World History

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

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

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

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

Sedat BornavaliPaperback, 280 pages9786050830194   It is a challenge to define the Bosphorus – one may call it a waterway, a natural wonder, or the...

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

Ravil Bukharaev Paperback, 334 pages 9780415759915   A fascinating story of spiritual survival. The cultural and national reawakening that has acco...

Simon Sebag MontefiorePaperback, 784 pages9781474614399   A new, updated, revised edition of Jerusalem: The Biography, the wider history of the Mid...

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

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

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

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

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

Giedre SabaseviciutePaperback, 300 pages9780815637288   No Arab historical figure is more demonized than the Egyptian literati-turned-Islamist Sayy...

Waleed ZiadHardback, 368 pages9780674248816   Sufis created the most extensive Muslim revivalist network in Asia before the twentieth century, gene...

John D. HoslerHardback, 384 pages9780300255140   The first full account of the medieval struggle for Jerusalem, from the seventh to the thirteenth ...

Muhammad al-TunisiHumphrey Davies (translation)Paperback, 430 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479804443   A merchant’s remarkable travel account of an...

Abd al-Latif al-BaghdadiTim Mackintosh-Smith (translation)Paperback, 288 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479820078 A Description of Egypt and Journal ...

Ibn al-Sa'iPaperback, 176 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479866793   Accounts of remarkable women at the world's most powerful court   Consorts of th...

ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-NābulusīLuke Yarbrough (translation)Paperback, 224 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479824786   Patronage, power, and competitio...

al-Hasan al-YusiPaperback, 280 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479810581   Wide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life   al-Ha...

Michelle KarnesPaperback, 272 pages9780226819754 A cross-cultural study of magical phenomena in the Middle Ages.  Marvels like enchanted rings and ...

Karen Armstrong Paperback, 224 pages 9781842125830

Imam Dawud WalidPaperback, 150 pages9781909853195   Muslims speak of Islam in egalitarian terms: the religion of peace, the religion that seeks to ...

Ahed Tamimi, Dena TakruriPaperback, 224 pages9780593134597 A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom   A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after ...

Philip Mansel Paperback, 288 pages 9781784538477   A poignant testament to the city shattered by Syria's civil war. Aleppo lies in ruins, a casualt...

Jackie Lubeck, Samer Al-SaberPaperback, 296 pages9781350261815   Theatre for Young People   The first anthology of youth plays from Gaza and the wi...

Nur MasalhaPaperback, 352 pages9780755642953   In this magisterial cultural history of the Palestinians, Nur Masalha illuminates the entire history...

Shaul BakhashPaperback, 184 pages9780755638093   Reza Shah's authoritarian and modernising reign transformed Iran, but his rule and Iran's independ...

Victoria BiggsPaperback, 208 pages9780755636600   Storytelling, Contested Space and the Politics of Memory   How are forbidden histories told and t...

John D. HoslerPaperback, 254 pages9780300251494   Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle that Decided the Third Crusade   The siege of Acre...

Fatima ManjiPaperback, 304 pages9781529110951   Why was there a Turkish mosque adorning Britain's most famous botanic garden in the eighteenth cent...

Rosie BsheerPaperback, 416 pages9781503612570   The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artefacts t...

Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Dawoud El-AlamiPaperback, 352 pages9780861543700   Updated to cover the most recent events, including the US recognition of Jerus...

Christopher de BellaiguePaperback, 336 pages9780099540489   On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate c...

Aziz al-AzmehDavid Bond (translation)Paperback, 592 pages9781474447478 Contexts, Ideas and Consequences   This book is a translation of Aziz al-Azm...

Michal Biran Hardback 9781851685028

Michal BiranPaperback, 300 pages9780521066020   Between China and the Islamic World   The empire of the Qara Khitai, which was one of the least kno...

James L. GelvinPaperback, 334 pages4th Edition9781108738637   James L. Gelvin's award-winning account of the conflict between Israel and Palestine ...

Tharik HussainPaperback, 352 pages9781784778286   A magical, eye-opening account of a journey into a Europe that rarely makes the news and is in da...

C. Brad FaughtHardback, 264 pages9780300256741   The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on ...

Elias Muhanna Paperback 9780691191454   Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the author of one of the greatest e...

Abbas Amanat Paperback, 1008 pages 9780300248937   A masterfully researched history of Iran from 1501 to 2009   This history of modern Iran is not ...

John R. Bowen Paperback 9780691152493   Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State

Robert L. TignorPaperback9780691153070

Ali Ansari Paperback 9780199669349

Morris Rossabi Paperback 9780199840892

Pippa VirdeePaperback, 168 pages9780198847076   What is Pakistan? The name refers to a seventy-year-old post-colonial product of the bloodiest part...