Middle Eastern history Books
Edinburgh University Press The Egyptian Social Contract
Book SynopsisExamines state-middle class reciprocities in the making, persistence and failure of the Egyptian social contract
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press The Melkite Schism
£117.00
Edinburgh University Press Gezi
Book SynopsisStudies the trajectory of political activism in the aftermath of the 2013 Gezi park protests in Istanbul
£76.50
Edinburgh University Press Experiencing the Landscapes of Medieval Anatolia
Book SynopsisUtilises landscape phenomenology to investigate medieval Anatolian social history.
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press The Premodern Origins of JihadiSalafism
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors 18691959
£93.75
Taylor & Francis Ltd Law and Religion between Petra and Edessa
Book SynopsisThe thousands of surviving inscriptions in Middle Aramaic (e.g., in the Nabataean, Syriac and Palmyrene dialects) are an underused resource in the study of the Near East in the Roman period, especially in the study of religion and law. Particularly important was the emergence during this period of new peoples with their cultural roots in Arabia, such as the Nabataeans. This volume collects together, under the interrelated themes of religion and law, twenty-three articles by John Healey, with sections on Petra and Nabataean Aramaic, Edessa and Early Syriac and Aramaic and Society in the Roman Near East. Individual papers discuss the continuation of Ancient Near Eastern culture, the Aramaic legal tradition as well as the development of both written and spoken forms of Syriac and Nabatean.Trade Review'It is particularly useful to have [Healey's] articles on the 'Aramaic Crescent' in the Hellenistic and Roman period made easily available within one volume.' Journal of Semitic StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Part I Petra and Nabataean Script: Nabataean inscriptions: language and script; Were the Nabataeans Arabs?; Nabataean to Arabic: calligraphy and script development among the pre-Islamic Arabs; Sources for the study of Nabataean Law; The Nabataeans and Mada'in Salih; A Nabataean sundial from Mada'in Salih; Jaussen-Savignac 17: the earliest dated Arabic document (A.D. 267), (with G. Rex Smith); Nabataeo-Arabic: Jaussen-Savignac nab. 17 and 18; A Nabataean papyrus fragment (Bodleian MS Heb. d. 89); 'Sicherheit des Auges': the contribution to Semitic epigraphy of the explorer Julius Euting (1839-1913). Part II Edessa and Early Syriac: The Edessan milieu and the birth of Syriac; The early history of the Syriac script: a reassessment; A new Syriac mosaic inscription; Lexical loans in early Syriac: a comparison with Nabataean Aramaic; Variety in early Syriac: the context in contemporary Aramaic; Some lexical and legal notes on a Syriac loan transfer of 240 CE. Part III Aramaic and Society in the Roman Near East: 'Romans always conquer'. Some evidence of ethnic identity on Rome's eastern frontier; New evidence for the Aramaic legal tradition: from Elephantine to Edessa; The writing on the wall: law in Aramaic epigraphy; 'May he be remembered for good': an Aramaic formula; Dushara as Sun-God; The kindly and merciful God: on some Semitic divine epithets; From Sapanu/Sapunu to Kasion: the sacred history of a mountain; Addenda and corrigenda; Index.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd Orientations of Avicennas Philosophy
Book SynopsisThe volume brings together seventeen studies on Avicenna by Dimitri Gutas, written over the past twenty-five years. They aim to establish Avicenna's historical and philosophical context as a means to determining his philosophical project and the orientations of his thought. They deal with his life and works, his method, his epistemology, and his later reception in the Islamic world, ending with a programmatic essay on the state of the field of Avicennan studies and future agenda. Occasioned by issues raised in Gutas's monograph on Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition (whose second edition has just appeared), they form a substantive complement to it. For this reprint, a number of the essays have been reset and accordingly revised and updated. Provided with exhaustive indexes of names, places, subjects, and technical terms, the volume constitutes a new and major research tool for the study of Avicenna and his heritage. (CS1050).Table of ContentsContents: Foreword. Life and Works: Avicenna: biography; Avicenna's Maa,Ahab, with an appendix on the question of his date of birth; Texts from Avicenna's library in a copy by E'Abd-ar-RazzAuq aa'GBP-a' iA!nAua,"A" (notes and texts from Cairo manuscripts, II); Avicenna's marginal glosses on De anima and the Greek commentatorial tradition; Avicenna's Eastern ('Oriental') philosophy: nature, contents, transmission. Method: The logic of theology (kalAum) in Avicenna; The empiricism of Avicenna; Medical theory and scientific method in the age of Avicenna. Epistemology: Avicenna: the metaphysics of the rational soul; Intuition and thinking: the evolving structure of Avicenna's epistemology; Imagination and transcendental knowledge in Avicenna; Intellect without limits: the absence of mysticism in Avicenna; Avicenna: mysticism and the question of his 'Oriental' philosophy. The Study of Avicenna and His Heritage: The heritage of Avicenna: the golden age of Arabic philosophy, 1000 - ca. 1350; Philosophy in the 12th century: one view from Baghdad, or the repudiation of al-GhazAulA"'; Ibn a'--ufayl on Ibn SA"nAu's Eastern philosophy; The study of Avicenna. Status quaestionis atque agenda. Indexes.
