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Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene by Hamid Dabashi 9780674504691
RRP: £35.95£29.36From the Biblical period and Classical Antiquity to the rise of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, aspects of Persian culture have been integral to European history. A diverse constellation of European artists, poets, and thinkers have looked to... -
Gods in the Desert: Religions of the Ancient Near East by Glenn S. Holland 9780742562271
RRP: £35.00£31.95Gods in the Desert explores the fascinating religious cultures of the ancient Near East. From the mysterious pyramids, tombs, and temples of Egypt to the powerful heroes, gods, and legends of Mesopotamia, Glenn Holland guides readers through the early... -
Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire by Malte Fuhrmann
RRP: £29.99£27.80Eastern Mediterranean port cities, such as Constantinople, Smyrna, and Salonica, have long been sites of fascination. Known for their vibrant and diverse populations, the dynamism of their economic and cultural exchanges, and their form of relatively... -
The Contemporary Middle East in an Age of Upheaval by James L. Gelvin
RRP: £23.99£21.24The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Arab uprisings of 2010-11 left indelible imprints on the Middle East. Yet, these events have not reshaped the region as pundits once predicted. With this volume, top experts on the region offer wide-ranging... -
Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate by Tayeb El-Hibri 9780521033046
RRP: £44.99£38.14The history of the early 'Abbasid Caliphate has long been studied as a factual or interpretive synthesis of various accounts preserved in the medieval Islamic chronicles. Tayeb El-Hibri's book breaks with the traditional approach, applying a... -
Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social History by Lisa Nielson 9780755641819
£30.33During the early medieval Islamicate period (800-1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and contentious, and expressed in works on music theory and philosophy as well as literature and poetry. But in spite of attempts... -
Syria's Democratic Years: Citizens, Experts, and Media in the 1950s by Kevin W. Martin
RRP: £27.99£24.14The years 1954-1958 in Syria are popularly known as "The Democratic Years," a brief period of civilian government before the consolidation of authoritarian rule. Kevin W. Martin provides a cultural history of the period and argues that the authoritarian... -
Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923 by Efraim Karsh 9780674005419
RRP: £30.95£24.42Empires of the Sand offers a bold and comprehensive reinterpretation of the struggle for mastery in the Middle East during the long nineteenth century (1789-1923). This book denies primacy to Western imperialism in the restructuring of the region and... -
The Disappearing People: The Tragic Fate of Christians in the Middle East by Stephen M. Rasche 9781642932034
RRP: £27.00£16.43Islamic Persecution of minorities. Western indifference and complicity. The looming end of Christianity in the Middle East. For 1,400 years, the Christians of the Mideast lived under a system of sustained persecution as a distinct lower class of citizens... -
In the Shadow of the Wall: The Life and Death of Jerusalem's Maghrebi Quarter, 1187–1967 by Vincent Lemire
RRP: £27.99£21.67The Maghrebi Quarter of Jerusalem long sat in the shadow of the Western Wall, the last vestige of the Second Temple. Three days after the June '67 War, Israeli forces razed the Quarter, its narrow alleys widened and homes removed, to create the Western... -
Unknown Past: Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt by Hanan Hammad
RRP: £23.99£19.19A biography of the "Cinderella" of Egyptian cinema-the veneration and rumors that surrounded an unparalleled career, and the gendered questions that unsettled Egyptian society. Layla Murad (1918-1995) was once the highest-paid star in Egypt, and her... -
Iran: A Social and Political History since the Qajars by Yann Richard 9781108701624
RRP: £24.99£21.18From encounters with Western powers in the nineteenth century through to a Constitutional Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth century, and from the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mosaddeq in the 1950s to the current... -
Irregular War: The New Threat from the Margins by Paul Rogers
RRP: £14.99£11.75The world has changed. Rather than a clash of civilisations, the West now faces revolts from the margins, driven by widening economic divisions, rising global elites and dangerous environmental constraints. The emergence of global terrorist movements... -
Fast Times in Palestine by Pamela J Olson 9780615456249
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615456249Author Pamela J OlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Mason Hill PressPublisher Mason Hill PressWeight(grams) 140g -
Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets, Volume I: Images of Heroic Encounter by Mark B. Garrison
RRP: £123.00£118.61This is the first volume (text and plates) of the analytically legible seals (ca. 1,162) retrieved through many thousands of full or partial impressions preserved on the 2,087 Elamite administrative tablets recovered during the 1930s excavations at... -
Israel by Kristine Spanier 9781641286473
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641286473Author Kristine SpanierFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Pogo BooksPublisher Pogo BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 193mm * 8mm -
Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire by Eve M. Troutt Powell
RRP: £21.99£19.19In the late nineteenth century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan, the Caucasus, and Western Europe. Unlike the Atlantic trade, slavery in this region crossed and mixed... -
A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments by Alp Yenen 9789087284107
RRP: £54.95£52.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087284107Author Alp YenenFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University PressDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm * 35mm -
Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century by Rudolph Peters 9780521796705
RRP: £26.99£22.80Rudolph Peters' book, first published in 2006, is about crimes and their punishments as laid down in Islamic law. In recent years some of the more fundamentalist regimes, such as those of Iran, Pakistan, Sudan and the northern states of Nigeria have... -
Frontline Turkey: The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East by Ezgi Basaran
£44.13Turkey is on the front line of the war which is consuming Syria and the Middle East. Its role is complicated by the long-running conflict with the Kurds on the Syrian border - a war that has killed as many as 80,000 people over the last three decades. ... -
