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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009574310Author Zhand ShakibiFormat HardbackPage Count 409Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555407919Author Michael E. StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Scholars PressWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546286509Author K S KhouryFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Authorhouse UKPublisher Authorhouse UKWeight(grams) 132g

The Arab Spring exposed the fundamental weakness of the non-oil Arab economies, namely, the imbalance between population growth and the labour market, resulting in the emergence of structural unemployment among young adults. By the early 2000s these...

The fallout from the Iraq War in 2003 has been widespread. The US finds itself under siege in Iraq; the Iraqi State is ruled by chaos, corruption and terrorism; and the hunt for weapons of mass destruction has been relentlessly debated in the media...

This volume is the result of a selection of papers presented at the second conference of the School of Mamluk Studies (Liège, 2015) whose theme was 'The Mamluk Sultanate and Its Periphery'. It is well known that Mamluk studies suffer from a deficit of...

Tehran, the capital of Iran since the late eighteenth century, is now one of the largest cities in the Middle East. Exploring Tehran's development from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi paints a vibrant picture of a city...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399503662Author Jordi TejelFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

The reform movements and attempts to establish parliamentary institutions in the Persian Gulf states of Kuwait, Bahrain and Dubai between the First World War and the independent era of the 1970s were not inspired by western example or by any tradition of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362098924Author W M Flinders PetriePage Count 24Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241532512Author William TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint 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 9781779410184Author Jamil Elias KabalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 586Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 1043g

Despite siginificant advances in annual chronology, the Old Assyrian trade fundamentally lacked a regime of time at the level of the merchant's commercial and personal activities. In this book, Stratford sets out to recapture time through narrative,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945934346Author Charles Montagu DoughtyFormat HardbackPage Count 706Imprint CosimoPublisher CosimoWeight(grams) 1184g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241496487Author Joaquim Pinto De CamposFormat PaperbackPage Count 570Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581125788Author Vladimir ZhirinovskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Universal PublishersPublisher Universal PublishersWeight(grams) 254g

Islamic jurisprudence has undergone many historical changes since the time of Prophet Muhammad, and researchers have divided its development into several historical stages. In Formation of the Islamic Jurisprudence, Labeeb Ahmed Bsoul presents the...

This book takes a novel look at the modern Middle East through the prisms of six cascading negative critical turning points. It identifies the seeds of a potential seventh in the collective dignity deficits generated by poor governance paradigms and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108838795Author Alda BenjamenFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241490188Author Arthur LearedFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Caucasia marks the meeting place of East and West, Europe and Asia, Christendom and Islam. Indeed, the Caucasus Mountains are home to a bewildering diversity of languages and ethnicities. In the imaginations of multiple cultures and civilisations-Greek,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241497835Author Frederick Mercer HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241200657Author Ludwig August FranklFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

What motivated the early Islamic conquests? Did the Arabs fight for Allah, or for wealth and dominance? Were the conquerors principally Arabs, or specifically Muslims? Were the Muslim believers motivated by religious zeal to proclaim Islam to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632352668Author Jon WestmarkFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint 12-Story LibraryPublisher 12-Story LibraryWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241367947Author Nikolai Nikolaevich MuravevFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241507718Author Edward ThorntonFormat 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 9781241494490Author Stanley Lane PooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987522929Author Claude VarnerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Claude VarnerPublisher Claude VarnerWeight(grams) 576g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241487928Author Charles MacFarlaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 574Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

This book provides a detailed analysis of Islamic juristic writings on the topic of rape and argues that classical Islamic jurisprudence contained nuanced, substantially divergent doctrines of sexual violation as a punishable crime. The work centers on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241515836Author James Silk BuckinghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 974Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

This book examines how the rulers in the Persian Gulf responded to the British announcement of military withdrawal from the Gulf in 1968, ending 150 years of military supremacy in the region. The British system in the Gulf was accepted for more than a...

Oratory and sermons had a fixed place in the religious and civic rituals of pre-modern Muslim societies and were indispensable for transmitting religious knowledge, legitimising or challenging rulers and inculcating the moral values associated with being...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240917631Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 558Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

This book tells the story of America's first hostage crisis, which began in 1785 with the capture of two American ships off the coast of Portugal, and provides the intriguing details of the diplomacy mobilized to address the crisis. The incident...

From 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781107190849Author Stephanie CroninFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

Among traditionally educated scholars in the Islamic world there is much disagreement on the crises that afflict modern Muslim societies and how best to deal with them, and the debates have grown more urgent since 9/11. Through an analysis of the work of...

Crossovers compares Jewish anti-Zionism and Palestinian anti-Semitism from political and philosophical points of view. The authors' goal is to expose what is unique about these phenomena, and what they share, so that both ideologies and their practical...