World History

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...

Nick Holdstock Paperback 9781788319799   Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State   After isolated terrorist incidents in 2015, the Chinese leadershi...

Atef Alshaer (ed.) Paperback 9780863569906   An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba   A Map of Absence presents the finest poetry and pro...

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...