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How to raise a child became a central concern of intellectual debate from Cairo to Beirut over the course of the late ni......more

Libanius of Antioch (AD 314-93), teacher, rhetorician and eloquent exponent of Greek paideia, was one of the most prolif......more

Zoroastrianism was the religion of the ancient Persian kings and following the Arab conquest, it remained the religion o......more

’From Zion’s Dawn’ is a concise and condensed account of the history of modern Israel from 1880 to the present day, focu......more

The Greek landing in Smyrna in May 1919 is widely seen as the catalyst of the Turkish national struggle but even during ......more

First published in 1964, The Kurdish War tells not only David Adamson’s 200-mile journey on foot and horseback through t......more

Bahrain History. The Politics, Governance, National Economy, Population, Tourism. The gulf has been an important waterwa......more

The Meaning of Surah 75 Al-Qiyamah (The Resurrection) From the Holy Quran Bilingual Edition In English and Spanish Langu......more

A feast for beer geeks and history buffs alike, In the Land of Ninkasi tells the story of the world’s first great beer c......more

Declared a terrorist menace yet voted into government in a free election, Hamas then used its Gaza power base to launch ......more

The Status of the Jews in Egypt, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so th......more

As we move towards a world without superpowers, the dynamics within and between regions are of growing significance. Aga......more

The essays in this volume examine the cultural exchanges and encounters that have occurred in Central Asia through a vas......more

By considering why the desert, and the human story therein, continues to fascinate Western writers, it reveals no barren......more

Sufism in India and Central Asia is an attempt to put into perspective the relevance of Sufism - the concept and teachin......more

This study of Lebanese historical thought and its role in national identity formation in the eighteenth century focuses ......more

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Have you seen the Big Picture? It is impossible, unless you understand how each piece of history’s puzzle fits together ......more

Inspired by the "spatial turn," this volume links for the first time the study of diplomacy and spatiality in the premod......more

"This is first English account of the diplomatic visit of Afghan Prince Nasr Allah to England in the late nineteenth cen......more

Cinema in the Arab world has been the subject of varied and rigorous studies, but most have focused on films as text, pr......more

Successive Iranian leaders have struggled to navigate the fraught political-cultural space of media in the Islamic Repub......more

What remains and becomes Armenian in a historically informed moment of increased mobility? Taking an anthropological app......more

Maral Jefroudi presents a comprehensive picture of one of the largest migration waves in contemporary history by analyzi......more

This book explores the relations between China and the Palestinian organizations and their development during the period......more

How denial sustains the liberal imagination of a progressive and democratic Israel. The question that this book aims to ......more

Travels in Arabia, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work i......more

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Declared a terrorist menace yet voted into government in a free election, Hamas then used its Gaza power base to launch ......more

The current companion will offer a survey of the Afroasiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, and Turkic languages in contact wit......more

A vigorous translation scene across the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire--government and private, official and amateur,......more

In the ancient Mediterranean world, individuals routinely looked for divine aid to cure physical afflictions. Contested ......more

This book highlights a number of the major Sufi figures whose writings on legal theory were strongly shaped by their Suf......more

The Egyptian Social Contract explores the intricacies of the relationship between the state and its citizens, from the e......more

The second Muslim caliph, Umar ibn al-Khattab, once reportedly exclaimed, ’I do not know how to treat Zoroastrians!’ He ......more

The City is Ours accounts how urban politics mediated the rise of Kurdish nationhood and mobilization in Diyarbakır, Tur......more

This book offers an exploration of ballistic missile proliferation in the Middle East and also delves into the geopoliti......more

This book tells the story of Iranian women’s accomplishments and struggles over the course of history, spanning from anc......more

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The story of the hardest-fought air war of the jet era, where highly trained Israeli air forces almost met their match a......more

Tracing the history of the sugar trade and its consumption in the Persian Gulf during the 18th century, this book explor......more

The two-state solution is doomed; the one-state reality is here to stay Why have Israelis and Palestinians failed to ach......more

The book Youth, Identity, and Re-Fashioning Popular Music in Israel. 1950s-1980s aims to refresh the understanding of th......more

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This book analyzes how the Iraqi city of Fallujah became registered as a setting for military heroics in American memory......more

Despite the increasing volume of scholarship that shows children as political actors, prior to this book, a cohesive fra......more

Despite the increasing volume of scholarship that shows children as political actors, prior to this book, a cohesive fra......more

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Revealed: How pro-Israel lobbying groups influence the Middle East policies of Britain, the US and others In 1896, a Jew......more

A blow-by-blow account of the final siege of Jerusalem that ended with the complete overthrow of the Jewish people and t......more

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This book examines cross-cultural encounters of the Jesuit missionary enterprise in early modern Southwest Asia. It anal......more

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Al-Sulami (d. 412/1021) was an influential classical Sufi master whose works espoused companionship as a way for believe......more

"What were the effects of Mongol rule in Iran? Using a wide variety of sources including official and semi-official hist......more

The end of the Qajar era in Iran, despite the accepted narrative of decline, was in fact an occasion of modern and forwa......more

Since the Second World War, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt faced periods of extensive state repression, between 1948-19......more

Founded in 1929, the Jewish Agency played a central role in the founding of the State of Israel. Throughout the 1920s, 3......more

Zahi Zalloua provides the first examination of Palestinian identity from the perspective of Indigeneity and Critical Bla......more

Exploring the political, social and familial ties in early modern Ottoman society, this book is a timely contribution to......more

In the late 1960s, Israel became more closely entwined with the United States not just as a strategic ally but also thro......more

In the late 1960s, Israel became more closely entwined with the United States not just as a strategic ally but also thro......more

The renowned Russian Iranist Ilya Pavlovich Petrushevsky devoted his career to the study of agriculture and feudal relat......more

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Don’t just see the sights―get to know the people. The Sultanate of Oman, long regarded as one of the more mysterious cou......more

Feminism in the Middle East: Struggles and Triumphs offers a comprehensive exploration of the history, challenges, and a......more

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