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Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State by Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky 9781503636965
RRP: £108.00£94.13Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established... -
Revolution and its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran by Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
RRP: £41.99£25.85The death of the Islamic Republic's revolutionary patriarch, Ayatollah Khomeini, the bitter denouement of the Iran-Iraq War, and the marginalisation of leading factions within the political elite, in tandem with the end of the Cold War, harboured immense... -
Ethnic Cleansing in Western Anatolia, 1912 1923: Ottoman Officials and the Local Christian Population Umit Eser 9781399533249
RRP: £90.00£81.97The Greek landing in Smyrna in May 1919 is widely seen as the catalyst of the Turkish national struggle but even during the chaos of between 1919-1923, the diverse peoples of Asia Minor coexisted and created astonishing but fragile infra-national... -
Familial Undercurrents: Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran by Afsaneh Najmabadi
RRP: £19.99£17.81Not long after her father died, Afsaneh Najmabadi discovered that her father had a secret second family and that she had a sister she never knew about. In Familial Undercurrents, Najmabadi uncovers her family's complex experiences of polygamous marriage... -
New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq by Orit Bashkin
RRP: £21.99£19.49Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community-which had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 years-was displaced following the establishment of the state of Israel. New Babylonians chronicles the lives of these Jews, their urban... -
Losing Israel by Jasmine Donahaye 9781781722527
£16.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781722527Author Jasmine DonahayeFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
Poetry and Politics in the Modern Arab World by Atef Alshaer
RRP: £35.00£31.48The representation in poetic form of political events and ideas in the Arab world since the nineteenth century is this book's principal theme. Atef Alshaer demonstrates an integral connection between poetry and politics, reflecting the holistic character... -
The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History by Touraj Daryaee 9780199390427
RRP: £49.49£45.37This Handbook is a current, comprehensive single-volume history of Iranian civilization. The authors, all leaders in their fields, emphasize the large-scale continuities of Iranian history while also describing the important patterns of transformation... -
Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine by Michelle U. Campos
RRP: £21.99£19.49In its last decade, the Ottoman Empire underwent a period of dynamic reform, and the 1908 revolution transformed the empire's 20 million subjects into citizens overnight. Questions quickly emerged about what it meant to be Ottoman, what bound the empire... -
Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation by Steven C Caton
RRP: £20.00£12.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809098828Author Steven C CatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)... -
Desert Ascetics of Egypt Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom (Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Associate Professor of Christian Studies, Brandeis University) 9781641891677
RRP: £16.95£16.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641891677Author Darlene L. Brooks HedstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
The Ottoman World: A Cultural History Reader, 1450-1700 by Hakan T. Karateke
RRP: £34.00£26.97The Ottoman lands, which extended from modern Hungary to the Arabian peninsula, were home to a vast population with a rich variety of cultures. The Ottoman World is the first primary source reader to bring a wide and diverse set of voices across Ottoman... -
A Possible Peace Between Israel and Palestine: An Insider's Account of the Geneva Initiative by Menachem Klein 9780231139045
£62.67In 2003, after two years of negotiations, a group of prominent Israelis and Palestinians signed a model peace treaty. The document, popularly called the Geneva Initiative, contained detailed provisions resolving all outstanding issues between Israel and... -
The Mission and the Kingdom: Wahhabi Power Behind the Saudi Throne by David Dean Commins
£18.10In the wake of September 11th instant theories have emerged that try to root Osama Bin Laden's attacks on Wahhabism. Muslim critics have dismissed this conservative interpretation of Islam that is the official creed of Saudi Arabia as an unorthodox... -
Israel Alan Dowty (University of Notre Dame; University of Calgary) 9781509536900
RRP: £12.99£9.23How did a community of a few thousand Jewish refugees become, in little over a century, a modern nation-state and homeland of half the world's Jews? Has modern Israel fulfilled the Zionist vision of becoming "a nation like other nations," or is it... -
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... -
America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier by Robert Vitalis 9780804754460
RRP: £24.99£21.70America's Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United States's "special relationship" with Saudi Arabia, or what is less reverently known as "the deal": oil for security. Taking aim at the long-held belief that the... -
Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism by Janet Afary 9780226007861
RRP: £28.00£27.39In 1978, as the protests against the Shah of Iran reached their zenith, philosopher Michel Foucault was working as a special correspondent for Corriere della Sera and Le Monde. During his little-known stint as a journalist, Foucault traveled to Iran, met... -
The Muslim Brotherhood and the West: A History of Enmity and Engagement by Martyn Frampton 9780674241664
RRP: £23.95£19.84A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearIn the century since the Muslim Brotherhood first emerged in Egypt, its idea of "the West" has remained a key driver of its behavior. From its founding, the Brotherhood stood opposed to the British Empire and... -
Statecraft by Stealth: Secret Intelligence and British Rule in Palestine by Steven B. Wagner
RRP: £37.00£33.07Britain relied upon secret intelligence operations to rule Mandatory Palestine. Statecraft by Stealth sheds light on a time in history when the murky triad of intelligence, policy, and security supported colonial governance. It emphasizes the role of the... -
