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 Pilgrimage, Politics, and Pestilence: The Haj from the Indian Subcontinent, 1860-1920Best Price: $14.94 The epicentre of the Muslim universe, Mecca attracts hundreds of thousands of believers every... |  The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Including Poems and Versions of Poems now published for the first time 2 Volume Set (Oxford Scholarly Classics)Oxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available again great academic works from... |  On the Frontiers of Islam: Two Manuscripts Concerning the Sudan Under Turco-Egyptian Rule, 1822-45 (Study in African Affairs) |  Fideles Crucis: The Papacy, the West, and the Recovery of the Holy Land, 1274-1314 (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints)Best Price: $3.50 Schein challenges the view that the fall of Acre in 1291 was a watershed dividing the... |  Zionism and the Arabs 1882-1948: A Study of IdeologyBest Price: $106.65 What are the roots of the Jewish-Arab conflict? How has it developed, and why does it still... |
 Discoveries in the Judaean Desert X (Qumran Cave 4 (V: Miqsat Ma'ase Ha-Torah ))Best Price: $245.00 The tenth volume in the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series, this is the first ever... |  Technology and the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Sipri Publication)Best Price: $165.05 This examination of the implementation of the nuclear non-proliferation regime focuses on... |  Qatar Archaeological Report |  Fin de Siï¿1/2cle Beirut: The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Capital (Oxford Historical Monographs)Best Price: $132.51 Postwar Beirut conjures up contradictory images of remarkable openness and inconceivable... |  An Arabian Utopia: The Western Discovery of Oman (Studies in the Arcadian Library)Best Price: $159.98 Even though Oman had always been familiar to travellers sailing between Europe and India or... |
 Secularism Confronts IslamBest Price: $12.93 The center of Roy's story is Islam in France, but his evidence and commentary are... |  Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National ConsciousnessBest Price: $10.99 This foundational text now features a new introduction by Rashid Khalidi reflecting on the... |  An Iraq of Its Regions: Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy? (Columbia/Hurst)Best Price: $28.97 Federalism remains a dominant political debate in post-Saddam Iraq, and while Western... |  Iran in World Politics: The Question of the Islamic Republic (Columbia/Hurst)Best Price: $22.00 How has the Islamic Republic developed ideologically since the revolution of 1979? What are the... |  The Violence of Petrodollar Regimes: Algeria, Iraq and Libya (Columbia/Hurst)Best Price: $50.00 The creation of oil "rents" in the 1970s put Algeria, Iraq, and Libya on the fast... |
 Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic RepublicBest Price: $15.00 The role of women in Iran has often been downplayed or obscured, particularly in the modern era.... |  Palestinian Politics after Arafat: A Failed National Movement (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies)Best Price: $14.00 The Palestinian national movement reached a dead-end and came close to disintegration at the... |  The Politics of Miscalculation in the Middle East (Indiana Series in Arab and Islamic Studies)A bland title may give the impression of yet another retired government official indicting U.S.... |  The Papacy and the Middle East: The Role of the Holy See in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1962-1984 |  With Eyes Toward Zion - III: Western Societies and the Holy Land (With Eyes Toward Zion)A narrative complement to Eyes Toward Zion, Volume II (Praeger, 1986), this important new volume... |
 The Oxford History of IslamBest Price: $32.66 This is a beautiful book with a lot of lovely pictures and illustrations, and a great deal of... |  What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern ResponseBest Price: $2.35 Occidentalism, a recent New York Review of Books article, is destined to become the landmark... |  Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume XVIII: Jews and Violence: Images. Ideologies, Realities (Vol 18)Best Price: $61.20 This is the newest volume of the annual Studies In Contemporary Jewry series. It contains... |  The African and Middle Eastern World, 600-1500 (Medieval and Early Modern World)Best Price: $32.32 The history of the African and Middle Eastern world is, to a large extent, the story of a... |  The First Crusade: A New History: The Roots of Conflict between Christianity and IslamBest Price: $10.79 The problem is with the sub-title: "The Roots of Conflict Between Christianity and... |
 Artisans and Industrialization : Indian Weaving in the 20th Century |  The Red Fort of ShahjahanabadBest Price: $735.78 This book is a spatial and architectural history of the Red Fort of Delhi--the seventeenth... |  Pakistan: The Economy of an Elitist StateThe book provides an incisive review of the issues and challenges facing Pakistan's economy... |  A Glance at Sind Before Napier: Or, Dry Leaves from Young Egypt (Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints) |  Qul'at Ja'bar Potter: A study of a Syrian Fortified Site of the Late 11th-12th Centuries AD (British Academy Monographs in Archaeology)Best Price: $35.98 Investigation of the history of this important fortified settlement in the middle Euphrates... |
