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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241492809Author Lewis WingfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Syria is a country in turmoil, making headlines almost daily with news about its violent civil war and refugee crisis.This one-volume addition to the Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations series focuses on the events in the history of Syria from...

The work of Charles Tripp - professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) for over three decades - has shaped a distinct approach to the study of Middle East politics: an analytical sensibility that is empirically rich, theoretically...

I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation The decline and fall of Safavid Iran is traditionally seen as the natural outcome of the unrelieved political stagnation and moral degeneration which characterised late Safavid Iran. "Persia...

Economic liberalization has failed in the Arab world. Instead of ushering in economic dynamism and precipitating democratic reform, it has over the last three decades resulted in greater poverty, rising income inequality and sky-rocketing rates of youth...

Why 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...

First Published in 1987 The Yezidis: A Study in Survival traces the origin of Yezidi community’s religion, describes the discovery of the people by Western travellers in the early nineteenth century and details the Yezidi community’s traumatic history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728383071Author Kamal MirawdeliFormat PaperbackPage Count 630Imprint Authorhouse UKPublisher Authorhouse UKWeight(grams) 1397g

The Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran is a poignant and compelling account of one man’s journey through struggle, resilience, and unimaginable suffering. In the early twentieth century, Mahboob Qirvanian recorded his personal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666773026Author John Punnett PetersFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 658g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608881284Author Sandia National LaboratoriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Nimble BooksPublisher Nimble BooksWeight(grams) 203g

Few regions of the planet have undergone such rapid social transition as the Arabian Gulf States. Psychological Well-Being in the Gulf States explores the implications of these rapid changes in terms of mental health and psychological well-being.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685157173Author Steve J B Jb AustinFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Palmetto PublishingPublisher Palmetto PublishingWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616405007Author Al GhazzaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 91g

Trade and Money is an economic history of the Ottoman world in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Book InformationISBN 9781617191022Author Elena Frangakis-SyrettFormat HardbackPage Count 379Imprint Gorgias PressPublisher Gorgias Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604507058Author A J ToynbeeFormat PaperbackImprint Serenity Publishers, LLCPublisher Serenity Publishers, LLCWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781449755263Author Bill DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Westbow PressPublisher Westbow PressWeight(grams) 180g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909382442Author Wendy ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Gomidas InstitutePublisher Gomidas Institute

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933823232Author Mirza Naqi NasiriFormat PaperbackPage Count 337Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 780g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241499426Author Anne Isabella Noel BluntFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241496357Author Evan Henry HopkinsFormat PaperbackImprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241493042Author Eustace Alfred BallFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Opposing a binary perspective that consolidates ethnicity, religion, and nationalism into separate spheres, this book demonstrates that neither nationalism nor religion can be studied in isolation in the Middle East. Religious interpretation, like other...

T. G. Fraser provides a balanced and thoughtful analysis of one of the most tragic conflicts in modern history. From the creation of Israel to the situation today, this text follows the key events and issues arising from the partition of Palestine. The...

Persian served as one of the primary languages of historical writing over the period of the early modern Islamic empires of the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals. Historians writing under these empires read and cited each other's work, some moving from one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780007255498Author Robert FiskFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Fourth Estate LtdPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 125g

The Middle East in the Global Era features scholarly perspectives that explore a variety of topics related to the Middle East and North African regions, including politics, international relations, economics, history, gender issues, and culture. Students...

Black women writers reclaim the sacred text. ""Transforming Scriptures"" is the first sustained treatment of African American women writers' intellectual, even theological, engagements with the book ""Northrup...

Since its emergence in the 1920s, Iraqi-Kurdish theatre was used as a tool of national identity building and modernisation. It promoted literacy, education and women's rights and became one of the most visible forms of Kurdish cultural nationalism by...

The Mughals, British and Soviets all failed to subjugate Afghanistan, failures which offer valuable lessons for today. Taking a long historical perspective from 1520 to 2012, this volume examines the Mughal, British, Soviet and NATO efforts in...

The history of the Middle East is traditionally structured around the rise and fall of dynasties and states. The widely perceived view is that after the glories of an earlier golden age the region went into a steady and prolonged decline: populations...

Late antique Corinth was on the frontline of the radical political, economic and religious transformations that swept across the Mediterranean world from the second to sixth centuries CE. A strategic merchant city, it became a hugely important metropolis...

This book examines the ways in which non-Arabic cultural influences interacted with the rich, complex and sometimes conflictual environment of the Arab world in the pre-independence era. It comprises a series of 11 detailed case studies, including topics...

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This book highlights the role of cultural representations and perceptions, such as when Iran is represented in the French media as a rogue state obsessed with its nuclear programme, and when France is portrayed in the Iranian media as a decadent and...

To understand contemporary Iran's notoriously complex politics, it is essential to grasp the monumental changes initiated by Mohammad Khatami. The previously little-known cleric stormed to victory in Iran's 1997 presidential elections with nearly 70 per...

Since 2011, the art of the Arab uprisings has been the subject of much scholarly and popular attention. Yet the role of artists, writers and filmmakers themselves as social actors working under extraordinary conditions has been relatively neglected...

People in Western societies have long been interested in their dreams and what they mean. However, few non-Muslims in the West are likely to seek interpretation of those dreams to help them make life-changing decisions. In the Islamic world the situation...

In the depths of the Cold War and in the wake of Britain's announcement of its intention to withdraw 'East of Suez' by the end of 1971, Britain was faced with the stark reality of a Marxist rebellion in the Dhofar province of Oman. This rebellion, whose...

The Cold War was a period of intense geopolitical rivalry, in which diplomacy and international relations in Asia and the Middle East acquired huge global significance. In this study, Panagiotis Dimitrakis explores British policy towards SEATO (South...