Middle Eastern history Books

Book SynopsisA fascinating anthropological inquiry into the deeply ingrained presence of ancestors within the cultural, political, and spiritual discourse of Kazakhs.

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Book SynopsisA collection of articles in which Chertok presents his observations of the issues that preoccupy the Israelis, from the conditions facing women in the Jewish state, to coming to terms with the Palestinians.

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Book SynopsisThe ups and downs of silk, cotton and stocks synchopated with serialized novels in the late nineteenth-century Arabic press; time itself was changing. Khalīl al-Khūrī, Salīm al-Bustānī, and Jurjī Zaydān wrote novels of debt, dissimulation, and risk, increasingly legible as tools of French and British empire.Trade Review"Compelling, inventive, and brilliantly argued, Elizabeth Holt's Fictitious Capital immediately becomes required reading. Linking literary history to financial speculation, modes of consumption, the development of the press in Arabic, the emergence of the book as a modern form, and the changing forms of language and writing in this period, this book has implications for virtually all of the fields within Arabic studies, and beyond, as it changes the ways in which we think about language, reading, modernity, and economy." -- -Jeffrey Sacks University of California, Riverside "In this meticulously researched study, Elizabeth Holt offers a much needed reassessment of the nineteenth century Arabic cultural movement known as 'al-nahdah' (revival). Her focus on the linkages between fiction publication and commerce underlines the foundational contributions made by Syro-Lebanese intellectuals in the earliest development of modern Arabic fiction that have continued into the twentieth century and beyond." -- -Roger Allen University of Pennsylvania

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Book SynopsisThe ups and downs of silk, cotton and stocks synchopated with serialized novels in the late nineteenth-century Arabic press; time itself was changing. Khalīl al-Khūrī, Salīm al-Bustānī, and Jurjī Zaydān wrote novels of debt, dissimulation, and risk, increasingly legible as tools of French and British empire.Trade Review"Compelling, inventive, and brilliantly argued, Elizabeth Holt's Fictitious Capital immediately becomes required reading. Linking literary history to financial speculation, modes of consumption, the development of the press in Arabic, the emergence of the book as a modern form, and the changing forms of language and writing in this period, this book has implications for virtually all of the fields within Arabic studies, and beyond, as it changes the ways in which we think about language, reading, modernity, and economy." -- -Jeffrey Sacks University of California, Riverside "In this meticulously researched study, Elizabeth Holt offers a much needed reassessment of the nineteenth century Arabic cultural movement known as 'al-nahdah' (revival). Her focus on the linkages between fiction publication and commerce underlines the foundational contributions made by Syro-Lebanese intellectuals in the earliest development of modern Arabic fiction that have continued into the twentieth century and beyond." -- -Roger Allen University of Pennsylvania

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Book SynopsisAn English translation of three key texts on the Coptic liturgy by Abū al-Barakāt ibn Kabar, Yūḥannā ibn Sabbā‘, and Pope Gabriel V. With a scholarly introduction to the works, their authors, and the Coptic liturgy, as well as a detailed explanatory apparatus, this volume provides a useful and needed introduction to the worship tradition of Egypt’s Coptic Christians.Table of ContentsPreface | ix Editorial Notes | xi List of Abbreviations | xiii Manuscripts | xv Map of Egypt | xviii Introduction | 1 1 Abū al-Barakāt ibn Kabar, The Lamp of Darkness | 31 2 Yūḥannā ibn Sabbā‘, The Precious Jewel | 60 3 Gabriel V, The Ritual Order | 108 Appendix: Coptic Liturgical Chants | 143 Glossary | 149 Works Cited | 159 Biblical Index | 175 Manuscripts Index | 177 General Index | 179

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Book SynopsisAn English translation of three key texts on the Coptic liturgy by Abū al-Barakāt ibn Kabar, Yūḥannā ibn Sabbā‘, and Pope Gabriel V. With a scholarly introduction to the works, their authors, and the Coptic liturgy, as well as a detailed explanatory apparatus, this volume provides a useful and needed introduction to the worship tradition of Egypt’s Coptic Christians.Table of ContentsPreface | ix Editorial Notes | xi List of Abbreviations | xiii Manuscripts | xv Map of Egypt | xviii Introduction | 1 1 Abū al-Barakāt ibn Kabar, The Lamp of Darkness | 31 2 Yūḥannā ibn Sabbā‘, The Precious Jewel | 60 3 Gabriel V, The Ritual Order | 108 Appendix: Coptic Liturgical Chants | 143 Glossary | 149 Works Cited | 159 Biblical Index | 175 Manuscripts Index | 177 General Index | 179

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Book SynopsisThe history of modern Israel is a story of ambition, violence, and survival. Return to Zion traces how a scattered and stateless people reconstituted themselves in their traditional homeland, only to face threats by those who, during the many years of the dispersion, had come to regard the land as their home.Trade Review"Gartman's writing is particularly effective at making the reader feel as if he were present during meetings, where one could cut the tension with a knife. . . . His account will satisfy anyone who wants to take it one step beyond what we already know about Israel and focus on the human element of its struggles."—Daniel Schere, Baltimore Jewish Times"A thorough, proficient overview that quietly hums a pro-Jewish tune."—Kirkus"Readers interested in a concise history of Israel, especially those who believe in her right to exist, will appreciate this book."—Laurie Unger Skinner, Library Journal"Return to Zion is an insightful work of scholarship which explains the struggle for a Jewish state in an innovative way."—Washington Book Review"This book is written in a popular style and based on impressive research. The work succeeds as both an overview and as a reference source."—Libby K. White, Jewish Book Council"A seamless look into modern Israel's truest self."Dov Peretz Elkins, Jewish Media Review"This book deserves its place in the lexicon of Comprehensive modern Israeli histories."—Laura Schutzman, Association of Jewish Libraries Review“Return to Zion is a very good overview of the history of Israel. For laypersons and scholars alike, they will get a very good picture of the evolution of Israel done in a readable way and filled with insights.”—Ambassador Dennis Ross, author of Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama "This is a very readable history of Israel and an excellent look at what happened and why it happened."—Amos Lassen“Highly readable and engaging; a persuasive effort to explain the story of Israel—what happened and why. New data from declassified U.S. documents are welcome and illuminating.”—Daniel Mandel, ZOA Center for Middle East Policy and author of H. V. Evatt and the Establishment of IsraelTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: No Master but God1. A Pillar of Fire on the Road to Zion: Beginning of the Return, 1881–18962. An Eye toward Zion: The Zionist Movement Ascendant, 1896–19183. It Is Good to Die for Our Country: Tension under the British Mandate, 1918–19334. The Great Catastrophe: Jews Flee Nazi Germany while Palestine Erupts, 1933–19395. An Indifferent World, Cold and Cruel: Palestine and the Holocaust, 1939–19466. Nothing Can Keep Us from Our Jewish Homeland: End of the British Mandate, 1946–19477. The Darkest Moment of Our Struggle: War between the Jews and Arabs of Palestine, 1947–19488. We Shall Triumph! Israel’s War of Independence, 1948–19499. A Heavy Burden: The Jewish State Fights to Survive, 1949–195710. Masada Shall Not Fall Again! Years of Growth and Consolidation, 1957–196711. To Live or Perish: The Jewish State Faces a Hostile Ring of Nations, May–June 196712. Israel’s Golden Summer: The Six-Day War and Its Aftermath, 1967–197013. We May Be in Trouble: Buildup to Surprise, 1970–197314. The Destruction of the Third Temple: The Yom Kippur War and Its Consequences, 1973–197715. Nation Shall Not Lift Up Sword against Nation: Camp David Accords, 1977–198116. The Most-Televised War in History: The Lebanon War and the Intifada, 1982–199217. Enough of Blood and Tears! The Oslo Peace Process, 1992–200118. The Third Way: The Second Intifada and Beyond, 2001–2014Conclusion: Why Masada Did Not FallNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe first volume to examine the Jewish state through the lens of Jewish utopian thought from its biblical beginnings to modernity, Contested Utopia illuminates a kaleidoscope of conflicting utopian visions influencing Israel.Trade Review"Fascinating."—Rabbi Robert Orkand, reformjudaism.org"[Contested Utopia] provides a fascinating look at the variety of utopian visions that abounded before the creation of the state of Israel."—Rabbi Ron Kronish, Jerusalem Report“In this fascinating study of the utopian roots within both traditional Judaism and Zionism, Rosenstein offers a lens into the identity struggles of the modern Jewish state. An important contribution to the Israeli bookshelf.”—Yossi Klein Halevi, author of Like Dreamers“Rosenstein takes readers on a stimulating excursion through a fascinating cluster of utopian visions that anticipated what subsequently became the State of Israel. His juxtaposition of these competing versions of ‘what might be’ with the realities that emerged is well worth pondering.”—Deborah Dash Moore, professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan“Contested Utopia will help to shape discourse around the future of the Jewish state for a long time.”—Rabbi Lisa Grant, director, Rabbinical Program, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, New YorkTable of ContentsList of Maps Preface: Envisioning a Jewish State Acknowledgments Introduction: The Jewish State as Utopia How to Use This Book for Discussion Part 1. Lands of Milk and Honey: Jewish Utopian Visions 1. The Eternal Quest for Utopia 2. Paradise Lost, Remembered, and Promised 3. Utopia, Apocalypse, Messiah Part 2. A Jewish State: Zionist Utopian Visions 4. A Torah Society 5. Holy Community 6. A National Home 7. Statehood and Power 8. Enlightenment and Normalization 9. Promised Borders 10. A Model of Social Justice Part 3. The Modern State of Israel: Reality Meets Utopia 11. Visions in Collision 12. A Utopian Travel Blog Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first all-encompassing book on Israel’s foreign policy and the diplomatic history of the Jewish people, The Star and the Scepter retraces and explains the interactions of Jews with other nations from the ancient kingdoms of Israel to modernity. Trade Review"The Star and the Scepter fills an important niche and is a recommended reference, particularly for those with a limited knowledge of the history and complexities of Israeli diplomacy."—Gerald M. Steinberg, Journal of the Middle East and Africa "Navon deserves praise for his vast and in-depth coverage of a large number of dramatic historical events throughout Jewish and Israeli history. His book makes for enjoyable and thought-provoking reading."—Avi Millo, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs"The presentation and analysis of Israel's foreign policy since the establishment of the state is straightforward and illuminating. The book's fourth section, 'Israel on the world scene', which covers relations with Europe, the United States, Russia, Asia, Africa, Latin America, the United Nations and the Diaspora, includes interesting insights into some areas which are rarely covered."—International Affairs"Absorbing and informative."—Azriel Bermant, Foreign Policy"Demonstrating that diplomacy is a balancing act between ideals and realpolitik, The Star and the Scepter draws aspirational and pragmatic lessons from Israel’s exceptional diplomatic history."—Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security"The Star and the Scepter should be required reading for every veteran and cadet in Israel’s Foreign Ministry, and will be of significant interest to informed and educated general readers concerned with the Jewish people’s and the Jewish state’s places in the world."—Brandon Marlon, Jerusalem Report"Ambitious and comprehensive. . . . not only timely but overdue. This well-written and readable book sets out to and succeeds in providing a needed update of Israeli foreign policy."—Jonathan Spyer, Middle East Quarterly"A welcome, accessible and readable contribution to our understanding of Israel's history and the Jewish people's history. . . . Deft analysis and explanation of Israel's relations with Asian states, its diplomatic initiatives in Africa, Latin America and the Arab world, make this book impressive and timely."—Seth J. Frantzman, Jerusalem Post"A respected scholar of Israeli foreign policy. . . . Provides a sweeping portrayal of an ancient nation’s diplomacy—a diplomacy that should be more carefully studied in universities, both in Israel and abroad."—Shmuel Sandler, Israel Affairs"Navon . . . has done a first-rate job of laying out the basics of Israeli diplomacy, its sources, methods, objectives and achievements. One could not ask for a better single-volume introduction to the history of the Jewish state's foreign policy."—David Rodman, Fathom JournalTable of ContentsList of Maps Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Israel and the Nations in the Hebrew Bible 1. The Pentateuch 2. The Prophets 3. The Writings Part 2. Jewish Diplomacy from Antiquity to Modernity 4. From Kingdom to Serfdom 5. Between Powerlessness and Empowerment 6. The Zionist Controversy 7. Zionist Diplomacy in the Post–World War I International System 8. The British Mandate and Its Dilemmas Part 3. The Rebirth of Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict 9. Israel and the Middle East at the Beginning of the Cold War 10. The Periphery Strategy and Its Aftermath 11. Israel and the Arab States 12. Israel and the Palestinians Part 4. Israel on the World Scene 13. The European Paradox 14. The American Alliance 15. The Russian Enigma 16. The Long March to Asia 17. The Scramble for Africa 18. Latin American Dilemmas 19. The United Nations Saga 20. The Diaspora Challenge 21. Israel and the Geopolitics of Energy Conclusion Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction John Anthony ButlerText Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn the spring of 1973, the Baharvand tribe from the Luristan province of central western Iran prepared to migrate from their winter pastures to their summer camp. That year, one migrating family allowed an outsider to make the trip with them. In this volume, Frank Hole describes the journey, the sites along the way, and the people he traveled with.

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Book SynopsisUtilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii List of Abbreviations x Acknowledgments xii Introduction to Babylonian Medicine and Magic 1 1 Medicine as Science 11 2 Who Did What to Whom? 43 3 The Politics of Medicine 56 4 Medicine as Literature 89 5 Medicine and Philosophy 118 6 Medical Training: MD or PhD? 130 7 Uruk Medical Commentaries 141 8 Medicine and Magic as Independent Approaches to Healing 161 Appendix: An Edition of a Medical Commentary 168 Notes 177 References 202 Subject Index 211 Selective Index of Akkadian and Greek Words 217 Index of Akkadian Personal Names 220

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Book SynopsisUtilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C. Represents the first overview of Babylonian medicine utilizing cuneiform sources, including archives of court letters, medical recipes, and commentaries written by ancient scholars Attempts to reconcile the ways in which medicine and magic were related Assigns authorship to various types of medical literature that were previously considered anonymous Rejects the approach of other scholars that have attempted to apply modern diagnostic methods to ancient illnesses Trade Review“Ancient Babylonian Medicineis an important and fascinating book which not only provides a much needed introduction to the theory and practice of medicine in ancient Mesopotamia but also makes a significant contribution to the study of ancient Mesopotamian scholarship. It is clearly and elegantly written, nicely illustrated, and well produced.” (Aestimatio, 1 June 2013) "This book is a rare achievement: as a scholarly work, it provides an important addition to the history of medicine; for the general reader, it is a fascinating introduction to the theory and practice of medicine in Mesopotamian society." (Antiquity Reviews, 2011) "In sum, Geller has written a remarkably useful and thoughtful volume on what is an elusive topic. Assyriologists and historians of medicine will gain much from reading this work and it will certainly become required reading for the discipline." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 19 August 2011) "Markham J. Geller brings a welcome, dual expertise now rather rare in medical history (he is an MD as well as a Rabbi and Professor of Semitic Languages), and some of his previous studies of Talmudic texts led him to the discovery of medical loan-words that turned out to be embedded Akka-dian dating from the period known as the "Babylonian Captivity". (Times Literary Supplement, 21 January 2011) "He appends a commentary probably composed by the Uruk scholar Iqisa, who flourished in the latter part of the fourth century BC; the transcription, and possibly the translation, is from a 1924 edition by Campbell Thompson." (SciTech Book News, December 2010)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii List of Abbreviations x Acknowledgments xii Introduction to Babylonian Medicine and Magic 1 1 Medicine as Science 11 2 Who Did What to Whom? 43 3 The Politics of Medicine 56 4 Medicine as Literature 89 5 Medicine and Philosophy 118 6 Medical Training: MD or PhD? 130 7 Uruk Medical Commentaries 141 8 Medicine and Magic as Independent Approaches to Healing 161 Appendix: An Edition of a Medical Commentary 168 Notes 177 References 202 Subject Index 211 Selective Index of Akkadian and Greek Words 217 Index of Akkadian Personal Names 220

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Book SynopsisThe Persians is a succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 560BC to the present day. * A succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 560BC to the present day.Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year "This book is not a dry historical narrative but an excellent, rigorous, yet generally accessible overview of Persians in history based on the latest scholarship on Iranian society and History. Essential." (Choice)Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Dynistic Tables. List of Maps. Acknowledgments. Dynastic Tables. Maps. 1. Persia: Place and Idea. 2.The Achaemenians (c.550–331 BC). 3. Alexander (330–323 BC), the Selucids (312–129 BC), and the Parthians (247 BC–AD 224). 4. The Sasanians (c.224–651). 5. “Non-Iran”: Arabs, Turks, and Mongols in Iran. 6. The Safavids (1501–1722). 7. The Qajars (1796–1926). 8. Iran: 1921–2003: Pahlavi and Islamic Republican Iran. Notes. Further Reading. Index.

