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Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvoelker was founded in 1980 by the Hungarian Turkologist Gyoergy Hazai. The series deals with all aspects of Turkic language, culture and history, and has a broad temporal and regional scope. It welcomes...

The ideal introduction to the history of modern Oman from the eighteenth century to the present, this book combines the most recent scholarship on Omani history with insights drawn from a close analysis of the politics and international relations of...

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...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241496067Author Josias Leslie PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241516055Author Cuthbert Edward BiddulphFormat PaperbackImprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

During war time, the everyday experiences of ordinary people - and especially women - are frequently obscured by elite military and social analysis. In this pioneering study, Elif Mahir Metinsoy focuses on the lives of ordinary Muslim women living in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240910519Author Walter Keating KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

The Sunni-Shi'a schism is often framed as a dispute over the identity of the successor to Muhammad. In reality, however, this fracture only materialized a century later in the important southern Iraqi city of Kufa (present-day Najaf). This book explores...

Sketches of Persia, although published anonymously in 1827, is attributed to Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833). Malcolm was a diplomat and administrator in India: arriving at the age of fourteen in 1783 to work for the East India Company, he was known during...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241090920Author J D PaxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint 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 9781241156466Author William BeamontFormat 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 9781241523947Author John Gardner WilkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241193607Author Judah PaddockFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint 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 9789562916363Author T E LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909639508Author Sean MatgamnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Workers LibertyPublisher Phoenix Press

Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination explores the cultural memory of al-Nakba (1948 Israeli independence, or The Catastrophe as it is known in Palestine) and its significance to the modern Palestinian imagination. Ihab Saloul...

After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's government encouraged substantial American investment in education and aid. It was argued that Turkey needed the technical skills and wealth offered by American education, and so a series of...

Population History of the Middle East and the Balkans collects together the work of Justin McCarthy on Ottoman demographics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Book InformationISBN 9781617191053Author Justin McCarthyFormat HardbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241492496Author Arthur James MacDonald BentleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410224392Author Ms Janet A McDonnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555409463Author Michael E. StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Scholars PressWeight(grams) 375g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241164041Author Januarius Aloysius MacgahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 510Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

A brilliant history of the land into which more historical and cultural events were croweded than perhaps into any area of equal size. For Syria has either invented or transmitted to mankind such benefits as monotheistic religion, philosophy, law, trade,...

This work explores the interaction of American Protestant missionaries with Iranians during the 1960s and 1970s. It focuses on the missionary activities of four American Protestant groups: Presbyterians, Assemblies of God, International Missions, and...

Robert Walpole (1781-1856), great-nephew and namesake of Britain's first prime minister, was a classical scholar and clergyman. After graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge, he visited Greece and the Middle East. In 1817 he published Memoirs Relating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108471046Author Carl F. PetryFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

First published in 1907, this book provides a history of the political relations between the states founded by Crusaders and the Islamic states with which they waged war. In the treatment of this subject the Eastern point of view is emphasized and the...

This is a pioneering book about the impact that knowledge produced in the Maghrib (Islamic North Africa and al-Andalus = Muslim Iberia) had on the rest of the Islamic world. It presents results achieved in the Research Project "Local contexts and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241428839Author Januarius Aloysius MacgahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 558Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

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...

Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They were written by experts for the general reader and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241497651Author Emmeline LottFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint 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 9781241491772Author William Gifford PalgraveFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

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 as part of the 'Collection d'ouvrages orientaux' of the French Societe Asiatique. In 1325,...

Kenneth Perkins's second edition of A History of Modern Tunisia carries the history of this country from 2004 to the present, with particular emphasis on the Tunisian revolution of 2011 - the first critical event of that year's Arab Spring and the...

From Amman to Beirut and Damascus, award-winning NPR reporter Deborah Amos follows Sunnis living in exile- the largest exile population in postwar history. Husbands are separated from wives, children from parents, and many are cast into a violent and...

This book of 'Persian Pictures' is the first published work of Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), the celebrated traveller, archaeologist, Orientalist and supporter of Arab independence. She first visited Persia in 1892, when a relative by marriage was British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631390610Author Wolfgang FreundFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 270g