World History

Neguin Yavari Hardback 9781849048200   This work is a critical study of the life and afterlife of Nizam al-Mulk (1018-92), celebrated Persian vizie...

Dominic Rubin Paperback 9781849048965   An empathetic account of a large and little understood population: Russia’s 20 million Muslims.

John Calvert Paperback 9781849049498   Revised and Updated   The influential Egyptian ideologue Sayyid Qutb (1906-66) is credited with establishing...

Matthew Carr Paperback 9781849048019   A riveting and richly detailed chronicle of what was, by 1614, the largest act of ethnic cleansing in Europe...

Frederic Wehrey , ed. Paperback 9781849048149   The Roots of Sectarianism in a Changing Middle East   This collection seeks to advance our understa...

Mustafa Kani Paperback 9780955087226   Telhis-i resailat-i rumat, translated from Ottoman Turkish   Including the Forty Prophetic Traditions on Arc...

Ahmed Mater Paperback 9783037784853   Through a series of photographs, Ahmed Mater charts the city's origins to its more recent history over the la...

Elizabeth Drayson Paperback 9781781256879   How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End   In 1482, Abu Abdallah Muhammad XI became t...

Yasmin Khan Paperback 9780300230321

Sultan Ghalib al-Quaiti Paperback 9781887752947   A History from the Earliest Traditions Until 1925   Tracing the history behind the rise of the Is...

Kristina Richardson Paperback, 168 pages 9780748695881   This title outlines the complex significance of bodies in the late medieval central Arab I...

Ahdaf Soueif, Omar Robert Hamilton Paperback 9781408884980   The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008. Bringing together writer...

Nabil Mouline Hardback 9780300178906

Peter Sluglett, Andrew Currie Paperback 9781138821309   This Atlas provides the main outlines of Islamic history from the immediate pre-Islamic per...

Garth Fowden Paperback 9780691168401   Contents:   1 Including Islam 2 Time: Beyond Late Antiquity 3 A New Periodization: The First Millennium 4 Sp...

Vali Nasr Paperback 9780393353389

David Lee, Peter G. Riddell (Foreword) Paperback 9781498225229   The Role of Liu Zhi   Liu Zhi (c.1662-c.1730), a well-known Muslim scholar in Chin...

Jim Wolfreys Paperback 9781849046886   Islamophobia in France is rising, with Muslims subjected to unprecedented scrutiny of what they wear, eat an...

Christopher Phillips Paperback 9780300234619   Most accounts of Syria’s brutal, long-lasting civil war focus on a domestic contest that began in 20...

Dawn Chatty Paperback 9781787384941   The definitive account of Syria’s long history of welcoming, and now exporting, refugees.

James Reardon-Anderson (ed.) Paperback 9781849048217   China and the Middle East

Joe Sacco Paperback, 432 pages 9781787332010   Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, has long been a notorious flashpoint in the b...

Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe Paperback, 215 pages 9781608464708   Operation Protective Edge (2014), Israel's assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palesti...

Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe Paperback 9781608463312   Israel's Operation Cast Lead thrust the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip into the center of...