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Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955: Volume 1: Military Flying Services in Arab Countries, 1909-1918 by Dr. David C. Nicolle 9781912866434
RRP: £19.95£12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866434Author Dr. David C. NicolleFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Egypt: A Short History by Robert L. Tignor 9780691153070
RRP: £22.00£17.76This is a sweeping, colorful, and concise narrative history of Egypt from the beginning of human settlement in the Nile River valley 5000 years ago to the present day. Accessible, authoritative, and richly illustrated, this is an ideal introduction and... -
Shiraz in the Age of Hafez: The Glory of a Medieval Persian City by John W. Limbert 9780295983912
RRP: £23.99£20.84In the fourteenth-century Persian city of Shiraz, poets composed, scholars studied, mystics sought hidden truths, ascetics prayed and fasted, drunkards brawled, and princes and their courtiers played deadly games of power. This was the world of Shams... -
King Abdullah, Britain and the Making of Jordan by Mary Christina Wilson 9780521399876
RRP: £44.99£38.14King Abdullah played an active role in the partition of Palestine and, as a result, has always been viewed as one of the most controversial figures in modern Middle East history. This book is the first in-depth study of the historical and personal... -
Sarmatians and Scythians: A Captivating Guide to the Barbarians of Iranian Origins and How These Ancient Tribes Fought Against the Roman Empire, Goths, Huns, and Persians by Captivating History 9781950922581
RRP: £19.97£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922581Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm)... -
Armenia: A Journey Through History by Arra S Avakian 9780916919245
RRP: £14.34£12.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916919245Author Arra S AvakianFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Electric PressPublisher Electric PressWeight(grams) 472g -
Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire by Mostafa Minawi
RRP: £25.99£20.84Losing Istanbul offers an intimate history of empire, following the rise and fall of a generation of Arab-Ottoman imperialists living in Istanbul. Mostafa Minawi shows how these men and women negotiated their loyalties and guarded their privileges... -
Arabic Thought beyond the Liberal Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Nahda by Jens Hanssen
RRP: £41.99£23.25What is the relationship between thought and practice in the domains of language, literature and politics? Is thought the only standard by which to measure intellectual history? How did Arab intellectuals change and affect political, social, cultural and... -
The: Coming of the Mongols by David O. Morgan
£66.39The Mongol invasions in the first half of the thirteenth century led to profound and shattering changes to the historical trajectory of Islamic West Asia. As this new volume in The Idea of Iran series suggests, sudden conquest from the east was preceded... -
Voices of the Nakba: A Living Archive of Palestine by Diana Allan 9780745342917
RRP: £22.99£15.17***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which translates to 'disaster' or 'catastrophe' - lays... -
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... -
Afghanistan: A Modern History by Angelo Rasanayagam
£29.07Afghanistan dominates the news today, as it often did during the Soviet occupation two decades ago. But even in the 19th and early 20th centuries at the height of the Great Game, Afghanistan was the focal point of East-West relations. Squeezed between... -
The Two-State Solution: The Un Partition Resolution of Mandatory Palestine - Analysis and Sources by Ruth Gavison
£35.61This timely work, contributed by noted authorities, explains the crucial events in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that led to the UN resolution to partition Palestine into two states on November 29, 1947. The book first analyzes the... -
Muhammad's Heirs: The Rise of Muslim Scholarly Communities, 622-950 by Jonathan E. Brockopp
RRP: £30.99£21.89Muslim scholars are a vital part of Islam, and are sometimes considered 'heirs to the prophets', continuing Muhammad's work of establishing Islam in the centuries after his death. But this was not always the case: indeed, Muslims survived the turmoil of... -
Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand Year History by Trevor Bryce
RRP: £28.99£21.72Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world. This book looks back beyond the troubles of the present to tell the 3000-year story of what came before: the peoples, cities, and... -
The Crusade of 1456: Texts and Documentation in Translation by James D. Mixson
RRP: £29.99£26.50In July 1456, a massive Turkish army settled in before Belgrade, an ancient city at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers. The army's leader was the twenty-four-year-old Ottoman sultan Mehmed II, "the Conqueror," who sought to take one of the most... -
Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds by Stephen Kinzer 9780374531409
£11.15In the first edition of this widely praised book, Stephen Kinzer made the convincing claim that Turkey was the country to watch-poised between Europe and Asia, between the glories of its Ottoman past and its hopes for a democratic future, between the... -
Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History by Samera Esmeir
RRP: £23.99£20.84In colonial Egypt, the state introduced legal reforms that claimed to liberate Egyptians from the inhumanity of pre-colonial rule and elevate them to the status of human beings. These legal reforms intersected with a new historical consciousness that... -
The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis by Robert R. Reilly 9781610170024
RRP: £18.95£11.47The book you must read to understand the Islamist crisis-and the threat to us all.Robert R. Reilly's eye-opening book masterfully explains the frightening behavior coming out of the Islamic world. Terrorism, he shows, is only one manifestation of the... -
Women and Jihad: Debating Palestinian Female Suicide Bombings in the American, Israeli & Arab Media by Rachel Avraham 9789652299031
RRP: £25.99£16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652299031Author Rachel AvrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 550g -
The Struggle for Arab Independence: Riad el-Solh and the Makers of the Modern Middle East by Patrick Seale 9780521191371
