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Princess More Tears to Cry(2015) SASSON, JEANWhen Jean Sasson’s book Princess: Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia was published, it became an immediate international bestseller.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
What is 'Islamic' Art?(2019) SHAW, WENDY M. K. (FREIE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN)Investigating what is Islamic about Islamic art through analysis of the Qur'an, Hadith, Sufi texts, ancient philosophy, and a rich corpus of transcultural poetry, Shaw challenges the historicism, secularism, and regionalism of traditional art history withVezava: Trda68,43 € -
Armies of Sand(2020) POLLACK, KENNETH (SENIOR FELLOW, SENIOR FELLOW, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION)Vezava: Mehka47,51 € -
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria(2020) NUMANI, SHIBLIVividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli¯ Nu‘ma¯ni¯ (1857-1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian, Nu‘ma¯ni¯ took a six-month leave from teaching to tVezava: Trda98,44 € -
Palestinian Women and Muslim Family Law in the Mandate Period(2019) BROWNSON, ELIZABETHSheds light on Palestinian Muslim women's agency in shari‘a courts from the British Mandate period to the present. Brownson’s archival research on wife-initiated maintenance claims, divorce, and child custody cases deepens our understanding of women’s posVezava: Mehka33,84 € -
Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land(2018)The story of the Holy Land, encompassing the three millennia that saw the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Each chapter is written by a leading scholar and is highly illustrated with paintings, photographs, and ancient texts.Vezava: Trda56,06 € -
Envisioning the Arab Future(2017) CITINO, NATHAN J. (RICE UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON)Based on research in Arabic and English, this book analyzes US-Arab conflicts over modernization. Challenging assumptions about a 'clash of civilizations', it shows how Americans and Arabs including nationalists, Islamists, and communists debated the ArabVezava: Trda96,25 € -
The Oil Kings: How the US, Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East(2012) ANDREW COOPER SCOTTVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Arab Conquests(2021) MAROZZI, JUSTINThe story of the Muslim conquests of the 7th and 8th centuries AD, when armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant, southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula, destroying two great empires in the pVezava: Trda30,54 € -
Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited(2021) RABIE, KAREEMVezava: Mehka46,49 € -
Britain and the Arab Middle East(2016) LIESHOUT, ROBERT H.A comprehensive new history of British imperial policy-making in the Arab world.Vezava: Trda96,25 € -
State at Any Cost(2020) SEGEV, TOMA biography of Israel's most iconic and controversial statesman.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey(2021)Exposing the strategy of Turkey’s ruling elite to obtain cultural hegemony, this book examines the AKP’s efforts to rewrite Turkish public memory by promoting its ideas through TV series, movies, propaganda videos, school curricula and material culture inVezava: Trda131,73 € -
Sephardic Trajectories – Archives, Objects, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States(2021) TINAZ, KEREM,AGUIRRE–MANDUJA, OSCARVezava: Mehka30,41 € -
Conflict on Mount Lebanon(2020) RABAH, MAKRAM (LECTURER IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT)Explores the course and the nature of the conflict between the Druze and the Maronites – arguably the two founding communities of modern Lebanon.Vezava: Trda131,73 €











