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The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire by Patrick Balfour Kinross 9780688080938
RRP: £19.99£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688080938Author Patrick Balfour KinrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 638Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran by Said Amir Arjomand 9780195042580
RRP: £18.49£13.50This comprehensive history of the Iranian Revolution views it in the context of an ongoing conflict between religious and political authorities dating back to the establishment of Shi'ism as the state religion of Iran in 1501. The historical context is... -
Abu Simbel and the Nubian Temples: A New Traveler's Companion by Nigel Fletcher-Jones 9789774168789
RRP: £29.99£25.55The three-thousand-year-old rock-cut temples at Abu Simbel and the story of their rescue from the rising waters of Lake Nasser in the 1960s are almost as familiar worldwide as the tale of the gold funerary mask and brief life of the boy king Tutankhamun... -
Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran by Medea Benjamin
RRP: £12.99£11.69U.S. relations with Iran have been fraught for decades, but under the Trump Administration tensions are rising to startling levels. Medea Benjamin, one of the best-known 21st century activists, offers the incredible history of how a probable alliance... -
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran by Niloofar Haeri
RRP: £20.99£18.66Following the 1979 revolution, the Iranian government set out to Islamize society. Muslim piety had to be visible, in personal appearance and in action. Iranians were told to pray, fast, and attend mosques to be true Muslims. The revolution turned... -
Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda by Omar Nasiri 9780465023899
£14.87Between 1994 and 2000, Omar Nasiri worked as a secret agent for Europe's top foreign intelligence services-including France's DGSE (Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure), and Britain's MI5 and MI6. From the netherworld of Islamist cells in... -
The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria by Alia Malek
RRP: £13.99£11.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568588445Author Alia MalekFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 368gDimensions(mm) 155mm * 229mm *... -
Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World by Ussama Makdisi
RRP: £25.00£19.59"Flawless . . . [Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle East."-Robert Fisk, The Independent Today's headlines paint the Middle East as a collection of war-torn countries and extremist... -
Return of the Spirit by Tawfiq al-Hakim
RRP: £13.99£10.01First published in Arabic in 1933, Return of the Spirit follows a patriotic young Egyptian and his extended family as they grapple with the events leading up to the 1919 Egyptian revolution. This is a trail-blazing political novel that illustrates the... -
From Gaza to Jerusalem: The Campaign for Southern Palestine 1917 by Stuart Hadaway
RRP: £14.99£11.55The Palestine campaign of 1917 saw Britain's armed forces rise from defeat to achieve stunning victory. After two failed attempts in the spring, at the end of the year they broke through the Ottoman line with an innovative mixture of old and new... -
The Kurds: A Modern History by Michael Gunter 9781558766211
RRP: £28.95£23.26This second edition covers the events through September 2016. The approximately 30 million or more Kurds famously constitute the largest nation in the world without its own independent state. The desire of many Kurds for independence, or at least... -
A History of Iran by Michael Axworthy 9780465098767
RRP: £19.99£12.61Iran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic republic, but one in which only 1.4 percent of the population attend Friday prayers. Iran's religious culture encompasses the most censorious and dogmatic Shi'a Muslim clerics in the world, yet its... -
The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Philip R. Davies 9780500283714
RRP: £14.95£10.43New in paperback, this is a fully illustrated volume on the discovery, meaning and significance of all the Dead Sea Scrolls by acknowledged experts in the field. Offering intriguing historical and religious insights into the period of authorship, from... -
Sunnis and Shi'a: A Political History by Laurence Louer 9780691186610
RRP: £25.00£19.90A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic worldWhen Muhammad died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis contended that the choice of a successor should fall to his closest companions, but Shi'a believed that God had... -
The Almoravid and Almohad Empires Amira K. Bennison 9780748646807
RRP: £29.99£24.95A comprehensive account of two of the most important empires in medieval North Africa whose rule fostered the emergence of the Islamic society which endured, in Morocco especially, until the early 20th century. Amira K. Bennison focuses on these... -
Arabs and Empires before Islam by Greg Fisher 9780198810148
£47.97Arabs and Empires before Islam illuminates the history of the Arabs before the emergence of Islam, collating nearly 250 translated extracts from an extensive array of ancient sources. Drawn from a broad period between the eighth century BC and the Middle... -
Peerless among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan Suleyman by Kaya Sahin 9780197531631
RRP: £24.49£20.78A full life and times biography of Suleyman, the longest reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Suleyman, who ruled the Ottoman Empire between 1520 and 1566, was a globally recognized figure during his lifetime. His domain extended from Hungary to... -
Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology by James E. Lindsay
RRP: £21.99£18.26Drawn from greater Syria, northern Mesopotamia, and Egypt, the sources in this anthology-many of which are translated into English for the first time here--provide eyewitness and contemporary historical accounts of what unfolded in the eastern... -
The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron by Colin Shindler 9780521151665