£128.25
John Murray Press The Culture of God
Book Synopsis''So much of the reporting of the Middle East at the moment reflects war and human misery; it''s inspiring to find, in this thoughtful and engaging book, a message of hope from what Fr Nadim calls that region of the world that God chose to live in when he took human form'' Edward Stourton''The ultimate question of this book is, why does it matter to me, a human being, to know the culture of God, and what impact should that have on my own life and existence? The culture of God is the antithesis of the culture of the Pharisees - yet again and again we fall into the trap of condemning or excluding others. Understanding the culture of God helps us to uncover God''s image within us, a shining jewel buried deep under the dirt of our selfishness and greed, and helps us to shine as God intends us to, re-forming our relationships with God and with each other in our amazingly diverse world.''It is as we read the Bible, aTrade ReviewThe Culture of God offered me a fresh perspective on very familiar Gospel stories, revealing in new ways how counter cultural Jesus was. It was also very inspiring to hear the stories and reflections of Nassar, who has experienced much conflict throughout his life and still works for peace through the hope and faith he finds in God, revealed in Jesus. * Reform *What comes across fromthis book is Nadim Nassar'sdeep spirituality and love ofGod. It is a fascinating andthought-provoking book. * The Irish Catholic *
£10.44
Edinburgh University Press Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary
Book SynopsisTraces, contextualizes, and analyses the making of the late President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser's image(s) in creative productions including novels, short stories, autobiographies and film.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia
Book SynopsisThis book looks beyond political structures and towards a reconsideration of the interactions between the rural and the urban; an analysis of the relationships between architecture, culture and power; and an examination of the region's multiple geographies.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to
Book SynopsisThis book examines how violent acts were assessed by Muslim intellectuals, analysing both changes and continuity within Islamic thought over time.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Political Change in the Middle East and North
Book SynopsisTaking a comparative approach, this book considers the ways in which political regimes in the Middle East and North Africa have changed since the Arab Spring.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Religion in the Egyptian Novel
Book SynopsisThis is an in-depth, original survey of religion in the modern Arabic novel. Tracing the relationship from the genesis of the form in the early twentieth century to present, Phillips provides a thematic exploration of the push and pull between religion and secularism as it played out on the pages of the Egyptian novel.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Islamisation
Book SynopsisThis volume aims to address this lacuna by providing a comparative perspective through studies of Islamisation that address both its historical trajectory and the methodological problems in its study from across the Islamic world, from Africa to China, from the 7th century until c. 1800.Table of ContentsFigures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on Islamisation, A.C.S. Peacock; Conversion and Islamisation: Theoretical approaches; Global Patterns of Ruler Conversion to Islam and the Logic of Empirical Religiosity, Alan Strathern; Conversion out of Personal Principle: Ali b. Rabban al-Tabari (d. c. 860) and Abdallah al-Tarjuman (d. c. 1430), Two Converts from Christianity to Islam, David Thomas; The Conversion Curve Revisited, Richard W. Bulliet. The early Islamic and Medieval Middle East; What did Conversion to Islam mean in Seventh- Century Arabia?, Harry Munt; Zoroastrian Fire Temples and the Islamisation of Sacred Space in Early Islamic Iran, Andrew D. Magnusson; There is no god but God': Islamisation and Religious Code Switching, eighth to tenth centuries, Anna Chrysostomides; Islamisation in Medieval Anatolia, A.C.S. Peacock; Islamisation in the Southern Levant after the End of Frankish Rule: Some General Considerations and a Short Case Study, Reuven Amitai; The Muslim West; Conversion of the Berbers to Islam/lslamisation of the Berbers, Michael Brett; The Islamisation of al-Andalus: Recent Studies and Debates, Maribel Fierro; Sub-Saharan Africa; The Oromo and the Historical Process of Islamisation in Ethiopia, Marco Demichelis; The Archaeology of Islamisation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Timothy Insoll. The Balkans; The Islamisation of Ottoman Bosnia: Myths and Matters, Sanja Kadric; From Shahada to 'Aqlda: Conversion to Islam, Catechisation, and Sunnitisation in Sixteenth- Century Ottoman Rumeli,Tijana Krstic; Central Asia; Islamisation on the Iranian Periphery: Nasir-i Khusraw and Ismailism in Badakhshan, Daniel Beben; Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi as an Islamising Saint: Rethinking the Role of Sufis in the Islamisation of the Turks of Central Asia, Devin DeWeese. The Role of the Domestic Sphere in the Islamisation of the Mongols, Bruno De Nicola. South Asia; Reconsidering 'Conversion to Islam' in Indian History, Richard M. Eaton; Civilising the Savage: Myth, History, and Persianisation in the Early Delhi Courts of South Asia, Blain Auer. Southeast Asia and the Far East; China and the Rise of Islam on Java, Alexander Wain; The Story of Yusuf and Indonesia's Islamisation: A Work of Literature Plus, E.P. Wiering; Persian Kings, Arab conquerors, and Malay Islam: Comparative perspectives on the place of Muslim epics in the Islamisation of the Chams, Philipp Bruckmayer; Islamisation and Sinicisation: Inversions, Reversions and Alternate Versions of Islam in China, James D. Frankel.
