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Islamic Imperialism: A History by Efraim Karsh
RRP: £14.99£13.03A fundamental challenge to the way we understand the history of the Middle East and the role of Islam in the region From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East... -
The Jewish State: The Historic Essay that Led to the Creation of the State of Israel by Alan Dershowitz
RRP: £5.99£4.46Originally published in 1896 as Der Judenstaat, The Jewish State has taken its place among the likes of The Communist Manifesto and Common Sense as polemic writings which have changed modern history. Theodor Herzl's advocacy for a separate, independent... -
Shapers of Islam in Southeast Asia: Muslim Intellectuals and the Making of Islamic Reformism by Khairudin Aljunied 9780197514412
RRP: £79.00£71.78Southeast Asia is home to one of the largest Muslim populations in the world today. The region has also produced a cohort of reformers who have critiqued the limits of Islamic thought and propounded new lines of thinking with an eye toward constructing a... -
KJV, Gift and Award Bible, Leather-Look, Black, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, King James Version by Zondervan 9780718097905
RRP: £7.99£6.88Commemorate a special accomplishment or event with a gift to be treasured for years to come. This edition is published in large KJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable at any size.Featuring the... -
Strolling Through Istanbul: The Classic Guide to the City by Hilary Sumner-Boyd
RRP: £18.99£14.59'The best travel guide to Istanbul' - The Times Practical and informative, readable and vividly described, this is the definitive guide to and story of Istanbul, by those who know it best. This is the 2009 revised and updated edition of the classic... -
Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East by Patrick Seale
RRP: £31.00£24.43'This is a book in the finest tradition of investigative scholarship. The research is awesome...Seale's great strength is his ability to explain the confusing kaleidoscopic nature of Middle Eastern diplomacy. He understands the game being played and also... -
After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine by Antony Loewenstein 9780863569418
RRP: £12.99£11.70After Zionism brings together some of the world's leading thinkers on the Middle East question. In thought-provoking essays, the contributors dissect the century-long conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians, and explore possible forms of a... -
Harold Wilson: The Biography by Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds
RRP: £25.00£14.66Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four General Elections, spending nearly eight years in Downing Street. Half a century later, he is still unbeaten,... -
NKJV, Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, Hardcover, Red Letter Edition: Bringing to Life the Ancient World of Scripture by Craig S. Keener
RRP: £40.00£28.04Discover new dimensions of insight with a behind-the-scenes tour of the ancient worldYou've heard many Bible stories hundreds of times, but how many details are you missing? Sometimes a little context is all you need to discover the rich meaning behind... -
Overkill or Under-kill by Anthony Paice
RRP: £16.95£12.26Middle East and Counter-Terrorism expert Anthony Paice uses research and analysis to trace the underlying causes of the Iraqi takeover of Kuwait in 1990, adding his own personal experiences of the events. He reveals how neither London nor Washington had... -
A Jerusalem Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries by T J Gorton
RRP: £11.99£9.70Jerusalem has a special status as a city that is both terrestrial and celestial. The name includes a cognate for 'peace, ' but the old stones of the city have witnessed epic bloodshed and destruction over the centuries. The three great monotheistic... -
Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices by Robert McNally
RRP: £22.00£17.36As OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price swings, the likes of which haven't been seen for eight decades. Crafting an engrossing journey from the gushing Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s to... -
Until We Are Free: My Fight For Human Rights in Iran by Shirin Ebadi
RRP: £15.99£11.61'POWERFUL AND SOMETIMES SHOCKING ...' SUNDAY TIMES In this powerful book, Dr Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, tells of her fight for reform inside Iran, and the devastating backlash she faced after winning the Nobel Peace Prize... -
The Lion House: The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent by Christopher de Bellaigue
RRP: £10.99£7.77An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century.'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History at its most gripping' Telegraph'A formidable book ... incredible' Rory StewartVenice, 1522. Intelligence... -
The Excellence of the Arabs by Ibn Qutaybah 9781479899265
RRP: £15.99£11.21The Excellence of the Arabs is a spirited defense of Arab identity-its merits, values, and origins-at a time of political unrest and fragmentation, written by one of the most important scholars of the early Abbasid era. In the cosmopolitan milieu of... -
The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty by Ray Takeyh
RRP: £14.99£13.03The surprising story of Iran's transformation from America's ally in the Middle East into one of its staunchest adversaries"An original interpretation that puts Iranian actors where they belong: at center stage."-Michael Doran, Wall Street Journal"An... -
Treasury of Egyptian Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Monsters & Mortals (Mythology) by Donna Jo Napoli 9781426313806
RRP: £19.99£14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426313806Author Donna Jo NapoliFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint National Geographic KidsPublisher National Geographic KidsWeight(grams)... -
Becoming Neolithic: The Pivotal Transformation in Human History in Southwest Asia by Trevor Watkins 9780415221528
£37.16Becoming Neolithic examines the revolutionary transformation of human life that was taking place around 12,000 years ago in parts of southwest Asia. Hunter-gatherer communities were building the first permanent settlements, creating public monuments and... -
Empress of the East: How a Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire by Leslie Peirce
RRP: £12.99£8.56Abducted by slave traders from her home in Ruthenia - modern-day Ukraine - around 1515, Roxelana was brought to Istanbul and trained in the palace harem as a concubine for Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and one of the... -
Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam by Michael Frishkopf
