World History

Jonathan Holslag Paperback, 656 pages 9780241395561   Three Thousand Years of War and Peace   Contents:   Why History Matters   1. Heavens Obscured...

Ryszard Kapuscinski Paperback 9780141188041   Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the natu...

John McHugo Paperback 9780863561603   Syria’s descent into chaos since 2011 has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, while more than nine millio...

Alain Mikhail Paperback 9780226638881    The Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Environmental History   Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a drea...

Tim Mackintosh-Smith Paperback 9780300251630   This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloos...

Bashir Bashir, Amos Goldberg Paperback 9780231182973   In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the H...

Stephen F. Dale Paperback 9781107107267   This book is a concise biography of Babur, who founded the Timurid-Mughal Empire of South Asia. Based pri...

Anaheed Al-Hardan Paperback 9780231176378   One hundred thousand Palestinians fled to Syria after being expelled from Palestine upon the establishm...

Caroline Williams Paperback 9789774168550   Contents:   1. Historical Summary and Chronology   2. Architectural and Ornamental Summary   3. The Isl...

Harry Norris Paperback 9781788310468   Arriving in Europe in the 14th century, the Qipchaq Tatars are the longest surviving Muslim people in Europe...

Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst Hardback 9781784538552   Religion, Rebels and Jihad   While jihad has been the subject of countless studies in the wake...

Michelle R. Kimball Paperback 9789670957203   Shaykh Ahmadou Bamba ranks with such apostles of peaceful militancy as Mahatma Gandhi, Abdul Ghaffar ...

Sheriff Mudasiru Paperback 9789839379594

Ginny Hill Hardback 9781849048057   Civil War, Saudi Adventurism and the Future of Arabia   Why is oil-rich Saudi Arabia involved in a costly and m...

Gary J. Bass Paperback 9781849044578   2014 Pulitzer Prize Finalist   The Blood Telegram is an unprecedented chronicle of a pivotal but little-know...

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Paperback 9780863564031   Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 exposed the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire to a Europe vast...

Amin Maalouf Paperback 9780863560231   European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth cent...

Christopher de Bellaigue Paperback 9780099578703   The Muslim world has often been accused of a failure to modernise and adapt. Yet in this sweepin...

Andrew Hammond Paperback 9780745332697  

Alexei Vassiliev Paperback 9780863561290   In 1964 Faisal bin Abdul Aziz became king of a country holding a quarter of the world’s oil reserves, al...

Barbara Drieskens Hardback 9780863566950   The djinn is an invisible spirit with a will of its own that may hide in the bathroom, lurk in dark alle...

Ilan Pappe Paperback 9780863564536   The Husaynis 1700–1948   The Husayni family of Jerusalem dominated Palestinian history for 250 years, from the...

Medina Tenour Whiteman With notes by Tahira Larmore Whiteman and Dr Abdur-Rahman Mangera Paperback 9781906949341   Huma's Travel Guide to Islamic S...

John McHugo Paperback 9780863567421   The key to understanding the Arab world today is unlocking its past.   In this authoritative account, John Mc...