£166.25
Edinburgh University Press The Temptation of Graves in Salafi Islam
Book SynopsisThis book explains the current destruction of graves in the Islamic world and traces the ideological sources of iconoclasm in their historical perspective, from medieval theological and legal debates to contemporary Islamist movements including ISIS.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Hezbollah
Book SynopsisThis book argues that war-making with Israel has driven Hezbollah's socialisation in Lebanon and the region, transforming the Islamist movement from a loose organization into one of the world's most powerful and sophisticated armed political movements.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Hezbollah
Book SynopsisThis book argues that war-making with Israel has driven Hezbollah's socialisation in Lebanon and the region, transforming the Islamist movement from a loose organization into one of the world's most powerful and sophisticated armed political movements.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press The Politics of Arabic in Israel
Book SynopsisCamelia Suleiman delves into these tensions and contradictions, exploring how language policy and language choice both reflect and challenge political identities of Arabs and Israelis.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual
Book SynopsisIn this book Zeina G. Halabi examines the figure of the intellectual as profet national icon, and exile in contemporary Arabic literature and film. Staging a comparative dialogue with writers and critics such as Elias Khoury, Edward Said, Jurji Zaidan, and Mahmoud Darwish, Halabi focuses on new articulations of loss, displacement, and memory.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Making Mongol History
Book SynopsisThis book examines the life and work of Rashid al-Din Tabib (d. 1318), the most powerful statesman working for the Mongol Ilkhans in the Middle East.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Queens Eunuchs and Concubines in Islamic History
Book SynopsisDrawing on specific historical case studies and events, this book looks at the role of women, mothers, wives, eunuchs, concubines, qahramans and atabegs in the dynamics and manipulation of medieval Islamic politics.
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press Shaping Global Islamic Discourses
Book SynopsisThrough case studies of academic institutions the volume illustrates how transmission of ideas is an extremely complex process, and the outcome of such efforts depends not just on the strategies adopted by backers of those ideologies but equally on the characteristics of the receipt communities.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press The Jalayirids
Book SynopsisThis book examines the rise and collapse of Mongol rule in Iran and Iraq, and its revival by a family of sultans who claimed to be the rightful heirs to the Mongol khans. The Jalayirids offers a glimpse at a long overlooked but critical period in the history of the Middle East in the late medieval period.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Imagining the Arabs
Book SynopsisInvestigating the core questions about Arab identity and history, this book tackles the time-honoured stereotypes that depict Arabs as ancient Arabian Bedouin, and reveals the stories to be a myth: tales told by Muslims to recreate the past to explain the meaning of Islam and its origins.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Sonallah Ibrahim
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£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Female Religious Authority in Shii Islam
Book SynopsisReflects on women participating in Islamic scholarly traditions from the classical period to the present
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial
Book SynopsisThe first collection of essays on this subject, this 'Edinburgh Companion' assembles some of the world's foremost postcolonialists to explore the critical, theoretical and disciplinary possibilities that inquiry into this region opens for postcolonial studies.
