This probing study of the veil's recent return—from one of the world's foremost authorities on Muslim women—reaches surprising conclusions about contemporary Islam's place in the West today.

The long, rich, and diverse history of ancient Afghanistan is seen with fresh perspective through materials from key sites along important trading corridors.

This authoritative biography provides a vivid portrait of Moshe Dayan, one of the most powerful—and complex—military and political leaders in Israel's tumultuous first decades of statehood.

This accessible and informative history brings the classical Islamic world alive, illuminating its importance to the cultural history of Europe and America as the inheritor and interpreter of Graeco-Roman traditions.

In the first book-length analysis of the origins of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Craig Daigle shows how the war resulted not only from tension and competing interest between Arabs and Israelis, but also from policies adopted in both Washington and Moscow.

In this wide-ranging and masterful work, Ahmad Dallal examines the significance of scientific knowledge and situates the culture of science in relation to other cultural forces in Muslim societies.

Against the panorama of political, economic, social, and cultural change, religious and secular forces emerge and compete to shape two centuries of late Ottoman and republican Turkish history.

The relationship between Jews and Muslims has been a flashpoint that affects stability in the Middle East and has consequences around the globe. In this absorbing and eloquent book Martin Gilbert challenges the standard media portrayal and presents a fascinating account of hope, opportunity, fear, and terror that have characterized these two peoples through the 1,400 years of their intertwined his...

This authoritative and comprehensive history of Iran, written by Homa Katouzian, an acclaimed expert, covers the entire history of the area from the foundation of the ancient Persian empire to today’s Iranian state.

Not so long ago, in certain great cosmopolitan cities on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean, Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and flourished side by side. What can the histories of these cities tell us?

How does a people move from tribal and religiously based understandings of society to a concept of the modern nation-state?  This book examines the complex and pivotal case of Turkey.

In this illuminating book, Trita Parsi uncovers the full details of the diplomatic encounters between Washington and Tehran during Obama's early presidency, then discusses whether diplomacy should be the foreign policy approach of choice for the U.S.

In this illuminating book, Trita Parsi uncovers the full details of the diplomatic encounters between Washington and Tehran during Obama's early presidency, then discusses whether diplomacy should be the foreign policy approach of choice for the U.S.

In today’s world of conflict and threatened nuclear violence, few books, if any, could be more important than this one. Middle East expert Trita Parsi untangles the complex and often duplicitous relations among Israel, Iran, and the United States from 1948 to the present and spells out how American policies can avert catastrophe and lead the region toward peace.

In this book, historian Ilan Pappé examines how Israeli Palestinians have fared under Jewish rule and what their lives tell us about both Israel's attitude toward minorities and Palestinians' attitudes toward the Jewish state.

This groundbreaking investigation explores how and why so many rural West Africans "became Muslim" under French colonialism. The author argues that conversions were rarely coerced, but happened peacefully and gradually over several generations.

This penetrating book explores newly opened archives to uncover how and why Israeli-Arab peacemaking negotiations failed in the crucial years after the Six Day War. The author's conclusions are both controversial and illuminating.

In this uniquely wide-ranging portrait of Israel, students and general readers will find accurate information on such important topics as its history, land and people, politics, society, economics, and culture.

This critically important book clarifies what is widely misunderstood in the West: Islam and contemporary Islamism are distinctly different. The former is a religious faith, the latter a political ideology based on a reinvented version of Islamic law.

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