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Becoming arab
Yossef Rapoport,How late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities and formed village clansDuring the later Middle Ages, peasants in Egypt and Greater Syria came to view themselves as members of Arab clans that had originated in the Arabian Peninsula. They expressed their Arab identity by...
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Iran's grand strategy
Vali Nasr,From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shia RevivalA gripping account that overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats—external aggression and internal dissolutionIran pre...
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A history of the muslim world
Michael A. Cook,A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern eraThis book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes readers from the or...
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Taken hostage
David Farber,On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran Hostage Crisis, an affair that captivated the American public for 444 days and marked America's first confrontation with the forces of radical Islam. Using ...
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The great betrayal
Fawaz A. Gerges,How the Middle East can achieve political change and social progressThe Middle East is in upheaval: a widening chasm between state and society, the failure of governing elites to address citizens’ genuine grievances, massive economic mismanagement—all made worse by repeated interventions by Weste...
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Revolution of things
Kusha Sefat,An exploration of the ways that shifting relations between materiality and language bring about different forms of politics in TehranIn Revolution of Things, Kusha Sefat traces a dynamism between materiality and language that sheds light on how the merger of the two permeates politics. To show ho...
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Iran in revolt
Hamid Dabashi,In his retelling of the boldness and tragedy of the Zhina uprising in Iran, Hamid Dabashi asks: What constitutes the success of revolutions and how do we measure their failures? In September 2022, a young Kurdish woman, Zhina Mahsa Amini, was killed in police custody for failing to observe the s...
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Contemporary iran
Farhang Morady,This accessible introductory text explains the political, economic and religious developments since the formation of the Islamic Republic in 1979 and provides an analysis of the domestic politics of Iran. It identifies the ways in which the country, often imagined as ‘isolated’, is actually integ...
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Fady Joudah,Finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for PoetryWinner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry PrizeA Reading the West Book Award FinalistFrom one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and essential collection of poems illuminating the visionary presence of Palestinians.Fady Joudah’s power...
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Reading herzl in beirut
Jonathan Marc Gribetz,How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO’s relationship to Zionism and IsraelIn September 1982, the Israeli military invaded West Beirut and Israel-allied Lebanese militiamen massacred Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Meanwhile, Israeli forces...
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Heaven looks like us
George Abraham, Noor Hindi,A love letter to Palestinian ancestors, their descendants, and their land, to all anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles, to a history that will never be forgotten, and to a future in which there thrives a free, free Palestine. Poetry has always served as a mode of resistance in Palestinia...
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Instructions for the lovers
Dawn Lundy Martin,Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in PoetryA taut, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life.“Dawn Lundy Martin’s poems read like a real-time excavation of what poetry can and can’t do," writes Maggie...
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Planetary modernisms
Susan Stanford Friedman,Drawing on a vast archive, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. Rejecting the modernist concepts of marginality, othering, and major/minor, Friedman instead favors rupture, mobili...
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Hebrew orientalism
Mostafa Hussein,How Jewish writers in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine used Arabo-Islamic culture to advance the goals of ZionismIn the decades before the establishment of a Jewish state in 1948, native and immigrant Jews in Palestine mediated between Jewish and Arab cultures while navigating their evo...
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Sunnis and shi'a
Laurence Louër, Ethan Rundell,A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic worldWhen Muhammad died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis contended that the choice of a successor should fall to his closest companions, but Shi'a believed that God had inspired the Prophet to appoint his cousin and...
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A history of ottoman libraries
İsmail E. Erünsal,This volume tells the story of the development and the organization of Ottoman libraries from the fourteenth through the twentieth century. The book surveys the phases through which the history of Ottoman libraries evolved and lays out the organization, the personnel, and day-to-day functioning o...
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Wahhābism
Cole M. Bunzel,An essential history of Wahhābism from its founding to the Islamic StateIn the mid-eighteenth century, a controversial Islamic movement arose in the central Arabian region of Najd that forever changed the political landscape of the Arabian Peninsula and the history of Islamic thought. Its founder...
