Middle East

Madawi Al-Rasheed Hardback, 416 pages 9781787383791   Reform and ruthless repression go hand in hand in MBS’s Saudi Arabia.   In 2018, journalist J...

Bachar Bakour Paperback, 328 pages 9789670526812   Although Syria, since the 1960s, has been dominated by a secular-nationalist regime, the 2011 up...

Nasir al-Huzaimi Paperback, 208 pages 9780755600113   On 20th November 1979, the Salafi Group, led by a charismatic figure named Juhaiman al-Utaibi...

Ömer Taspinar Hardback 9781788310109   Why Islam is Not the Problem   The West's actions in the Middle East are based on a fundamental misunderstan...

Fanar Haddad Hardback 9781787382060   Sunni–Shi’a Relations in the Modern Arab World   Much has been published on sectarianism in the Middle East b...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

Madawi Al-Rasheed (ed.) Hardback 9781849049658   King Salman of Saudi Arabia began his rule in 2015 confronted with a series of unprecedented chall...

Andrew Arsan Paperback, 520 pages 9781787383654   Lebanon seems a country in the grip of permanent crisis. In recent years it has suffered blow aft...

Dilip Hiro Paperback 9781787384088   For four decades Saudi Arabia and Iran have vied for influence in the Muslim world. At the heart of this ongoi...

H.A. Hellyer Hardback 9781849046848   A Revolution Undone blends analysis and narrative, charting Egypt’s journey from Tahrir to Sisi from the pers...

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

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

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

Nabil Mouline Hardback 9780300178906

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

Helen Lackner Hardback 9780863561931   Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State

Roger Hardy Hardback 9781849046398    Almost fifty years after Britain and France left the Middle East, the toxic legacies of their rule continue t...

Madawi Al-Rasheed Hardback 9781849045865   Analysis of both official and opposition Saudi divine politics is often monolithic, conjuring images of ...

Dorothe Sommer Paperback 9781784536671   A History of the Fraternity and its Influence in Syria and the Levant   Contents 1: The Ottoman Empire in ...

Robin Yassin-Kassab, Leila Al-Shami Paperback 9780745337821   Burning Country explores the complicated reality of life in present-day Syria with un...

Marwa al-Sabouni Paperback 9780500292938

Simon Ross Valentine Hardback 9781849044646   Wahhabism is an Islamic reform movement found mainly in Saudi Arabia. Closely linked to the Saudi mon...

Yaroslav Trofimov Paperback 9780141034065   20 November 1979: as morning prayers began, hundreds of hardline Islamist gunmen, armed with rifles smu...

David Fromkin Paperback. 644 pages 9780805088090   The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East   The Middle East has ...