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This four-volume edition of the Arabic text of the Journey of the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta (1304-68/9), with a French translation was published in 1853-8. In 1325, Ibn Battuta, who came from a family of jurists in Tangier, set out to make the...

This book describes all aspects of Saudi Arabia, including its government, economy, society, and culture, as well as its role in the Middle East and its position internationally. In this comprehensive introduction to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, author...

In recent years, the Islamization of Turkish politics and public life has been the subject of much debate in Turkey and the West. This book makes an important contribution to those debates by focusing on a group of religious schools, known as Imam-Hatip...

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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...

The waves of protest ignited by the self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi in Tunisia in late 2010 highlighted for an international audience the importance of contentious politics in the Middle East and North Africa. John Chalcraft's ground-breaking...

The Six Day War in 1967 profoundly influenced how an increasing number of religious Zionists saw Israeli victory as the manifestation of God's desire to redeem God's people. Thousands of religious Israelis joined the Gush Emunim movement in 1974 to...

This book explores the significance of alcohol in the Middle East and Maghreb as a powerful catalyst of social and political division. It shows that the solidarities and polarities created by disputes over alcohol are built on arguments far more complex...

A preoccupation with the subject of freedom became a core issue in the construction of all modern political ideologies. Here, Wael Abu-'Uksa examines the development of the concept of freedom (hurriyya) in nineteenth-century Arab political thought, its...

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John Lewis Burckhardt (1784-1817) was a Swiss explorer who is best remembered for his rediscovery of the ancient city of Petra in modern Jordan. In 1809 he was commissioned by the African Association to discover the source of the River Niger. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241514853Author John TillotsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 728Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Using a plethora of hitherto unused and under-utilized sources from the Ottoman, British and Iranian archives, Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands traces seven decades of intermittent work by Russian, British, Ottoman and Iranian technical and diplomatic teams...

This book considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved criminal cases that could not be proven beyond a doubt, calling into question a controversial popular notion about Islamic law...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616405311Author Syed Ameer AliFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 122g

An anthropological study of Syriac Orthodox Christian identity in a time of displacement, upheaval, and conflict. For some Syriac Orthodox Christians in Bethlehem, their self-articulation - the means by which they connect themselves to others, things,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241209032Author David UrquhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

This two-volume travelogue recounts the diplomatic mission through Central Asia and Russia undertaken by James Abbott (1807-96) in 1839. An officer in the Bengal Artillery, Abbott first travelled to Central Asia in 1838 and was soon drawn into the 'Great...

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Ottoman Empire endured long periods of warfare, facing intense financial pressures and new international mercantile and monetary trends. The Empire also experienced major political-administrative...

The Glubb Reports studies papers written by General Sir John Glubb, the long-serving British commander of the Jordanian Arab Legion. It covers issues such as the role of tribes and desert control, the impact of Palestine, the Arab Legion's role in the...

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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241527297Author Agnes Dick RamsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039100675Author Zoe PrestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 335Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 470g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241571177Author Richard Francis Sir BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the...

As the purported site of the resurrection of Jesus, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has been a centre of pilgrimage since at least the fourth century CE. The church has survived through fire, invasion, neglect and near-destruction. The result of such a...

The story of Israel's foundation has often been told from the perspective of Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel. Leaving Zion turns this historical narrative on its head, focusing on Jewish out-migration from Palestine and Israel between 1945 and...

In the early 1840s, Ottoman rulers launched a new imperial project, partly in order to reassert their authority over their lands and subjects, crucially including the Arab nomads. By examining the evolution of this relationship between the Ottoman Empire...

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This Handbook simultaneously provides a single text that narrates the Cairo of yesterday and of today, and gives the reader a major reference to the best of Cairo scholarship.Divided into three parts covering Histories, Representations and Discourses of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616405205Author Archibald ForbesFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 449g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421811390Author G K CherstonFormat PaperbackImprint 1st World Library - Literary SocietyPublisher 1st World Library - Literary SocietyWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358011517Author HerodotusFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Double 9 BooksPublisher Double 9 BooksWeight(grams) 104g

Between 1945 and 1960, the birth of a multi-party democracy and NATO membership radically transformed Turkey's foreign relations and domestic politics. As Turkish politicians, intellectuals and voters rethought their country's relationship with its past...

In Islamic History and Law, Labeeb Ahmed Bsoul undertakes an extensive examination of Islamic intellectual history, covering ages that witnessed different movements and doctrinal trends. While political and geographical factors certainly influenced the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241561673Author William Rae WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...