RRP: £30.99£25.84The Israeli Right first came to power nearly four decades ago. Its election was described then as 'an earthquake', and its reverberations are still with us. How then did the Right rise to power? What are its origins? Colin Shindler traces this... -
The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187 by Nicholas Morton 9780198824541
RRP: £95.00£81.65The Crusader States and their Neighbours explores the military history of the Medieval Near East, piecing together the fault-lines of conflict which entangled this much-contested region. This was an area where ethnic, religious, dynastic, and commercial... -
Israel: A History in 100 Cartoons by Colin Shindler
RRP: £29.99£26.34Since its establishment in 1948, the state of Israel has not ceased to be a unique and controversial entity: vehemently opposed by some, and loyally supported by others. In this novel and original study, Colin Shindler tells the history of Israel through... -
The Iran-Iraq War - Volume 4: Iraq'S Triumph by Tom Cooper 9781911512455
RRP: £19.95£14.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512455Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam by Zainab Salbi 9781592402441
RRP: £16.00£10.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592402441Author Zainab SalbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm * 21mm -
The Doenme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks by Marc David Baer 9780804768689
RRP: £21.99£19.49This book tells the story of the Doenme, the descendents of Jews who resided in the Ottoman Empire and converted to Islam along with their messiah, Rabbi Shabbatai Tzevi, in the seventeenth century. For two centuries following their conversion, the... -
The Pasha: How Mehemet Ali Defied the West, 1839-1841 by Letitia W. Ufford 9780786428939
RRP: £21.99£17.97In 1811, a bloody Cairo massacre led by the governor of Egypt dealt a deathblow to the series of slave dynasties that had ruled that country for hundreds of years. Their nemesis was Mehemet Ali Pasha, Muslim subject of the Ottoman Empire. From that day... -
Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia by Asad Q. Ahmed
RRP: £30.00£23.29A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Palimpsests of Themselves is an intervention in current discussions about the fate of philosophy in postclassical Islamic intellectual history. Asad Q. Ahmed uses as... -
The Natural Genesis (Two Volumes in One) by Gerald Massey 9781616405571
£42.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616405571Author Gerald MasseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 1108Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 1447gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents by Neda Toloui-Semnani
RRP: £8.99£6.32From a daughter of Iranian revolutionaries, activists, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers comes a gripping and emotional memoir of family and the tumultuous history of two nations. In 1979, Neda Toloui-Semnani's parents left the United States... -
Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe by Osman of Timisoara
RRP: £15.99£12.91Victor Hugo meets Papillon in this effervescent memoir of war, slavery, and self-discovery, told with aplomb and humor in its first English translation. A pioneering work of Ottoman Turkish literature, Prisoner of the Infidels brings the... -
The Gayer-Anderson Cat Neal Spencer 9780714119731
RRP: £6.00£4.56The Gayer-Anderson Cat has been one of the most admired objects at the British Museum since its arrival in 1947. This book presents a detailed description of the cat and a discussion of its possible meaning and role in ancient times. Surprising new finds... -
Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report by Saba Mahmood 9780691153285
RRP: £22.00£17.63The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism--political... -
Israel: a History by Fellow Martin Gilbert
RRP: £19.99£16.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688123635Author Gilbert MFormat PaperbackPage Count 810Imprint HarperCollins Childrens Book GroupPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam by Michael Frishkopf
RRP: £27.99£24.92Tracing the connections between music making and built space in both historical and contemporary times, Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam brings together domains of intellectual reflection that have rarely been in dialogue to promote a greater... -
The Sultan's Fleet: Seafarers of the Ottoman Empire by Christine Isom-Verhaaren
£29.30While the Ottoman Empire is most often recognized today as a land power, for four centuries the seas of the Eastern Mediterranean were dominated by the Ottoman Navy. Yet to date, little is known about the seafarers who made up the sultans' fleet, the men... -
The Secret War Dhofar 1971-1972 by David C. Arkless 9780992933920
RRP: £17.99£14.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992933920Author David C. ArklessFormat PaperbackPage Count 355Imprint Reiver PublishingPublisher Reiver Publishing -
Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts: The Mystical Tradition of Ancient Egypt by Jeremy Naydler
RRP: £24.00£18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892817559Author Jeremy NaydlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and... -
An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville by Reza Aslan
RRP: £23.99£20.82Little known in America but venerated as a martyr in Iran, Howard Baskerville was a twenty-two-year-old Christian missionary from South Dakota who traveled to Persia (modern-day Iran) in 1907 for a two-year stint teaching English and preaching the gospel... -
The Grandest Larceny: The Foundation of Israel J. E. Thomas 9781781558843
RRP: £35.00£24.68A unique event-the handing over of an entire country by another that did not own it, to a people who simply laid claim to it by virtue of their myths and traditions-happened in 1917 when the British 'gave' Palestine to the Jews via the Balfour... -
The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael Provence 9780521747516
RRP: £25.99£20.07The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several new colonial states. The following period was a charged and transformative time of unrest. Insurgent... -
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History by Alan Mikhail
RRP: £30.99£26.83In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the...