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The tenth edition of this widely acclaimed text by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. and Lawrence Davidson has been revised to reflect the latest scholarship and the ...
'Israel, six decades after its founding, remains a nation in thrall to an original martial impulse.' Born of idealism, under David Ben Gurion and his ...
From ancient Mesopotamia into the 20th century, "the Circle of Justice" as a concept has pervaded Middle Eastern political thought and underpinned the exercise of ...
The history of the Arab world is a story of colonization, war and resistance but also rich creativity, encompassing a diverse area from Morocco to ...
Instantly recognizable with his iconic eye patch, Moshe Dayan (1915-1981) was one of Israel's most charismatic-and controversial-personalities. As a youth he earned the reputation ...
Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the ...
A fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing, translated into English by Paul Lunde and Caroline Stone
In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad ...
Working simultaneously on two levels, Saladin represents the best kind of biography--a portrait of a man who is said to have made an age, and ...
James Carroll, author of the award-winning, bestselling Constantine's Sword , tells the richly layered story of the city of Jerusalem and its extraordinary impact on ...
While the modern nation can trace its origins back to 1747, the history of Afghanistan is far more ancient. It has long been an ancient ...
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement ...
We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different ...
Western exploration of the Arabian Desert began in the mid-eighteenth century, but it was not until the nineteenth century that the British officers of the ...
For most of his long reign (1953-1999) Hussein of Jordan was one of the dominant figures in Middle Eastern politics, its most continuous presence, and ...