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Book SynopsisA Companion to the Ancient Near East offers students and general readers a comprehensive overview of Near Eastern civilization from the Bronze Age to the conquests of Alexander the Great.Trade Review“This is a welcome companion volume intended to be used with an introductory text to the history of the ancient Near East. There are unexpected topics and insightful inclusions … .In addition to serving successfully as a companion for teaching, this volume also serves as a useful short reference because of the sixty-eight page bibliography.” (Religious Studies Review, September 2008) "Many will find specific chapters of interest, both for insights into their own specialities and for challenging overviews of related fields. Students will find stimulating introductions to a wide range of subjects, not treated in encyclopaedias or dryer standard works ... on which to hone their own critical faculties." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review) "The chapters are written by some of the world's leading scholars, like the veterans Liverani and Limet ... Some of the articles are highly relevant, even dealing with contemporary issues such as the individual, ethnicity ... democracy, and freedom." (Scholia) "As is usual for the Blackwell Companions the essays making up this volume have all been written by leading experts and as such the coverage is inclusive... The introduction, written by the editor, is excellent and clearly explains what the book is setting out to achieve, aims which are met. A Companion to the Ancient Near East is an excellent book and is one that should, without doubt, be read by those with a keen interest in this historical period." (Reference Reviews) A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearTable of ContentsList of Figures viii List of Maps ix Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xv Introduction xviii Part I The Shape of the Ancient Near East 1 1 Historical Overview 3Mario Liverani 2 From Sedentism to States, 10,000–3000 BCE 20Augusta McMahon 3 The Age of Empires, 3100–900 BCE 34Mark Chavalas 4 World Hegemony, 900–300 BCE 48Paul-Alain Beaulieu Part II Discourses on Methods 63 5 Archaeology and the Ancient Near East: Methods and Limits 65Marie-Henriette Gates 6 The Languages of the Ancient Near East 79Gonzalo Rubio 7 The Historian’s Task 110Daniel C. Snell Part III Economy and Society 123 8 The Degradation of the Ancient Near Eastern Environment 125Carlos E. Cordova 9 Nomadism Through the Ages 142Jorge Silva Castillo 10 Mesopotamian Cities and Countryside 157Elizabeth C. Stone 11 Money and Trade 171Christopher M. Monroe 12 Working 185David A. Warburton 13 Law and Practice 199Bruce Wells 14 Social Tensions in the Ancient Near East 212John F. Robertson 15 Gender Roles in Ancient Egypt 227Ann Macy Roth 16 Royal Women and the Exercise of Power in the Ancient Near East 235Sarah C. Melville 17 Warfare in Ancient Egypt 245Anthony J. Spalinger Part IV Culture 259 18 Transmission of Knowledge 261Benjamin R. Foster 19 Ancient Near Eastern Literature: Genres and Forms 269Tawny L. Holm 20 Ancient Near Eastern Architecture 289Sally Dunham 21 Mesopotamian Art 304Marian H. Feldman 22 Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine 325JoAnn Scurlock 23 Mesopotamian Cosmology 339Francesca Rochberg 24 Divine and Non-Divine Kingship 353Philip Jones 25 How Religion Was Done 366Gary Beckman Part V Heritage of the Ancient Near East 377 26 The Invention of the Individual 379Daniel C. Snell 27 Ethnicity 392Henri Limet 28 Public versus Private in the Ancient Near East 406Steven J. Garfinkle 29 Democracy and Freedom 419Matthew Martin III and Daniel C. Snell 30 Monotheism and Ancient Israelite Religion 430S. David Sperling 31 The Decipherment of the Ancient Near East 443Peter T. Daniels 32 Legacies of the Ancient Near East 454Daniel C. Snell References 458 Index 527

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Book SynopsisProvides a new narrative history of the ancient world, from the beginnings of civilization in the ancient Near East and Egypt to the fall of Constantinople Written by an expert in the field, this book presents a narrative history of Babylon from the time of its First Dynasty (1880-1595) until the last centuries of the city's existence during the Hellenistic and Parthian periods (ca. 331-75 AD). Unlike other texts on Ancient Near Eastern and Mesopotamian history, it offers a unique focus on Babylon and Babylonia, while still providing readers with an awareness of the interaction with other states and peoples. Organized chronologically, it places the various socio-economic and cultural developments and institutions in their historical context. The book also gives religious and intellectual developments more respectable coverage than books that have come before it. A History of Babylon, 2200 BC AD 75 teaches readers about the most important phase in the devTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xii List of Tables xiv List of Maps xvi Preface xvii List of Abbreviations xix Author’s Note xx 1 Introductory Concerns 1 1.1 Assyriology and the Writing of History 3 1.1.1 Cuneiform Texts as Historical Sources 4 1.2 Historical Science and the Handling of Sources 17 1.3 Chronology 20 2 The Sumero-Akkadian Background 24 2.1 Babylonia as Geographic Unit 24 2.2 The Natural Environment 25 2.3 The Neolithic Revolution 28 2.4 The Ubaid Period (6500–4000) 29 2.5 The Uruk Period (4000–3100) 30 2.6 The Jemdet Nasr Period (3100–2900) 31 2.7 The Early Dynastic Period (2900–2350) 34 2.7.1 The State of Lagash 38 2.7.2 Babylon in the Early Dynastic Period 40 2.8 The Sargonic (Old Akkadian) and Gutian Periods (ca. 2334–2113) 41 2.8.1 Akkadian and Sumerian Linguistic Areas 42 2.8.2 The Early Sargonic Period (ca. 2334–2255) 44 2.8.3 The Classical Sargonic Period (ca. 2254–2193) 46 2.8.4 Babylon in the Sargonic Period 50 2.8.5 The Late Sargonic (ca. 2193–2154) and Gutian Periods (ca. 2153–2113) 51 2.9 The Third Dynasty of Ur (2112–2004) 52 2.9.1 King of Sumer and Akkad 53 2.9.2 Shulgi’s Babylonia 54 2.9.3 Failure of the Ur III State 56 2.9.4 Babylon during the Ur III Period 57 3 The Rise of Babylon 60 3.1 The First Dynasty of Isin (2017–1794) 62 3.2 The Amorites 64 3.2.1 Amorite Genealogies and Histories 66 3.3 Date Lists and King Lists of Babylon I 68 3.4 Elusive Beginnings 69 3.5 Sumu-la-el (1880–1845) 70 3.5.1 The Letter of Anam and the Babylon-Uruk Alliance 71 3.6 Half a Century of Stability (1844–1793) 72 3.6.1 The Battle for Kazallu 74 3.6.2 The Apex of Larsa 75 3.7 Hammu-rabi (1792–1750) 76 3.7.1 In the Shadow of Samsi-Addu (1792–1775) 77 3.7.2 Eshnunna’s Bid for Hegemony (1772–1770) 79 3.7.3 A Fragile Equilibrium (1769–1766) 80 3.7.4 The Elamite Intervention and its Aftermath (1766–1764) 82 3.7.5 Showdown with Larsa (1764–1763) 83 3.7.6 The Capture and Sack of Mari (1761–1759) 85 3.7.7 Towards an Empire (1759–1750) 85 3.7.8 The Code of Hammu-rabi 86 3.7.9 Hammu-rabi as Administrator 92 4 Decline of the First Dynasty 97 4.1 The Reign of Samsu-iluna (1749–1712) 97 4.1.1 The Rebellion of Rim-Sin II (1742–1740) 99 4.1.2 The Rebellion of Rim-Anum (1742–1740) 100 4.1.3 The Invasion of the Kassites (1742) 101 4.1.4 Samsu-iluna Strikes Back 101 4.1.5 Sargonic Reveries 102 4.1.6 Loss of Southern Babylonia 103 4.1.7 Northern Exertions 104 4.1.8 Loss of Central Babylonia and Rise of the Sealand 108 4.1.9 From Sumerian to Akkadian Literature 108 4.1.10 Samsu-iluna as Administrator and Legislator 109 4.2 The Last Century of Babylon I (1711–1595) 111 4.2.1 Abi-eshuh (1711–1684) 111 4.2.2 Ammi-ditana (1683–1647) 113 4.2.3 Ammi-saduqa (1646–1626) 114 4.2.4 Samsu-ditana (1625–1595) 117 4.2.5 The City of Babylon during the First Dynasty 119 5 Kassite Ascendancy 122 5.1 The Kassites as Linguistic and Cultural Group 122 5.2 The Early Kassite Period (1595–ca. 1400) 125 5.2.1 The Texts from Tell Muhammad 125 5.2.2 The Early Kassite Rulers (Sixteenth Century) 127 5.2.3 The First Dynasty of the Sealand (ca. 1725–1475) 129 5.2.4 The Reunification of Babylonia 131 5.3 Kassite Babylonia: The Documentary Evidence 132 5.3.1 A New Source: The Kudurrus 133 5.4 Karduniash: A New Babylonia 135 5.4.1 Kurigalzu I 137 5.4.2 Dur-Kurigalzu: A Kassite Royal Residence 137 5.5 The Age of Amarna 140 5.6 The Rise of Assyria 142 5.7 The Middle Kassite Period (1332–1225) 143 5.7.1 Ruralization of Babylonia 145 5.7.2 Nippur as Southern Capital 146 5.8 The Intervention of Tukulti-Ninurta I and its Aftermath 147 5.9 End of the Kassite Regime (1186–1155) 150 5.10 Akkadian Literature under the Kassites 151 6 Second Dynasty of Isin 154 6.1 Marduk and Nabu 157 6.2 Renewed Conflict with Assyria 158 6.3 Nebuchadnezzar I (1121–1100) 159 6.3.1 The Elamite Campaign and the Return of Marduk 159 6.3.2 Enuma Elish and the Supremacy of Marduk 161 6.3.3 Nebuchadnezzar I and Royal Legitimacy 163 6.4 Sealand Memories under Enlil-nadin-apli (1099–1096) 164 6.5 Marduk-nadin-ahhe (1095–1078) 164 6.5.1 Aramean Invasions 167 6.6 Marduk-shapik-zeri (1077–1065) 167 6.7 Adad-apla-iddina (1064–1043) 168 6.8 The End of Isin II (1042–1022) 169 7 Arameans and Chaldeans 171 7.1 The Arameans 172 7.2 The Chaldeans 173 7.3 Three Short Dynasties 176 7.4 The Dynasty of E 178 7.4.1 Nabu-mukin-apli (974–939) 179 7.4.2 Assyrian Resurgence 179 7.4.3 Nabu-apla-iddina 180 7.4.4 Marduk-zakir-shumi I 182 7.4.5 Descent into Anarchy (819–770?) 183 7.4.6 Eriba-Marduk 186 7.4.7 Nabu-shuma-ishkun (760?–748) 186 7.4.8 Nabonassar (747–734) 188 8 The Assyrian Century 193 8.1 The Rebellion of Mukin-zeri 196 8.2 The palû of Baltil (728–722) 197 8.3 Marduk-apla-iddina II and Chaldean Resistance (721–709) 198 8.4 The palû of Habigal (709–694) 201 8.5 The Two Shuzubus (694–689) 204 8.6 Sennacherib’s Desecration of Babylon (689–681) 206 8.7 Esarhaddon Restores Babylon (681–669) 208 8.7.1 A New Generation of Opponents 209 8.8 Regnant Siblings (669–652) 211 8.9 Civil War (652–648) 214 8.10 Ashurbanipal and Kandalanu (647–630/27) 216 9 Imperial Heyday 219 9.1 Sources 220 9.1.1 Neo-Babylonian Archives 221 9.1.2 Spread of Aramaic 222 9.2 Power Struggle for Babylonia (630–620) 223 9.3 A Chaldeo-Aramean Empire 224 9.4 The Fall of Assyria (616–609) 225 9.5 Nabopolassar and the Restoration of Babylonia 227 9.6 Nebuchadnezzar in the Levant 227 9.7 The Climax of Babylon 229 9.7.1 Economic Expansion 232 9.7.2 Administration of Babylonia 233 9.7.3 Methods of Imperial Control 235 9.8 A Problematic Succession (562–556) 237 9.9 Babylon’s Twilight: The Reign of Nabonidus (555–539) 238 9.9.1 The Conquest of North Arabia 239 9.9.2 Geopolitical Upheaval 240 9.9.3 The Last Days of Imperial Babylon 243 10 Babylon under Foreign Rule 246 10.1 Cyrus Enters Babylon 247 10.2 A Smooth Transition 248 10.3 The Babylonian Pretenders of 522–521 250 10.4 The Reforms of Darius I 251 10.5 The Babylonian Pretenders of 484 253 10.6 Babylonia in the Late Achaemenid Period 254 10.7 Hellenistic Babylonia 256 10.8 Alexander and his Successors in Babylon (331–311) 257 10.9 Babylon and Seleucia 259 10.10 An Age of Renewal 261 10.11 Hellenization of Babylonia 263 10.12 Parthian Takeover 265 10.13 Sic Transit 266 Appendix: Checklist of Chronicles 269 Bibliography 271 Index 273