RRP: £29.99£26.90Tracing the connections between music making and built space in both historical and contemporary times, Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam brings together domains of intellectual reflection that have rarely been in dialogue to promote a greater... -
Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History by Mona Hassan
RRP: £35.00£28.14In the United States and Europe, the word "caliphate" has conjured historically romantic and increasingly pernicious associations. Yet the caliphate's significance in Islamic history and Muslim culture remains poorly understood. This book explores the... -
From Gaza to Jerusalem: The Campaign for Southern Palestine 1917 by Stuart Hadaway 9780752499017
RRP: £20.00£15.44The Palestine campaign of 1917 saw Britain's armed forces rise from defeat to achieve stunning victory. After two failed attempts in the spring, at the end of the year they broke through the Ottoman line with an innovative mixture of old and new... -
The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective by John Quigley 9780822335399
RRP: £25.99£21.01John Quigley brings a necessary international law perspective to bear on the seemingly intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict in this updated edition of his important book. Since 2000, the cycle of bloodshed and retribution has spiraled increasingly... -
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed
RRP: £15.99£12.91A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the... -
Persepolis: The Story of an Iranian Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
RRP: £16.99£12.92Wise, often funny, sometimes heart-breaking, Persepolis tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life in Tehran from the ages of six to fourteen, growing up during the Iranian Revolution.The intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists, and the... -
The Light Garden of the Angel King by Peter Levi 9781906011550
RRP: £12.99£8.60From time immemorial Afghanistan has been both a fortress of faith and a mountainous crossroads. Through its high valleys merchants traded Chinese porcelains, bundles of indigo cloth, sacks of lapis lazuli, golden jewellery, emeralds and fine carvings... -
All She Lost: The Explosion in Lebanon, the Collapse of a Nation and the Women who Survive by Dalal Mawad 9781399406253
RRP: £20.00£14.83'Poignant and compelling... will resonate with anyone who cares about justice and the abuse of power' - Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News International Editor and author of Sandstorm 'Essential and urgent' - Kim Ghattas, journalist and author of Black... -
The Umayyad Empire by Andrew Marsham 9780748643004
RRP: £29.99£24.16This book presents a history of the Umayyad Empire, the only period in which an Arabian ruling elite and its tribal armies ruled a world empire. Marsham presents a number of arguments which, taken together, offer a new perspective on the Umayyads.Book... -
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 9781529157178
RRP: £10.99£7.77SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024ONE OF PROSPECT'S POLITICS & REPORTAGE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023'Exquisite . . . A genuine, melancholy masterpiece'... -
Mythologies Without End: The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020 by Jerome Slater
RRP: £26.49£23.25The history of modern Israel is a fiercely contested subject. From the Balfour declaration to the Six-Day War to the recent assault on Gaza, ideologically-charged narratives and counter-narratives battle for dominance not just in Israel itself but... -
Israel's Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire by Raphael D. Marcus 9781626166110
RRP: £32.00£25.48The ongoing conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is now in its fourth decade and shows no signs of ending. Raphael D. Marcus examines this conflict since the formation of Hezbollah during Israel's occupation of Lebanon in the... -
Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda by Omar Nasiri 9780465023899
£14.74Between 1994 and 2000, Omar Nasiri worked as a secret agent for Europe's top foreign intelligence services-including France's DGSE (Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure), and Britain's MI5 and MI6. From the netherworld of Islamist cells in... -
Turkey: A Short History by Norman Stone
RRP: £10.99£7.40From the eminent historian Norman Stone, who has lived and worked in the country since 1997, comes this concise survey of Turkey's relations with its immediate neighbours and the wider world from the 11th century to the present day. Stone deftly conducts... -
When Friday Comes: The rise of football in the Middle East and the road to the Qatar World Cup by James Montague
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Passionate and moving and provides further evidence of the universality of football' Jonathan Wilson, FourFourTwoThe definitive story of the Middle East's unstoppable rise to football superpower, and the road to the Qatar World CupWhen James Montague... -
Moshe Dayan: Israel's Controversial Hero by Mordechai Bar-On
RRP: £19.99£16.97From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vivid portrait of one of the most powerful leaders in Israel's first decades of statehood Instantly recognizable with his iconic eye patch, Moshe Dayan (1915-1981) was one of Israel's most charismatic-and... -
A Short History Of The Middle East by Gordon Kerr 9781843446361
RRP: £12.99£3.51Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all had their genesis in the region but with them came not just civilisation and religion but... -
The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel by Ilan Pappe
RRP: £12.99£11.46A vivid and incisive analysis of the complex relationship between Israel and its Palestinian citizens written by an acclaimed Israeli historian For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the... -
Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale by Lenn E. Goodman
RRP: £19.00£16.20The Arabic philosophical fable "Hayy Ibn Yaqzan" is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), an Andalusian philosopher, tells of a happy child raised by a doe on an equatorial island who grows up to discover the truth about the... -
Holy Bible: King James Version, Burgundy Bonded Leather, Classic Companion Bible by Thomas Nelson
RRP: £23.00£15.19Enjoy the Bible that goes where you go. Thomas Nelson's Checkbook Bible offers a complete King James Bible that easily fits in your purse or bag with a magnetic closure to protect the pages.Traveling with God's Word has never been so effortless. The... -
Iran: A Very Short Introduction by Ali Ansari
RRP: £8.99£6.45Iran has rarely been out of the headlines. Yet media interest and extensive coverage has tended to hinder rather than help our understanding of Iran as an idea, an identity, and a people, leading to a superficial understanding of what is a complex and...