 Freedom from Fear and Other WritingsBest Price: $15.99 This collection of writings, edited by her husband, Michael Aris, reflects Aung San Suu... |  Death in Ancient Egypt (Pelican)Best Price: $52.68 In this survey, the author gives an account of Egyptian burial customs, the reasons for their... |  Regime ChangeThis gripping series of essays was written during 2002 and 2003 for the online magazine Slate.... |  The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American CenturyBest Price: $1.53 This is not a political story, it is a family history. It describes the legacy of a patriarch of... |  The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in IraqBest Price: $5.82 Ricks argues the shift in U. S. military strategy in Iraq from 2006-2008 was as a gamble. The... |
 The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the RenaissanceBest Price: $16.92 A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role... |  Israel, Palestine and Peace: EssaysBest Price: $3.24 The incredible literary power of Amoz Oz flashes forth from time to time in these essays. So too... |  A Tale of Love and DarknessBest Price: $5.43 This review was published in The Australian, August 16, 2008. Greg Sheridan is the Foreign... |  We Were Caught Unprepared: The 2006 Hezbollah-Israeli War (The Long War Series, Occasional Paper 26)Best Price: $20.99 |  U.S. Marines in Battle An-najaf, August 2004Best Price: $248.05 Ris is a ?battle study? written purposely from the perspective of the Marines, soldiers, and... |
 Planting Hatred, Sowing Pain: The Psychology of the Israeli-Palestinian ConflictBest Price: $26.97 In Planting Hatred, Sowing Pain, Salinas examines the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict focusing on... |  Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An AnthologyLike a treasure-filled storehouse to which we have lost the key, Ottoman lyric poetry is almost... |  Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The Street and the StateAccording to conventional wisdom, the national identity of the Jordanian state was defined by... |  Outsider in the Promised Land: An Iraqi Jew in IsraelBest Price: $17.15 In 1951, Israel was a young nation surrounded by hostile neighbors. Its tenuous grip on... |  Muslim Reformers in Iran and Turkey: The Paradox of Moderation (Modern Middle East)Best Price: $20.00 Tezcur's book is a good introduction to the basic elements of moderate Muslim political... |
 The Kin Who Count: Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840The history of the Middle Eastern family presents as many questions as there are currently... |  The Kin Who Count: Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840Best Price: $18.00 I was very impressed to see that a great writer like Margaret L. Meriwether was interested to... |  A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca, (1885-1886): The Safarnameh of Mirza Mohammad Hosayn FarahaniBest Price: $215.99 "A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca" is taken from the original nineteenth-century... |  The Jews in Modern Egypt, 1914-1952 (Publications on the Near East)Best Price: $58.49 Kramer's book is perhaps the most authoritative work on the subject of Egyptian Jews of the... |  Iran And The Surrounding World: Interactions In Culture And Cultural PoliticsBest Price: $30.00 These essays examine Iran's place in the world-its relations and cultural interactions with... |
 The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern ScienceBest Price: $28.35 Arun Bala's book fills an important gap in Western knowledge of its own history of science. ... |  Women in Saudi Arabia : Ideology and Behavior among the EliteBest Price: $391.89 |  Records of the Grand HistorianSima Qian (145?-90? BCE) was the first major Chinese historian. His "Shiji," or... |  Imperial LegacyBest Price: $102.13 -- Choice |  Middle East Military BalanceThis annual reference provides a statistical study of military trends in the Middle East and a... |
 Decade of TransitionBest Price: $66.54 -- Israel Affairs |  Inside Al QaedaBest Price: $6.00 What's truly scary are the totally mistaken perceptions that many people who read this book... |  Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon: A History of the Internationalization of Communal Conflict (History and Society of the Modern Middle East)Best Price: $15.00 The works of Samir Khalaf are perhaps the most quoted in all the books that talk about or try to... |  The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-DiscoursesBest Price: $18.50 relevant reading for all |  Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic SocietyBest Price: $20.00 In his probing study of the role of death rites in the making of Islamic society, Leor Halevi... |
 Counterinsurgency Leadership in Afghanistan, Iraq, and BeyondBest Price: $48.07 The Marine Corps University symposium, "Counterinsurgency Leadership in Iraq, Afghanistan,... |  The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (Oxford Histories)Best Price: $8.93 As a quote expresses on the back of this book, "If you only want to read one book on... |  Pharaoh's People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt (Oxford Paperbacks)The pharaohs who created such great monuments as the Valley of the Kings and the temples at... |  Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early YearsBest Price: $27.99 Peter Griffin has drawn upon a wealth of previously unpublished material--including numerous... |  Islamic Values in the United States: A Comparative StudyBest Price: $4.95 I loved this book, and I recommend it to everyone who is a Muslim, living in the United States.... |
