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House of Many Mansions
The History of Lebanon Reconsidered
Av Kamal Salibi
Häftad, 2017
304 kr
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The Lebanese have always lacked a common vision of their past. From the beginning Muslims and Christians have disagreed fundamentally over their country's historical legitimacy: Christians on the whole have affirmed it, Muslims have tended to emphasize Lebanon's place in a broader Arab history. …
Invention of the Eastern Question
Sir Robert Liston and Ottoman Diplomacy in the Age of Revolutions
Av Ozan Ozavci
Häftad, 2027
427 kr
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The Invention of the Eastern Question recounts the gripping and dramatic history of how the Russian Empire’s invasion of Ottoman Crimea reshaped global politics at the dawn of the nineteenth century. Through the lives of Scottish diplomat Sir Robert Liston and his wife Henrietta (née Marchand) …
Fragments of a Lost Homeland
Remembering Armenia
Häftad, 2027
196 kr
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The Armenian world was shattered by the 1915 genocide. Not only were thousands of lives lost but families were displaced and the narrative threads that connected them to their own past and homelands were forever severed. Many have been left with only fragments of their family histories: a story of …
Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinematic and Dramatic Worlds
In Dialogue with Time (1979-2025)
Inbunden, 2027
1464 kr
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Despite strict censorship after the 1979 revolution, Persian literature and Iranian cinema, music, art and theatre found new ways to evolve and flourish.Bahram Beyzaie, whose innovative approaches to cultural production had helped revitalize indigenous Iranian artistic forms for modern purposes …
Turkism in Eurasia
Identity, Ideology and Politics
Häftad, 2026
427 kr
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Turkism as an idea which emphasizes the Turkic ethnic component in national identity is widely associated with Turks and Turkey. However, many millions of Turkic peoples with distinctive histories, cultures, social and political traditions live outside Turkey. This book discusses the origins and …
Photographing Biblical Modernity
Frank Scholten in British Mandate Palestine
Inbunden, 2026
1203 kr
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This open access book offers the first in-depth appraisal of the photographic archive of Frank Scholten (1881–1942), a queer Dutch photographer and Catholic convert whose work in Palestine between 1921 and 1923 provides a remarkable lens on the intersecting dynamics of modernity, religion, …
Disability History in the Modern Middle East
Av Beverly Tsacoyianis, Sara Scalenghe
Inbunden, 2027
1239 kr
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This volume presents a comparative, cross-disciplinary approach to disability history in Middle Eastern communities, focusing on case studies from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Chapters span a number of country case studies including Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine and Iran, and …
Power and Authority in Afghanistan
Rethinking Politics, Intervention and Rule
Av Anna Larson, Dipali Mukhopadhyay m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
431 kr
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As a result of a 20-year international military campaign, Afghanistan has been at the centre of global academic and policy debates on intervention and statebuilding. Yet these debates have often been piecemeal, ahistorical and centred in western logics, interests and concerns. This volume provides …
Paramilitary Violence in the Post-Ottoman Borderlands
Pro-state Militias and Nation-Building, 1905-1949
Av Ümit Kurt, Spyros Tsoutsoumpis
Inbunden, 2026
1239 kr
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This book examines the emergence, activities and legacies of pro-state paramilitarism in the late and post-Ottoman borderlands during the era of the European civil war (1905-1949). This period was marked by profound violence and acute ethno-political transformation spurred on by the decline and …
Peace in Yemen
Constraints and Prospects
Av Helen Lackner, Richard Barltrop
Inbunden, 2027
1273 kr
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Since the arrival of Huthi rule in Sana’a in 2014, Yemen has suffered from intense war, foreign intervention and political, economic and humanitarian crises. This book explores peace in Yemen, including how the international community has approached peacemaking in the country, how Yemenis perceive …
Gertrude Bell's Moment in the Middle East
A Reappraisal
Av Liora Lukitz
Häftad, 2026
445 kr
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An explorer, archaeologist, scholar, writer, and policymaker, Gertude Bell was a colourful figure who played an outsize role in the history of the Middle East in the early twentieth century.This book carefully examines Bell’s published and unpublished letters, diaries, notes, and publications to …
Persika
The Life of Nader Shah by Vasilios Vatatzes
Av Vasilios Vatatzes, Evangelos Venetis
Inbunden, 2026
1311 kr
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Vasilios Vatatzes was an eighteenth-century ethnic Greek scholar, merchant, traveller, and diplomat. In 1748, he wrote a biography of the Iranian ruler Nader Shah, in whose court he likely spent extensive time during his multiple trips across Iran. In this new annotated English translation, this …
Two Months on the Nile
Thomas Sandwith’s Nineteenth-Century Egyptian Journey
Häftad, 2026
427 kr
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British Consul with a long-standing interest in archaeology Thomas Sandwith’s account of his two months travelling in Egypt provides a valuable new primary source on a dynamic period in Egyptian history. In January 1893 he began a diary in which he recorded his journey on the Nile aboard a …
Sufism and Philosophy in the Contemporary Shia Seminary
Scholars and Mystics
Häftad, 2027
415 kr
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What is the place of Sufi and philosophical thought in Shi’ism today?This book delves into the ongoing debate within the contemporary Shia seminary over the role of Sufi and philosophical thought in interpreting religion. It examines two opposing schools: the Sufi School of Najaf, which harmonizes …
Female Police Officers in Pakistan
Diverse Realities, Continuities and Change
Av Sadaf Ahmad
Häftad, 2027
415 kr
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Pakistan’s police have historically displayed significant apathy towards recruiting women, considering them unsuitable for this profession. The social stigma of working in a notorious, male-dominated organization has also prevented many women from joining in the past. Today, female police officers …