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Making the arab world
Fawaz A. Gerges,How the conflict between political Islamists and secular-leaning nationalists has shaped the modern Middle EastIn Making the Arab World, Fawaz Gerges, one of the world's leading authorities on the Middle East, describes how the clash between pan-Arab nationalism and pan-Islamism has shaped the hi...
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Rediscovering the islamic classics
Ahmed El Shamsy,The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and paper and then to compose increasingly elabora...
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The war that made the middle east
Mustafa Aksakal,A new history that tells the story of how European imperial ambitions destroyed the Ottoman Empire during the Great War and created a divided and unstable Middle EastThe Ottoman Empire’s collapse at the end of the First World War is often treated as a foregone conclusion. It was only a matter of ...
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Race and slavery in the middle east
Terence Walz,In the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet relatively little is known about them. Studies have focused mainly on the mamluk and harem slaves of elite households, who were mostly white, and...
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The book of rain
Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī, David Larsen,Named a Best Book of 2025 by Books Without BordersA vivid translation of Abū Zayd alAnṣārī’s early Arabic weather lexicon, Book of Rain reveals a richly detailed linguistic landscape devoted to the many forms of rain.The contents of the future are the contents of a cloud.So begins translator Davi...
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The breakbeat poets vol. 3
Fatimah Asghar, Safia Elhillo,A BreakBeat Poets anthology of writings by Muslims who are women, queer, genderqueer, nonbinary, or trans.
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After savagery
Hamid Dabashi,Written during a genocide, After Savagery reveals the ethical bankruptcy of “Western philosophy” and how it undergirds the erasure of the colonized. The death toll in Gaza continues to rise―a cold, lifeless number representing entire communities crushed under the weight of settler colonialism. ...
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The beauty of light
Etel Adnan, Laure Adler, Ethan Mitchell,A lively and spontaneous interview with Etel Adnan about her absolute belief in the beauty of the world and the beauty of art. In these interviews with journalist and editor Laure Adler, conducted in the months before her death in November 2021, Etel Adnan traces with depth and emotion the found...
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Pipe dreams
Erin Banco,What happened to Iraq’s oil wealth? Iraq sits on top of more than 140 billion barrels of oil, making it the owner of the world’s fifth largest reserves. When the United States invaded in 2003, the Bush Administration promised that oil revenue—according to one report, totaling some $700 billion s...
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Confronting empire
Eqbal Ahmad, David Barsamian, Edward W. Said, Pervez Hoodbhoy,Brilliant and insightful political analyses of key political events and movements of the second half of the twentieth century.
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Freedom is a constant struggle
Angela Y. Davis, Frank Barat, Cornel West,Activist, teacher, author and icon of the Black Power movement Angela Davis talks Ferguson, Palestine, and prison abolition.
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The race for universal monarchy
Ebru Turan,Ebru Turan explores the emergence of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires and the early phase of their rivalry within the broader Mediterranean world.
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Betrayal of the homeland
Samer Abboud,Samer Abboud argues that the Syrian regime sought to entrench its rule during wartime through bifurcating society into “loyal” and “disloyal” subjects—and punishing those it deemed treacherous.
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Film diplomacy
Ayşehan Jülide Etem,Ayşehan Jülide Etem offers a powerful new account of how film shaped international relations and national identity, demonstrating how the United States and Turkey used educational films to align institutional agendas and geopolitical interests.
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The arab uprisings explained
Marc Lynch,The Arab Uprisings Explained offers a fresh rethinking of established theories and presents a new framework through which scholars and general readers can better grasp the fast-developing events remaking the region
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Does skill make us human?
Natasha Iskander,An in-depth look at Qatar's migrant workers and the place of skill in the language of control and powerSkill—specifically the distinction between the “skilled” and “unskilled”—is generally defined as a measure of ability and training, but Does Skill Make Us Human? shows instead that skill distinc...
