Cultural Region/Middle Eastern
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A History of Religious Rules: A Legacy of Piety and Coercion
$19.99 Add to cartThis book is a history and a suggestion as to how to approach religious differences . It is not a work of theology. It is not about belief, faith, God, or salvation. The prophets and founders of the g
- Author: Varner, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987522905
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Monks of Paulestine: Volume 114
$39.95 Add to cartDuring the later fifth and early sixth centuries the most creative developments in Eastern Christian monasticism occurred not in Egypt or in Syria, but in Palestine, through the work of St Euthymius
- Series: Cistercian Studies #114
- Author: Cyril of Scythopolis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0879079142
- Language: English
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Turn Me to Gold: 108 Poems of Kabir
$24.95 Read moreAfter authoring more than 30 books, Andrew Harvey, Rumi scholar, mystic, and founder of Sacred Activism, is releasing what may be his consummate work, Turn Me to Gold: 108 Poems of Kabir, embellished … [more below]
- Author: Harvey, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0871593815
- Language: English
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Shia Power Comes of Age: The Transformation of Islamist Politics in Iraq, 2003-2023
$24.99 Add to cartShia 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 a
- Author: Cambanis, Thanassis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0870785702
- Language: English
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Lebanon / Liban: Poems of Love and War / Poèmes d’Amour Et de Guerre
$9.95 Add to cartThis bilingual anthology, edited by Christophe Ippolito, contains Samuel Hazo’s complete translation of Lebanon: Twenty Poems for One Love and Paul B. Kelley’s selections from the never-before-transla
- Series: Modern Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Tuéni, Nadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0815608160
- Language: English
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Essential Arabic: Speak Arabic with Confidence! (Arabic Phrasebook & Dictionary)
$10.95 Add to cartThis portable, user-friendly Arabic language guide, phrasebook and dictionary is the most accessible and affordable way to learn Arabic before and during your trip.
If you only want to purchase one A- Series: Essential Phrasebook and Dictionary
- Author: Mansouri, Fethi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0804842396
- Language: English
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Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad
$17.00 Add to cartBased on reporting that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Thunder Run chronicles one of the boldest gambles in modern military history. Three battalions and fewer than a thousand men launched a v… [more below]
- Author: Zucchino, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 345
- Publish Date: November 29 2004
- ISBN10: 080214179X
- Language: English
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One Thousand Roads to Mecca: (Updated with New Material)
$24.00 Read moreMichael Wolfe’s exemplary (Library Journal) collection of historical writings on the Hajj, now updated with a new introduction by Reza Aslan.
Since its inception in the seventh century, the pilgrimage- Author: Wolfe, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 22 1998
- ISBN10: 802135994
- Language: English
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State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century
$24.95 Add to cartFrancis Fukuyama famously predicted “the end of history” with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest book is, therefore, surprising: the building of new nat
- Series: Messenger Lectures
- Author: Fukuyama, Francis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0801442923
- Language: English
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Dirt Bikes, Drones, and Other Ways to Fly
$11.65 Read moreSeventeen-year-old Arlo Santiago lives for the “Drone Zone”–that free, joyful, anti-gravity feeling. He achieves the Zone with risky motorcycle stunts on New Mexico roads, or while playing his favori
- Author: Wesselhoeft, Conrad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0544542614
- Language: English
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Jews, God and History: Second Edition
$27.00 Add to cartA rich study of Jews and Jewish history that offers a unique look at a people who have persevered through unspeakable adversity and have contributed incredible advancements to the world we know today.… [more below]
- Author: Dimont, Max I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0451207017
- Language: English
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Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan
$30.00 Read moreA captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir
“Finally, a serious consideration of Gulbadan’s achievem- Author: Lal, Ruby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300251270
- Language: English
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Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East
$22.99 Add to cartIn this vivid and timely history, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general’s reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and showcasing his f… [more below]
- Author: Cole, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0230606032
- Language: English
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The Oxford History of the Biblical World
$24.99 Add to cartIn this impressive volume, leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the biblical world, the world in which prophets, poets, sages, and historians created one of our most important texts–the Bi… [more below]
- Author: Coogan, Michael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 508
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0195139372
- Language: English
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The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez
$18.99 Add to cartOne of our most acclaimed poets brings the work of the great Persian mystic and poet, Hafez, to a new audience.
There is no poet in our tradition who carries the amount of admiration and devotion that
- Author: Bly, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0061138843
- Language: English
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The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience
$26.95 Add to cartIn 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africa’s longest civil wars. They were just some of the thousands of young men, known as “Lost Boys,” who had been orphaned or othe
- Author: Bixler, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0820328839
- Language: English
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All Faces But Mine: The Poetry of Samih Al-Qasim
$24.95 Add to cartAll Faces but Mine gathers selected poems from the acclaimed Palestinian poet Samih Al-Qasim (1934-2014). A contemporary of Mahmoud Darwish, Al-Qasim was a celebrated resistance poet whose passionate … [more below]
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Al-Qasim, Samih
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0815610521
- Language: English
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The Jewish State
$10.95 Read more“It depends on the Jews themselves whether this political pamphlet remains for the present a political romance. If the present generation is too dull to understand it rightly, a future, finer and bett… [more below]
- Series: Jewish, Judaism
- Author: Herzl, Theodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0486258491
- Language: English
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The Yellow Wind: With a New Afterword by the Author
$19.00 Add to cartDavid Grossman’s The Yellow Wind is essential reading for anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of Israel today.
The Israeli novelist David Grossman’s impassioned account of what he observed on the- Author: Grossman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420986
- Language: English
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Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler’s Plot to Kill Fdr, Churchill, and Stalin
$20.99 Add to cart“A truly thrilling expose of the previously unknown Nazi assassination plot that could have changed history.” — Edward Jay Epstein, New York Times bestselling author of The Assassination Chronicles
Th
- Author: Blum, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0062872907
- Language: English