The End of the Ottomans: The Genocide of 1915 and the Politics of Turkish Nationalism by Hans-Lukas Kieser 9780755635979
£33.26In the early part of the twentieth century, as Europe began its descent into the First World War, the Ottoman world – once the largest Empire in the Middle East – began to experience a revolution which would culminate in the new, secular Turkish state... -
Remembrance and Denial: Case of the Armenian Genocide by Richard G. Hovannisian 9780814327777
RRP: £36.95£35.17The Armenian Genocide that began in World War I, during the drive to transform the plural Ottoman Empire into a monoethnic Turkey, removed a people from its homeland and erased most evidence of their 3000-year-old material and spiritual culture. For the... -
The Arab Winter: A Tragedy by Noah Feldman 9780691227931
RRP: £13.99£10.34A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWhy the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrongThe Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East. Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either... -
Strategy for the Wealthy Family: Seven Principles to Assure Riches to Riches Across Generations by Mark Haynes Daniell 9789811238505
RRP: £35.00£30.95Strategy for the Wealthy Family provides a clear framework for highly informed strategic management of the family, the family business, the family's financial assets, the family's trust and tax management activities, philanthropic activities, risk... -
The Shi'is of Saudi Arabia by Fouad N. Ibrahim 9780863569036
£37.35The Shi'is of Saudi Arabia offers a comprehensive overview of the evolution of Shi'i opposition in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, from the Iranian Revolution in 1979 to the ascension of Abdullah to the throne in August 2005. Fouad Ibrahim examines... -
Alexandria: City of Gifts & Sorrows from Hellenistic Civilization to Multiethnic Metropolis by Apostolos J. Polyzoides
RRP: £24.95£22.39Herewith an historical journey from the third century to the multiethnic metropolis of the twentieth century, bringing together two diverse histories of the city. Ancient Alexandria was built by the Greek Ptolemies who in thirty years completed the first... -
Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country-and Why They Can't Make Peace by Patrick Tyler 9780374534004
£14.99Patrick Tyler's Fortress Israel is an epic portrayal of Israel's martial culture - of Sparta presenting itself as Athens. From Israel's founding in 1948, we see a leadership class engaged in an ideological struggle over whether to become the "light unto... -
Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy by Kathleen Christison
RRP: £27.00£21.06For most of the twentieth century, considered opinion in the United States regarding Palestine has favored the inherent right of Jews to exist in the Holy Land. That Palestinians, as a native population, could claim the same right has been largely... -
The Life of the Red Sea Dhow: A Cultural History of Seaborne Exploration in the Islamic World by Dionisius A. Agius
£33.77Few images are as evocative as the silhouette of the Arab dhow as, under full sail, it tacks to windward on glittering waters of Red Sea before moving across the face of the rising or setting sun. In this authoritative new book, Dionisius A. Agius, one... -
Islamism and Revolution Across the Middle East: Transformations of Ideology and Strategy After the Arab Spring by Khalil al-Anani
RRP: £28.99£27.59Why did Islamists respond so differently to the Arab Spring? What do these different responses tell us about Islamists' ideological commitment and resilience, or the contexts within which they were functioning? This book is based on fieldwork on... -
False Prophets Of Peace by Tikva Honig-Parnass 9781608461301
RRP: £19.99£13.56Through a critical analysis of the prevailing discourse of Zionist intellectuals and activists on the Jewish democratic state, Honig-Parnass uncovers the Zionist left's central role in laying the foundation for the colonial settler state of Israel by... -
Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation by Saree Makdisi 9780393338447
RRP: £24.00£19.40Tending one's fields, visiting a relative, going to the hospital: for ordinary Palestinians, such activities require negotiating permits and passes, curfews and closures, "sterile roads" and "seam zones"-bureaucratic hurdles ultimately as deadly as... -
What Is 'Islamic' Art?: Between Religion and Perception by Wendy M K Shaw
RRP: £29.99£26.34Revealing 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... -
Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire by Caroline Finkel 9780465023974
£15.67The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often colored by the memory of its bloody final throes on... -
The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization by Richard Bulliet 9780231127967
RRP: £80.00£61.89Conventional wisdom maintains that the differences between Islam and Christianity are irreconcilable. Pre-eminent Middle East scholar Richard W. Bulliet disagrees, and in this fresh, provocative book he looks beneath the rhetoric of hatred and... -
Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian by Anthony Slide 9781617038488
RRP: £34.95£33.62""Ravished Armenia"" and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian is the real-life tale of a teenage Armenian girl who was caught up in the 1915 Armenian genocide, the first genocide in modern history. Mardiganian (1901-1994) witnessed the murder of her family... -
Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles by Thomas T. Allsen 9780521893145
RRP: £37.99£31.31In the thirteenth century the Mongols created a vast, transcontinental empire that intensified commercial and cultural contact throughout Eurasia. From the outset of their expansion, the Mongols identified and mobilized artisans of diverse backgrounds,... -
The Caliph's Sister: Nana Asma'u, 1793-1865, Teacher, Poet and Islamic Leader by Jean Boyd
RRP: £61.99£53.61A new light is shed on African women of the Sahel in this book about a brilliantly intelligent 19th century woman-jihadist whose legacy of verse contains political and social commentary.Book InformationISBN 9780714640679Author Jean BoydFormat... -
Western Imperialism in the Middle East 1914-1958 by D. K. Fieldhouse 9780199540839
RRP: £66.00£54.70The term 'Fertile Crescent' is commonly used as shorthand for the group of territories extending around the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates. Here it is assumed to consist of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Palestine. Much has been written on the history of... -
Apartheid is a Crime: Portraits of the Israeli Occupation by Mats Svensson
RRP: £17.99£15.19Mats Svensson is a photographer who took 60,000 photos in the occupied Palestinian territories over several years and winnowed them down to the 92 perceptive, nuanced, and ultimately heart-rending images in this volume. Svenssons photos are accompanied...