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The nightmare sequence
Omar Sakr, Safdar Ahmed,An extraordinary collaboration by an award-winning duo—poet Omar Sakr and visual artist Safdar Ahmed–that bears witness to the genocide in Gaza.The Nightmare Sequence is a searing response to the atrocities in Gaza and beyond since October 2023. Heartbreaking and humane, it is a necessary portrai...
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Driven to their knees
Roxanne L. Euben,How the rhetoric of humiliation defines the powerful and the powerless in modern politicsHumiliation pervades our politics, from images of stripped Palestinian men in Gaza to mocking chants at MAGA rallies. It suffuses pictures and videos, speaks through bodies as well as words, and is expressed ...
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Slavery and the jews of medieval egypt
Craig Perry,A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle EastIn this book, Craig Perry mines a remarkable cache of fragmentary documents preserved in an Egyptian synagogue to write a n...
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Devotion to the administrative state
Mona Oraby,Why the pursuit of state recognition by seemingly marginal religious groups in Egypt and elsewhere is a devotional practiceOver the past decade alone, religious communities around the world have demanded state recognition, exemption, accommodation, or protection. They make these appeals both in s...
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These trees, those leaves, this flower, that fruit
Hayan Charara,Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award FinalistA thoughtful new collection of poems, one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be good—a good person, a good citizen, a good teacher, a good poet, a good father. With These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit, Hayan ...
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Static forms
Shir Alon,Shir Alon develops a new theory of the emergence of modernist literary forms through a series of parallel readings of Arabic and Hebrew prose.
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Europe through arab eyes, 1578–1727
Nabil Matar,Traveling to archives in Tunisia, Morocco, France, and England, with visits to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Spain, Nabil Matar assembles a rare history of Europe's rise to power as seen through the eyes of those who were later subjugated by it. Many historians of the Middle East believe Arabs and ...
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The shahnameh
Hamid Dabashi,Hamid Dabashi insightfully traces the history, authorship, poetic significance, complicated legacy, and enduring significance of the Iranian epic poem the Shahnameh. In addition to explaining what makes it such a distinctive literary work, he makes a powerful case that we need to rethink the noti...
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Eqbal ahmad
Stuart Schaar,Eqbal Ahmad was a bold and original activist, journalist, and theorist who brought uncommon perspective to the rise of militant Islam and the geopolitics of the Cold War. A long-time friend and intellectual collaborator of Ahmad, Stuart Schaar connects Ahmad's experiences to the major currents of...
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The making of the medieval middle east
Jack Tannous,A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the storyIn the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in mot...
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Disliking others
Hakan T. Karateke, H. Erdem Çıpa, Helga Anetshofer,This edited volume probes the rosy narrative of tolerance that has long dominated the discussions in Ottoman history. The articles carefully strive to contextualize the many issues that sound like ethnic slurs, racial stereotyping, religious discrimination, misogyny and elitism to modern ears.
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Afghanistan
Thomas J. Barfield,A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political cultureAfghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduc...
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Sunni chauvinism and the roots of muslim modernism
Teena U. Purohit,Muslim intellectuals who sought to establish the boundaries of modern Muslim identityMuslim modernism was a political and intellectual movement that sought to redefine the relationship between Islam and the colonial West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Spearheaded by Muslim ...
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The muqaddimah
Ibn Khaldûn, N. J. Dawood, Franz Rosenthal, Bruce B. Lawrence,The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, includin...
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Longing for the lost caliphate
Mona Hassan,In the United States and Europe, the word "caliphate" has conjured historically romantic and increasingly pernicious associations. Yet the caliphate's significance in Islamic history and Muslim culture remains poorly understood. This book explores the myriad meanings of the caliphate for Muslims ...
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A history of palestine
Gudrun Krämer, Graham Harman, Gudrun Krämer,It is impossible to understand Palestine today without a careful reading of its distant and recent past. But until now there has been no single volume in English that tells the history of the events--from the Ottoman Empire to the mid-twentieth century--that shaped modern Palestine. The first boo...
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