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1971. With Ataturk's guiding reforms, Turkey underwent a sweeping modernization of the country's administration. More specifically, by adopting the Latin alphabet, secularizing the country's governance, and importing European laws and jurisprudence, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk effectively reformed the Republic of Turkey into a secular, modern nation-state. In doing so, he introduced a number of foreign policy commitments. Ferenc A. Vali examines the flexibility of Turkey's foreign commitments in light of the country's modernization; depending on the circumstance, Turkey's foreign policy has wavered between Western alliance and neutrality. Examining Turkey's foreign policy in the twentieth century, Vali provides historical background for Turkey's transition form an empire to a nation-state. Vali also assesses Turkey's relations with NATO, Western allies, Russia, the Baltic States, and the Middle East. For his research, Vali conducted interviews with officials of the TuTable of ContentsTurkish Spelling and PronunciationPrefacePart I: From Empire to Nation-StateChapter 1. The TurksChapter 2. The Ottoman PastChapter 3. Decline, Reform, and RevolutionChapter 4. World War I and the Rise of New TurkeyChapter 5. World War II and AfterPart II: Foundations of Turkey's Foreign PolicyChapter 6. Geopolitical FoundationsChapter 7. Ethnic FoundationsChapter 8. Ideological FoundationsChapter 9. Governmental Foreign PolicyPart III: Political Parties, Public Opinion, and Foreign PolicyChapter 10. The Justice PartyChapter 11. The Republican People's PartyChapter 12. The Reliance PartyChapter 13. Splinter PartiesChapter 14. The Turkish Labor PartyChapter 15. Public Opinion and Foreign PolicyPart IV: Turkey, the United States, and NATOChapter 16. Turkey and NATOChapter 17. The United States and TurkeyChapter 18. American Presence in TurkeyChapter 19. Relations with Western EuropeChapter 20. Should Turkey Leave NATO?Part V: The USSR, the Straits, and the BalkansChapter 21. Soviet-Turkish Relations: Cooperation and Confrontation Chapter 22. Soviet-Turkish Relations: Relaxation and ReorientationChapter 23. The Soviets and the Turkish StraitsChapter 24. Turkey's Western Flank: The Balkans and East EuropeChapter 25. Can Russia be Trusted?Part VI: Turkey, Greece, and CyprusChapter 26. Megali IdeaChapter 27. Turkey and Greece Bury the HatchetChapter 28. The New Apple of Discord: CyprusChapter 29. Cyprus: Settlement and DeadlockChapter 30. Turkey and Greece: The Interlocked NationsPart VII: Turkey and the Middle EastChapter 31. Turks, Arabs, and PersiansChapter 32. From the Baghdad Pact to CENTOChapter 33. Iran, Pakistan, and CENTOChapter 34. Syria, Iraq, and the KurdsChapter 35. The Arab-Israeli ConflictChapter 36. Turkey's New Middle Eastern PolicyPart VIII: Development: A Foreign Policy GoalChapter 37. Development Goals and ProblemsChapter 38. The Five Year PlansChapter 39. Aid from the West and from the EastChapter 40. Turkey and the European Economic CommunityChapter 41. Regional Cooperation for DevelopmentChapter 42. The OutlookPart IX: Ambitions and Realities of Turkish Foreign PolicyChapter 43. The Balance SheetChapter 44. The Weight of Domestic PoliticsChapter 45. The Weight of Ideology Chapter 46. The Weight of International FactorsChapter 47. Realities Versus AmbitionsChronologyBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWhy does the rift between the US and Iran persist?Iran and the United States have been at odds for forty years, locked in a cold war that has run the gamut from harsh rhetoric to hostage-taking, from crippling sanctions to targeted killings. In Republics of Myth, Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, and John Tirman argue that a major contributing factor to this tenacious enmity is how each nation views itself. The two nations have differing interests and grievances about each other, but their often-deadly confrontation derives from the very different national narratives that shape their politics, actions, and vision of their own destiny in the world. The dominant American narrative is the myth of the frontierthat the US can tame it, tame its inhabitants, and nurture democracy as well. Iran, conversely, can claim two dominant myths: the first, an unbroken (but not for lack of trying) lineage back to Cyrus the Great, and the second, the betrayal of Imam Hussein, the Prophet's grandson. Both ITable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAcronymsIntroduction. Foundations of a Conflict1. The Narrative Trap2. The Fraught US-Iran Relationship, from Mosaddeq to Khomeini3. The Iran-Iraq War4. Rafsanjani and the Post-Khomeini Order5. Khatami and the Possibility of Dialogue6. The Shadow of Khobar in Washington7. Bush in the Khatami Era8. The Iraq War and Its Consequences9. The Nuclear File under Bush 4310. Obama Enters11. Rouhani, Zarif, and the Nuclear Deal12. Trump and Regeneration through ViolenceConclusion. Narratives and National InterestsNotesAbout the AuthorsIndex

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Book SynopsisProper Women tells the unprecedented story of an NGO-led women's empowerment program in Tehran that was created to serve young, impoverished Iranians and Afghan refugees. Fae Chubin recounts the well-intentioned efforts of cosmopolitan NGO administrators whose loyalty to liberal feminist principles of individualism, sexual autonomy, and anti-traditionalism complicated their objective of empowering marginalized women. Chubin brings attention to the varying class, ethnic, religious, and national identities of NGO staff and clients that shaped their differing understandings of oppression and justice. Her examination of the tensions within the organization reveals why the efforts of the NGO workers failed to gain purchase among the intended beneficiaries. Proper Women concludes by encouraging feminist activists to not only examine the role of local politics and transnational connections in shaping their definitions of empowerment, but also consider the advantages of a justice-enhancin

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions—thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative introductions, and close integration with A Short History of the Middle Ages—and adds significant new materials, especially on the Byzantine and Islamic worlds and the Mediterranean region. The stunning "Reading through Looking" color insert, which showcases medieval artifacts and introduces how historians study medieval material culture, has been expanded to include essays on weapons and warfare by medievalist Riccardo Cristiani. New maps, timelines, and genealogies aid readers in following knotty but revealing sources. On the History Matters website (www.utphistorymatters.com), students have access to hundreds of Questions for Reflection.Table of ContentsReading through Looking Preface Abbreviations and Symbols Authorized Version of the Bible I. Prelude: The Roman World Transformed (c.300–c.600) A Christianized Empire 1.1 Toleration or favoritism? The Edict of Milan (313) 1.2 Law: The Theodosian Code (438) 1.3 Plague: Gregory the Great, Letter to Bishop Dominic of Carthage (600) Heresy and Orthodoxy 1.4 Heretics: Manichaean Texts (before 350?) 1.5 Orthodoxy’s declaration: The Nicene Creed (325) Patristic Thought 1.6 Conversion: Augustine, Confessions (397–401) 1.7 Relating this world to the next: Augustine, The City of God (413–426) 1.8 Monasticism: The Benedictine Rule (c.530–c.560) Saintly Models 1.9 The virginal life: Jerome, Letter 24 (To Marcella) (384) 1.10 The eremitical life: Athanasius, The Life of St. Antony of Egypt (357) 1.11 The active life: Sulpicius Severus, The Life of St. Martin of Tours (397) 1.12 The cult of saints: Gregory of Tours, The Life of Monegundis (580s) Barbarian Kingdoms 1.13 Gothic Italy as Rome’s heir: Cassiodorus, Variae (State Papers) (c.507–536) 1.14 The conversion of the Franks: Bishop Avitus of Vienne, Letter to Clovis (508?) 1.15 Gothic Spain converts: The Third Council of Toledo (589) 1.16 Merovingian Gaul’s bishop-historian: Gregory of Tours, Histories (576–594) Timeline for Chapter One II. The Emergence of Sibling Cultures (c.600–c.750) The Resilience of Byzantium 2.1 The Siege of Constantinople: The Easter Chronicle (630) Map 2.1: The Siege of Constantinople 2.2 Purifying practice: The Quinisext Council (691/692) 2.3 The iconoclastic argument: The Synod of 754 The Formation of the Islamic World 2.4 The sacred text: Qur’an Suras 1, 53:1–18, 81, 87, 96, 98 (c.610–622) 2.5 Muslim conquests: John of Nikiu, Chronicle (c.690) Map 2.2: The Muslim Conquest of Egypt 2.6 Umayyad diplomacy: The Treaty of Tudmir (713) 2.7 Administration: Letters to ‘Abd Allah b. As‘ad (c.730–750) 2.8 Praising the caliph: Al-Akhtal, The Tribe Has Departed (c.692) The Impoverished but Inventive West 2.9 The private penitential tradition: Penitential of Finnian (late 6th cent.) 2.10 A royal saint: The Life of Queen Balthild (c.680) 2.11 Reforming the continental Church: Letters to Boniface (723–726) 2.12 Creating a Roman Christian identity for England: Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731) Timeline for Chapter Two III. Creating New Identities (c.750–c.900) The Material Basis of Society 3.1 Manors in the West: Polyptyque of the Church of Saint Mary of Marseille (814–815) 3.2 The Byzantine countryside: Niketas, The Life of Saint Philaretos (821/822) 3.3 The sale of a slave in Italy: A Contract of Sale (725) A Multiplicity of Heroes 3.4 Charlemagne as Roman emperor: Einhard, Life of Charlemagne (825–826?) 3.5 An Abbasid victory in verse: Abu Tammam, The sword gives truer tidings (838) 3.6 Mothers and fathers: Dhuoda, Handbook for Her Son (841–843) 3.7 A Christian hero in northern Iberia: The Chronicle of Alfonso III (early 880s) 3.8 Celebrating local leaders: Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Battles of the City of Paris (late 9th cent.) Religion and Politics 3.9 An early view of the Prophet: Muhammad ibn Ishaq, Life of Muhammad (754–767) 3.10 Muhammad’s words in the hadith: Al-Bukhari, On Fasting (9th cent.) 3.11 The pope and the Carolingians: Pope Stephen II, Letters to King Pippin III (755–756) 3.12 Modeling the state on Old Testament Israel: The Admonitio Generalis (789) 3.13 The Slavic conversion: Constantine-Cyril, Prologue to the Gospel (863–867) 3.14 The Bulgarian khan in Byzantine guise: Seal of Boris-Michael (864–889) 3.15 The Bulgarians adopt Christianity: Pope Nicholas I, Letter to Answer the Bulgarians’ Questions (866) Timeline for Chapter Three IV. Political Communities Reordered (c.900–c.1050) Regionalism: Its Advantages and Its Discontents 4.1 Fragmentation in the Islamic world: Al-Tabari, The Defeat of the Zanj Revolt (c.915) 4.2 The powerful in the Byzantine countryside: Romanus I Lecapenus, Novel (934) 4.3 Evanescent centralization in al-Andalus: Ibn ‘Abd Rabbihi, Praise Be to Him (929–940) 4.4 Donating to Cluny: Cluny’s Foundation Charter (910) and various charters of donation (10th–11th cent.) Genealogy 4.1: The Grossi 4.5 Love and complaints in Angoulême: Agreement between Count William of the Aquitainians and Hugh IV of Lusignan (1028) 4.6 The Peace of God at Bourges: Andrew of Fleury, The Miracles of St. Benedict (1040–1043) Byzantium in Ascendance 4.7 Patronage of the arts: “Theophanes Continuatus,” Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (before 963) 4.8 The toils of war: The Epitaph of Basil II (1025) 4.9 Imperial rule under two sisters: Michael Psellus, Zoe and Theodora (before 1063) Scholarship and the Arts across the Islamic World 4.10 Political theory: Al-Farabi, The Perfect State (c.940–942) 4.11 A Jewish poet in al-Andalus: Dunash ben Labrat, There Came a Voice (mid-10th cent.) 4.12 Education: Al-Qabisi, A Treatise Detailing the Circumstances of Students and the Rules Governing Teachers and Students (before 1012) Kingdoms in East Central Europe 4.13 Hungary as heir of Rome: King Stephen, Laws (1000–1038) 4.14 Coming to terms with Catholic Poland: Thietmar of Merseburg, Chronicle (1013–1018) 4.15 Poland’s self-image: Boleslaw’s Coin (992–1000) 4.16 Kievan Rus’: The Russian Primary Chronicle (c.1113, incorporating earlier materials) Northern Europe 4.17 An Ottonian courtier-bishop: Ruotger, Life of Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne (late 960s) 4.18 Law: King Æthelred II, Law Code (1008) 4.19 Christianity comes to Denmark: The Jelling Monument (960s) 4.20 The Vikings as enemies: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c.1048?) Map 4.1: Southern England 4.21 The Vikings as heroes: Egil’s Saga (10th cent./13th cent.) Timeline for Chapter Four V. New Configurations (c.1050–c.1150) The Seljuk Transformation 5.1 The Seljuks as enemies: Abu’l-Fazl Beyhaqi, The Battle of Dandanqan (before 1077) Map 5.1: The Early Seljuk Empire 5.2 Shi‘ites vilified: Nizam al-Mulk, The Book of Policy (1091) A Profit Economy 5.3 Cultivating new lands: Frederick of Hamburg’s Agreement with Colonists from Holland (1106) 5.4 Urban commerce: Ibn ‘Abdun, Regulations for the Market at Seville (early 12th cent.) 5.5 The role of royal patronage: Henry I, Privileges for the Citizens of London (1130–1133) Church Reform 5.6 The pope’s challenge: Gregory VII, Admonition to Henry IV (1075) 5.7 The royal response: Henry IV, Letter to Gregory VII (1075) 5.8 The papal view: Gregory VII, Letter to Hermann of Metz (1076) The Clergy in Action 5.9 Dressing for the liturgy: Vesting Prayers (c.1000?) 5.10 Keeping tabs: A Visitation Record (1268) The First Crusade 5.11 Calling the crusade: Robert the Monk, Pope Urban II Preaches the First Crusade (1095) 5.12 Jewish martyrs: Solomon bar Samson, Chronicle (c.1140) 5.13 A Westerner in the Holy Land: Stephen of Blois, Letter to His Wife (March 1098) 5.14 The Muslim view: Ibn al-Qalanisi, The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades (before 1160) The Norman Conquest of England 5.15 The pro-Norman position: William of Jumièges, The Deeds of the Dukes of the Normans (c.1070) 5.16 The native position: “Florence of Worcester,” Chronicle of Chronicles (early 12th cent.) 5.17 The Conquest depicted: The Bayeux Tapestry (end of the 11th cent.) 5.18 Exploiting the Conquest: Domesday Book (1087) The Twelfth-Century Renaissance 5.19 Logic: Peter Abelard, Glosses on Porphyry (c.1100) 5.20 Medical science: Constantine the African’s translation of Johannitius’s Isagoge (before 1098) Cluniacs and Cistercians 5.21 The Cistercian view: St. Bernard, Apologia (1125) 5.22 The Cluniac view: Peter the Venerable, Miracles (mid-1130s–mid-1150s) Timeline for Chapter Five VI. Institutionalizing Aspirations (c.1150–c.1250) Wars Holy and Unholy 6.1 The Northern Crusades: Helmold, The Chronicle of the Slavs (1167–1168) 6.2 Saladin’s jihad: Ibn Shaddad, The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin (1195–1216) 6.3 The Fourth Crusade: Nicetas Choniates, O City of Byzantium (c.1215) Grounding Justice in Royal Law 6.4 English common law: The Assize of Clarendon (1166) 6.5 The legislation of a Spanish king: The Laws of Cuenca (1189–1193) Local Arrangements 6.6 A Byzantine monastery on Cyprus: Neophytos, Testamentary Rule for the Hermitage of the Holy Cross (1214) 6.7 Doing business: A Genoese societas (1253) 6.8 Women’s work: Guild Regulations of the Parisian Silk Fabric Makers (13th cent.) Bureaucracy at the Papal Curia 6.9 The growth of papal business: Innocent III, Letters (1200–1202) 6.10 Petitioning the papacy: Register of Thomas of Hereford (1281) 6.11 Mocking the papal bureaucracy: The Gospel According to the Marks of Silver (c.1200) Confrontations 6.12 Henry II and Becket: The Constitutions of Clarendon (1164) 6.13 Emperor and pope: The Diet of Besançon (1157) 6.14 King and nobles: Magna Carta (1215) New Literary Forms 6.15 Byzantine romantic fiction: Niketas Eugenianos, Drosilla and Charikles (c.1156) 6.16 Love and propriety in al-Andalus: Anonymous, The Tale of Bayad and Riyad (early 13th cent.) 6.17 A troubadour love song: Bernart de Ventadorn, When I see the lark (c.1147–after 1172) 6.18 A trobairitz love song: La Comtessa de Dia, I have been in heavy grief (late 12th–early 13th cent.) 6.19 A political song from the south of France: Bertran de Born, Half a sirventés I’ll sing (1190) 6.20 Fabliaux: The Piece of Shit and The Ring That Controlled Erections (13th cent.) 6.21 Romance: Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot (c.1177–1181) Developments in Religious Sensibilities 6.22 Disciplining and purifying Christendom: Decrees of Lateran IV (1215) 6.23 Devotion through poverty: Peter Waldo in The Chronicle of Laon (1173–1178) 6.24 Devotion through mysticism: Jacques de Vitry, The Life of Mary of Oignies (1213) 6.25 The mendicant movement: St. Francis, A Rule for Hermitages (1217–1221) and The Testament (1226) 6.26 Religious feeling turned violent: Chronicle of Trier (1231) Timeline for Chapter Six VII. Tensions and Reconciliations (c.1250–c.1350) The Mongols and the Mamluks 7.1 A spokesman for Mongol rule: Rashid al-Din, Universal History (before 1318) Genealogy 7.1: The Mongol Khans 7.2 A Mongol reply to the pope: Guyuk Khan, Letter to Pope Innocent IV (1246) 7.3 The Hungarian king bewails the Mongol invasions: Béla IV, Letter to Pope Innocent IV (c.1250) 7.4 An Islamic account of the fall of Acre: Abu’l-Fida, A Short History of Mankind (1318–1319) 7.5 A Christian account of the fall of Acre: “The Templar of Tyre,” Deeds of the Cypriots (before 1343) 7.6 The global economy: Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, The Practice of Trade (c.1340s) Map 7.1: Place Names from Azov to Hangzhou New Formations in Eastern Europe 7.7 Poland as a frontier society: The Henryków Book (c.1268) 7.8 The Lithuanian duke flirts with Christianity: Duke Gediminas, Letter to Pope John XXII (1322) and Letter to the townspeople of Lübeck, Rostock, Stralsund, Greifswald, Stettin, and Gotland (May 26, 1323) 7.9 Pagan Lithuania in Christian Europe: Peter of Dusburg, Chronicle of the Prussian Land (c.1320–1326) 7.10 Bulgaria claims a saint: The Short Life of St. Petka (Paraskeve) of Tarnov (13th cent.) Transformations in the Cities 7.11 The popolo gains power: The Ghibelline Annals of Piacenza (1250) 7.12 The Hanseatic League: Decrees of the League (1260–1264) 7.13 Too big to fail? A Great Bank Petitions the City Council of Siena (1298) Heresies and Persecutions 7.14 Inquisition: Jacques Fournier, Episcopal Register (1318–1325) 7.15 Jews in England: Statute of the Jewry (1275) and Petition of the “Commonalty” of the Jews (shortly after 1275) Rulers and Ruled 7.16 The Spanish Cortes: Alfonso X, Cortes of Valladolid (1258) 7.17 The commons participate: Summons of Representatives of Shires and Towns to Parliament (1295) 7.18 A charismatic ruler: Joinville, The Life of St. Louis (1272) 7.19 The papal challenge: Boniface VIII, Unam sanctam (1302) Modes of Thought, Feeling, and Devotion 7.20 Scholasticism: Thomas Aquinas, On Love (1271) 7.21 The vernacular comes into its own: Dante, Inferno, Canto V (Paolo and Francesca) (1313–1321) 7.22 Medieval drama: Directions for an Annunciation Play (14th cent.) Timeline for Chapter Seven VIII. Catastrophe and Creativity (c.1350–c.1500) The Black Death 8.1 The effects of the plague: Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron (1348–1351) 8.2 Warding off the plague through processions: Ibn Battuta, Travels (before 1368) 8.3 Warding off the plague through prayer: Archbishop William, Letter to His Official at York (July 1348) 8.4 Blaming the Jews for the Black Death: Heinrich von Diessenhoven, On the Persecution of the Jews (c.1350) The Ottomans 8.5 A Turkish hero: Ashikpashazade, Othman Comes to Power (late 15th cent.) 8.6 Diplomacy: Peace Agreement between the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II and the Signoria of Venice (January 25, 1478) Byzantium: Decline and Fall 8.7 Before the fall: Patriarch Anthony, Letter to the Russian Church (1395) 8.8 The fall bewailed: George Sphrantzes, Chronicle (before 1477) 8.9 Byzantine culture persists: Petitions from the Greek Community at Venice (1470–1511) War and Social Unrest 8.10 Chivalric and non-chivalric models: Froissart, Chronicles (c.1400) 8.11 National feeling: Jeanne d’Arc, Letter to the English (1429) 8.12 The woolworkers (ciompi) revolt at Siena: Donato di Neri and his son, Chronicle of Siena (1371) 8.13 The commons revolt: Wat Tyler’s Rebellion (after 1381) Crises and Changes in the Church and Religion 8.14 The conciliarist movement: Jean Gerson, Sermon at the Council of Constance (1415) 8.15 The Hussite program: The Four Articles of Prague (1420) The Renaissance 8.16 Re-evaluating antiquity: Cincius Romanus, Letter to His Most Learned Teacher Franciscus de Fiana (1416) 8.17 A new theory of art: Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting (1435–1436) 8.18 Defending women: Christine de Pisan, The Book of the City of Ladies (1404–1407) Finding a New World 8.19 Mapping the New World: Juan de la Cosa, World Chart (1500) 8.20 Taking Mexico: Hernán Cortés, The Second Letter (1520) Timeline for Chapter Eight Sources Index of Names, Places, and Readings

