Middle East category: 7830 books
A Provincial History of the Ottoman Empire
Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Provincializing the history of the Ottoman Empire, this book provides a critical approach to the projects of ‘modernity’ that took place in the Eastern Mediterranean over the past two centuries.
Leaving their mark on this period are; the turmoil of insurgency in Greece and Egypt, a growing...
by Ilham Khuri-Makdisi
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria between 1860 and 1914. She shows that socialist and anarchist ideas were regularly discussed, disseminated, and reworked among...
The Islands of the Eastern Mediterranean
A History of Cross-Cultural Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
The Mediterranean, or 'Middle Sea', has long been regarded as the symbolic centre of European civilization. The binding water between Turkey, the Middle East, the trading communities of North Africa, and the European powerhouses Italy, France and Greece, a history of this sea is a new and vital way...
IN ONE SPIRIT
An Interfaith Approach to Peace & Wellness in Jerusalem, the Middle East & the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2017
The Author lived in East & West Jerusalem for more than ten years working as a wholistic, interfaith, peace educator. He is a Muslim mystic who completed the Pilgrimage to Mecca & Madinah. He is also a Jewish mystic with a Judeo-Christian, American Israeli background. He worked on a Doctorate...
On the Arab Revolts and the Iranian Revolution
Power and Resistance Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
On the Arab Revolts and the Iranian Revolution: Power and Resistance Today is the first comparative analysis of two central political events that have altered our world forever: the Arab uprisings which started in Tunisia, and the Iranian revolution in 1979. Adib-Moghaddam demonstrates how contemporary...
Journey into Islam
The Crisis of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Globalization, the war on terror, and Islamic fundamentalism-followed closely by a rise in Islamophobia-have escalated tensions between Western nations and the Muslim world. Yet internationally renowned Islamic scholar Akbar Ahmed believes that through dialogue and understanding, these cultures can...
by Brent Waterbury
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
This is a politically-incorrect view of Islam from historians and other critics in a narrative form. Today very few in the West would care about Islam at all if it wasn't for jihadi's making things miserable for millions of people. In this year alone Western Europe will take in 500,000 refugees alone...
Islam and Sustainable Development
New Worldviews
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
In Islam and Sustainable Development, Odeh Al-Jayyousi addresses the social, human and economic dimensions of sustainability from an Islamic perspective. Islam is sometimes viewed as a challenge, threat and risk to the West, but here we are reminded that the celebration of cultural diversity is a...
Islamists and Secularists in Egypt
Opposition, Conflict & Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
In a detailed analysis of the continued survival of authoritarian governments in the Arab world, this book uses Egypt as a case study to address the timely and complex issue of democratization in the Middle East.
This book examines how relations between different actors in the Egyptian opposition...
by Hammurabi, Robert Francis Harper
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian code of law of ancient Mesopotamia, dated back to about 1754 BC (Middle Chronology). It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world. The sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi, enacted the code. A partial copy exists on...
The Mind of a Terrorist
David Headley, the Mumbai Massacre, and His European Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
With the Pacing of a Thriller, a Veteran Journalist’s Account of the Terrorist behind the Mumbai Attacks and a Planned Attack in Europe
David Headley, the American-Pakistani also known as Daood Gilani, lived a double life. One day he would stroll through Central Park in his tailored Armani...
by Lord Eversley
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Towards the middle of the thirteenth century a small band or tribe of nomad Turks migrated from Khorassan, in Central Asia, into Asia Minor. They were part of a much larger body, variously estimated at from two to four thousand horsemen, who, with their families, had fled from their homes in Khorassan...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This is the first comprehensive and comparative examination of Islamic radicalisation in the Muslim regions of the former Soviet Union since the end of Communism. Since the 1990s, the ex-Soviet Muslim Volga-Urals, Caucasus and Central Asia have been among the most volatile and dynamic zones of Islamic...
Islam and China's Hong Kong
Ethnic Identity, Muslim Networks and the New Silk Road
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Hong Kong is a global city-state under the sovereignty of the People’s Republic of China, and is home to around 250,000 Muslims practicing Islam. However existing studies of the Muslim-majority communities in Asia and the Northwest China largely ignore the Muslim community in Hong Kong. Islam and...