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The tenth century was a formative period for Islamic culture and Adam Mez’s Renaissance of Islam offers a detailed surve......more
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What was popular entertainment like for everyday Arab societies in Middle Eastern cities during the long nineteenth cent......more
Satire, irony and humour have long been features of Persian literature’s rich tradition, taking various forms from the c......more
Over the last two decades, the Israeli government has implemented policies for the development of East Jerusalem. These ......more
Narrating Heritage critically examines the links among heritage, rights and social justice. This book brings important o......more
Drawing on contributions from an international group of more than forty established and emerging academics, this Handboo......more
Investigating a range of eschatological and apocalyptic ideologies, this volume explores the connection between notions ......more
How copyright shapes the nature, value, and meaning of musical creativity Copyright Consciousness explores the mutual in......more
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This book examines the Kurdish movement in the context of total social movement theory. First tracing its origins as a c......more
Scholarship on the Muslim world has recently begun to pay increased attention to non-literary genres of documentation as......more
This book examines the political and social activities of Sufis in Baghdad in the period 1000-1258. It argues that Sufis......more
While recent scholarship has focused on wartime Syria, this book is dedicated to heads of state in the immediate post-Ot......more
Coup in Damascus is a history of Syria’s first military regime. It plots the the fall of Syria’s democracy and the rise ......more
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shia Revival, a revelatory account of Iran’s grand strategy at home an......more
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In 680 CE al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, the grandson of the Prophet Muḥammad, was killed in a battle at Karbala. Ancient accounts ......more
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A major new history of Saudi Arabia, from its eighteenth-century origins to the present day Saudi Arabia is one of the w......more
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This open access book draws on ethnographic research conducted in empowerment programmes for marginalized women, in the ......more
Using Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources drawn from three genres of legal text, this book is the first full-length study......more
The newly discovered papers and colourfully-written letters of Anglo-Irish Sir Henry Dobbs, which form the backbone of t......more
I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies The Ismaili missionary and poet, Nasir-i Khusraw (d. af......more
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Letters from Old Babylonian Kish presents the primary publication of previously unstudied letters from the Old Babylonia......more
The story of the birth and evolution of modern Israel, especially concerning the struggle for Israeli-Palestinian peace,......more
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Fifteen years since the publication of its second edition, this foundational text in Arab-Israeli peace studies has been......more
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This is the first systematic exploration of the diversity of utopian thought and practice in the modern Middle East and ......more
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The Iranian #MeToo movement was a crucial form of resistance, with ordinary Iranian women sharing their experiences of s......more
A rollicking adventure starring three free-spirited Victorians on a twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest ......more
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A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Culture Politics & the Built Environment series...more
The interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind readers, an......more
In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, the British Empire faced a rising tide of nationalist and anticolonia......more
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A captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her......more
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Iran’s nationalisation of oil in 1951 was a key catalyst for the rise of resource nationalism as an animating force of g......more
Based on first-hand experience encompassing multiple combat deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Horn of Africa, th......more
An in-depth discussion of the use of tanks in five key battles in the Iraq War. During the Iraq War, the U.S. Army found......more
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This book examines Turkey’s integration with Europe within structural dynamics of globalisation from a critical politica......more
A social and political history of two decades of Egyptian neoliberalism through children’s picture books published in Eg......more
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This book is a personal narrative chronicling the life and experiences of Shireen Hunter, an Iranian woman who came of a......more