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Questioning Secularism

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Hussein Ali AgramaPaperback, 288 pages9780226010694   Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt   The central question of the Arab Sp...

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The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel

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Uri Bar-JosephPaperback, 400 pages9780062420138   As the son-in-law of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and a close adviser to his successor, ...

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Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War

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Leila Tarazi FawazHardback, 416 pages9780674735491   A century after the Great War, the experiences of civilians and soldiers in the Middle East du...

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Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent

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John Julius Norwich Paperback 9781473632981   Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Euro...

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Lebanon: A History, 600 - 2011

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William Harris Paperback, 400 pages 9780190217839   In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities ...

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The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism

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Toby MatthiesenHardback, 944 pages9780198806554   The authoritative account of the sectarian division that for centuries has shaped events in the M...

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The Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Heroes and Villains

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Hannah-Lena HagemannPaperback, 316 pages9781474450898   Why are stories told about the Khārijites – purported rebels and heretics? From the Khāriji...

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The Return of the Taliban

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Hassan AbbasPaperback, 320 pages9780300278712   Afghanistan after the Americans Left   The first account of the new Taliban—showing who they are, w...

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Yarmuk AD 636: The Muslim Conquest of Syria

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David NicollePaperback, 96 pages9781855324145   In 636 AD, after protracted skirmishing and minor engagements the Arab and Byzantine armies faced e...

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The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East

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Nicholas MortonPaperback9781399803564   The Mongol Storm tells the story of the Mongols and the empires they conquered.   Drawing on years of deep ...

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The Story of the Andalusis

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Issa MayerPaperback, 576 pages9781739131302   An Islamic History of Al-Andalus   From Târiq ibn Ziyâd’s first steps on the soil of the Old Continen...

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Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present

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Adeeb KhalidPaperback, 576 pages9780691235196   Central Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. ...

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In the Shadow of the Prophet: Essays in Islamic History

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Roy P. MottahedehHardback, 640 pages9780861545605   In pieces drawn from over the course of his distinguished career, pre-eminent historian Roy Mot...

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The Cultural Atlas Of Islam

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Ismai'il R. al-Faruqi, Lois Lamiya' al-FaruqiHardback, 750 pages9780029101902   Islam is a world religion which has stretched from Cordoba, Spain, ...

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We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

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Raja ShehadehPaperback, 160 pages9781788169981   A Palestinian Memoir   A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his fathe...

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Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam

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Brannon D. Ingram Paperback 9780520298002   The Deoband movement-a revivalist movement within Sunni Islam that quickly spread from colonial India t...

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The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates

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Hugh KennedyPaperback, 428 pages4th Edition9780367366896   The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century   The Prophet and the Age o...

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Jerusalem: The Biography

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Simon Sebag MontefiorePaperback, 784 pages Updated 2024 Edition9781399628570   A new, updated, revised edition of Jerusalem: The Biography, the wid...

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Walking Quran: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa

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Rudolph T. Ware Paperback, 352 pages 9781469614311   Spanning a thousand years of history--and bringing the story to the present through ethnograph...

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Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950

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Mark Mazower Paperback, 325 pages9780007120222   The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing c...

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Islam and Blackness

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Jonathan A.C. BrownHardback, 416 pages9780861544844   It is commonly claimed that Islam is anti-black, even inherently bent on enslaving Black Afri...

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Granada 1492: Twilight of Moorish Spain

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David NicollePaperback, 96 pages9781855327405   By 1481 Granada was the last Islamic enclave in Catholic Spain. Granada's last ruler, Muhammad XII ...

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The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia

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Peter Hopkirk Paperback, 592 pages9780719564475   For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia...

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Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi: Islam and the Enlightenment

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Samer Akkach Hardback 9781851685080

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