RRP: £44.99£39.38The Middle East, as we know it today, was shaped in the violent and tumultuous years of the first half of the 20th century. The roots of many of the conflicts and crises which afflict the region today can be traced back to this period of wars, high drama... -
'The Book of Tribulations: the Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition': An Annotated Translation by Nu'Aym b. Hammad Al-Marwazi by David Cook
RRP: £31.00£26.05The first annotated translation of the 9th-century Islamic apocalyptic work 'The Book of Tribulations' the earliest complete Muslim apocalyptic text to survive.Book InformationISBN 9781474444088Author Nu'aym b. Hammad al-MarwaziFormat PaperbackPage... -
Making Music in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab by A.J. Racy 9780521316859
RRP: £24.99£19.73A. J. Racy is well known as a scholar of ethnomusicology and as a distinguished performer and composer. In this pioneering book, he provides an intimate portrayal of the Arab musical experience and offers insights into how music generally affects us all... -
Heresy and the Formation of Medieval Islamic Orthodoxy: The Making of Sunnism, from the Eighth to the Eleventh Century by Ahmad Khan
RRP: £90.00£81.43Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, many defining features of classical Sunni Islam began to take shape. Among these was the formation of medieval Sunnism around the belief in the unimpeachable orthodoxy of four eponymous founders and their... -
The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts by Harriet Allsopp
RRP: £28.99£25.82Based on unprecedented access to Kurdish-governed areas of Syria, including exclusive interviews with administration officials and civilian surveys, this book sheds light on the socio-political landscape of this minority group and the various political... -
The Struggle for Power in Syria: Politics and Society Under Asad and the Ba'th Party by Nikolaos Van Dam
£26.43In the midst of turmoil in the Middle East, and in the face of protests and demonstrations from Homs to Damascus and other places all over Syria, the Ba'th Party and Bashar al-Asad are truly caught up in a struggle to hold onto power in Syria. In this... -
The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam by Jerry Brotton 9780143110620
RRP: £18.00£12.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110620Author Jerry BrottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin BooksPublisher Penguin BooksWeight(grams) 363g -
Napoleon to Nasser: The Story of Modern Egypt by Raymond Flower 9780759653931
RRP: £9.30£9.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759653931Author Raymond FlowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 387g -
Granta 156 by Sigrid Rausing 9781909889415
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889415Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackImprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 145g -
Fall of the Sultanate: The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1908-1922 by Ryan Gingeras 9780198835523
£34.23The collapse of the Ottoman Empire was by no means a singular event. After six hundred years of ruling over the peoples of North Africa, the Balkans and Middle East, the death throes of sultanate encompassed a series of wars, insurrections, and... -
Only Cry For the Living: Memos from the ISIS Battlefield by Hollie S. McKay 9781942549635
RRP: £18.99£12.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942549635Author Hollie S. McKayFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Di Angelo PublicationsPublisher Di Angelo Publications -
The Modern Middle East by Albert Hourani 9781860649639
£28.40This textbook assembles key writings on the modern history of the Middle East by some of the most distinguished specialists in the field. The book aims to meet the needs of a wide range of students. After a general introduction by Albert Hourani, the... -
Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the Afro-Eurasian World by Matthew P. Canepa 9781606068427
RRP: £55.00£45.69With the rise of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BCE), Persian institutions of kingship became the model for legitimacy, authority, and prestige across three continents. Despite enormous upheavals, Iranian visual and political cultures connected an... -
Yosef Haim Brenner: A Life by Anita Shapira
RRP: £70.00£60.71Based on previously unexploited primary sources, this is the first comprehensive biography of Yosef Haim Brenner, one of the pioneers of Modern Hebrew literature. Born in 1881 to a poor Jewish family in Russia, Brenner published his first story, "A Loaf... -
Egypt's Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis: My Testimony by Ahmed Aboul Gheit 9789774169601
RRP: £35.00£29.22Ahmed Aboul Gheit served as Egypt's minister of foreign affairs under President Hosni Mubarak from 2004 until 2011. In this compelling memoir, he takes us inside the momentous years of his time in office, revealing the complexities and challenges of... -
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran by Hooman Majd
RRP: £15.99£11.61Hooman Majd, acclaimed journalist and New York-residing grandson of an Ayatollah, has a unique perspective on his Iranian homeland. In this vivid, warm and humorous insider's account, he opens our eyes to an Iran that few people see, meeting... -
The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Taner Akcam
RRP: £25.00£19.99Introducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of... -
God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam by Patricia Crone 9780521541114
RRP: £30.99£21.89This study examines how religious authority was distributed in early Islam. It argues the case that, as in Shi'ism, it was concentrated in the head of state, rather than dispersed among learned laymen as in Sunnism. Originally the caliph was both head of... -
The Art of Avaz and Mohammad Reza Shajarian: Foundations and Contexts by Rob Simms 9780739172117
RRP: £115.00£100.74The Art of Avaz and Mohammad Reza Shajarian: Foundations and Contexts, by Rob Simms and Amir Koushkani, examines the traditional art of singing classical Persian poetry, as represented by its greatest living exponent. This in-depth study surveys the... -
Communication Strategies in Turkey: Erdogan, the AKP and Political Messaging by Prof. Taner Dogan 9780755636587
£30.33The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is known for his populist Islamist ideology, charismatic personality, and for ushering in new forms of communication strategies in Turkey. The key tools in Erdogan's political communication repertoire include...