Middle East

The Thomas Nelson NKJV Pew Bible has long been a trusted and durable Bible for use in churches and various worship settings. This edition is published in large NKJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938841231Author Nada Samih-RotondoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Jaded Ibis Press, LLCPublisher Jaded Ibis Press, LLCWeight(grams) 281g

A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by...

I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation Of profound importance in late antiquity,the Sasanian Empire is almost completely unknown today,except as a counterpoint to the Roman Empire.What are the reasons for this ignorance and why does...

Modern-day archaeological discoveries in the Near East continue to illuminate our understanding of the ancient world, including the many contributions made by the people of Mesopotamia to literature, art, government, and urban life The Handbook to Life...

My Struggle for Peace is a remarkable political document offering insights into the complex workings of the young Israeli political system, set against the backdrop of the disintegration of the country's fragile armistice with the Arab states. Replete...

For much of the twentieth century, the intellectual life of the Ottoman and Arabic-Islamic world in the seventeenth century was ignored or mischaracterized by historians. Ottomanists typically saw the seventeenth century as marking the end of Ottoman...

An extract from Abu l-Mahasin Ibn Taghri Birdi's Chronicle, entitled Hawadith ad-Duhur fi Mada l-Ayyam wash-Shuhur (845-843 A.H.), translated by William Popper.Book InformationISBN 9780940490956Author William PopperFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627301305Author Anna ComnenaFormat HardbackPage Count 414Imprint Masterworks ClassicsPublisher Masterworks ClassicsWeight(grams) 776gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904563518Author Tom HurndallFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Trolley BooksPublisher Trolley Books

A lively and informed account of Egypt's recent history and current situation In this immensely readable and thoroughly researched book, Tarek Osman explores what has happened to the biggest Arab nation since President Nasser took control of the...

Martin Bell, the former BBC war reporter and Independent MP, served as a soldier in the British army in Cyprus in the late 1950s during the EOKA rebellion against British rule, and recently he discovered the letters he had written home during the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642938531Author Robert SpencerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Bombardier BooksPublisher Bombardier BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Born in London to a Turkish mother and British father, Alev Scott moved to Istanbul to discover what it means to be Turkish in a country going through rapid political and social change, with an extraordinary past still linked to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and...

The Royal Armouries' collection of Asian arms and armour is among the finest in the world. With the aid of stunning photography, former Deputy Master Thom Richardson outlines a rich and vibrant diversity of military cultures from the Ottoman Empire to...

Backed by an unparalleled military force, Sargon II outwitted and outfought powerful competitors to extend Assyrian territory and secure his throne. As Sarah C. Melville shows through a detailed analysis of each of his campaigns, the king used his army...

The author brings together a wealth of information which has, until now, only been available in highly specialised academic journals and scholarly books' - David Nicolle 'An astonishing array of themes and characters' - John Man The Mamluks were, at...

The surprising story of Iran's transformation from America's ally in the Middle East into one of its staunchest adversaries"An original interpretation that puts Iranian actors where they belong: at center stage."-Michael Doran, Wall Street Journal"An...

The state of race relations in Islamic societies has often been the subject of optimistic descriptions. Sources as various as Toynbee and Malcolm X refer to a racial Utopia, a colour-blind society. This society is seen as the direct result of the tenets...

The dominant Mediterranean power in the fifth and sixth centuries, by the time of its demise at the hands of the Ottomans in 1453 the Byzantine empire was a shadow of its former self restricted essentially to the city of Constantinople, modern Istanbul...

How denial sustains the liberal imagination of a progressive and democratic Israel. The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620974162Format HardbackPage Count 304Imprint The New PressPublisher The New Press

This book examines the historic process traditionally referred to as the fall of Rome and rise of Islam from the perspective of the Red Sea, a strategic waterway linking the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean and a distinct region incorporating Africa...

The Cairo Genizah is considered one of the world's greatest Hebrew manuscript treasures. Yet the story of how over a quarter of a million fragments hidden in Egypt were discovered and distributed around the world, before becoming collectively known as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805086669Author Ali AbunimahFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Holt PaperbackPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 198mm...

The story begins with a parting of the sands - the construction of the Suez Canal that united the Mediterranean with the Arabian Sea. It opened the door of opportunity for people living insecurely on the fringes of a turbulent Europe.The Middle East is...

This is a new history showing the significance of the empire to Islam and the wider world. From the 10th century to the end of the 12th century, the Fatimid Empire played a central, yet controversial, role in the history of Islam. This definitive account...

Shemlan, a small, once unknown village in the hills overlooking Beirut, became notorious throughout the Middle East when Bertram Thomas chose it as the location for the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies (MECAS) in 1947. The knowledge that a western...

Why and under what circumstances did the religion of Islam emerge in a remote part of Arabia at the beginning of the seventh century? Traditional scholarship maintains that Islam developed in opposition to the idolatrous and polytheistic religion of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781447837619Author Harold Courtenay ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Lulu Press IncPublisher Lulu Press IncWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm)...

Two rabbis, visiting Palestine in 1897, observed that the land was like a bride, 'beautiful, but married to another man'. By which they meant that, if a place was to be found for Israel in Palestine, where would the people of Palestine go? This is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635610277Author George G M JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

There is a growing recognition that philosophy isn't unique to the West, that it didn't begin only with the classical Greeks, and that Greek philosophy was influenced by Near Eastern traditions. Yet even today there is a widespread assumption that what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570757846Author Naim Stifan SteekFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)

New York Times Notable Books of 2018 Financial Times Book of the Year Award-winning journalist Rania Abouzeid presents reportage of unprecedented scope in this engaging, character-driven investigation that exposes the secret dealings that armed and...

A panoramic, provocative account of the clash between British imperialism and Arab jihadism in Africa between 1870 and 1920 "An epic account of the British Empire's activities in Africa and the Middle East. . . . An important, indeed tremendous,...

Revealing what is 'Islamic' in Islamic art, Shaw explores the perception of arts, including painting, music, and geometry through the discursive sphere of historical Islam including the Qur'an, Hadith, Sufism, ancient philosophy, and poetry. Emphasis on...

"Hilarious and Heartbreaking. Comedy shouldn't take courage, but it made an exception for Bassem." --Jon Stewart "The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World"-the creator of The Program, the most popular television show in Egypt's history-chronicles his...

In his disturbing and timely book Jean-Pierre Filiu lays bare the strategies and tactics employed by the Middle Eastern autocracies, above all those of Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Algeria, that set out to crush the democratic uprisings of the 'Arab...

Shortlisted for the Conflict Research Society's 2021 Book of the Year Prize Shortlisted for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society 2021 Book Prize After the overthrow of the Qadhafi regime in 2011, Libya witnessed a dramatic breakdown of centralized...