Library of Middle East History – serie
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Saudi Arabia Under Ibn Saud
Economic and Financial Foundations of the State
Inbunden, 2018
1461 kr
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At its founding in 1932, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was characterized by tribal warfare, political instability, chronic financial shortages and economic crises. As a desert chieftain, Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud, the ruler and king until 1953, had the skills, the cunning and the power to control the …
Ottoman Haifa
A History of Four Centuries Under Turkish Rule
Av Alex Carmel
Inbunden, 2010
1898 kr
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Under Ottoman rule, the city of Haifa, located at the southern point of the largest bay on the coast of what today is Israel, was transformed from a scarcely-inhabited fortress town to a major modern city. This book details the history of Haifa under the Ottomans during the period 1516-1918. Alex …
Empire and Tribe in the Afghan Frontier Region
Custom, Conflict and British Strategy in Waziristan until 1947
Av Hugh Beattie
Inbunden, 2019
1752 kr
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Waziristan, a region on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has in recent years become a flash point in the so-called ‘War on Terror’. Hugh Beattie looks at the history of this region, examining British attempts to manage the tribes from 1849 until Pakistan’s declaration of independence in …
Close Relationships
Incest and Inbreeding in Classical Arabic Literature
Inbunden, 2005
2281 kr
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Close Relationships is Geert Jan van Gelder's groundbreaking and comprehensive study of the diverse facts and opinions concerning incest and close-kin marriage found in literary and non-literary pre-modern Arabic texts. The pre-Islamic Arabs knew about the dangers of inbreeding; the Qur'an …
Slaves of the Shah
New Elites of Safavid Iran
Av Sussan Babaie, K. Babayan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
2365 kr
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The Savafid dynasty represented, in political, cultural and economic terms the pinnacle of Iran's power and influence in its early modern history. The evidence for this -the creation of a nation state, military expansion and success, economic dynamism and the exquisite art and architecture of the …
Inventing Lebanon
Nationalism and the State Under the Mandate
Inbunden, 2002
2043 kr
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This study examines the history behind an idea: a new polity of "Greater Lebanon". It shows how, under the powerful influence of the French Mandate, various groups of the local elite attempted to create what amounted to a new Lebanese nationalism, carving the state into Maronite Christian, Sunni …
