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The War That Made the Middle East The War That Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire Mustafa Aksakal

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

Love, War, and Diplomacy Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed Eric H. Cline

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

City of Beginnings City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut Robyn Creswell

How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyond

Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference: Global Arabic and Counter-Imperial Literatures Annette Damayanti Lienau

How Arabic influenced the evolution of vernacular literatures and anticolonial thought in Egypt, Indonesia, and Senegal

The Surface of Things The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast Prita Meier

The first major history of photography from coastal East Africa

Africa's Buildings Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage Itohan I. Osayimwese

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

The Great Betrayal The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East Fawaz A. Gerges

How the Middle East can achieve political change and social progress

Iran's Grand Strategy Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History Vali Nasr

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...

Islam Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians F. E. Peters

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...

Writing Timbuktu Writing Timbuktu: The Book in West African History Shamil Jeppie

The long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in West Africa

The Book of Yerba Mate The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History Christine Folch

The untold story of South America鈥檚 most interesting beverage

Literature鈥檚 Refuge Literature鈥檚 Refuge: Rewriting the Mediterranean Borderscape William Stroebel

Stories silenced or sequestered by a century of mass displacement between Europe and the Middle East鈥攔ecovered and retold at last

Driven to Their Knees Driven to Their Knees: Humiliation in Contemporary Politics Roxanne L. Euben

How the rhetoric of humiliation defines the powerful and the powerless in modern politics

Hebrew Orientalism Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine Mostafa Hussein

How Jewish writers in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine used Arabo-Islamic culture to advance the goals of Zionism

Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History Craig Perry

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

Becoming Arab Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East Yossef Rapoport

How late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities and formed village clans

Haman Haman: A Biography Adam J. Silverstein

The first book-length study of the biblical villain Haman, examining his depiction across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Modern Arab Kingship Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East Adam Mestyan

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

Invisible Hands Invisible Hands: Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics Margaret S. Graves

The remarkable history of forged and fabricated Islamic ceramics, their makers, and their unique role in colonial trade

Delivering Tolerance Delivering Tolerance: How Unintended Institutional Inclusion Reduces Prejudice Chagai M. Weiss

A new theory of prejudice reduction, supported by rigorous evidence, arguing that public institutions and the people within them can improve intergroup relations in conflict-ridden societies

The Woman Question in Islamic Studies The Woman Question in Islamic Studies Kecia Ali

The interconnected ways that sexism functions in academic Islamic studies and how to shift professional norms toward parity

A History of the Muslim World A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity Michael A. Cook

A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Mu岣mmad to the birth of the modern era

Faces of Muhammad Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today John Tolan

Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western visions of Muhammad

Wahh膩bism 奥补丑丑腻产颈蝉尘: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement Cole M. Bunzel

An essential history of Wahh膩bism from its founding to the Islamic State

The Emperor and the Elephant The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne Sam Ottewill-Soulsby

A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources

D眉rer鈥檚 Knots D眉rer鈥檚 Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic East Susan Dackerman

An important new examination of Islamic themes in the art of Albrecht D眉rer

City of Beginnings City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut Robyn Creswell

How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyond

Terror in France Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West Gilles Kepel

The virulent new brand of Islamic extremism threatening the West

The Imam of the Christians The Imam of the Christians: The World of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, c. 750鈥850 Philip Wood

How Christian leaders adapted the governmental practices and political thought of their Muslim rulers in the Abbasid caliphate