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions—thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative introductions, and close integration with A Short History of the Middle Ages—and adds significant new materials, especially on the Byzantine and Islamic worlds and the Mediterranean region. This volume spans the period c.300 to c.1150. The stunning "Reading through Looking" color insert, which showcases medieval artifacts, has been expanded to include essays on weapons and warfare by medievalist Riccardo Cristiani. New maps, timelines, and genealogies aid readers in following knotty but revealing sources. On the History Matters website (www.utphistorymatters.com), students have access to hundreds of Questions for Reflection.Table of ContentsReading through Looking Preface Abbreviations and Symbols Authorized Version of the Bible I. Prelude: The Roman World Transformed (c.300–c.600) A Christianized Empire 1.1 Toleration or favoritism? The Edict of Milan (313) 1.2 Law: The Theodosian Code (438) 1.3 Plague: Gregory the Great, Letter to Bishop Dominic of Carthage (600) Heresy and Orthodoxy 1.4 Heretics: Manichaean Texts (before 350?) 1.5 Orthodoxy’s declaration: The Nicene Creed (325) Patristic Thought 1.6 Conversion: Augustine, Confessions (397–401) 1.7 Relating this world to the next: Augustine, The City of God (413–426) 1.8 Monasticism: The Benedictine Rule (c.530–c.560) Saintly Models 1.9 The virginal life: Jerome, Letter 24 (To Marcella) (384) 1.10 The eremitical life: Athanasius, The Life of St. Antony of Egypt (357) 1.11 The active life: Sulpicius Severus, The Life of St. Martin of Tours (397) 1.12 The cult of saints: Gregory of Tours, The Life of Monegundis (580s) Barbarian Kingdoms 1.13 Gothic Italy as Rome’s heir: Cassiodorus, Variae (State Papers) (c.507–536) 1.14 The conversion of the Franks: Bishop Avitus of Vienne, Letter to Clovis (508?) 1.15 Gothic Spain converts: The Third Council of Toledo (589) 1.16 Merovingian Gaul’s bishop-historian: Gregory of Tours, Histories (576–594) Timeline for Chapter One II. The Emergence of Sibling Cultures (c.600–c.750) The Resilience of Byzantium 2.1 The Siege of Constantinople: The Easter Chronicle (630) Map 2.1: The Siege of Constantinople 2.2 Purifying practice: The Quinisext Council (691/692) 2.3 The iconoclastic argument: The Synod of 754 The Formation of the Islamic World 2.4 The sacred text: Qur’an Suras 1, 53:1–18, 81, 87, 96, 98 (c.610–622) 2.5 Muslim conquests: John of Nikiu, Chronicle (c.690) Map 2.2: The Muslim Conquest of Egypt 2.6 Umayyad diplomacy: The Treaty of Tudmir (713) 2.7 Administration: Letters to ‘Abd Allah b. As‘ad (c.730–750) 2.8 Praising the caliph: Al-Akhtal, The Tribe Has Departed (c.692) The Impoverished but Inventive West 2.9 The private penitential tradition: Penitential of Finnian (late 6th cent.) 2.10 A royal saint: The Life of Queen Balthild (c.680) 2.11 Reforming the continental Church: Letters to Boniface (723–726) 2.12 Creating a Roman Christian identity for England: Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731) Timeline for Chapter Two III. Creating New Identities (c.750–c.900) The Material Basis of Society 3.1 Manors in the West: Polyptyque of the Church of Saint Mary of Marseille (814–815) 3.2 The Byzantine countryside: Niketas, The Life of Saint Philaretos (821/822) 3.3 The sale of a slave in Italy: A Contract of Sale (725) A Multiplicity of Heroes 3.4 Charlemagne as Roman emperor: Einhard, Life of Charlemagne (825–826?) 3.5 An Abbasid victory in verse: Abu Tammam, The sword gives truer tidings (838) 3.6 Mothers and fathers: Dhuoda, Handbook for Her Son (841–843) 3.7 A Christian hero in northern Iberia: The Chronicle of Alfonso III (early 880s) 3.8 Celebrating local leaders: Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Battles of the City of Paris (late 9th cent.) Religion and Politics 3.9 An early view of the Prophet: Muhammad ibn Ishaq, Life of Muhammad (754–767) 3.10 Muhammad’s words in the hadith: Al-Bukhari, On Fasting (9th cent.) 3.11 The pope and the Carolingians: Pope Stephen II, Letters to King Pippin III (755–756) 3.12 Modeling the state on Old Testament Israel: The Admonitio Generalis (789) 3.13 The Slavic conversion: Constantine-Cyril, Prologue to the Gospel (863–867) 3.14 The Bulgarian khan in Byzantine guise: Seal of Boris-Michael (864–889) 3.15 The Bulgarians adopt Christianity: Pope Nicholas I, Letter to Answer the Bulgarians’ Questions (866) Timeline for Chapter Three IV. Political Communities Reordered (c.900–c.1050) Regionalism: Its Advantages and Its Discontents 4.1 Fragmentation in the Islamic world: Al-Tabari, The Defeat of the Zanj Revolt (c.915) 4.2 The powerful in the Byzantine countryside: Romanus I Lecapenus, Novel (934) 4.3 Evanescent centralization in al-Andalus: Ibn ‘Abd Rabbihi, Praise Be to Him (929–940) 4.4 Donating to Cluny: Cluny’s Foundation Charter (910) and various charters of donation (10th–11th cent.) Genealogy 4.1: The Grossi 4.5 Love and complaints in Angoulême: Agreement between Count William of the Aquitainians and Hugh IV of Lusignan (1028) 4.6 The Peace of God at Bourges: Andrew of Fleury, The Miracles of St. Benedict (1040–1043) Byzantium in Ascendance 4.7 Patronage of the arts: “Theophanes Continuatus,” Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (before 963) 4.8 The toils of war: The Epitaph of Basil II (1025) 4.9 Imperial rule under two sisters: Michael Psellus, Zoe and Theodora (before 1063) Scholarship and the Arts across the Islamic World 4.10 Political theory: Al-Farabi, The Perfect State (c.940–942) 4.11 A Jewish poet in al-Andalus: Dunash ben Labrat, There Came a Voice (mid-10th cent.) 4.12 Education: Al-Qabisi, A Treatise Detailing the Circumstances of Students and the Rules Governing Teachers and Students (before 1012) Kingdoms in East Central Europe 4.13 Hungary as heir of Rome: King Stephen, Laws (1000–1038) 4.14 Coming to terms with Catholic Poland: Thietmar of Merseburg, Chronicle (1013–1018) 4.15 Poland’s self-image: Boleslaw’s Coin (992–1000) 4.16 Kievan Rus’: The Russian Primary Chronicle (c.1113, incorporating earlier materials) Northern Europe 4.17 An Ottonian courtier-bishop: Ruotger, Life of Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne (late 960s) 4.18 Law: King Æthelred II, Law Code (1008) 4.19 Christianity comes to Denmark: The Jelling Monument (960s) 4.20 The Vikings as enemies: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c.1048?) Map 4.1: Southern England 4.21 The Vikings as heroes: Egil’s Saga (10th cent./13th cent.) Timeline for Chapter Four V. New Configurations (c.1050–c.1150) The Seljuk Transformation 5.1 The Seljuks as enemies: Abu’l-Fazl Beyhaqi, The Battle of Dandanqan (before 1077) Map 5.1: The Early Seljuk Empire 5.2 Shi‘ites vilified: Nizam al-Mulk, The Book of Policy (1091) A Profit Economy 5.3 Cultivating new lands: Frederick of Hamburg’s Agreement with Colonists from Holland (1106) 5.4 Urban commerce: Ibn ‘Abdun, Regulations for the Market at Seville (early 12th cent.) 5.5 The role of royal patronage: Henry I, Privileges for the Citizens of London (1130–1133) Church Reform 5.6 The pope’s challenge: Gregory VII, Admonition to Henry IV (1075) 5.7 The royal response: Henry IV, Letter to Gregory VII (1075) 5.8 The papal view: Gregory VII, Letter to Hermann of Metz (1076) The Clergy in Action 5.9 Dressing for the liturgy: Vesting Prayers (c.1000?) 5.10 Keeping tabs: A Visitation Record (1268) The First Crusade 5.11 Calling the crusade: Robert the Monk, Pope Urban II Preaches the First Crusade (1095) 5.12 Jewish martyrs: Solomon bar Samson, Chronicle (c.1140) 5.13 A Westerner in the Holy Land: Stephen of Blois, Letter to His Wife (March 1098) 5.14 The Muslim view: Ibn al-Qalanisi, The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades (before 1160) The Norman Conquest of England 5.15 The pro-Norman position: William of Jumièges, The Deeds of the Dukes of the Normans (c.1070) 5.16 The native position: “Florence of Worcester,” Chronicle of Chronicles (early 12th cent.) 5.17 The Conquest depicted: The Bayeux Tapestry (end of the 11th cent.) 5.18 Exploiting the Conquest: Domesday Book (1087) The Twelfth-Century Renaissance 5.19 Logic: Peter Abelard, Glosses on Porphyry (c.1100) 5.20 Medical science: Constantine the African’s translation of Johannitius’s Isagoge (before 1098) Cluniacs and Cistercians 5.21 The Cistercian view: St. Bernard, Apologia (1125) 5.22 The Cluniac view: Peter the Venerable, Miracles (mid-1130s–mid-1150s) Timeline for Chapter Five Sources Index of Names, Places, and Readings

