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Every year hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over the world converge on Mecca and its precincts to perform the rituals associated with the Hajj and have been doing so since the seventh century. In this volume, scholars from a range of fields -...

Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the landscape of Israel-Palestine was radically transformed. Breaking from conventional focus on explicit sites of violence and devastation, Noam Leshem turns critical attention to 'ordinary' spaces and places where...

Frederick Burnaby (1842-85) joined the Royal Horse Guards in 1859, but, when not assigned to active duty, he crafted his own adventures. He ballooned across the English Channel, and travelled in Spain, Asia Minor and Russia. He was wounded, and...

Patricia Crone's book is about the Iranian response to the Muslim penetration of the Iranian countryside, the revolts subsequently triggered there and the religious communities that these revolts revealed. The book also describes a complex of religious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616403409Author R a NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 671g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241239312Author Joseph KnanishuFormat PaperbackImprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

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 9781616404987Author David S MargoliouthFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 404g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349032167Author Peter HobdayFormat PaperbackPage Count 133Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 192g

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Most scholarship on the nineteenth and early twentieth century Constitutional Revolution in Iran has focused on the role of two groups, intellectuals and the clergy. The role of women has largely been ignored, despite their widespread participation in...

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Lucie Duff Gordon (1821-1869) was a translator and travel writer. Forced to leave England in 1851 due to tuberculosis, she went first to South Africa and then to Egypt. Her letters home were published, with considerable success. She writes with great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789395266819Author Sandhya PrakashFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Beeja HousePublisher Beeja HouseWeight(grams) 240g

Since the publication of the first edition, substantial changes have occurred in the political landscape of Jordan and the Middle East. King Abdullah II has cemented his rule amidst an onslaught of threats which have faced his kingdom since he succeeded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903656983Author Mario CarollaFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Gomidas InstitutePublisher Gomidas Institute

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909382794Author Gerard J LibaridianFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gomidas Institute BooksPublisher Gomidas Institute BooksWeight(grams) 381g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241449094Author W Patison HunterFormat PaperbackImprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Sectarian divisions within the Islamic world have long been misunderstood and misconstrued by the media and the general public. In this book, Adam R. Gaiser offers an accessible introduction to the main Muslim sects and schools, returning to the roots of...

Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) spent much of his early life as a sailor in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and went on to publish accounts of his extensive travels to India, Palestine and Persia...

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Based upon extensive archival research in Great Britain, the United States, and the Middle East, including sources never previously utilized such as declassified intelligence records, postwar planning documents, and the personal papers of key officials,...

Ahmad Fardid (1910-94), the 'anti-Western' philosopher known to many as the Iranian Heidegger, became the self-proclaimed philosophical spokesperson for the Islamic Republic, famously coining the term 'Westoxication'. Using new materials about Fardid's...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241210922Author Charles Henry ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522-92) was a Flemish herbalist, diplomat and writer. In 1554, Ferdinand I, soon to be Holy Roman Emperor, dispatched him to Suleiman the Magnificent's court as an ambassador to the Ottoman empire, where Busbecq spent years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241194444Author Ludwig August FranklFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771801089Author Sarah HipworthFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint Iguana BooksPublisher Iguana BooksWeight(grams) 676g

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Colin Shindler's remarkable history begins in 1948, as waves of immigrants arrived in Israel from war-torn Europe to establish new cities, new institutions, and a new culture founded on the Hebrew language. Optimistic beginnings were soon replaced with...

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