World History

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...

Samer Akkach Hardback 9781851685080

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...

Ibn QutaybahSarah Bowen Savant, Peter Webb (translation)Paperback, 224 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479899265   A spirited defense of Arab identity...

Chiara FormichiPaperback, 348 pages9781107513976   Chiara Formichi explores the ways in which Islam and Asia have shaped each other's histories, so...

Shahla HaeriPaperback, 278 pages9781107554894   In this landmark study, Shahla Haeri offers the extraordinary biographies of several Muslim women r...

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...