Middle East - General
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A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity
$27.95 Add to cartA panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era
This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and conve- Author: Cook, Michael A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0691236593
- Language: English
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
$21.99 Add to cart“A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world” (San Francisco Chronicle)
We in the West share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omi… [more below]- Author: Ansary, Tamim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 154170620X
- Language: English
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A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness: Reports on Israel’s Genocide in Palestine
$19.95 Add to cart‘Albanese has spoken truth with unflinching clarity in a world largely silent in the face of a holocaust, carrying out her mandate with integrity and defiance that honours both the law and the human
- Author: Albanese, Francesca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0745352316
- Language: English
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Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos
$22.95 Add to cart“Like al-Qazwīnī himself, Travis Zadeh has written a deliciously baggy tome, full of delights and diversions in its tour of the cosmic horizons. This is a book to get lost in, whether one wa
- Author: Zadeh, Travis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299337
- Language: English
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A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity
$39.95 Add to cartA panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era
This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and conve- Author: Cook, Michael A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0691236577
- Language: English
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Yemen: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$18.95 Add to cartA comprehensive introduction to Yemen’s current crises, major players, and potential solutions to an ongoing civil war.
In 2014, a tribal alliance from Yemen’s northern regions seized the capital city- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Orkaby, Asher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0190932279
- Language: English
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The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present
$29.95 Add to cartThis sweeping history reorients our understanding of the Middle East, placing the Gulf at the heart of globalized trade and cross-cultural encounters.
World history began in the Persian Gulf. The anc- Author: Fromherz, Allen James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0520398556
- Language: English
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Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
$40.00 Add to cart‘INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING…AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE’ NOAM CHOMSKY
The final work from foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, picking up the story in the Middle East where his internationall
- Author: Fisk, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0007255489
- Language: English
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The Sea People: A Captivating Guide to the Seafarers Who Invaded Ancient Egypt, Eastern Anatolia, the Hittite Empire, Palestine, Syria
$23.99 Add to cartThe Sea People were a menace to eastern Mediterranean society and contributed to the destruction of the Late Bronze Age. But what do we really know about them?
It is difficult to know the Sea People in
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1637168934
- Language: English
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The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism
$37.99 Add to cartThe authoritative account of Islam’s schism that for centuries has shaped events in the Middle East and the Islamic world.
In 632, soon after the Prophet Muhammad died, a struggle broke out among his- Author: Matthiesen, Toby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: March 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0190689463
- Language: English
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Follow the Pipelines: Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil
$19.95 Read more“Charlotte Dennett has written an excellent book summarizing the geopolitics of the Middle East historically through to current events. . . . This is an amazing piece of historical writing. . . . Stud
- Author: Dennett, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1645021475
- Language: English
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Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
$20.00 Add to cartA classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation
This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole gen- Series: Veritas Paperbacks
- Author: Ahmed, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0300257317
- Language: English
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
$21.00 Add to cartIn the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and … [more below]
- Author: Holland, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 12 2007
- ISBN10: 0307279480
- Language: English
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The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994
$23.00 Read moreAuthor of the groundbreaking The Question of Palestine, Edward Said has been America’s most outspoken advocate for Palestinian self-determination. As these collected essays amply prove, he is also our… [more below]
- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 30 1995
- ISBN10: 0679761454
- Language: English
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The Jews of Islam: Updated Edition
$22.95 Add to cartThis landmark book probes Muslims’ attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies. With authority, sympathy and wit,
- Series: Princeton Classics #11
- Author: Lewis, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0691160872
- Language: English
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Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War
$35.00 Read moreIn the second half of the eighteenth century, approximately three quarters of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by a vast Islamic power, the centuries-old Ottoman Empire…. [more below]
- Author: Rutledge, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0863569501
- Language: English
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Merits of the Plague
$18.00 Read moreThe preeminent meditation on plagues and pandemics from the Islamic world, now in English for the first time
A Penguin Classic Six hundred years ago, the author of this landmark work of history and re- Author: Hajar Al-Asqalani, Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0143136615
- Language: English
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The Jews of Islam: Updated Edition
$22.95 Add to cartThis landmark book probes Muslims’ attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies. With authority, sympathy and wit,
- Series: Princeton Classics #11
- Author: Lewis, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0691160872
- Language: English
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A History of the Middle East: Fifth Edition
$25.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of the Middle East that provides the historical context to today’s headlines – now in its fifth edition
“The best overall survey of the politics, regional rivalries and economic- Author: Mansfield, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0143121901
- Language: English
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Battleground: 10 Conflicts That Explain the New Middle East
$28.00 Read moreThe essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East
The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Sprin- Author: Phillips, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0300263422
- Language: English