 The Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran (Studies in Middle Eastern History)Best Price: $11.33 The book is a very important look into the Iranian revolution. The author does a good job... |  The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (Five Volume Set)Best Price: $60.00 This thing is simply great - Looks good, nice paper, great content, not overly... |  The Making of Saudi Arabia, 1916-1936: From Chieftaincy to Monarchical State (Studies in Middle Eastern History)Best Price: $60.00 The Making of Saudi Arabia focuses on the transformation of the Saudi state from a loose tribal... |  Islam and the WestBest Price: $13.89 For their clarity, accessibility and deep insight, these 11 essays represent top grade... |  Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American CultureBest Price: $49.94 This interdisciplinary collection of comparative essays by distinguished historians and literary... |
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| The Kin Who Count: Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840 The history of the Middle Eastern family presents as many questions as there are currently... | The Kin Who Count: Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840 Best Price: $18.00 I was very impressed to see that a great writer like Margaret L. Meriwether was interested to... | A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca, (1885-1886): The Safarnameh of Mirza Mohammad Hosayn Farahani Best Price: $215.99 "A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca" is taken from the original nineteenth-century... | The Jews in Modern Egypt, 1914-1952 (Publications on the Near East) Best Price: $58.49 Kramer's book is perhaps the most authoritative work on the subject of Egyptian Jews of the... | Iran And The Surrounding World: Interactions In Culture And Cultural Politics Best Price: $30.00 These essays examine Iran's place in the world-its relations and cultural interactions with... |
 Islamophobia: The Challenge of Pluralism in the 21st CenturyBest Price: $14.16 Islamophobia has been on the rise since September 11, as seen in countless cases of... |  Decisions to Go to War in Iraq (House of Commons)Best Price: $43.86 |  The massacres in SyriaBest Price: $14.18 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free... |  Personal Narrative of Military Travel and Adventure in Turkey and Persia; Comprising a Brief Sketch of the Chequered Life of the AuthorBest Price: $15.89 This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a... |  The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Order, and Societal Change in Shi'ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890 (Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies)Best Price: $23.16 Dismissing oversimplified and politically charged views of the politics of Shi'ite Islam,... |
 Sargonic Texts in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (MATERIALS FOR THE ASSYRIAN DICTIONARY)Best Price: $12.75 This volume presents transliterations of texts in the Ashmolean Museum, most of which are from... |  Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern ArchitectureBest Price: $25.99 In postwar Europe and the Middle East, Hilton hotels were quite literally "little... |  Shi'i Jurisprudence and Constitution: Revolution in Iran (Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History)Best Price: $56.99 Substantially about the relation between the concept of constitutionalism and Islamic Law in... |  American Military Intervention in Unconventional War: From the Philippines to IraqBest Price: $49.98 When should the United States intervene abroad militarily? When does it have a security interest... |  Women in Civil Society: The State, Islamism, and Networks in the UAEBest Price: $79.53 In this path-breaking study, Wanda Krause presents evidence of civil society emerging and in... |
 The Iran-Iraq War: Chaos in a VacuumBest Price: $125.22 This book is a major reinterpretation of the Iran-Iraq War and is a source for reexamining the... |  Christian Communities in Jerusalem and the West Bank Since 1948: An Historical, Social, and Political StudyBest Price: $117.95 Little has been written on Palestinian society and almost nothing on the Christian communities.... |  From Spear to Flintlock: A History of War in Europe and the Middle East to the French RevolutionBest Price: $117.44 This is a wonderful book. I also highly recommend The Flintlock by Torsten Lenk. |  Arab-Israeli Conflict and Conciliation: A Documentary HistoryBest Price: $49.59 If you want to understand the scope and history of the Arab - Israeli conflict you need to read... |  Desert Storm: A Forgotten WarBest Price: $84.95 Very well written. Starts a little slow with much preliminary but fascinating information about... |
 The Withered Vine: Logistics and the Communist Insurgency in Greece, 1945-1949Best Price: $120.00 An explanation of the failure of the Communist insurgency in Greece between 1945 and 1949, this... |  Operation Compass 1940: Wavell's Whirlwind Offensive (Praeger Illustrated Military History)Best Price: $52.99 The first battle of the desert war, Operation Compass was originally envisaged as a spoiling... |  American Presidents, Religion, and Israel: The Heirs of CyrusBest Price: $55.00 Shortly after the end of the Second World War, President Harry S Truman declared his support for... |  A Military History of Modern Egypt: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Ramadan War (Praeger Security International)Best Price: $49.95 A thoroughly satisfying book, and given the paucity of information on the subject, most welcome... |  Omdurman 1898: Kitchener's Victory in the Sudan (Praeger Illustrated Military History Series,)Best Price: $57.98 This volume tells the story of the conquest of the Dervish Empire: the Dongola-Berber campaign,... |
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