This Side of Peace: A Personal Account by Hanan Ashrawi 9780684823423
RRP: £16.99£16.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684823423Author Hanan AshrawiFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 483gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Walls of Israel by Jean Larteguy 9781590773666
RRP: £11.99£9.16Surrounded on all borders but its western coastline by hostile and aggressive neighbors, the state of Israel resembles the walled city of the Middle Ages. But its walls are not stone and mortar, they are flesh and blood-they are the soldiers, both men... -
Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal: Volume One by Abu al-Faraj 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali Ibn al-Jawzi
RRP: £35.00£31.98Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241/855), renowned for his profound knowledge of hadith-the reports of the Prophet's sayings and deeds-is a major figure in the history of Islam. Ibn Hanbal's piety and austerity made him a folk hero, especially after his principled... -
Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel's Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny by David Makovsky
RRP: £25.00£17.94At a time when the identity of Israel is more uncertain than at any moment since its modern founding, Be Strong and of Good Courage celebrates the defining generation of leaders who took on the task of safeguarding the country's future. David Ben-Gurion,... -
Blood: A Critique of Christianity by Gil Anidjar
RRP: £28.00£22.20Blood, according to Gil Anidjar, maps the singular history of Christianity. As a category for historical analysis, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining, sometimes even defining Western culture, politics, and social... -
Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine by Salim Tamari
RRP: £30.00£23.29Camera Palaestina is a critical exploration of Jerusalemite chronicler Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1904-1972) and his seven photography albums entitled The Illustrated History of Palestine. Jawhariyyeh's nine hundred images narrate the rich cultural and political... -
Last Tourist in Iran, The - From Persepolis to Nuclear Natanz Nicholas Hagger 9781846940767
RRP: £11.99£10.41This is the first book on Iran to combine travelogue with in-depth historical reflection/getting to the heart of the Iranian Islamic mind. This is a reflective look at the cultural heritage and present nuclear crisis in Iran. Iran's cultural and... -
Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism by Zachary Lockman 9780521133074
RRP: £26.99£21.53Zachary Lockman's informed and thoughtful history of European Orientalism and US Middle East studies, the 'clash of civilizations' debate and America's involvement in the region has become a highly recommended and widely used text since its publication... -
The Jews of Islam: Updated Edition by Bernard Lewis 9780691160870
RRP: £18.99£14.70This landmark book probes Muslims' attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies. With authority, sympathy and wit, Bernard Lewis demolishes two competing stereotypes:... -
Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen by Paul Dresch 9780198277903
£47.66Professor Dresch combines ethnography with history to describe the tribal system over the last thousand years, and examines the values the tribal people themselves bring to the contemporary world of nation states. Drawing heavily on local histories and... -
175 Years of Persecution: A History of the Babis & Baha'is of Iran by Fereydun Vahman
RRP: £20.00£14.91For almost two centuries, followers of the Baha'i faith, Iran's largest religious minority, have been persecuted by the state. They have been made scapegoats for the nation's ills, branded enemies of Islam and denounced as foreign agents. Since the... -
The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State by Noah Feldman 9780691156248
RRP: £12.99£10.41Perhaps no other Western writer has more deeply probed the bitter struggle in the Muslim world between the forces of religion and law and those of violence and lawlessness as Noah Feldman. His scholarship has defined the stakes in the Middle East today... -
Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East by Ralph S. Hattox 9780295962313
RRP: £19.99£17.54Drawing on the accounts of early European travelers, original Arabic sources on jurisprudence and etiquette, and treatises on coffee from the period, the author recounts the colorful early history of the spread of coffee and the influence of coffeehouses... -
Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia by Steffen Hertog
RRP: £24.99£22.01In Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of Saudi Arabia to date, Steffen Hertog uncovers an untold history of how the elite rivalries and whims of half a century ago have shaped today's Saudi state and... -
Music of a Thousand Years: A New History of Persian Musical Traditions by Ann E. Lucas
RRP: £30.00£23.29A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Iran's particular system of traditional Persian art music has been long treated as the product of an ever-evolving, ancient Persian culture. In Music of a Thousand... -
The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt by Omnia S. El Shakry 9780691203102
RRP: £28.00£22.14The first in-depth look at how postwar thinkers in Egypt mapped the intersections between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thoughtIn 1945, psychologist Yusuf Murad introduced an Arabic term borrowed from the medieval Sufi philosopher and mystic Ibn... -
Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History: The Rashidun Caliphs by Tayeb El-Hibri 9780231150835
RRP: £28.00£21.80The story of the succession to the Prophet Muhammad and the rise of the Rashidun Caliphate (632-661) is familiar to historians from the political histories of medieval Islam, which treat it as a factual account. The story also informs the competing... -
Leg over Leg: Volumes Three and Four by Ahmad Faris Al-Shidyaq
RRP: £15.99£14.64Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' Association The life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'-the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq Leg over Leg recounts the life,... -
The Crusade of 1456: Texts and Documentation in Translation by James D. Mixson
RRP: £27.99£24.52In 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... -
A History of Christian-Muslim Relations: Second Edition by Hugh Goddard
RRP: £27.99£22.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474466806Author Hugh GoddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press