Fatimid Cosmopolitanism
History, Material Culture, Politics and Religion
Av Gregory Bilotto, Farhad Daftary m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1356 kr
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I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies has published the following work as open access.The Fatimid caliphs (297–567/909–1171), who were also the Ismaili Imams, reigned over a vast state stretching from North Africa (including Egypt) to Sicily, Syria and the Hijaz. Under …
Zionism and the Creation of the ‘New Jew’
Max Nordau, Arthur Ruppin and Ephraim Lilien
Inbunden, 2027
1239 kr
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In what ways did the European racist and racial thinking affect the development of Zionism? This book critically investigates three important figures in the history of Zionism to trace how the rise of eugenics, racism and European and German colonialism and antisemitism influenced Zionist ideology …
Reimagining Peacebuilding in Iraq
The Role of Religious and Ethnic Minorities
Av Salah Ali
Inbunden, 2027
1203 kr
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The ongoing instability and violence in Iraq, exacerbated by the rise of extremist groups like ISIS, underscore the urgent need for effective peacebuilding. This book is a ground-breaking analysis of the pivotal role that Religious and Ethnic Minority (REM) groups play in peacebuilding within …
The Alawite State, 1920–46
Colonial Legacies and the Foundations of Assad’s Syria
Av Fadi Esber
Inbunden, 2026
1251 kr
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The Alawite State (1920–1946) was a politically autonomous entity created under the French Mandate for Syria.This book is the first in-depth study dedicated to this state experience. Fadi Esber argues that the Alawite State was not merely a colonial construct. It was a transformative political …
Christians of the Middle East
From the 18th to the 21st Century
Inbunden, 2027
2117 kr
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In the past 300 years, the Christians of the Middle East have had a transformative impact on the region. This book describes how Christian writers, thinkers and others introduced new ideas and practices in the fields of education, publishing, politics, trade, banking, art and culture. It also …
Iran and the Bomb
The United States, Iran, and the Nuclear Question
Av Sina Azodi
Inbunden, 2026
958 kr
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Iran’s nuclear program remains one of the most contentious issues of modern international politics. This book is the first to trace the evolution of Iran’s nuclear strategy (program) in the broader context of its relationship with the United States, from the early days of total US support in the …
City of Refuge
A History of Istanbul Through Eight Neighborhoods
Inbunden, 2027
259 kr
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Its life on the fault line, Istanbul bears its contradictions proudly. Ancient cosmopolitan port anchored to a hard, nationalist hinterland. Secular multiethnic metropolis pinned to a soi-disant monolingual Muslim ethnostate. Binder of continents and pillar of Pangaea, a string of broken pearls …
Being Gorgeous
Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual
Häftad, 2015
390 kr
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Being Gorgeous explores the ways in which extravagance, flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for women to play around anarchically with familiar stereotypical tropes of femininity. This is protest through play - a pleasurable misbehaviour that reflects a feminism for the twenty …
Israel, Palestine and the Politics of Race
Exploring Identity and Power in a Global Context
Av Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Abigail B. Bakan
Häftad, 2019
378 kr
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As the situation in Israel/Palestine seems to become ever more intractable and protracted, the need for new ways of looking at recent developments and its historical roots is more pressing than ever. Bearing this in mind, Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail Bakan discuss the historic and contemporary …
Writing Revolution
The Voices from Tunis to Damascus
Av Matthew Cassel, Layla Al-Zubaidi
Häftad, 2013
299 kr
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From Cairo to Damascus and from Tunisia to Bahrain, Layla Al-Zubaidi and Matthew Cassel have brought together some of the most exciting new writing born out of revolution in the Arab world. This is a remarkable collection of testimony, entirely composed by participants in, and witnesses to, the …
Averroes, Kant and the Origins of the Enlightenment
Reason and Revelation in Arab Thought
Inbunden, 2014
1992 kr
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The twelfth-century philosopher Averroes is often identified by modern Arab thinkers as an early advocate of the Enlightenment. Saud M. S. Al-Tamamy demonstrates that an historical as well as comparative approach to Averroes' thought refutes this widely held assumption. The philosophical doctrine …
Murder, Mayhem and Music Hall
The Dark Side of Victorian London
Inbunden, 2015
673 kr
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The Strand is one of London's most iconic streets - today the bustling and thriving home of West End theatres and the luxurious Savoy hotel; in the Victorian era, the Strand was a much more seedy and destitute part of the city. Barry Anthony here explores the criminal and socially subversive …
Twenty Years of MAKE Magazine
Back to the Future of Women's Art
Av Maria Walsh, Mo Throp
Häftad, 2015
369 kr
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During the 1970s, adding 'women's' to 'art' was a powerfully political act. Fuelled by the momentum of the women's liberation movement, artists, art historians, critics and curators began to explore the women's art practice, as distinct from men's, and to challenge its invisibility in the …
One Hundred Years of Socialism
The West European Left in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2013
386 kr
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This new edition of Donald Sassoon's magisterial history of the Left in the twentieth century includes a substantial new introduction by the author. With unique authority and unparalleled scholarship, Sassoon traces the fortunes of the political parties of the left in Western Europe across 14 …
Pilgrims and Sultans
The Hajj Under the Ottomans
Häftad, 2014
291 kr
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The pilgrimage to Mecca - the hajj - is a major aspect of the Islamic religion, yet little has been written about its history or of the conditions under which thousands of pilgrims from far flung regions of the Islamic world travelled to the heart of the Arabian peninsula. This pioneering book …
