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The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic...

This volume brings together contributions by scholars focussing on peritextual elements as found in Middle Eastern manuscripts: dots and various other symbols that mark vowels, intonation, readings aids, and other textual markers; marginal notes and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447105651Author Rainer KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 170mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197659670Author Abdullah Al-ArianFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918986610Author McGuire GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Oriental Institute of the University of ChicagoPublisher Oriental Institute of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970819918Author Israel GershoniFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint University of Chicago, Middle East Documentation CenterPublisher University of...

A comparative analysis of key Islamic authority platforms and their debatesAt the turn of the twenty-first century, scholarship and policy debate on Islam and Muslim societies has come to focus primarily on Islam's ability to make young Muslims gravitate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847110316Author Stephan ConermannFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbH

First published in 1985, Turkey: Coping with Crisis is a comprehensive survey of the Turkish experience tracing the Turks through the ages to provide the background essential to understanding contemporary Turkey. Noting the problems that possession of an...

First published in 1923, The Truth about Mesopotamia, Palestine & Syria presents a comprehensive overview of what may be called the Arab or Middle Eastern problem in the earlier part of the twentieth century. Drawing from official publications and...

The Israeli Institute for Intelligence and Special Services, the Mossad, is pobably the best known of the world's intelligence services, one of the most sespected and, certainly, one of the most intriguing. However, despite its fame, the available...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780748668496Author Milwright MarcusFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Former Israeli intelligence officer Moshe Shemesh offers a fresh understanding of the complex history and politics of the Middle East in this new analysis of the Palestinian national movement. Shemesh looks at the formative years of the movement that...

The Israeli Institute for Intelligence and Special Services, the Mossad, is pobably the best known of the world's intelligence services, one of the most sespected and, certainly, one of the most intriguing. However, despite its fame, the available...

This book retrieves from the archives people, places and perspectives normally overlooked to tell an original and expansive history of the Qatar Peninsula, paying close attention to landscape and the natural world. The arc of the book moves...

This text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the broader Middle East. Readers will come away from this book with anBook InformationISBN 9780873328463Author William P. KremlFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint M.E...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385485203Author Elizabeth Warnock FerneaFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell...

Volodarsky (Russian and East European studies, Tel Aviv U.) argues that the new Soviet Union continued Imperial Russia's policy of controlling its southern neighbors through promises and threats.Book InformationISBN 9781138982703Author Mikhail...

This boxset consists of a collection of newspaper articles and earlier essays, presented in four volumes. Each volume is introduced by Professor Rasheed El-Enany (University of Exeter). Volume I compiles Mahfouz's early non-fiction writings mostly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918986962Author Georgianna Mathew MaynardFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Oriental Institute of the University of ChicagoPublisher Oriental...

Middle Eastern instability is manifest externally in many ways: by crises afflicting governing regimes, the rise of political Islam, terrorism, revolution, civil war, increased migration, and the collapse of many states. This book examines the roots of...

This book offers a reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's role in Jewish-Israeli history from the perspective of the twenty-first century, in the larger context of the Zionist 'renaissance', of which he was a major and unique exponent. Some have described...

In this provocative and wide-ranging history, Joel Beinin examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948. A complex and heterogeneous people, Egyptian Jews have become even more diverse as their...

This translation provides fascinating insights into a critical period in Moroccan history and Moroccan-British relations during the nineteenth century. Using the life and work of the British representative in Tangier, John Drummond Hay, an individual who...

Despite its apparently peripheral location in the Qajar Empire, Kirman was frequently found at the centre of developments reshaping Iran in the 19th century. Over the Qajar period the region saw significant changes, as competition between Kirmani...

The substantially revised and updated third edition of Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East focuses on the experiences of ordinary men, women, and children from the region. Readers will gain a grassroots appreciation of Middle East life, culture, and...

The Arab Spring occurred within the context of the unraveling of the dominant 'ruling bargain' that emerged across the Middle East in the 1950s. This is being replaced by a new and in- choate system that redefines sources of author- ity and legitimacy...

Focusing on apocalyptic manifestations found in ISIS propaganda, this book situates the group's agenda in the broader framework of contemporary Muslim thought and explains key topics in millennial thinking within the spiritual context of modern Islamic...

Published as Dal?l al-Muslim al-?az?n il? muqtada-l-sul?k f?'l-qarn al-?ishr?n in 1983, this book remains a timely and important read today. It explores the interaction between pre-Islamic tradition and modern supporters of continuity, reform and change...

Explores the colonial, social and political history of the creation of citizenship in mandate PalestineIn the two decades after the First World War, nationality and citizenship in Palestine became less like abstract concepts for the Arab population 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...

During the Iranian Revolution of 1978/9, the influence of public intellectuals was widespread. Many espoused a vision of Iran freed from the influences of 'Westtoxification', inspired by Heideggerian concepts of anti-Western nativism. By following the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906094310Author Gerard ClausonFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Gibb Memorial TrustPublisher Gibb Memorial Trust

Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage investigates the ways dancing bodies have been providing evidence for competing representations of modernity, urbanism, and religiosity across the twentieth century.Focusing on the transformation of...

Between 1830 and 1870, French army officers serving in the colonial Offices of Arab Affairs profoundly altered the course of political decision-making in Algeria. Guided by the modernizing ideologies of the Saint-Simonian school in their development and...

Explores the history of reading in the high and late medieval period in the Middle East. The Middle East was home to one of the most literate civilizations during the high and late medieval period, boasting bustling book markets, voluminous libraries and...

This is a theoretical and practical guide to understanding the application and operation of Shari'ah-based structures and Islamic venture capital in the private equity industry. These case studies and examples of business financial appraisals give an...

These essays examine changes in Israel's political, social and economic institutions, and describe how Israeli culture and institutions are resisting convergence. They are in four categories: political institutions and organizations; political economy;...

The Zionist Movement was born in the wake of Jewish emancipation in Western Europe, and at a time of increased persecution in Eastern Europe. This volume addresses the intellectual, social and political ramifications of Jewish settlement in Eretz Israel...

Specialists from Israel, Europe and the US examine the implications of peace for Israel. How would it affect the country's political and economic systems and its national security, and what would peace mean for its regional and international standing and...