Middle East

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613824733Author William WhistonFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Simon & BrownPublisher Simon & BrownWeight(grams) 1039gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935295457Author Ilber OrtayliFormat PaperbackPage Count 159Imprint Blue Dome PressPublisher Blue Dome PressWeight(grams) 236g

Cutting through assumptions about Britain's support for a "national home for the Jewish people" in the creation of British Palestine, Carly Beckerman explores why and how elite political battles in London inadvertently laid the foundations for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983353935Author Eric WalbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press

During the early Ottoman period (1300-1453), scholars in the empire carefully kept their distance from the ruling class. This changed with the capture of Constantinople. From 1453 onwards, the Ottoman government co-opted large groups of scholars, usually...

Sadik al-Azm's Critique of Religious Thought set off one of the the great Arab intellectual uproars of the twentieth century, leading to the author's imprisonment and trial for mocking religion and inciting sectarian conflict. As in his earlier...

In this remarkable 1994 work of comparative economic history, Stephen Dale studies the activities and economic significance of the Indian mercantile communities which traded in Iran, Central Asia and Russia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...

In a time of great political change and unrest in the Middle East, this highly topical text offers a succinct account of the contemporary political environment in Lebanon. Tom Najem provides both a developed understanding of the pre-civil war system and...

Mehrzad Boroujerdi challenges the way many Americans perceive present-day Iran as well as how Iranians view the West. He examines the works of thinkers seminal in defining modern Iran (virtually unknown in the U.S.) and concludes the Islam was not the...

Michael Cook's magisterial study in Islamic ethics, Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought, was published to much acclaim in 2001. It was described by one reviewer as a masterpiece. In that book, the author reflected on the Islamic...

As the Messenger of God, Muhammad stands at the heart of the Islamic religion, revered by Muslims throughout the world. The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad comprises a collection of essays by some of the most accomplished scholars in the field exploring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935810547Author James KyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Primer Publishers,U.S.Publisher American Traveler PressWeight(grams) 636g

From the ancient cultures of the Middle East have sprung three of the world's major religions, outstanding accomplishments in literature and science, and seemingly never-ending conflict - compounded now not only by geopolitics, but by the international...

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas argues that the process of recovering Latina/o figures and writings in the nineteenth century does not merely create a bridge between the US and Latin American countries, peoples, and literatures,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780787297855Author Robert W JaynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

Engaging with contemporary debates about the sources that shape our understanding of the early Muslim world, Najam Haider proposes a new model for Muslim historical writing that draws on Late Antique historiography to challenge the imposition of modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532671371Author Rob DouglasFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398408227Author Angela McKinlayFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913776015Author Peter RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Straightforward PublishingPublisher Straightforward PublishingWeight(grams) 148g

Epic landscapes will be the setting of the 8 games included in this volume, where the grand dragons illustrated by Anna Lang will almost come to life in this large format board book. Each spread is a board game set in the wonderful world of dragons:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788869773303Author Christopher CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis InternationalWeight(grams) 140g

The new edition of the most comprehensive, practical, and user-friendly guide of its kind, providing quick reference to the information needed by archaeologists doing fieldwork The Archaeologist's Fieldwork Guide is the must-have companion for anyone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436736Author Ye GuangqinFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press

From the highest skyscrapers of the world to the small blue and white houses in Santorini, Greece, the urban landscape of the world is an incredible journey that children can take while leafing through the pages of this wonderfully illustrated book. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913861476Author Romana GanzoniFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Strangers PressPublisher UEA Publishing ProjectWeight(grams) 140g

A new series of illustrated books specifically designed for children in elementary education, narrating the stories of those great historical figures who have left their mark on humanity in fields such as science, art, exploration, music and other...

ANIMALS IN DANGER Animals in Danger follows some of the most endangered animals on our planet. This fact-packed and timely series looks at the plight of rhinos, elephants, polar bears, orangutans, lions and gorillas, and explores the efforts being made...

The Other Iraq challenges the notion that Iraq has always been a totalitarian, artificial state, torn by sectarian violence. Chronicling the rise of the Iraqi public sphere from 1921 to 1958, this enlightening work reveals that the Iraqi intellectual...

This work makes detailed studies and extensive use of Ottoman chancery documents, aiming to fill many gaps in the historical record. It sets out to answer such questions as: how did the Ottomans run their empire? How did they view Lebanon? What were...

Gardens of Hell examines the human side of one of the great tragedies of modern warfare, the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War. In February 1915, beginning with a naval attack on Turkey in the Dardanelles, a combined force of British, Australian,...

Iraq's people, cities and countryside remain unknown to most outsiders. With this important book, revealing daily life behind the headlines, photographer and explorer Daniel Whitfield's travels across Iraq bring the country to the reader in stunning...

Debunking conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone or marginal frontier, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of the first Muslim-majority country to gain independence from the British Empire, form a fully sovereign government, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938476006Author Maire M MascoFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Fluke PressPublisher Fluke PressWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 9mm

This book provides the historical and political context to explain acts of terror, including the September 11th, and the bombing of American Embassies in Nairobi and Dar as Salaam and the West's responses. Providing a brief history of Islam as a religion...

Gaze toward the Nile from the desert hills of Mukattam, and the vast city of Cairo unfolds before you, with its monumental architecture, teeming populace, and thousands of years of rich history. The extraordinary tapestry of Cairo's past and present...

In this book, Bob Becking provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the origins, lives, and eventual fate of the Yehudites, or Judeans, at Elephantine, framed within the greater history of the rise and fall of the Persian Empire. The Yehudites...

Narrated by dozens of activists and everyday individuals, this book documents the unprecedented events that led to the collapse of dictatorial regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. Beginning in 2011, these stories offer unique access to the...

First Published in 1976. Today the name Sa'udi Arabia evokes images of desert wastes, limitless reservoirs of oil and economic might. When one thinks of the predominant foreign power concerned with the desert kingdom, one thinks of the United States...

This third, revised edition comprises the whole of the original volume and is enhanced by the addition of a new preface and afterward which seek to reply to criticisms of the authors argument about the origins of the Falashas, and include some new...

A powerful examination of soulful journeys made to recover memory and recuperate stolen pasts in the face of unspeakable histories. Survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 took refuge across the globe. Traumatized by unspeakable brutalities, the idea...