Completing his acclaimed trilogy on the history of Israel, Leslie Stein brings readers right up to contemporary events in Israel Since the Six-Day War. Stein vividly chronicles Israel's wars and mil……続きを見る
著者:Paul Johnson
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2014年10月23日
Why did the Suez War ever come to pass? Why did Eden, against public opinion and without sufficient military capability, decide to invade Egypt? When Gamal Abdel Nasser decided to nationalize the Su……続きを見る
著者:Roshdi Rashed
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年08月21日
This book follows the development of classical mathematics and the relation between work done in the Arab and Islamic worlds and that undertaken by the likes of Descartes and Fermat.
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While recent books have explored Arab and Turkish nationalism, the nuances of Iran have received scant book-length studyーuntil now. Capturing the significant changes in approach that have shaped th……続きを見る
著者:Mahmood Ibrahim
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2014年05月23日
The rise of merchant capital in Mecca conditioned the development of Meccan social, economic, religious, and political structure. Mahmood Ibrahim traces the roots of capitalism from the emergence of……続きを見る
This book shows how close Judaism, Christianity and Islam are in terms of their history and beliefs. It has been written mainly for those who are less familiar with Islam and so there is an emphasis……続きを見る
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War is hell…but sometimes it’s also funny as hell.
Combat and Other Shenanigans is Lieutenant Piers Platt’s firsthand account of his year as a cavalry platoon leader in Ira……続きを見る
The Yom Kippur War was a watershed moment in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the modern Middle East more broadly. It marked the beginning of a US-led peace process between Israel and he……続きを見る
Mubarak, Gaddafi, Ben Ali, Saleh und Assad. Stets tauchen diese fünf Herrschernamen in den Medien auf, wenn es um den Kampf für Demokratie und um den arabischen Frühling geht. Doch wer sind diese Mä……続きを見る
Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' Association
The life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'ーthe alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahm……続きを見る
-Explains the formation, effects, beliefs, and objectives of the group
The world has been rocked with news of the rise of a new power in the Middle East. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria……続きを見る
Die 3000 Jahre Geschichte des alten Mesopotamien umfassen – zusammen mit der ungefähr gleichzeitigen Kultur des alten Ägypten – nichts weniger als die gesamte erste Hälfte der Menschheitsgeschichte.……続きを見る
In just over a hundred years--from the death of the Mohammed in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750--the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Af……続きを見る
Iran has rarely been out of the headlines. Yet media interest and extensive coverage has tended to hinder rather than help our understanding of Iran as an idea, an identity, and a people, leading to……続きを見る
A wealth of historical writing dealing with the Maghrib (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) has been published during the roughly forty years since European colonial control ended in the region. ……続きを見る
ISIS is an adopted abbreviation used by a jihadist extremist group that stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The main focus of this group is to establish a single state that is based on Shari……続きを見る
Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology ……続きを見る
Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Romane: Radetzkymarsch + Hiob + Die Kapuzinergruft + Hotel Savoy + Das Spinnennetz + Die Flucht ohne Ende + Beichte eines Mörders + Das falsche Gewicht + Die hundert Tage u……続きを見る
著者:John Keay
出版社: Little, Brown Book Group
発売日: 2012年06月07日
Escape from Riyadh - William Gifford Palgrave
A scholar and a solider, a Jesuit and a Jew, a French spy and a British ambassador- Palgrave was a man of contradictions, all of them highly compromised……続きを見る
著者:Stephen F. Dale
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Between 1453 and 1526 Muslims founded three major states in the Mediterranean, Iran and South Asia: respectively the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires. By the early seventeenth century their desc……続きを見る
In popular debates about reproductive and sexual rights, formal religions, especially Islam, are seen as barriers providing institutional and ideological resistance to women's realization of reprodu……続きを見る
The Akhbar al-dawla al-saljuqiyya is one of the key primary documents on the history of Western Persia and Iraq in the 11th and 12th centuries. This book provides an accessible English translation a……続きを見る
著者:Charles Eliot
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年11月05日
First Published in 2004. The papers presented in this book were written at various periods, but have a certain unity as being the result of an attempt to understand what is the real condition of Tur……続きを見る
Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of ‘the Fariyaq,’ alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern A……続きを見る
The author is an old Istanbul hand who has seen it change over the years from a provincial backwater to today's vibrant metropolis. With Tillinghast as a guide through Istanbul's cafés, mosques and ……続きを見る
著者:Diana Darke
出版社: Haus Publishing
発売日: 2014年08月15日
How did Syria’s revolution reach this its current boiling point? And what’s next? This updated edition of My House in Damascus offers an insider’s view on these questions and the darker recesses of ……続きを見る
The story of the Arab Revolt and the Hashemite princes who led it during the First World War is inextricably linked in modern eyes to the legend of Lawrence of Arabia as portrayed in David Lean's 19……続きを見る
War is a state of incessant conflict when the legal codes and moral laws that govern interactions in civil society are turned on their heads and momentarily cease to exist.
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Iran’s nuclear program has generated intense controversy ever since the International Atomic Energy Agency reported in 2003 that Iran was secretly pursuing enrichment activities. Although Iranian of……続きを見る
ISIS is a jihadist group that has made some of its enemies in Iraq and Syria to merge to fight against them. The establishment of this group made rebels and militia groups like the Shia group of Ira……続きを見る