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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
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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著者:Jeremy Bernstein
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2014年10月14日
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
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著者:Khalil Osman
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年10月10日
This book links sectarianism in Iraq to the failure of the modern nation-state to resolve tensions between sectarian identities and concepts of unified statehood and uniform citizenry.
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ISIS in recent times a terrorist organization that has been carrying out fatal beheadings, attacks and sending threats to the Western world in no uncertain terms. In particular, their anger is mostl……続きを見る
著者:Sofian Merabet
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2014年10月15日
Gender and sexual identity formation is an ongoing anthropological conversation in both Middle Eastern studies and urban studies, but the story of gay and lesbian identity in the Middle East is only……続きを見る
著者:Malcolm Yapp
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年10月17日
This clear, balanced and authoritative survey of the history of the region is now fully up to date again. The text contains a general regional introduction, followed by a series of country-by-countr……続きを見る
The transition paradigm has traditionally viewed civil society activism as an essential condition for the establishment of democracy. The democracy promotion strategies of Western policy-makers have……続きを見る
More than four million Palestinian refugees live in protracted exile across the Middle East. Taking a regional approach to Palestinian refugee exile and alienation across the Levant, this book propo……続きを見る
This book provides a detailed survey and analysis of US–Kurdish relations and their interaction with domestic, regional and global politics. Using the Kurdish issue to explore the nature of the enga……続きを見る
著者:Kate Raphael
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2010年09月13日
During much of the twelfth century the Crusaders dominated the military scene in the Levant. The unification of Egypt and Syria by Saladin gradually changed the balance of power, which slowly begun ……続きを見る
The crusades are often seen as epitomising a period when hostility between Christian West and the Muslim Near East reached an all time high. As this edited volume reveals, however, the era was one w……続きを見る
著者:Jerome Donovan
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2010年12月08日
In a tradition that dates back to the time of Thucydides, and the Peloponnesian War, the systematic examination of conflict and war has long been a preoccupation of political scientists seeking to r……続きを見る