Middle Eastern History

Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt's Incarcerated

• by Collective Antigone (Editor)
• January 2025
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The Road to Empire: The Political Education of Khalsa Sikhs in the Late 1600s

• by Satnam Singh (Author)
• October 2024
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God’s Other Book: The Qur’an between History and Ideology

• by Mohammad Salama (Author)
• September 2024
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The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present

• by Allen James Fromherz (Author)
• September 2024
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Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial

• by Saree Makdisi (Author)
• August 2024
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Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law

• by Saadia Yacoob (Author)
• May 2024
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New under the Sun: Early Zionist Encounters with the Climate in Palestine

• by Netta Cohen (Author)
• April 2024
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Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth

• by Asaf Elia-Shalev (Author)
• March 2024
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Novel Palestine: Nation through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah

• by Nora E.H. Parr (Author)
• October 2023
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Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran

• by D. T. Potts (Author)
• October 2023
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Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad ibn Qasim al-Hajari between Europe and North Africa

• by Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri (Author)
• September 2023
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Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1906

• by Lucia Carminati (Author)
• August 2023
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An Afterlife for the Khan: Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia

• by Jonathan Z. Brack (Author)
• May 2023
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Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul

• by Timur Warner Hammond (Author)
• May 2023
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Sovereign Intimacy: Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence

• by Laliv Melamed (Author)
• February 2023
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In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt

• by Khaled Fahmy (Author)
• February 2023
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Taming the Messiah: The Formation of an Ottoman Political Public Sphere, 1600–1700

• by Aslihan Gurbuzel (Author)
• January 2023
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Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam

• by Said Amir Arjomand (Author)
• October 2022
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Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam

• by Mark LeVine (Author)
• September 2022
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Nakba and Survival: The Story of Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948-1956

• by Adel Manna (Author)
• September 2022
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We'll Play till We Die: Journeys across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World

• by Mark LeVine (Author)
• September 2022
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Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine

• by Issam Nassar (Author), Stephen Sheehi (Author), Salim Tamari (Author)
• August 2022
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The Kushnameh: The Persian Epic of Kush the Tusked

• by Iranshah (Author), Hee Soo Lee (Editor)
• July 2022
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Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia

• by Asad Q. Ahmed (Author)
• July 2022
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In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East

• by Aaron Rock-Singer (Author)
• May 2022
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The Olive Branch from Palestine: The Palestinian Declaration of Independence and the Path Out of the Current Impasse

• by Jerome M. Segal (Author)
• May 2022
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Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine

• by Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (Author)
• April 2022
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Jerusalem: History of a Global City

• by Vincent Lemire (Author), Katell Berthelot (Author), Julien Loiseau (Author), Yann Potin (Author)
• March 2022
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Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in Transit

• by Kaveh Askari (Author)
• January 2022
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Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales

• by Ibrahim Muhawi (Author), Sharif Kanaana (Author)
• November 2021
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The Ottoman World: A Cultural History Reader, 1450–1700

• by Hakan T. Karateke (Editor), Helga Anetshofer (Editor)
• November 2021
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Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition

• by Leila H. Farsakh (Author)
• October 2021
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Imperial Resilience: The Great War's End, Ottoman Longevity, and Incidental Nations

• by Hasan Kayali (Author)
• October 2021
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Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World

• by Ussama Makdisi (Author)
• September 2021
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Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe

• by Osman of Timisoara (Author), Giancarlo Casale (Editor)
• September 2021
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Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom

• by Norman Finkelstein (Author)
• July 2021
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Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization

• by Lynn Welchman (Author)
• June 2021
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Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean

• by Amanda Phillips (Author)
• April 2021
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Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles

• by Joachim J. Savelsberg (Author)
• March 2021
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Turkey: A Past Against History

• by Christine M. Philliou (Author)
• March 2021
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Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century

• by Asef Bayat (Editor), Linda Herrera (Editor)
• February 2021
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Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age: A Sourcebook

• by Nimrod Hurvitz (Editor), Christian C. Sahner (Editor), Uriel Simonsohn (Editor), Luke Yarbrough (Editor)
• December 2020
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The Iranian Expanse: Transforming Royal Identity through Architecture, Landscape, and the Built Environment, 550 BCE–642 CE

• by Matthew P. Canepa (Author)
• November 2020
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The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia

• by Arash Khazeni (Author)
• November 2020
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Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon

• by Nicola Pratt (Author)
• October 2020
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Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema

• by Deborah A. Starr (Author)
• September 2020
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Palestinian Chicago: Identity in Exile

• by Loren D. Lybarger (Author)
• July 2020
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The Wandering Holy Man: The Life of Barsauma, Christian Asceticism, and Religious Conflict in Late Antique Palestine

• by Johannes Hahn (Editor), Volker Menze (Editor)
• June 2020
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Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization

• by On Barak (Author)
• March 2020
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Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup d'Etat, and Memory in Turkey

• by Christopher Houston (Author)
• March 2020
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