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The book describes the politics, culture and history of the Kurds in medieval and modern history, including the contempo......more

Saudi Arabia and Iraq have a shared history, as both friends and enemies at one and the same time, and their growth as m......more

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This book analyzes the history of modern Shia Muslim political mobilization in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon. It describes Shi......more

Ibn Babawayh - also known as al-Shaykh al-Saduq - was a prominent Twelver Shi’i scholar of hadith. Writing within the fi......more

Although the Kurds have attracted widespread international attention, Iranian Kurdistan has been largely overlooked. Thi......more

Winner of the 2022 Dan David Prize for outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public disc......more

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This book shows how political and administrative forces shaped the way justice was applied in medieval Egypt. It introdu......more

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During World War I, the British Empire enlisted half a million young men, predominantly from the countryside of Egypt, i......more

Drawing on various perspectives and analysis, the Handbook problematizes Middle East politics through an interdisciplina......more

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This open access book investigates the transnationally connected history of Arab Christian communities in Palestine duri......more

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The Sun of Knowledge (Shams al-Ma’arif) is one of the most revered historical grimoires of the Arabic corpus. Feared by ......more

The deep wounds that exist from long-standing conflicts between Turks, Kurds, and Armenians have not yet been sufficient......more

The book of Proverbs was historically attributed to King Solomon, who is explicitly referred to as the author of some of......more

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The 1945-1952 British Government’s Opposition to Zionism and the Emergent State of Israel examines the British Governmen......more

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On February 21, 1969, a bomb exploded in the largest supermarket in Jerusalem. The blast killed two and injured many mor......more

- Based on unique access and on-the-ground research provides rare insight into South Yemeni society - The book advances ......more

During the last decade of the British Mandate for Palestine (1939-1948), Arabs and Jews used the law as a resource to ga......more

During the last decade of the British Mandate for Palestine (1939-1948), Arabs and Jews used the law as a resource to ga......more

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Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian......more

This book serves as a virtual guide to the rich items on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Ancient Near East G......more

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Focusing on authoritarian rule, unresolved economic challenges, and external dependency, the volume explains the salient......more

Focusing on authoritarian rule, unresolved economic challenges, and external dependency, the volume explains the salient......more

Sadeq Hedayat is the most famous and the most enigmatic Iranian writer of the 20th century. This book is the first compr......more

This book examines how the rulers in the Persian Gulf responded to the British announcement of military withdrawal from ......more

Bringing together historians of US foreign relations and scholars of Iranian studies, American-Iranian Dialogues examine......more

Challenging existing political analyses of the state of emergency in Turkey, this volume argues that such states are not......more

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Why have state-building projects across the MENA region proven to be so difficult for so long? Following the end of the ......more

The emergence of the Balkan national states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has long been viewed through an Or......more

Central to the nineteenth-century Ottoman Tanzimat reform project, the novel originally developed outside of Ottoman spa......more

Museums and Nationalism in Croatia, Hungary, and Turkey draws attention to museums as political productions of the natio......more

As the first Empress is Persia’s 2,500 history, Farah Pahlavi implemented a series of reforms that created a progressive......more

This report, which draws largely on Israeli and third-party views, examines economic, diplomatic, and security ties betw......more

Artemy Kalinovsky’s Laboratory of Socialist Development investigates the Soviet effort to make promises of decolonizatio......more

Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of the Republic in 1923 under the rule of Atatürk and his ......more

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More than one million Indians travel annually to work in oil projects in the Gulf, one of the few international destinat......more

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In this fascinating book, the planning and building of Yad Vashem, Israel’s central and most important institution for c......more

Bridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationa......more

The History of Ancient Israel series was first published under the title Ancient Texts and the Bible. This is the update......more

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Since coming to power, President Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) have focused on narrating their vision of......more

In recent years, Iran has risen as one of the most significant regional challenges faced by the United States. In this r......more

The authors explore where, how, and how often U.S. adversaries have intervened militarily since 1946 and identify why th......more

The U.S.-led international coalition to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has made progress over the pas......more

Rather than divide the medieval Mediterranean into "Christian Europe" and "Muslim North Africa," this book presents the ......more

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When Christians collude in crimes against humanity, they betray their citizenship in the kingdom of God, demonstrating t......more

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