World History

Jon Hoover Hardback 9781786076892   Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328) of Damascus was one of the most prominent and controversial religious scholars of medi...

Laurence Louër Hardback 9780691186610   A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world.   Contents:   PART O...

Behrooz Sabet, Cyrus Rohani (eds.) Paperback 9780863563881     The Challenge of Modernity in the Middle East and North Africa   Recent developments...

Atef Abu Saif Paperback 9781905583713   A Gaza Diary   On 7 July 2014, in an apparent response to the murder of three teenagers, Israel launched a ...

James Verini Hardback 9781786077486   The battle is for a city. The war is for history. In autumn 2016, Iraqi forces began operations to recapture ...

Kaya Genc Hardback 9781788314961   Turkey is a land torn between East and West, and between its glorious past and a dangerous, unpredictable future...

Yossef Rapoport Hardback 9781851244928   "Every map is a unique mix of science and art, ideology and power."   Spanning the Islamic world, from nin...

Joseph Allchin Paperback 9781849048743   A perennial frontier for Islamic orthodoxy, Bangladesh is witnessing an alarming rise in Islamist-inspired...

David Waines Paperback 9781780763606   Ibn Battuta was, without doubt, one of the world's truly great travellers. Born in 14th century Morocco, and...

Sadek Hamid Paperback 9781788310611   The terms 'Islamism', 'Salafism' and 'Jihadism' have acquired common currency in recent years, often being in...

Raja Shehadeh Paperback, 208 pages 9781788163071   In Going Home, Orwell Prize winning author Raja Shehadeh travels Ramallah and records the changi...

Fawaz A. Gerges Paperback 9780691196466   Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East   How the conflict between political Islamists an...

Hossein Kamaly Paperback 9781786078780   Beginning in seventh-century Mecca and Medina, A History of Islam in 21 Women takes us around the globe, t...

Gardner Thompson Paperback 9780863564826   It is now more than seventy years since the creation of the state of Israel, yet its origins and the Bri...

Frederick Starr Paperback 9780691165851

Martin Pugh Hardback 9780300234947   A History from 622 to the Present Day   An eye-opening history of Britain and the Islamic world—a thousand-yea...

Abdul Rahman Azzam Paperback 9781903682876   Over 800 years since his death, Saladin’s fame as the Muslim liberator of Jerusalem, the great foe of ...

Jonathan Phillips Paperback 9780099572749   An epic story of empire-building and bloody conflict, this ground-breaking biography of one of history'...

Marcello Di Cintio Paperback 9780863569807   Across Palestine, from the Allenby Bridge and Ramallah, to Jerusalem and Gaza, Marcello Di Cintio has ...

Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe Paperback 9780241973523   On Palestine is Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe's indispensable update on a suffering region. Operat...

Ilan Pappe Paperback, 304 pages 9781786073419   A History of the Occupied Territories   A powerful, groundbreaking history of the Occupied Territor...

Peter Mansfield Paperback 9780141988467   Over the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This no...

Abdullah Bin Hamid Ali Paperback 9781905837625   What is the ‘negro’? Who qualifies? What is its Arabic equivalent? And, what did pre-modern writer...

Juan Cole Hardback, 326 pages 9781568587837   A vibrant history that brings to life the fascinating and complex world of the Prophet, this is the s...