Middle Eastern Studies
A new history that tells the story of how European imperial ambitions destroyed the Ottoman Empire during the Great War and created a divided and unstable Middle East
From the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C., a spellbinding account of the archaeological find that opened a window onto the vibrant diplomatic world of the ancient Near East
How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyond
How Arabic influenced the evolution of vernacular literatures and anticolonial thought in Egypt, Indonesia, and Senegal
The first major history of photography from coastal East Africa
A groundbreaking history of Africa鈥檚 looted architectural heritage鈥攁nd a bold proposal for the repatriation of the continent鈥檚 stolen cultural artifacts
How the Middle East can achieve political change and social progress
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shia Revival
A gripping account that overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats鈥攅xternal aggression and...
The Quran is a sacred book with profound, and familiar, Old and New Testament resonances. And the message it promulgated, Islam, came of age during an extraordinarily rich era of interaction among monotheists. Jews, Christians, and...
The long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in West Africa
The untold story of South America鈥檚 most interesting beverage
Stories silenced or sequestered by a century of mass displacement between Europe and the Middle East鈥攔ecovered and retold at last
How the rhetoric of humiliation defines the powerful and the powerless in modern politics
How Jewish writers in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine used Arabo-Islamic culture to advance the goals of Zionism
A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle East
How late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities and formed village clans
The first book-length study of the biblical villain Haman, examining his depiction across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
How the 鈥渞ecycling鈥� of the Ottoman Empire鈥檚 uses of genealogy and religion created new political orders in the Middle East
The remarkable history of forged and fabricated Islamic ceramics, their makers, and their unique role in colonial trade