MB - Middle East 1

This book explores the post-harem lives of Ottoman palace women who, unlike valide sultans, mothers of princes (şehzades), or imperial princesses (hanım sultans), lost their formal prominence after ……続きを見る

This work examines the place of the Arabs in the evolution of medicine and in science during the Middle Ages. “In order to understand the place of the Arabs in medicine and in science, a few words a……続きを見る

Die Gaza-Chroniken zeichnen die historische Entwicklung eines der komplexesten Konflikte der Gegenwart nach. Ausgehend von den Wurzeln der Teilung Palästinas bis zu den jüngsten gewaltsamen Eskalati……続きを見る

Das Osmanische Reich wird oft auf militärische Eroberung und abrupten Zusammenbruch reduziert – doch sechs Jahrhunderte Herrschaft erzählen eine Geschichte kontinuierlicher Anpassung und strukturell……続きを見る

Looking Back is a compelling account of how Armenians, as migrants in Canada, remember their past lives in Turkey and make sense of their experiences in two very different landscapes. Anchored in th……続きを見る

Comment peut-on écrire, à main levée, la chronique d’événements dont on était témoin alors que leurs aboutissements sont toujours inachevés ? L’auteur prend son courage à deux mains pour raconter ic……続きを見る

This book chronicles the operations of the French Navy's Aéronautique maritime and the British Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean between 1914 and 1918. Oper……続きを見る

C’est autour de divers éléments de réflexion (politique, économique, militaire...) permettant de comprendre la Russie d’aujourd’hui que s’organise le dossier de ce numéro de Politique étrangère, afi……続きを見る

Mina was born in the same house as her mother and grandmother, but she felt like a stranger, victimized by the city that had once been Kandahar. This Kandahar, with its three thousand years of histo……続きを見る

« Les Trente Honteuses » sont l’histoire des relations entre la France, Israël et le Liban, durant une période qui s’étend de la fin de la guerre d’Algérie (1962) à la fin de la guerre civile libana……続きを見る

Beginning in January 2011, the Arab world exploded in a vibrant demand for dignity, liberty, and achievable purpose in life, rising up against an image and tradition of arrogant, corrupt, unresponsi……続きを見る

Each phase of Arab-Israeli peacemaking has been inordinately difficult in its own right, and every critical juncture and decision point in the long process has been shaped by U.S. politics and the U……続きを見る

Arab Modernism as World Cinema explores the radically beautiful films of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi, demonstrating the importance of Moroccan and Arab film cultures in histories of world cinema……続きを見る

From the outset of the twentieth century, Egyptian and Indian leaders understood their movements for self-determination as linked and part of a shared project. Following World War I, as connections ……続きを見る

In tracing the causes of the Crusades, that fearful drama whose nine acts ran the weary length of nearly two centuries, and at a low computation cost Europe two millions of lives, the word itself be……続きを見る

Dalle guerre russo-turche di fine Ottocento, passando per il Trattato di Sèvres del 1920 fino ad arrivare al voltafaccia di Trump nel 2019, i curdi sono stati con-tinuamente traditi da un Occidente ……続きを見る

The emergence of Turkish nationalism prior to World War I opened the way for various ethnic, religious, and cultural stereotypes to link the notion of the "Other" to the concept of national identity……続きを見る

In "Unter dem Halbmond" entfaltet Helmuth Graf von Moltke eine fesselnde Erzählung, die an der Schnittstelle zwischen Geschichte und Fiktion angesiedelt ist. Das Werk behandelt die geopolitischen Sp……続きを見る

Dans la Turquie ottomane, le secret est une vertu cardinale du pouvoir. Le sultan règne sans partage, mais avec l'appui d'un groupe d'initiés – parti, clan, confrérie – toujours tenus par le secret.……続きを見る

Shia politics roared to the center of power in Iraq after the U.S. invasion in 2003 after decades of marginalization under Saddam Hussein. A new generation of clerics and politicians, self-described……続きを見る

"An enriching account of the expansion of the political and cultural frontiers of the Latin West in the central Middle Ages."ー History Today When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem f……続きを見る

In 1095 Pope Urban II granted absolution to anyone who would fight to reclaim the Holy Land. With God at their backs, the first Christian crusaders embarked on an unprecedented religious war. While ……続きを見る

An essential history of Wahhābism from its founding to the Islamic State In the mid-eighteenth century, a controversial Islamic movement arose in the central Arabian region of Najd that forever chan……続きを見る

British travellers regarded all inhabitants of the seventeenth-century Ottoman empire as ‘slaves of the sultan’, yet they also made fine distinctions between them. This book provides the first histo……続きを見る

Krithia was a key objective in the land offensives; a killing ground greater than Anzac or Suvla. This book adds to the Gallipoli story and the preceding Battleground books on that campaign by recou……続きを見る

In September 1978, William Quandt, a member of the White House National Security Council staff, spent thirteen momentous days at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, where three world l……続きを見る

"Strong evidence that the Roman Empire is of Edomite origin ... left our minds in bewilderment ... is one to be studied." -Church of England Quarterly Review William Beeston in his 1858 book "The Ro……続きを見る

This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for GCSE Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the whole of Component 1, both the compulsory Period Study and the……続きを見る

Zakariyya Tamir is Syria's foremost writer of short stories, and his works are widely read across the Arab world. In this, the first English language monograph on Tamir's entire oeuvre, Alessandro C……続きを見る

The substantially revised and updated third edition of Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East focuses on the experiences of ordinary men, women, and children from the region. Readers will gain a gr……続きを見る