£157.50
Edinburgh University Press Syria in Crusader Times
Book SynopsisPresenting numerous interconnected insights into life in Greater Syria in the twelfth century, this book covers a wide range of themes relating to Crusader-Muslim relations.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Gulf in World History
Book SynopsisPresenting new evidence, new theoretical approaches, and new arguments, this volume aims to change understandings of the Gulf in the world.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Gulf in World History
Book SynopsisPresenting new evidence, new theoretical approaches, and new arguments, this volume aims to change understandings of the Gulf in the world.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Byzantine Military Tactics in Syria and
Book SynopsisThis book examines the strategies and military tactics of the Byzantines and their enemies in Eastern Anatolia, Syria and in Upper Mesopotamia in the tenth century.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press The KizilbashAlevis in Ottoman Anatolia
Book SynopsisThis first comprehensive socio-political history of the Kizilbash/Alevi communities uses a recently surfaced corpus of sources generated within their milieu. It offers fresh answers to many questions concerning their origins and evolution from a revolutionary movement to an inward-looking religious order.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Cemberlitas Hamami in Istanbul
Book SynopsisThis original study, taking a biographical approach to tell the story of a Turkish bathhouse, contributes to the fields of Islamic, Ottoman and modern Turkish cultural, architectural, social and economic history.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press The Sorrowful Muslims Guide
Book SynopsisPublished as Dal?l al-Muslim al-?az?n il? muqtada-l-sul?k f?'l-qarn al-?ishr?n in 1983, this book remains a timely and important read today. It explores the interaction between pre-Islamic tradition and modern supporters of continuity, reform and change in Muslim communities.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Isfahan and its Palaces
Book SynopsisThis beautifully illustrated history of Safavid Isfahan (1501 1722) explores the architectural and urban forms and networks of socio-cultural action that reflected a distinctly early-modern and Perso-Shi'i practice of kingship.
£38.00
Edinburgh University Press Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia
Book SynopsisAssesses and analyses medieval Anatolia from the perspectives of architecture, landscape and urban space.
£35.15
Edinburgh University Press Researching the Middle East
Book Synopsis16 researchers share their invaluable first-hand experiences and examine the cultural, conceptual, methodological and practical challenges of working on and in MENA region.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press The Politics of Arabic in Israel
Book SynopsisAlthough it remains an official language, Israel has made continued attempts to marginalize Arabic on the one hand and securitize it on the other. Camelia Suleiman delves into these tensions and contradictions, exploring how language policy and language choice both reflect and challenge political identities of Arabs and Israelis.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity
Book SynopsisZeini challenges the view that considers the Zand's study an auxiliary science to Avestan studies, framing the text instead within the exegetical context from which it emerged.
£99.00
Edinburgh University Press Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity
Book SynopsisZeini challenges the view that considers the Zand's study an auxiliary science to Avestan studies, framing the text instead within the exegetical context from which it emerged.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Sayfo an Account of the Assyrian Genocide
Book SynopsisThis text is one of the few surviving eyewitness sources on the Assyrian genocide during the First World War, written by a seminarian living in greater Tur Abdin (the southeast of today's Turkish state). It is translated and annotated by a master of Syriac with an in-depth knowledge of modern Assyrian history.Trade Review"Western society is increasingly interested in being acquainted with the historical reality of the great tragedies of humanity. This has been one of the worst after the massive holocaust of the Jews during the Nazi era. Therefore, this work can be considered a significant contribution to the subject." -Professor Dr Efrem Yildiz, University of Salamanca
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press The Middle East from Empire to Sealed Identities
Book SynopsisThis compelling analysis of the modern Middle East shows the transition from an internal history characterised by local realities that were plural and multidimensional, and where identities were flexible and hybrid, to a simplified history largely imagined and imposed by external actors.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Language Ideology and Sociopolitical Change in
Book SynopsisThe first systematic survey of the language planning and language policy discourse of major Arabic language academies
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press Language Ideology and Sociopolitical Change in
Book SynopsisThe first systematic survey of the language planning and language policy discourse of major Arabic language academies
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Remapping Persian Literary History 17001900
Book SynopsisIntegrating forgotten tales of literary communities across Iran, Afghanistan and South Asia at a time when Islamic empires were fracturing and new state formations were emerging this book offers a more global understanding of Persian literary culture in the 18th and 19th centuries.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical
Book SynopsisAnalyses the narrative function of Khrijism in 9th- and 10th-century Islamic historiography
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Book Culture in Late Medieval Syria
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the largest private book collection of the pre-Ottoman Arabic Middle East for which we have both a paper trail and a surviving corpus of the manuscripts that once sat on its shelves: the Ibn Abd al-Hd Library of Damascus.
£95.00