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions and adds significant new materials, especially on the Byzantine and Islamic worlds and the Mediterranean region. This volume spans the period c.900 to c.1500.Table of ContentsReading through Looking Preface Abbreviations and Symbols Authorized Version of the Bible IV. Political Communities Reordered (c.900–c.1050) Regionalism: Its Advantages and Its Discontents 4.1 Fragmentation in the Islamic world: Al-Tabari, The Defeat of the Zanj Revolt (c.915) 4.2 The powerful in the Byzantine countryside: Romanus I Lecapenus, Novel (934) 4.3 Evanescent centralization in al-Andalus: Ibn ‘Abd Rabbihi, Praise Be to Him (929–940) 4.4 Donating to Cluny: Cluny’s Foundation Charter (910) and various charters of donation (10th–11th cent.) Genealogy 4.1: The Grossi 4.5 Love and complaints in Angoulême: Agreement between Count William of the Aquitainians and Hugh IV of Lusignan (1028) 4.6 The Peace of God at Bourges: Andrew of Fleury, The Miracles of St. Benedict (1040–1043) Byzantium in Ascendance 4.7 Patronage of the arts: “Theophanes Continuatus,” Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (before 963) 4.8 The toils of war: The Epitaph of Basil II (1025) 4.9 Imperial rule under two sisters: Michael Psellus, Zoe and Theodora (before 1063) Scholarship and the Arts across the Islamic World 4.10 Political theory: Al-Farabi, The Perfect State (c.940–942) 4.11 A Jewish poet in al-Andalus: Dunash ben Labrat, There Came a Voice (mid-10th cent.) 4.12 Education: Al-Qabisi, A Treatise Detailing the Circumstances of Students and the Rules Governing Teachers and Students (before 1012) Kingdoms in East Central Europe 4.13 Hungary as heir of Rome: King Stephen, Laws (1000–1038) 4.14 Coming to terms with Catholic Poland: Thietmar of Merseburg, Chronicle (1013–1018) 4.15 Poland’s self-image: Boleslaw’s Coin (992–1000) 4.16 Kievan Rus’: The Russian Primary Chronicle (c.1113, incorporating earlier materials) Northern Europe 4.17 An Ottonian courtier-bishop: Ruotger, Life of Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne (late 960s) 4.18 Law: King Æthelred II, Law Code (1008) 4.19 Christianity comes to Denmark: The Jelling Monument (960s) 4.20 The Vikings as enemies: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c.1048?) Map 4.1: Southern England 4.21 The Vikings as heroes: Egil’s Saga (10th cent./13th cent.) Timeline for Chapter Four V. New Configurations (c.1050–c.1150) The Seljuk Transformation 5.1 The Seljuks as enemies: Abu’l-Fazl Beyhaqi, The Battle of Dandanqan (before 1077) Map 5.1: The Early Seljuk Empire 5.2 Shi‘ites vilified: Nizam al-Mulk, The Book of Policy (1091) A Profit Economy 5.3 Cultivating new lands: Frederick of Hamburg’s Agreement with Colonists from Holland (1106) 5.4 Urban commerce: Ibn ‘Abdun, Regulations for the Market at Seville (early 12th cent.) 5.5 The role of royal patronage: Henry I, Privileges for the Citizens of London (1130–1133) Church Reform 5.6 The pope’s challenge: Gregory VII, Admonition to Henry IV (1075) 5.7 The royal response: Henry IV, Letter to Gregory VII (1075) 5.8 The papal view: Gregory VII, Letter to Hermann of Metz (1076) The Clergy in Action 5.9 Dressing for the liturgy: Vesting Prayers (c.1000?) 5.10 Keeping tabs: A Visitation Record (1268) The First Crusade 5.11 Calling the crusade: Robert the Monk, Pope Urban II Preaches the First Crusade (1095) 5.12 Jewish martyrs: Solomon bar Samson, Chronicle (c.1140) 5.13 A Westerner in the Holy Land: Stephen of Blois, Letter to His Wife (March 1098) 5.14 The Muslim view: Ibn al-Qalanisi, The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades (before 1160) The Norman Conquest of England 5.15 The pro-Norman position: William of Jumièges, The Deeds of the Dukes of the Normans (c.1070) 5.16 The native position: “Florence of Worcester,” Chronicle of Chronicles (early 12th cent.) 5.17 The Conquest depicted: The Bayeux Tapestry (end of the 11th cent.) 5.18 Exploiting the Conquest: Domesday Book (1087) The Twelfth-Century Renaissance 5.19 Logic: Peter Abelard, Glosses on Porphyry (c.1100) 5.20 Medical science: Constantine the African’s translation of Johannitius’s Isagoge (before 1098) Cluniacs and Cistercians 5.21 The Cistercian view: St. Bernard, Apologia (1125) 5.22 The Cluniac view: Peter the Venerable, Miracles (mid-1130s–mid-1150s) Timeline for Chapter Five VI. Institutionalizing Aspirations (c.1150–c.1250) Wars Holy and Unholy 6.1 The Northern Crusades: Helmold, The Chronicle of the Slavs (1167–1168) 6.2 Saladin’s jihad: Ibn Shaddad, The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin (1195–1216) 6.3 The Fourth Crusade: Nicetas Choniates, O City of Byzantium (c.1215) Grounding Justice in Royal Law 6.4 English common law: The Assize of Clarendon (1166) 6.5 The legislation of a Spanish king: The Laws of Cuenca (1189–1193) Local Arrangements 6.6 A Byzantine monastery on Cyprus: Neophytos, Testamentary Rule for the Hermitage of the Holy Cross (1214) 6.7 Doing business: A Genoese societas (1253) 6.8 Women’s work: Guild Regulations of the Parisian Silk Fabric Makers (13th cent.) Bureaucracy at the Papal Curia 6.9 The growth of papal business: Innocent III, Letters (1200–1202) 6.10 Petitioning the papacy: Register of Thomas of Hereford (1281) 6.11 Mocking the papal bureaucracy: The Gospel According to the Marks of Silver (c.1200) Confrontations 6.12 Henry II and Becket: The Constitutions of Clarendon (1164) 6.13 Emperor and pope: The Diet of Besançon (1157) 6.14 King and nobles: Magna Carta (1215) New Literary Forms 6.15 Byzantine romantic fiction: Niketas Eugenianos, Drosilla and Charikles (c.1156) 6.16 Love and propriety in al-Andalus: Anonymous, The Tale of Bayad and Riyad (early 13th cent.) 6.17 A troubadour love song: Bernart de Ventadorn, When I see the lark (c.1147–after 1172) 6.18 A trobairitz love song: La Comtessa de Dia, I have been in heavy grief (late 12th–early 13th cent.) 6.19 A political song from the south of France: Bertran de Born, Half a sirventés I’ll sing (1190) 6.20 Fabliaux: The Piece of Shit and The Ring That Controlled Erections (13th cent.) 6.21 Romance: Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot (c.1177–1181) Developments in Religious Sensibilities 6.22 Disciplining and purifying Christendom: Decrees of Lateran IV (1215) 6.23 Devotion through poverty: Peter Waldo in The Chronicle of Laon (1173–1178) 6.24 Devotion through mysticism: Jacques de Vitry, The Life of Mary of Oignies (1213) 6.25 The mendicant movement: St. Francis, A Rule for Hermitages (1217–1221) and The Testament (1226) 6.26 Religious feeling turned violent: Chronicle of Trier (1231) Timeline for Chapter Six VII. Tensions and Reconciliations (c.1250–c.1350) The Mongols and the Mamluks 7.1 A spokesman for Mongol rule: Rashid al-Din, Universal History (before 1318) Genealogy 7.1: The Mongol Khans 7.2 A Mongol reply to the pope: Guyuk Khan, Letter to Pope Innocent IV (1246) 7.3 The Hungarian king bewails the Mongol invasions: Béla IV, Letter to Pope Innocent IV (c.1250) 7.4 An Islamic account of the fall of Acre: Abu’l-Fida, A Short History of Mankind (1318–1319) 7.5 A Christian account of the fall of Acre: “The Templar of Tyre,” Deeds of the Cypriots (before 1343) 7.6 The global economy: Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, The Practice of Trade (c.1340s) Map 7.1: Place Names from Azov to Hangzhou New Formations in Eastern Europe 7.7 Poland as a frontier society: The Henryków Book (c.1268) 7.8 The Lithuanian duke flirts with Christianity: Duke Gediminas, Letter to Pope John XXII (1322) and Letter to the townspeople of Lübeck, Rostock, Stralsund, Greifswald, Stettin, and Gotland (May 26, 1323) 7.9 Pagan Lithuania in Christian Europe: Peter of Dusburg, Chronicle of the Prussian Land (c.1320–1326) 7.10 Bulgaria claims a saint: The Short Life of St. Petka (Paraskeve) of Tarnov (13th cent.) Transformations in the Cities 7.11 The popolo gains power: The Ghibelline Annals of Piacenza (1250) 7.12 The Hanseatic League: Decrees of the League (1260–1264) 7.13 Too big to fail? A Great Bank Petitions the City Council of Siena (1298) Heresies and Persecutions 7.14 Inquisition: Jacques Fournier, Episcopal Register (1318–1325) 7.15 Jews in England: Statute of the Jewry (1275) and Petition of the “Commonalty” of the Jews (shortly after 1275) Rulers and Ruled 7.16 The Spanish Cortes: Alfonso X, Cortes of Valladolid (1258) 7.17 The commons participate: Summons of Representatives of Shires and Towns to Parliament (1295) 7.18 A charismatic ruler: Joinville, The Life of St. Louis (1272) 7.19 The papal challenge: Boniface VIII, Unam sanctam (1302) Modes of Thought, Feeling, and Devotion 7.20 Scholasticism: Thomas Aquinas, On Love (1271) 7.21 The vernacular comes into its own: Dante, Inferno, Canto V (Paolo and Francesca) (1313–1321) 7.22 Medieval drama: Directions for an Annunciation Play (14th cent.) Timeline for Chapter Seven VIII. Catastrophe and Creativity (c.1350–c.1500) The Black Death 8.1 The effects of the plague: Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron (1348–1351) 8.2 Warding off the plague through processions: Ibn Battuta, Travels (before 1368) 8.3 Warding off the plague through prayer: Archbishop William, Letter to His Official at York (July 1348) 8.4 Blaming the Jews for the Black Death: Heinrich von Diessenhoven, On the Persecution of the Jews (c.1350) The Ottomans 8.5 A Turkish hero: Ashikpashazade, Othman Comes to Power (late 15th cent.) 8.6 Diplomacy: Peace Agreement between the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II and the Signoria of Venice (January 25, 1478) Byzantium: Decline and Fall 8.7 Before the fall: Patriarch Anthony, Letter to the Russian Church (1395) 8.8 The fall bewailed: George Sphrantzes, Chronicle (before 1477) 8.9 Byzantine culture persists: Petitions from the Greek Community at Venice (1470–1511) War and Social Unrest 8.10 Chivalric and non-chivalric models: Froissart, Chronicles (c.1400) 8.11 National feeling: Jeanne d’Arc, Letter to the English (1429) 8.12 The woolworkers (ciompi) revolt at Siena: Donato di Neri and his son, Chronicle of Siena (1371) 8.13 The commons revolt: Wat Tyler’s Rebellion (after 1381) Crises and Changes in the Church and Religion 8.14 The conciliarist movement: Jean Gerson, Sermon at the Council of Constance (1415) 8.15 The Hussite program: The Four Articles of Prague (1420) The Renaissance 8.16 Re-evaluating antiquity: Cincius Romanus, Letter to His Most Learned Teacher Franciscus de Fiana (1416) 8.17 A new theory of art: Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting (1435–1436) 8.18 Defending women: Christine de Pisan, The Book of the City of Ladies (1404–1407) Finding a New World 8.19 Mapping the New World: Juan de la Cosa, World Chart (1500) 8.20 Taking Mexico: Hernán Cortés, The Second Letter (1520) Timeline for Chapter Eight Sources Index of Names, Places, and Readings

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the multifaceted history of the Middle East, Kishwar Rizvi offers a richly illustrated analysis of the role of transnational mosques in the construction of contemporary Muslim identity. As Rizvi explains, transnational mosques are structures built through the support of both government sponsorshipand diverse transnational networks.Trade ReviewClearly written, finely illustrated, and wonderfully organized . . . will be of enormous value to anyone interested in how the state ideology in the Middle East is manifest in the built environment. Highly recommended." - Choice"It goes without saying that this is a timely volume, not only because it looks at the mosque as a key site of cultural politics in a world where political tension over religious difference prevails but also because of its methodological framework exposing the fallacy of representing Islam as a monolith. Nevertheless, it would be a mistake to limit The Transnational Mosque to a study on Islamic rchitecture; the book provides invaluable insights on the politics of architecture." - Art Bulletin"The Transnational Mosque represents an extremely timely return to the study of religious architecture as part of our contemporary cultural landscape. It provides a well-researched and articulate narration of architectural projects that exceed national borders, grounded in remarkably cogent summaries of local politics and histories." - Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

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Book SynopsisAcclaimed historian of US-Middle East foreign relations Douglas Little examines how American presidents, policy makers, and diplomats dealt with the rise of Islamic extremism in the modern era.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on years of research in American, British, and Iranian sources, David Painter and Gregory Brew provide a concise and accessible account of Cold War competition, Anglo-American imperialism, covert intervention, the political economy of global oil, and Iran’s struggle against autocratic government.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on years of research in American, British, and Iranian sources, David Painter and Gregory Brew provide a concise and accessible account of Cold War competition, Anglo-American imperialism, covert intervention, the political economy of global oil, and Iran’s struggle against autocratic government.

