Patronage and Poetry in the Islamic World

Jocelyn Sharlet

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Middle East History | nr. 24
• Panegyric poetry, in both Arabic and Persian, was one of the most important genres of literature in the medieval Middle East and Central Asia. Jocelyn... Lees meer

The Day Begins at Sunset

Barbara Freyer Stowasser

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Middle East History | nr. 48
• The fullest account ever written of the fascinating nexus between Islam and Time, this is a major contribution to the wider history of ideas and relig... Lees meer

Redrawing the Middle East

Michael D Berdine

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• The Sykes-Picot Agreement was one of the defining moments in the history of the modern Middle East. Yet its co-creator, Sir Mark Sykes, had far more i... Lees meer

A Global Middle East

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• The start of the twentieth century ushered in a period of unprecedented change in the Middle East. These transformations, brought about by the emergen... Lees meer

Saudi Arabia Under Ibn Saud

J E Peterson

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Middle East History | nr. 75
• At its founding in 1932, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was characterized by tribal warfare, political instability, chronic financial shortages and econo... Lees meer

Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam

Travis Zadeh

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• The story of the 9th-century caliphal mission from Baghdad to discover the legendary barrier against the apocalyptic nations of Gog and Magog mentione... Lees meer

Berber Government

Hugh Roberts

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• The Berber identity movement in North Africa was pioneered by the Kabyles of Algeria. But a preoccupation with identity and language has obscured the ... Lees meer

The Beloved in Middle Eastern Literatures

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• In the long literary history of the Middle East, the notion of 'the beloved' has been a central trope in both the poetry and prose of the region. This... Lees meer

Diplomacy in the Early Islamic World

Maria Vaiou

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• Arab messengers played a vital role in the medieval Islamic world and its diplomatic relations with foreign powers. An innovative treatise from the 10... Lees meer

The Origins of Visual Culture in the Islamic World

Mohammed Hamdouni Alami

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• In tenth-century Iraq, a group of Arab intellectuals and scholars known as the Ikhwan al-Safa began to make their intellectual mark on the society aro... Lees meer

Zionism in Damascus

Yaron Harel

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• The beginning of the twentieth century was a period that saw far-reaching change in the political and geographical landscapes of the Middle East. From... Lees meer

The Struggle for the State in Jordan

Jamie Allinson

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• Why do the states of the Arab world seem so unstable? Why do alliances between them and with outside powers change? Jamie Allinson argues that the ans... Lees meer

The Travels of Ibn Jubayr

Ibn Jubayr

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• Ibn Jubayr's account of his journey from his home in then Islamic Spain to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, Syria, the Crusader Kingdoms and ultim... Lees meer

The Warrior Women of Islam

Remke Kruk

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with The Thousandvand One Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narra... Lees meer

Islamic Jerusalem and Its Christians

Maher Y Abu-Munshar

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• Islamic Jerusalem has a special place in the hearts of the three monotheistic religions. Throughout its history it has been the site of tolerance and ... Lees meer

Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• The concept of the 'dangerous classes' was born in a rapidly urbanizing and industrializing nineteenth century Europe. It described all those who had ... Lees meer

Sex Work in Colonial Egypt

Francesca Biancani

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• In the early 20th century Cairo was a vibrant and booming global metropolis. The integration of Egypt into the global market had led to rapid urban gr... Lees meer

Islam and the Victorians

Shahin Kuli Khan Khattak

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• How did the Victorians perceive Muslims in the British Empire and beyond? How were these perceptions propagated by historians and scholars, poets, dra... Lees meer

The Ottoman Cities of Lebanon

James A Reilly

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• Whether defined as essentially 'Turkish', and therefore alien to the Lebanese experience, or remembered in its final years as a tyrannical and brutal ... Lees meer

The Politics and Culture of an Umayyad Tribe

Mohammad Rihan

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• The Umayyad caliphate, ruling over much of what is now the modern Middle East after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, governe from Damascus from 661 ... Lees meer

Islam Under the Palestine Mandate

Nicholas E Roberts

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Middle East History | nr. 57
• Concerns about the place of Islam in Palestinian politics are familiar to those studying the history of the modern Middle East. A significant but ofte... Lees meer

From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt

Maged S a Mikhail

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• The conquest of Egypt by Islamic armies under the command of Amr ibn al-As in the seventh century transformed medieval Egyptian society. Seeking to un... Lees meer

The Secret War in Afghanistan

Panagiotis Dimitrakis

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in support of a Marxist-Leninist government, and the subsequent nine-year conflict with the indigenous Afghan Muja... Lees meer

Us Approaches to the Arab Uprisings

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Middle East History
• From nonviolent protests in Cairo and Manama to the ousting of Libya's Gaddafi and the beginning of the Syrian Civil War, the series of uprisings whic... Lees meer