Middle East

The Saudi Kingdom presents a rare, honest, and insightful analysis of Saudi Arabia's political stability in light of the mounting domestic and international challenges facing the country today. Directly addressing Saudi Arabia's inert monarchical ruling...

Arabs and Young Turks provides a detailed study of Arab politics in the late Ottoman Empire as viewed from the imperial capital in Istanbul. In an analytical narrative of the Young Turk period (1908-1918) historian Hasan Kayali discusses Arab concerns on...

Shaykh Mithqal al-Fayiz's life spanned a period of dramatic transformation in the Middle East. Born in the 1880s during a time of rapid modernization across the Ottoman Empire, Mithqal led his tribe through World War I, the development and decline of...

In this skillful analysis, Leslie Peirce delves into the life of a sixteenth-century Middle Eastern community, bringing to light the ways that women and men used their local law court to solve personal, family, and community problems. Examining one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788793423725Author Ann AnderssonFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Jysk Arkaeologisk SelskabPublisher Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951924Author Adi OphirFormat HardbackPage Count 648Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 1021gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 44mm

Encountering Morocco introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors at diverse stages of their careers-from the unmarried researcher...

The Idu Mishmi people of Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, believe that tigers are their elder brothers. Killing tigers is, for the Idu Mishmi, a taboo. While their beliefs support wildlife conservation, they also offer a critique of the dominant mode of...

Shows how and why an ancient city destroyed and then rebuilt by Mongols became the 'Pearl' of the Iranian eastAbout the AuthorShivan Mahendrarajah, Research Fellow in the School of History, University of St Andrews.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905512324Author Barbara BoardFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

At the height of the Cold War, the John F. Kennedy administration designed an ambitious plan for the Middle East-its aim was to seek rapprochement with Nasser's Egypt in order to keep the Arab world neutral and contain the perceived communist threat. In...

Although less well-known than Arab or Palestinian nationalism, Pan-Syrian nationalism-the dream of creating a Greater Syria out of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and a portion of Turkey-has had a profound effect on Middle Eastern politics since the end...

Egypt under the British tends to be looked at now through a post-Suez lens - an inevitable disaster and the last puncturing of a doomed empire. But in fact Egypt for many years was the cornerstone of British success across the Middle East and North...

After the fall of the Taliban, instability reigned across Afghanistan. However, in the small town of Istalif, located a little over an hour north of Kabul and not far from Bagram on the Shomali Plain, local politics remained relatively violence-free...

Have Western intelligence experts fundamentally failed to understand the dynamics, leaders and culture of the Middle East? Using the most recently declassified documents, interviews and Arabic sources, the book examines seminal case studies to explore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845278519Author Angharad TomosFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg GwalchDimensions(mm) 215mm * 138mm * 9mm

Originally published in 1918, Ambassador Morgenthau's Story is one of the most insightful and compelling accounts of what became a recurring horror during the twentieth century: ethnic cleansing and genocide. While he served as the U.S. ambassador to the...

In Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima, Alyssa Gabbay examines episodes in pre-modern Islamic history in which individuals or societies recognized descent from both men and women. Fatima,...

Tawhid was a militant Islamist group which implemented Islamic law at gunpoint in the Lebanese city of Tripoli during the 1980s. In retrospect, some have called it 'the first ISIS-style Emirate'. Drawing on two hundred interviews with Islamist fighters...

Post-Orientalism is a sustained record of Hamid Dabashi's reflections over many years on the question of authority and power. Who gets to represent whom and by what authority? Dabashi's work picks up where Edward Said's Orientalism left off. Said traced...

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Offering new perspectives on the relationship between Shi'is and Sufis in modern and pre-modern times, this book challenges the supposed opposition between these two esoteric traditions...

This highly original book brings into focus the sexual discourses manifest in a wealth of little-studied source material - medical texts, legal documents, religious literature, dream interpretation manuals, shadow theater, and travelogues - in a nuanced,...

This explores the aesthetic dimensions of the Arab Spring and the worldwide protest movements that followed. From Egypt to India, and from Botswana to London, worker, youth and middle class rebellions have taken on the political and bureaucratic status...

The Ottoman Scramble for Africa is the first book to tell the story of the Ottoman Empire's expansionist efforts during the age of high imperialism. Following key representatives of the sultan on their travels across Europe, Africa, and Arabia at the...

In the aftermath of Vietnam a new generation of U.S. Marines was determined to wage a smarter kind of war. The tank, the very symbol of power and violence, would play a key role in a new concept of mobile warfare, not seen since the dashes of World War...

The book focuses on three main themes:overpopulation associated with low productivity, unemployment, persistent poverty and weak savings and investment capacitythe post-1950 development strategies and their outcomesthe institutional structures that are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908531414Author Dr. Wafik MoustafaFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583227275Author Gulmadova G KlaitsFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615654898Author William L Dienst MDFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Free GazaPublisher Free GazaWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922147Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062699794Author Martha HodesFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is one of the most important yet least understood Palestinian armed factions, both in terms of its history and ideology. Labelled a terrorist organization by the US and the EU, it has grown to become the second largest...

"Possessors and Possessed" analyzes how and why museums - characteristically Western institutions - emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Shaw argues that, rather than directly emulating post-Enlightenment museums of Western Europe,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807002445Author Lis HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 146mm * 19mm

Living in the Ottoman Realm brings the Ottoman Empire to life in all of its ethnic, religious, linguistic, and geographic diversity. The contributors explore the development and transformation of identity over the long span of the empire's existence...

The polymath, Qutb al-Din Shirazi, operated at the heart of the Ilkhanate state (1258-1335) from its inception under Hulegu. He worked alongside the scientist and political adviser, Nasir al-Din Tusi, who had the ear of the Ilkhans and all their chief...

This comprehensive account examines the growing conflict between Arab and Jew in Palestine that first surfaced clearly in the pivotal years 1933-1939, and which proved to be an irreconcilable rift once the leadership of both peoples refused to accept...

Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gulf in the south. Iran's first national railway, it produced and disrupted various kinds of...

Enclosure marshals bold new and persuasive arguments about the ongoing dispossession of Palestinians. Revealing the Israel-Palestine landscape primarily as one of enclosure, geographer Gary Fields sheds fresh light on Israel's actions. He places those...

The decisive consequences of the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 had ramifications over the entire Ottoman Empire - and the Ottoman territory of Palestine was no exception. "Late Ottoman Palestine" examines the impact of Young Turk policies and...