. Dr...Loe edasi...
The Element adopts a historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of the Ptolemaic royal house. It investigates key themes that emerge from the data, including childhood trauma and displacement, sibli...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009487788)
The Element adopts a historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of the Ptolemaic royal house. It investigates key themes that emerge from the data, including childhood trauma and displacement, sibli...Loe edasi...
The literature on Islamic political thought utilises a methodology whose typical characteristic is the arbitrary use of religious, philosophical and political perspectives, as if the differences among them have no effect. This amounts to the theol...Loe edasi...
Sari: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Apocalypticism and Eschatology
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399555418)
Since the late 1800s, apocalyptic thought in Sunni Islam has produced a wide range of societal attitudes about modernity. For some, apocalyptic thought encouraged an optimistic investment in the idea of social progress; for others, it encouraged a...Loe edasi...
John-Paul Ghobrial, Michael A Reynolds, Christian C Sahner, Jack Tannous
Sari: Edinburgh Studies in Middle Eastern Christianity
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399524834)
Challenges the field of Middle Eastern studies by imagining the history of the region from the perspective of its Christian inhabitants....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009715447)
This Element examines the roles of royal women like Mihriah Valide Sultan under Selim III, focusing on their philanthropy, political influence, and architectural patronage, and showing how their diplomacy, correspondence, and courtly roles supported...Loe edasi...
This Element examines the roles of royal women like Mihriah Valide Sultan under Selim III, focusing on their philanthropy, political influence, and architectural patronage, and showing how their diplomacy, correspondence, and courtly roles supported...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192856456)
The book analyses a large corpus of archival sources by a host of Ottoman officials about a notorious bandit ringleader and his criminal confederation to show how the phenomena that Ottoman imperial officials labelled as banditry concealed complex...Loe edasi...
A sweeping overview of the role of sacred space in the context of British policies towards Ottoman and Republican Turkey This work investigates how various sacred spaces in Ottoman and Republican Turkey interfaced with British fo...Loe edasi...
What was the nature of the relationship between the Young Turks, whose members would go on to form and lead the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) which would carry out the Armenian Genocide beginning in 1915, and the Armenian revolutionarie...Loe edasi...
Sari: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Syracuse University Press, ISBN-13: 9780815612049)
To curb the influence of minority populations and outside enemies, the Ottoman government implemented new and experimental Tanzimat reforms within the empires center and provincial regions. By the 1860s, the city of Rusçuk in present-day Bulgaria...Loe edasi...
The Chronicle of Seert, a Middle Arabic history written in the late tenth or eleventh century, draws on earlier Syriac sources from the Church of the East dating back to the sixth and seventh centuries and is the richest repository of these...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300276138)
A sophisticated new account of sectarianism in the Middle East Sectarianism saturates our conversations about the Middle East, its politics and society, and the divide between Sunni and Shi’a captures headlines the world over. But in...Loe edasi...
