World History

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...

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...

Robert Irwin Paperback 9781861974877

Yohanan FriedmannHardback, 268 pages9780861543113   Expectation of a redeemer is a widespread phenomenon across many civilizations. Classical Islam...

Ahmed Paul KeelerPaperback, 276 pages9781916173835   Ahmed Paul Keeler recounts an extraordinary life that began in the 1940s with an idyllic child...

Jamal al-Din Abd al-Rahim al-Jawbari Humphrey Davies (translation) Paperback, 320 pages English-only edition 9781479813247   Uncovering the profess...

Rizwaan SabirPaperback, 256 pages9780745338484   Counterterrorism, Islam, and the Security State What impact has two decades' worth of policing and...

Alija IzetbegovicPaperbacks9781905837694   This boxset comprises:Alija Izetbegovic: A Short Biography by Sharif H. BannaOn Life, People and Freedom...

Ismail Adam Patel, Arwa Aburawa Paperback 9781906949396

Elisabeth BeckerPaperback, 288 pages9780226781648   Incivility, Caste, and Contention in Europe   Mosques in the Metropolis offers a unique look in...

Sabrina MahfouzPaperback, 320 pages9781472282491   Are you not made of Suez silt? How do we know you won't shore our boats by making yourself bigge...

Clifford Geertz Paperback, 144 pages 9780226285115   "In four brief chapters," writes Clifford Geertz in his preface, "I have attempted both to lay...

Helen Pfeifer Hardback, 320 pages 9780691195230   A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped cul...

Ahmed Rashid Paperback, 352 pages 9780755647101   Following the U.S-Taliban peace deal of February 2020 - and the U.S's promised withdrawal from Af...

Sean R. Roberts Paperback, 308 pages 9780691234496   How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minor...

Abdullah Anas, Tam Hussein Hardback, 340 pages 9781787380110   A first-hand account of the Afghan–Soviet war and its role in rallying Islamists fro...

Barnett R. Rubin Paperback, 352 pages 9780190496647   Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of inter...