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Book SynopsisUsing previously untapped archives to reclaim a forgotten history, this groundbreaking study traces Arab American advocacy to the early twentieth century, when mass immigration as a result of Arab grievances with Ottoman Turks fostered a unified Arab AmerTable of Contents Acknowledgments Note on Arabic Terms and Names Introduction 1. Arab Populations under Ottoman Rule: A Background 2. The Syrian Nationalism of the Mahjar Press 3. Soldiers for Syria before World War I: The Free Syria Society 4. The Syria Idea and the New Syria Party 5. The Mandate Years and the Diaspora: The Arab National League and a Historical Context for Arab American Narrative 6. The Arab National League and the Emergence of Arab American Identity 7. The Institute of Arab American Affairs: Arab Americans and the New World Order Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe last two decades have given rise to a proliferation of scholarship by Israeli feminists working in diverse fields, ranging from sociology to literature, anthropology, and history. As the Israeli feminist movement continually decentralizes and diversifies, it has become less Eurocentric and heterocentric, making way for pluralistic concerns. Collecting fifteen previously published essays that give voice to this diversity, Israeli Feminist Scholarship showcases articles on Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, Palestinian, and lesbian identities as well as on Israeli women’s roles as mothers, citizens and activists, and soldiers.Citing evidence that these scholars have redefined their object of inquiry as an open site of contested and constructed identity, luminary Esther Fuchs traces the history of Israeli feminism. Among the essays are Jewish historian Margalit Shilo’s study of the New Hebrew Woman, sociologist Ronit Lentin’s analysis of gendered representations ofTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction. Israeli Feminist Scholarship: Gender, Zionism, and DifferenceEsther FuchsChapter One. The Evolution of Critical Paradigms in Israeli Feminist Scholarship: A Theoretical ModelEsther FuchsChapter Two. Politicizing Masculinities: Shahada and HaganahSheila H. KatzChapter Three. The Double or Multiple Image of the New Hebrew WomanMargalit ShiloChapter Four. The Heroism of Hannah Senesz: An Exercise in Creating Collective National Memory in the State of IsraelJudith T. BaumelChapter Five. The Feminisation of Stigma in the Relationship Between Israelis and Shoah SurvivorsRonit LentinChapter Six. Gendering Military Service in the Israel Defense ForcesDafna N. IzraeliChapter Seven. The Halachic Trap: Marriage and Family LifeRuth Halperin-KaddariChapter Eight. Motherhood as a National Mission: The Construction of Womanhood in the Legal Discourse in IsraelNitza BerkovitchChapter Nine. No Home at Home: Women’s Fiction vs. Zionist PracticeYaffah BerlovitzChapter Ten. Wasteland Revisited: An Ecofeminist StrategyHannah NavehChapter Eleven. Tensions in Israeli Feminism: The MizrahiAshkenazi RiftHenriette Dahan-KalevChapter Twelve. Scholarship, Identity, and Power: Mizrahi Women in IsraelPnina Motzafi-HallerChapter Thirteen. Reexamining Femicide: Breaking the Silence and Crossing “Scientific” BordersNadera Shalhoub-KevorkianChapter Fourteen. The Construction of Lesbianism as Nonissue in IsraelErella ShadmiChapter Fifteen. From Gender to Genders: Feminists Read Women’s Locations in Israeli SocietyHanna HerzogAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive history traces the complex development of Kurdish distinctiveness from the beginnings of Islam through the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of Kurdish nationalism after World War I.Table of Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration Introduction. The Origins of the Kurds—Myths, History, and Modern Politics 1. Kurdish Distinctiveness under Arab, Persian, and Turkish Dominance 2. The Era of Ottoman and Iranian Rule 3. The Demise of Kurdish Emirates in the Nineteenth Century 4. Seeds of Kurdish Nationalism in the Declining Ottoman Empire 5. The Beginnings of Modern Kurdish Politics 6. The Kurds and Kurdistan during World War I 7. The Kurds and the New Middle East after the Ottomans Conclusion. From Distinctiveness to Nationalism—Continuing Issues of Kurdish Collective Identity Maps Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA sweeping examination of Afghanistan’s most vulnerable individuals and the myriad of problems that confront them, Children of Afghanistan not only explores the host of crises that has led the United Nations to call the country “the worst place on earth tTrade Review"This book is worth reading because it makes clear that childhood represents the future of societies and highlights the need to challenge the adultocentric view." * Allegra *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (Jennifer Heath) Part I. The Way We Were; The Way We're Seen Chapter 1. Before the Wars: Memories of Childhood in the Pre- Soviet Era (Amina Kator-Mubarez) Chapter 2. Narratives of Afghan Childhood: Risk, Resilience, and the Experiences that Shape the Development of Afghanistan as a People and a Nation (Anne E. Brodsky) Chapter 3. Jumping Rope in Prison: The Representation of Afghan Children in Film (Teresa Cutler-Broyles) Part II. Ties That Bind: The Family in Rebound Chapter 4. Love, Fear, and Discipline in Afghan Families (Deborah J. Smith) Chapter 5. Children Who Live with Their Mothers in Prison (Esther Hyneman) Chapter 6. Little Brides and Bridegrooms: Systemic Failure, Cultural Response (Sharifa Sharif) Part III. Survival by Any Means Possible Chapter 7. Confronting Child Labor (Amanda Sim) Chapter 8. The Parakeet Boys: Performing Education in the Streets of Kabul (Wahid Omar) Chapter 9. Child Soldiering in Afghanistan (Delphine Boutin) Chapter 10. Legal Protection: Offering Aid and Comfort (Hangama Anwari) Part IV. To Be Whole in Mind and Body Chapter 11. Children's Health: The Challenge of Survival (Steven Solter) Chapter 12. Food Security and Nutrition for Afghan Children (Fitsum Assefa, Annalies Borrel, and Charlotte Dufour) Chapter 13. Desperately Seeking Harun: Children with Disabilities (Lael Adams Mohib) Chapter 14. "Life Feeds on Hope": Family Mental Health, Culture, and Resilience (Mark Eggerman and Catherine Panter-Brick) Part V. Education: Nurturing the Future Chapter 15. Education in Transition: A Key Concern for Young Afghan Returnees (Mamiko Saito) Chapter 16. Primary and Secondary Education: Exponential Growth and Prospects for the Future (Omar Qargha) Chapter 17. Music and Literacy: A New Approach to Education (Louise M. Pascale) Part VI. Communicating Empowerment Chapter 18. "Thanks God for the Twitter and the Facebook! Thanks God for That!" (Lauryn Oates) Chapter 19. The New Storytellers of Afghanistan (Joanna Sherman) Chapter 20. Six Epiphanies: Testament to Change from Inside an Afghan Orphanage (Ian Pounds) Epilogue: Imagining the Future (Ashraf Zahedi) Selected Bibliography and Filmography About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisQueer Beirut paves the way for a timely anthropological conversation about gender and queer identities in both Middle Eastern studies and urban studies.Trade ReviewThis monograph . . . is the first of its kind, making it an invaluable contribution to scholarship on queer sexualities, urban space, and social production in Lebanon. * Anthropos *Queer Beirut masterfully bridges disciplinary borders by engaging with an impressive and diverse body of scholarship, ranging from literary to anthropological to sociological theory. * H-Net Reviews *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue. Itinerant Journeys Map of Lebanon Introduction Map of Beirut 1. Producing Queer Space in Beirut: Zones of Encounter in Post-Civil-War Lebanon 2. Producing Prestige in and around Beirut: The Indiscreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and the Assertion of a Queer Presence 3. Walking through the Concrete Jungle: The Queer Urban Stroller Traveling amid de Certeau, Benjamin, and Bourdieu 4. Queer Performances and the Politics of Place: The Art of Drag and the Routine of Sectarianism 5. The Homosexual Sphere between Spatial Appropriation and Contestation: Collective Activism and the Many Lives of Young Gay Men in Beirut 6. The Queering of Closed and Open Spaces: Spatial Practices and the Dialectics of External and Internal Homophobia 7. The Gay Gaze on the Corniche and the Politics of Memory: A Stroll on the Corniche and a Walk through Zoqāq al-Blāṭ 8. “Seeing Oneself” and the Mirror Stage: The Ḥammām and the Gay Icon Fairuz 9. Phenomenology and the Spatial Assertion of Queerness: Spatial Alienation, Anthropology, and Urban Studies 10. Raising the Rainbow Flag between City and Country: Dancing, Protesting, and the Mimetics of Everyday Life Conclusion. Struggling for Difference Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNumbering between 25 and 35 million worldwide, the Kurds are among the largest culturally and ethnically distinct people to remain stateless. A People Without a State offers an in-depth survey of an identity that has often been ignored in mainstream historiographies of the Middle East and brings to life the historical, social, and political developments in Kurdistani society over the past millennium.Michael Eppel begins with the myths and realities of the origins of the Kurds, describes the effect upon them of medieval Muslim states under Arab, Persian, and Turkish dominance, and recounts the emergence of tribal-feudal dynasties. He explores in detail the subsequent rise of Kurdish emirates, as well as this people’s literary and linguistic developments, particularly the flourishing of poetry. The turning tides of the nineteenth century, including Ottoman reforms and fluctuating Russian influence after the Crimean War, set in motion an early Kurdish nationalism thTable of Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration Introduction. The Origins of the Kurds—Myths, History, and Modern Politics 1. Kurdish Distinctiveness under Arab, Persian, and Turkish Dominance 2. The Era of Ottoman and Iranian Rule 3. The Demise of Kurdish Emirates in the Nineteenth Century 4. Seeds of Kurdish Nationalism in the Declining Ottoman Empire 5. The Beginnings of Modern Kurdish Politics 6. The Kurds and Kurdistan during World War I 7. The Kurds and the New Middle East after the Ottomans Conclusion. From Distinctiveness to Nationalism—Continuing Issues of Kurdish Collective Identity Maps Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection of writings by and about Arab women is the first that focuses explicitly on Arab women’s often-fraught engagement with the boundaries that shape their lives in the twenty-first century.Trade Review[A] treasure trove of insightful accounts and research on Arab women who have been voluntarily and involuntarily speaking out after the Arab Spring in 2011. . . . The most exciting portions of this text are the glimpses into the inner workings of Arab culture. This accessible book is a must read. * CHOICE *The collection derives its discursive strength from diverse testimonies of Arab women ranging across age, class, and education. Bad Girls of the Arab World distinguishes itself through its examination of the political and personal, private and public, intentional and imposed dichotomies that women in the Arab world must operate under as they attempt to reformulate their role in society. * Middle East Journal *[Bad Girls of the Arab World] stands apart from the edited volume crowd. It includes, not only academic entries, but personal essays and reflections on art by their artists, all centered on the theme of transgression, or to put it in the language of Bad Girls of the Arab World itself, bad girls. And there is no one bad girl. Some bad girls of the Arab world use their linguistic and cultural heritage to empower them, some rail against them. Some ally themselves with the West, some don’t think about the West and the East as binaries, but rather, apply a complicated, nuanced worldview to their universes. However, all are allotted their agency. * New Books Network *A most welcome contribution to the field of women's studies. It is relevant to courses that examine representations of women, post-colonial and transnational feminisms, and/or gender in Arab-majority countries. * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *The chapters in this book are varied in style, including personal experience, academic analysis and artistic contributions; they cover different Arab countries as well as Arab women abroad, different time periods and contexts, but they all converge on disputing, directly or implicitly, Orientalist notions that the oppression of Arab women is rooted in beliefs fundamental to Islam and Arab society. * Jordan Times *This academic work explores both the symbolic statements and lived experience of Arab women who transgress social norms, whether intentionally or unintentionally…The strongest chapters break free from the bonds of academic jargon and present women in their full flesh-and-blood selves, often suffering greatly for their brave actions, sometimes with bodily manifestations. * Al Jadid *The chapters [in Bad Girls of the Arab World] consistently demonstrate that the consequences of being labeled bad girls are stigmatization, exclusion, and violence. But often embedded in acts of speaking about oppression are acts of resistance...The strength of Bad Girls is prevalent not only in some of its analytic essays but in its inclusion of more creative styles of writing. * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *Table of Contents A Note on Transliteration and Translation Foreword by Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley Acknowledgments Introduction by Nadia Yaqub Chapter 1. Inciting Critique in the Feminist Classroom (Rula Quawas) Chapter 2. “And Is It Impossible to Be Good Everywhere?” Love and Badness in America and the Arab World (Diya Abdo) Chapter 3. Suspicious Bodies: Madame Bomba Performs against Death in Lebanon (Rima Najdi) Chapter 4. “Jihad Jane” as Good American Patriot and Bad Arab Girl: The Case of Nada Prouty after 9/11 (Randa A. Kayyali) Chapter 5. Paying for Her Father’s Sins: Yasmin as a Daughter of Unknown Lineage (Rawan W. Ibrahim) Chapter 6. The Making of Bad Palestinian Mothers during the Second Intifada (Adania Shibli) Chapter 7. “They Are Not Like Your Daughters or Mine”: Spectacles of Bad Women from the Arab Spring (Amal Amireh) Chapter 8. “Fuck Your Morals”: The Body Activism of Amina Sboui (Anne Marie E. Butler ) Chapter 9. Syrian Bad Girl Samar Yazbek: Refusing Burial (Hanadi al-Samman) Chapter 10. Reel Bad Maghrebi Women (Florence Martin and Patricia Caillé) Chapter 11. New Bad Girls of Sudan: Women Singers in the Sudanese Diaspora (Anita H. Fábos) Chapter 12. Being a Revolutionary and Writerly Rebel (Suhair al-Tal) Afterword by Laila al-Atrash Afterword by Miral al-Tahawy Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing extensively on French colonial archives and historical ethnography, this book offers the first global history of Middle Eastern migrations to Latin America and the creation of Arab, French, and Mexican transnational networks.Trade Review[A] contribution to our understanding of transnational networks, the role of the Levantine migrants to Mexico as well as an important chapter in modern Mexican history. * Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online *Pastor's elucidation of migrant experiences, and their representation by various social actors, is essential reading for understanding the often-hidden diversity of modern Mexico…[The Mexican Mahjar] is a powerhouse. * Mashriq & Mahjar *The Mexican Mahjar...is an innovative book with creative reading of sources and well-designed chapters...Such documentary richness and its careful reading lead to important conclusions about culture transformation and Mahjaris’ active agency. * Latin American Research Review *Table of Contents Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Mexican Mahjar Chapter 2. Managing Mobility Chapter 3. Race and Patronage Chapter 4. Migrants and the Law Chapter 5. Modernism Chapter 6. Making the Mahjar Lebanese Chapter 7. Objects of Memory Chapter 8. The Arab and Its Double Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents key moments from the lives of mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean world at the turn of the twentieth century, showing how their nonconformity forced those around them to rethink basic values and mores.Trade Review"Together, [Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean's] essays highlight novel ways in which the members of colonised societies were able to oppose and subvert imperial power. They confirm that effective resistance could take any form and be mounted by anyone. It was not limited to dramatic acts or grand gestures." * Middle Eastern Studies *"[A] highly interesting volume…This collection joins a welcomed and renewed historiographical attention to the historical actor as an agent of sociopolitical change." * Mediterranean Historical Review *Table of ContentsPreface (Edmund Burke III)Introduction: Trajectories of Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean (Odile Moreau)Part I1. The Life of Boubeker El-Ghanjaoui: From a Cameleer to a Wealthy Notable in Precolonial Morocco, 1870–1905 (Khalid Ben-Srhir )2. Aref Taher Bey: An Ottoman Military Instructor Bridging the Maghreb and the Ottoman Mediterranean (Odile Moreau)3. Nazli Hanem, Kmar Bayya, and Khiriya Bin Ayyad: Three Women Living between Istanbul, Cairo, and Tunis in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century (Leïla Blili)4. Servant, Officer, and Resistance Fighter: The Autobiography of Qaʾid al-Raha al-Najim al-Akhsassi (1867/68–1964) (Wilfrid Rollman)5. Little Known Roots of Islamism: al-Kawakibi’s Umm al-Qura (Sanaa Makhlouf)Part II6. Revisiting Networks and Narratives: Enver Pasha’s Pan-Islamic and Pan-Turkic Quest (Şuhnaz Yılmaz)7. Going to School: Women’s Life Stories, Networks, and Education in Colonial North Africa, c. 1850–1962 (Julia Clancy-Smith)8. Mukhtar Al-Ayari, a Radical Tunisian in the 1920s and His Place in Labor History (Stuart Schaar)Index

