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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241158149Author Fredrika BremerFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

A reprint of Peter Adamson's influential work The Arabic Plotinus.Book InformationISBN 9781463207182Author Peter AdamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Gorgias PressPublisher Gorgias Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241236090Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint 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 9781241213732Author Flight John StracheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977411396Author Karen M SudkampFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint RAND CorporationPublisher RAND CorporationWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241734428Author Hippesley Cunliffe MarshFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

It is 1875, the time of the 'Great Game', when the British and Russian Empires are vying for power in central Asia. A British officer rides for Khiva, a Russian city closed to European travellers. He is on a dangerous mission, to learn if Russia plans to...

Isabella Bishop (nee Bird) published her Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan in 1891, compiled from a series of letters home. Recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for physical and nervous difficulties, Bird toured the United States and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241427801Author Charles Bey Chaille -LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241172312Author Ulrich Jasper SeetzenFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240929757Author James BruceFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint 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 9781240924097Author Colonel James SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

A fresh look at one of the most important landmarks in the passage of the Ottoman Middle East to modernity during the late nineteenth century, this book explores the Nizamiye court system. The author offers an innovative conceptualization to serve as an...

In the wake of the civil war and Qadhafi's demise, the time is ripe for a new edition of Dirk Vandewalle's classic history of Libya. The book, which was originally published in 2006, traces the country's history back to the 1900s, through the Italian...

The adventurous and unconventional Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839) set off to travel to the East in the early nineteenth century. She had been hostess to her uncle, British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, and after his death she received a...

Medieval Islamic World: An Intellectual History of Science and Politics surveys major scientific and philosophical discoveries in the medieval period within the broader Islamicate world, providing an alternative historical framework to that of the...

Scottish explorer and author James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856) was already known for his narratives of travel in the East (his 1820 journal of a journey through the Himalayas being also reissued in this series) when in 1826 he published this account of...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813026688Author University Press of FloridaFormat PaperbackPage Count 365Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of...

Numerous factors underlie the dynamic shaping of present-day Muslim-Christian Arab relations as well as the formulation of Arab national identity. In Muslim-Christian Relations in Late-Ottoman Palestine, Erik Freas argues that paramount among these were...

A meticulous deconstruction of Maronite history writing and the ways in which Lebanese nationalist myths have been invented and perpetuated by historiansAs a frequently contested territory, Mount Lebanon has an equally contested history, one that is...

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This book explores an event described by the Times as 'one of the greatest and most sensational political conspiracies of modern times'. On 21 July 1905, just after the Friday Prayer at the Yildiz Hamidiye Mosque in Istanbul, a car bomb exploded and left...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241524685Author John PurdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

From the Arab world comes a love story between an Arab man and an American woman that lasted more than half a century. Their lives spanned both sides of the Jordan River, and their love was tested by the traditions of an ancient and proud Christian tribe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241154899Author Edward Backhouse EastwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240912902Author Trelawney SaundersFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241569754Author Verney Lovett CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Charles Lewis Meryon (1783-1877) was the personal physician to the unconventional and adventurous Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839), who left England in 1810 to travel to the Middle East. She eventually settled in Lebanon and by the time she died no...

In the late fifteenth century, the north-eastern Balkans were under-populated and under-institutionalized. Yet, by the end of the following century, the regions of Deliorman and Gerlovo were home to one of the largest Muslim populations in southeast...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241692445Author James PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint 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 9781349013418Author Kalim SiddiquiFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 303g

Domestic political dynamics have been playing critical role since 1979 in shaping Iran's foreign and security policy. The Revolution 1979 erupted due to Shah's despotic domestic policies and his heavy dependence on the West and the United States. The...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241492427Author George Bethune EnglishFormat 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 9781241498146Author Charles Dudley WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241446895Author Alonzo Bowen ChapinFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241514020Author James GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint 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 9781241157692Author Fredrika BremerFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...