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Book SynopsisBoth a symbol of the Mubarak government's power and a component in its construction of national identity, football served as fertile ground for Egyptians to confront the regime's overthrow during the 2011 revolution. With the help of the state, appreciation for football in Egypt peaked in the late 2000s. Yet after Mubarak fell, fans questioned their previous support, calling for a reformed football for a new, postrevolutionary nation. In Egypt's Football Revolution, Carl Rommel examines the politics of football as a space for ordinary Egyptians and state forces to negotiate a masculine Egyptian chauvinism. Basing his discussion on several years of fieldwork with fans, players, journalists, and coaches, he investigates the increasing attention paid to football during the Mubarak era; its demise with the 2011 uprisings and 2012 Port Said massacre, which left seventy-two fans dead; and its recent rehabilitation. Cairo's highly organized and dedicated Ultras fans became a key revolutionary force through their antiregime activism, challenging earlier styles of fandom and making visible entrenched ties between sport and politics. As the appeal of football burst, alternative conceptions of masculinity, emotion, and politics came to the fore to demand or prevent revolution and reform.Trade Review[Egypt's Football Revolution] is an interesting addition which undoubtedly will enrich the growing literature and multidisciplinary studies on sport, football in particular, in North African and Middle Eastern Societies. It is a must read for both academics and students in social sciences, and those interested in anthropology. The author’s lived experiences in Egypt and extensive ethnographic insights through the lenses of football offer a rich narrative about the political and social dynamics of Egypt. * Idrotts Forum *[Egypt's Football Revolution's] analysis of revolution, football emotion and masculinity enlightens the reader about what happened in the North African country during the last twenty years, and how Egyptian male football Ultras and the Egyptian government felt about it...Rommel’s knowledge of the subject is deep and broad. He has spent long hours viewing the game at stadiums and interacting with young Egyptians, and his participant observation of the Ultra fans in particular reveals their oral histories’ emotionality and value. This makes the work a reminder to historians who might otherwise emphasise archival texts and documents, of the deep feelings that motivate individuals, and allow for their manipulation by others. * Sport in History *An intriguing anthropological study...Egypt's Football Revolution is an important addition to the recent wave of sports publications on the Middle East and the ever-growing literature that uses sport as a fruitful lens through which to examine social and cultural issues. Sport historians, in particular, will be interested by the study's claim that the emotions generated by sport are a product of politics...the book is a welcome addition to scholarship on sport and society. The diverse themes and thought-provoking thesis make the study a fruitful object for future debates, and it is a must for scholars and graduate students of sport in the middle east. * Journal of Sport History *Through detailed analysis of media, sports fans and revolutionary change, the reader follows the trajectory of the ‘national game’ from its peak of popular attraction to its fall into obscurity. With a focus on affect and emotions, this tale of football in Egypt is also one that tells of how the masculine national subject is supposed to feel, act and react to events that bring people, places, old and new media together like no other...The focus on individual interlocutors, events, and large-scale processes in an interwoven manner adds richness to the texture of this excellent piece that ought to spark interest among sports fans and academics alike. * Anthropology Book Forum *Rommel’s book is masterful at showing the mutual nourishment of and transformations between footballing passions and political passions...The greatest merit of the book is that its particular Egyptian context engages with a question that is broadly consequential and has preoccupied some of the most seminal thinkers: how the political emerges...Rommel’s work is a great pleasure to read, and it is a significant contribution to sport anthropology as one of the few full-fledged ethnographies of football. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *[A] meticulously researched book...What brings more depth and nuance to Rommel’s work is his choice of conceptual frameworks wherein emotion, masculinity and politics are in a creative, uneasy and tensed dialogue with each other all at once. * Soccer & Society *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliterations Introduction: Emotions, Politics, and Egypt’s Changing National Game Part I. Bubble Chapter 1. Normal Nationals and Vulgar Winners Chapter 2. Fanatical Politics and Resurging Respectability Part II. Ultras Chapter 3. A Revolutionary Emotional Style Chapter 4. A Respectable Revolution Measures Its Violence Chapter 5. The Insurmountable Double Bind of Siyasa Part III. Aftermath Chapter 6. When the Game Feels Like Politics, It Doesn’t Feel Like Much at All Chapter 7. No National Significance, No Political Concerns Conclusion: An Emotional Revolt Trapped in Politics Postscript: Magnificent Mohamed Salah and the Ill-Fated 2018 World Cup Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFrom family staples to national dishes, Making Levantine Cuisine addresses the transnational histories and cultural nuances of the ingredients, recipes, and foodways that place the Levant onto an ever-shifting global culinary map.Trade Review[Making Levantine Cuisine] suggests that food and the fiery debates around it can shed light on histories of inequality and struggle in the region... By examining the food history, culture, and politics of the modern Levant, the pieces reveal a culinary history that is, as one contributor put it, 'simultaneously hidden and deliciously obvious.' * The Nation *A comprehensive and inviting account of Levantine Cuisine...As an inviting and accessible read for food scholars, ethnographers, graduate students, and home cooks, this edited volume engages readers to discuss method, theory, recipes, geography, and research in a new light. Whether discussing kebabs, pistachios, or hummus, the volume offers so much to think with, cook, and snack on. * Food Anthropology *Table of Contents A Note on Transliteration Preface Introduction: Making Levantine Cuisine (Anny Gaul and Graham Auman Pitts) Part I: Making Levantine Food Cultures 1. When Did Kibbe Become Lebanese? The Social Origins of National Food Culture (Graham Auman Pitts and Michel Kabalan) 2. Adana Kebabs and Antep Pistachios: Place, Displacement, and Cuisine of the Turkish South (Samuel Dolbee and Chris Gratien) 3. The Transformation of Sugar in Syria: From Luxury to Everyday Commodity (Sara Pekow) 4. Pistachios and Pomegranates: Vignettes from Aleppo (Essay and Recipe) (Antonio Tahhan) Part II: Revisiting Foodways in Israel-Palestine 5. Palestinian Urban Food Venues as Contact Zones between Arabs and Jews during the British Mandate Period (Dafna Hirsch) 6. The Companion to Every Bite: Palestinian Olive Oil in the Levant (Anne Meneley) 7. Even in a Small Country Like Palestine, Cuisine Is Regional (Essay and Recipes) (Reem Kassis) Part III: Levantine Cuisine beyond Borders 8. Embodying Levantine Cooking in East Amman, Jordan (Susan MacDougall) 9. Shakshūka for All Seasons: Tunisian Jewish Foodways at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Noam Sienna) 10. Unmaking Levantine Cuisine: The Levant, the Mediterranean, and the World (Harry Eli Kashdan) 11. Fine Dining to Street Food: Egypt’s Restaurant Culture in Transition (Essay and Recipes) (Suzanne Zeidy) Conclusion: Writing Levantine Cuisine (Anny Gaul with poetry by Zeina Azzam) Further Reading and Cooking Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisOn television, the Arab Spring took place in Cairo, Tunis, and the city-states of the Persian Gulf. Yet the drama of 2010, and the decade of subsequent activism, extended beyond the cities—indeed, beyond Arabs. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman brings to light the sustained post–Arab Spring political movement of North Africa’s Amazigh people.The Amazigh movement did not begin with the Arab Spring, but it has changed significantly since then. Amazigh Politics in the Wake of the Arab Spring details the increasingly material goals of Amazigh activism, as protest has shifted from the arena of ethnocultural recognition to that of legal and socioeconomic equality. Amazigh communities responded to the struggles for freedom around them by pressing territorial and constitutional claims while rejecting official discrimination and neglect. Arab activists, steeped in postcolonial nationalism and protective of their hegemonic position, largely refused their support, yet flailiTrade ReviewAmazigh Politics in the Wake of the Arab Spring contributes new, much-needed scholarship on the evolution of recent currents in Amazigh activism throughout North Africa...This book is essential reading for all those interested not only in Amazigh activism, but also minority rights and indigeneity discourses, North African politics, and transnational identity movements. * Oxford Middle East Review *

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Book SynopsisMembers of Palestine’s Muslim community have long honored al-Nabi Musa, or the Prophet Moses. Since the thirteenth century, they have celebrated at a shrine near Jericho believed to be the location of Moses’s tomb; in the mid-nineteenth century, they organized a civic festival in Jerusalem to honor this prophet. Considered one of the most important occasions for Muslim pilgrims in Palestine, the Prophet Moses festival yearly attracted thousands of people who assembled to pray, conduct mystical forms of worship, and hold folk celebrations.Palestinian Rituals of Identity takes an innovative approach to the study of Palestine’s modern history by focusing on the Prophet Moses festival from the late Ottoman period through the era of British rule. Halabi explores how the festival served as an arena of competing discourses, with various social groups attempting to control its symbols. Tackling questions about modernity, colonialism, gender relations, and ideTable of Contents Note on Translation Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Traditional Ziyara Chapter 2. The Official Ceremonies in Fin-de-Siècle Jerusalem, 1850–1917 Chapter 3. British Colonialism Attends the Festival Chapter 4. Arab Elite Discourses at the Festival Chapter 5. Nationalist Youth Activity at the Festival to 1937 Chapter 6. Nonnational Inflections: The Participation of Non-Elite Groups Chapter 7. The Festival’s Denouement, 1938–1948 Conclusion: The Nabi Musa Festival after 1948 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn engrossing memoir in which a photojournalist records both the precursors to today’s conflicts in the Middle East and her own deeply felt conviction that news coverage of the region actually increases the conflicts there.Table of Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Prologue Part I: There's a New Kid in Town 1. The Burning Bush 2. Reorienting 3. Crossing the Bridge 4. Ode to Abu Ammar 5. Gaza Slick 6. Photo Op 7. A Room with a View Part II: The Moment and the Mask 8. His Majesty 9. Let's Get Some Color 10. House of Hashem 11. Up, Up, and Away 12. Private Conversations (I) Part III: Passing Through 13. TWA Flight #847 14. Exile 15. Cruising 16. Caviar, Khat, and Cover Pix Part IV: Inside Terror, Inc. 17. Dance into Darkness 18. Journalists Are Used to Danger 19. He Who Builds 20. Private Conversations (II) 21. Promise Me I Won't Be Touched 22. Lebanon Part V: Travels in Sudan 23. Sorry, All Lines Are Jammed 24. Wau (Wow!) 25. I Don't Know What I'm Feeling 26. You Need Something to Peg the Story On Part VI: The Striptease 27. Everybody Must Get Stoned 28. Photo-Realism, the "Real" Picture, and the Ingathering 29. The Striptease Part VII: The Mother of All Battles 30. What the Hell Am I Doing? 31. The Sealed Room 32. The Striptease, Take 2 Epilogue 33. The Old Man 34. War on Another Front

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Book Synopsis2024 PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban PlanningAn on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements, showing how one of the world’s most contested landscapes was produced by unexpected conflicts and collaborations among widely divergent actors. Since capturing the West Bank in 1967, Israel has overseen the construction of scores of settlements across the territory’s rocky hilltops. The settlements are part of a fierce political conflict. But they are not just hotly contested political ventures. They are also something more everyday: residential architectural projects. In the Land of the Patriarchsis an on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements. Noam Shoked shows how settlements have been shaped not only by the decisions of military generals, high-profile politicians, and prominent architects but also by a wide range of actors, including real estate developers, envTable of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Urban Transplants Chapter 2. Community Settlements Chapter 3. Quality-of-Life Settlements Chapter 4. Faithful Cities Chapter 5. Outposts Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix: Planning, Design, and Development Agencies Mentioned in the Book Notes Index

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Book Synopsis2024 PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban PlanningAn on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements, showing how one of the world’s most contested landscapes was produced by unexpected conflicts and collaborations among widely divergent actors. Since capturing the West Bank in 1967, Israel has overseen the construction of scores of settlements across the territory’s rocky hilltops. The settlements are part of a fierce political conflict. But they are not just hotly contested political ventures. They are also something more everyday: residential architectural projects. In the Land of the Patriarchsis an on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements. Noam Shoked shows how settlements have been shaped not only by the decisions of military generals, high-profile politicians, and prominent architects but also by a wide range of actors, including real estate developers, envTable of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Urban Transplants Chapter 2. Community Settlements Chapter 3. Quality-of-Life Settlements Chapter 4. Faithful Cities Chapter 5. Outposts Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix: Planning, Design, and Development Agencies Mentioned in the Book Notes Index

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Book SynopsisSima Shakhsari analyzes the growth of Weblogistan—the online and real-life transnational network of Iranian bloggers in the early 2000s—and the ways in which despite being an effective venue for Iranians to pursue their political agendas, it was the site for surveillance, cooptation, and self-governance.Trade Review“Sima Shakhsari has crafted a superb account of the convergence of neoliberal governmentality, social media, and Iranian diasporic cultural productions. A critically compelling and rich narrative by a passionate and brilliant scholar, Politics of Rightful Killing is a significant contribution to the field of gender and sexuality studies, anthropology, and Iranian cyber studies.” -- Minoo Moallem, author of * Persian Carpets: The Nation as a Transnational Commodity *“A rich on- and off-line ethnographic account of what is now the artifact of techno-optimism and its post-9/11 deployment to promote imperial democracy. Sima Shakhsari's sharp analysis of rightful killing pursued in the service of freedom is a crucial addition to the biopolitical theorizing of gender, sexuality, and empire.” -- Jasbir K. Puar, author of * The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability *"Sima Shakhsari's innovative new book is a welcome addition to… scholarship, and the most uncompromisingly pessimistic analysis of the politics of the Iranian internet to be published to date." -- Alireza Doostdar * International Journal of Middle East Studies *"Mixing an exemplary mastery over theory with rigorous close readings of texts in an understudied area of research, Shakhsari’s Politics of Rightful Killing is a highly worthwhile read for anyone interested in the subtle workings of power in cyberspace." -- Mostafa Abedinifard * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *"Sima Shakhsari’s Politics of Rightful Killing is . . . a much-needed contribution to a growing body of scholarship examining the culture, politics, and identity of Iranians living primarily in the West and their relationship to those living in Iran." -- Manijeh Moradian * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prologue xiii Introduction 1 1. Weblogistan and the Iranian Diaspora: Nation and Its Re-territorializations in Cyberspace 32 2. Civil Society (jaame'e-ye madani), Soccer, and Gendered Politics in Weblogistan: The 2005 Presidential Election 72 3. Whores, Homos, and Feminists: Weblogistan's Anti-modern Others 112 4. Weblogistan and Its Homosexual Problem 145 5. The War Machine, Neoliberal Homo Œconomicus, and the Experts 169 Coda. Revolutionary Ends: Weblogistan's Afterlife 195 Appendix 207 Notes 209 Works Cited 257 Index 277

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Book SynopsisThe Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In Revolution and Disenchantment Fadi A. Bardawil redescribes for our present how an earlier generation of revolutionaries, the 1960s Arab New Left, addressed this question. Bardawil excavates the long-lost archive of the Marxist organization Socialist Lebanon and its main theorist, Waddah Charara, who articulated answers in their political practice to fundamental issues confronting revolutionaries worldwide: intellectuals as vectors of revolutionary theory; political organizations as mediators of theory and praxis; and nonemancipatory attachments as impediments to revolutionary practice. Drawing on historical and ethnographic methods and moving beyond familiar reception narratives of Marxist thought in the postcolony, Bardawil engages in 'fieldwork in theory' that analyzes how theory seduces intellectuals, cultivates sensibilities, and Trade Review“Fadi A. Bardawil's Revolution and Disenchantment is at once a rich redescription and rehistoricization of the rise and fall of the Lebanese New Left, and an exemplary illustration of how to rework the problem of theory in relation to the practices of nonmetropolitan political intellectuals. With a timely attunement to the paradoxical conundrums of his present and an uncommon generosity of spirit, Bardawil challenges us to reconceive the contemporary demand for a dialogue between Arab intellectual traditions and the traditions of Western critical theory.” -- David Scott, Columbia University“Conceptually brilliant, prodigiously researched, and appealingly written, Revolution and Disenchantment tracks the theoretical innovations and political stakes of Arab revolutionary Marxism in the postwar era, contributing to timely debates about the necessity of decolonizing critical theory and the relationship between revolutionary militancy and political disenchantment. Fadi A. Bardawil's innovative archival excavation recovers the theoretical labor of Arab intellectuals, theorists, and militants from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Palestine in the midst of a multiplicity of political upheavals.” -- Omnia El Shakry, author of * The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt *"Is the question of social inequality eclipsed by sectarianism in the Near East? Is it possible to found a Left which is both autonomous and critical of nationalism? Fadi Bardawil brings this important episode of theoretical elaboration back to the history of Arab thought. Further, he invites us to break away from the colonial perspective which stipulates that social theory is created in the North and applied to the South." (translated from French) -- Jean-Michel Landry * Le Monde Diplomatique *"Revolution and Disenchantment brings Lebanon back into the story of the twentieth century francophone left and elegantly delivers a new framework for understanding the translation and transformation of theory." -- Sarah K. Miles * Global Intellectual History *“Revolution and Disenchantment…dismantles the ‘critique of Eurocentrism’ as the only way to conduct critical scholarship in Arab thought. Most significantly, it deftly and incisively performs the theoretical ground-clearing that will enable scholars of Arab and postcolonial thought to stage the fine-grained, sustained, generous-yet-critical readings of Arab intellectuals as thinkers….” -- Yasmeen Daifallah * Postcolonial Studies *"Revolution and Disenchantment is a different kind of academic book, profoundly interdisciplinary as it weaves together the crux of postcolonial studies, intellectual history, political theory and anthropological inquiries…. The book truly pries open the epistemological categories of modern social sciences." -- Myriam Amri * LSE Review of Books *"This volume is an impressive example of critical scholarship examining the intellectual and political dynamics of the modern history of Lebanon and its Arab neighbors. It vividly demonstrates the revolutionary hope and political disenchantment that continue to characterize the Middle East today." -- A. Rassam * Choice *“[Bardawil’s] thoughtful excavation of [a] forgotten archive of Arab Marxist theory, critical attention to social and political conditions, and nuanced analysis of the relationship between theory and practice produce a provocative argument about the pitfalls of adopting binary visions of power relations.” -- Kevin M. Jones * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsA Note on Transliteration and Translation ix Prologue xi Introduction 1 Part I. Time of History 1. O Youth, O Arabs, O Nationalists: Recalling the High Tides of Anticolonial Pan-Arabism 27 2. Dreams of a Dual Birth: Socialist Lebanon's Theoretical Imaginary (1964–1970) 53 3. June 1967 and Its Historiographical Afterlives 82 Part II. Times of the Sociocultural 4. Paradoxes of Emancipation: Revolution and Power in Light of Mao 113 5. Exit Marx/Enter Ibn Khaldun: Wartime Disenchantment and Critique 138 6. Traveling Theory and Political Practice: Orientalism in the Age of the Islamic Revolution 165 Epilogue 187 Acknowledgments 195 Notes 201 Bibliography 241 Index 255

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Book SynopsisSima Shakhsari analyzes the growth of Weblogistan—the online and real-life transnational network of Iranian bloggers in the early 2000s—and the ways in which despite being an effective venue for Iranians to pursue their political agendas, it was the site for surveillance, cooptation, and self-governance.Trade Review“Sima Shakhsari has crafted a superb account of the convergence of neoliberal governmentality, social media, and Iranian diasporic cultural productions. A critically compelling and rich narrative by a passionate and brilliant scholar, Politics of Rightful Killing is a significant contribution to the field of gender and sexuality studies, anthropology, and Iranian cyber studies.” -- Minoo Moallem, author of * Persian Carpets: The Nation as a Transnational Commodity *“A rich on- and off-line ethnographic account of what is now the artifact of techno-optimism and its post-9/11 deployment to promote imperial democracy. Sima Shakhsari's sharp analysis of rightful killing pursued in the service of freedom is a crucial addition to the biopolitical theorizing of gender, sexuality, and empire.” -- Jasbir K. Puar, author of * The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability *"Sima Shakhsari's innovative new book is a welcome addition to… scholarship, and the most uncompromisingly pessimistic analysis of the politics of the Iranian internet to be published to date." -- Alireza Doostdar * International Journal of Middle East Studies *"Mixing an exemplary mastery over theory with rigorous close readings of texts in an understudied area of research, Shakhsari’s Politics of Rightful Killing is a highly worthwhile read for anyone interested in the subtle workings of power in cyberspace." -- Mostafa Abedinifard * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *"Sima Shakhsari’s Politics of Rightful Killing is . . . a much-needed contribution to a growing body of scholarship examining the culture, politics, and identity of Iranians living primarily in the West and their relationship to those living in Iran." -- Manijeh Moradian * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prologue xiii Introduction 1 1. Weblogistan and the Iranian Diaspora: Nation and Its Re-territorializations in Cyberspace 32 2. Civil Society (jaame'e-ye madani), Soccer, and Gendered Politics in Weblogistan: The 2005 Presidential Election 72 3. Whores, Homos, and Feminists: Weblogistan's Anti-modern Others 112 4. Weblogistan and Its Homosexual Problem 145 5. The War Machine, Neoliberal Homo Œconomicus, and the Experts 169 Coda. Revolutionary Ends: Weblogistan's Afterlife 195 Appendix 207 Notes 209 Works Cited 257 Index 277

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Book SynopsisDrawing on ethnographic research in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, Christopher Harker how Israel's use of debt to keep Palestinians economically unstable is a form of slow colonial violence embedded into the everyday lives of citizens.Trade Review“The first in-depth ethnographic research on debt formation in the contemporary Palestinian context, this groundbreaking work proposes a host of new ways for social geographers to rethink debt at multiple scales. Spacing Debt ambitiously engages theoretical debates across a wide array of disciplinary approaches and effectively links it with fascinating and carefully treated ethnographic cases and interview materials.” -- Deborah James, author of * Money from Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa *“This is the first sustained treatment of the everyday lives of debt in the Palestinian context based on in-depth fieldwork and long-term engagement with the communities under study. Theoretically innovative and ethnographically rich, this groundbreaking study offers much-needed sociological insight into Palestine's neoliberal debt regime, while showing how Palestine as 'colonial exception' is a rich site to theorize social geographies of debt.” -- Rema Hammami, Birzeit University“Spacing Debt is an essential read for scholars of debt and finance, and for those interested in modes of theory-building that start from the ways in which people live and choose to narrate their lives.... Thinking of debt as endurance helps us see people living with debt as active agents." -- Enora Robin * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *“Spacing Debt is a thorough and important book that will serve as a refer­ence on the livelihood of urban Palestinians for years to come. Ethnographically grounded and theoretically ambitious, the book offers an interesting read on courses in economic sociology, global develop­ment, and the like.” -- Lotte Segal * Middle East Journal *

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Book SynopsisColonizers continuously transform spaces of violence into spaces of home. Israeli Jews settle in the West Bank and in depopulated Palestinian houses in Haifa or Jaffa. White missionaries build their lives in Africa. The descendants of European settlers in the Americas and Australia dwell and thrive on expropriated indigenous lands. In The Colonizing Self Hagar Kotef traces the cultural, political, and spatial apparatuses that enable people and nations to settle on the ruins of other people''s homes. Kotef demonstrates how the mass and structural modes of violence that are necessary for the establishment and sustainment of the colony dwell within settler-colonial homemaking, and through it shape collective and individual identities. She thus powerfully shows how the possibility to live amid the destruction one generates is not merely the possibility to turn one''s gaze away from violence but also the possibility to develop an attachment to violence itself. Kotef thereby offers a Trade Review“Hagar Kotef has written a fierce, rigorous, intimate, unrelenting, account of settler colonialism. We who make our homes on stolen land live in the crevices of all-too-concrete structures of oppression. We turn our faces to the wall. Kotef faces what we too often ignore. This may be harshest in Israel where Kotef's book is set, but the import of the work goes beyond that site. Perhaps all homes are built on cruel exclusions and indefensible claims. Perhaps all homes shelter cruelties. Hagar Kotef's ability to raise these unsettling questions is admirable for its intellectual clarity and its courage.” -- Anne Norton, author of * On the Muslim Question *“An incredibly detailed and engaging study that illustrates Palestinian erasure from within the settler consciousness, the book brings forth an understanding from within that does much to bring the Palestinian trauma to the fore.” * Middle East Monitor *“The Colonizing Self is an incisive book about the dispossessor. In lyrical prose and through wide-ranging source material, Hagar Kotef traces the constitutive violence of settler colonialism.... Kotef’s book alerts us to the task of uprooting desires that secure settler colonialism.” -- Derek S. Denman * Political Theory *“Two intuitions inform this book about the Israeli ‘colonizing self ‘: one is about home, the other about violence. Taken together, these two intuitions converge on the understanding of the specific ways in which the settler’s identity consolidates, which is a crucial question and has been overlooked by scholars so far.” -- Lorenzo Veracini * Journal of Palestine Studies *“The ongoing challenge of decolonization . . . will inevitably require an unsettling of the very notion that the colonizer possesses a single self. Kotef ’s book is a critical milestone in this endeavor.” -- Noam Leshem * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Home 1 Theoretical Overview: Violent Attachments 29 Part I. Homes Interlude. Home/Homelessness: A Reading in Arendt 55 1. The Consuming Self: On Locke, Aristotle, Feminist Theory, and Domestic Violences 73 Epilogue. Unsettlement 109 Part II. Relics Interlude. A Brief Reflection on Death and Decolonization 127 2. Home (and the Ruins That Remain) 137 Epilogue. A Phenomenology of Violence: Ruins 185 Part III. Settlement Interlude. A Moment of Popular Culture: The Home of MasterChef 203 3. On Eggs and Dispossession: Organic Agriculture and the New Settlement Movement 215 Epilogue. An Ethic of Violence: Organic Washing 251 Conclusion 261 Bibliography 267 Index 293

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Book SynopsisIn Queer in Translation, Evren Savci analyzes the travel and translation of Western LGBT political terminology to Turkey in order to illuminate how sexual politics have unfolded under Recep Tayyip Erdogan''s AKP government. Under the AKP''s neoliberal Islamic regime, Savci shows, there has been a stark shift from a politics of multicultural inclusion to one of securitized authoritarianism. Drawing from ethnographic work with queer activist groups to understand how discourses of sexuality travel and are taken up in political discourse, Savci traces the intersection of queerness, Islam, and neoliberal governance within new and complex regimes of morality. Savci turns to translation as a queer methodology to think Islam and neoliberalism together and to evade the limiting binaries of traditional/modern, authentic/colonial, global/local, and East/West—thereby opening up ways of understanding the social movements and political discourse that coalesce around sexual liberation inTrade Review“In this much-anticipated book, Evren Savcı draws our attention to how queers in Turkey translate sexual identity in their constant negotiation with neoliberalism in their country. This will be one of the reference texts that we use to understand the links between neoliberalism, morality, and otherness.” -- Roderick A. Ferguson, author of * One-Dimensional Queer *“Queer in Translation is one of the most intellectually exciting and timely studies I have ever read. Evren Savcı's innovative lenses, presented elegantly in this book, shed light on the complexities and innovations of dialogue and solidarity (as well as antagonism) between Islam-identified political projects and those of queer, gay, trans, and feminist assertions.” -- Paul Amar, author of * The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism *"While I am not sure that joy or hope or even rage will be sufficient to build a progressive politics equal to the challenge that those living under securitized neoliberal regimes face, Savci's pathbreaking work reveals now necessary they are." -- Samuel Huneke * The Baffler *"Queer in Translation is an incisive and profound analysis of the unique elements driving neoliberal Islam, as well as queer resistance. By revealing the complexity behind the weaponization of both Western economics and religious morality, Savci contextualizes Turkish queer politics beyond a West-as-oppressor/East-as-oppressed or Islam versus modernity binary, which is sorely needed in discussions of Middle Eastern queer politics." -- Leelan Farhan * Lateral *"Savcı’s book presents us with significant contributions in theoretical framing and methodology. She grounds religion in history and political economy and introduces critical translation studies by way of working against discursive foreclosures that haunt the queer-studies analyses of social movements. Savcı’s genealogical mapping of the current debates and analytics in queer studies, combined with her exemplary intervention into the field, will be useful for experts and novices alike." -- Sinan Goknur * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *"Very sophisticated and thought provoking." -- B. Tavakolian * Choice *"The element of [Queer in Translation] that makes it a breath of fresh air is Savci's scholarly courage and integrity. It challenges conventional thinking from across the intellectual spectrum. . . . All scholars and practitioners of progressive social movements should read these words." -- Sa'ed Atshan * Social Forces *"Savci’s focus on the role of language in changing the epistemological landscapes of sexuality and gender, interlinking categories that were formerly thought as separate, and demonstrating the complex impacts of neoliberalism and capitalism in a world that is shaped by diverse forms of epistemic violence and historical erasure is a much needed and timely intervention into queer studies." -- Yener Bayramoglu * Feminist Encounters *“What is most compelling in Savcı’s emphasis on queer translation as a modality of geopolitics is that it speaks to the historical ontologies of linguistic categories, mediated through transfers of power and capital. Translation becomes the episteme of the geopolitical, moving us away from the focus on subjects and subjectivity as the only pathway to queer justice.” -- Anjali Arondekar * GLQ *"What the book does best is offer an understanding of the workings of neoliberal Islam and the paradoxes it poses for queer struggles in Turkey. The book will be of importance to scholars in the fields of sociology of sexualities, sociology of culture, and sociology of religion." -- Chaitanya Lakkimsetti * American Journal of Sociology *"Queer in Translation’s theoretical contributions place it on par with the giants of queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, and postcolonial theory it engages, and takes on: Talal Asad, Joseph Massad, Jasbir Puar, Saba Mahmood, and others. . . . The juxtaposition of two seeming unrelated episodes, the use of cutting-edge queer theorizing, all in the service of naming and analyzing a political social order rarely discussed as such is what makes this book a tour de force and a must-read for scholars in the fields of gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, postcolonial studies, and contemporary social theory. For the same reason, it belongs on the syllabi of graduate level courses in these areas. . . ." -- Orit Avishai * Contemporary Sociology *"Savcı’s valuable book offers provocative analytical and methodological discussions for future research on sexual and racial politics, queerness, political economy, and Islam in Turkey, the Middle East, and beyond." -- Ali Yildirim * International Journal of Middle East Studies *Table of ContentsAcronyms Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Subjects of Rights and Subjects of Cruelty 2. Who Killed Ahmet Yıldız? 3. Trans Terror, Deep Citizenship, and the Politics of Hate 4. Critique and Commons under Neoliberalism Conclusion: Queer Studies and the Question of Cultural Difference Appendix: On Method and Methodology Notes Bibliography Index

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