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Jerusalem
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore read history at Cambridge University. His books have been published in more than thirty-five languages. Potemkin: Catherine the Great’s Imperial Partner was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper and Marsh Biography prizes in Britain. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar was awarded the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. Young Stalin won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Costa Biography Award (U.K.), le Grand Prix de la...
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The Great War For Civilisation
by Robert Fisk
Best-selling author and journalist Robert Fisk, based in Beirut as Middle East Correspondent of The Independent, has lived in the Middle East for almost three decades and holds more British and international journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. His last book, Pity the Nation, a history of the Lebanon war, was published to great critical acclaim.
Peace To End All Peace
by David Fromkin
Featuring a new afterword offering an updated assessment of the region, a twentieth anniversary edition of the acclaimed study of the Middle East traces the influence of the Allies on Middle East politics during and after World War I and the legacy of the era on the shifting political unities and divisions of today.
Six Days Of War
by Michael B Oren
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East is a 2002 non-fiction book by American-Israeli historian Michael Oren, chronicling the events of the Six-Day War fought between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Widely praised by critics, the book won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for history and spent seven weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.
From Beirut To Jerusalem
by Thomas L Friedman
The New York Times Middle East correspondent profiles this troubled region, describing the everyday horrors of Beirut, the intricacies of Arab politics, Arab-Israeli relations, and American perceptions of the region.
A Savage War Of Peace
by Alistair Horne
ALISTAIR HORNE is the author of eighteen previous books, including A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954—1962, The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916, How Far from Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805—1815 and the official biography of British prime minister Harold Macmillan. He is a fellow at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, and lives in Oxfordshire. He was awarded the French Legion d’Honneur in 1993 and received a knighthood in 2003 for his work on French history.
A History Of the Arab Peoples
by Albert Hourani
In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian peninsula westwards, to the present day. It is a masterly distillation of a lifetime of scholarship and a unique insight into a perpetually troubled region. This updated edition by Malise Ruthven adds a substantial new chapter which includes recent events such as 9/11, the US invasion of...
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Arab and Jew
by David K Shipler
Rhidian Brook was born in Tenby, South Wales. The Testimony of Taliesin Jones received the Somerset Maugham and Betty Task Awards and was short-listed for the Welsh Novel of the Year. He is also the author of the novel Jesus and The Adman.
What Went Wrong? - Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
by Bernard Lewis
For many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed, as the previously despised West won victory after victory, first in the battlefield and the marketplace, then in...
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Leap Of Faith
by Queen Noor
rt of a man and his nation. Born into a distinguished Arab-American family, Lisa Halaby was a strongly independent young woman. After studying architecture at Princeton, her work on projects in the Middle East gave her a profound understanding both of the links between the environment and social problems, and also of the tumultuous history of the Arab nations. Then, in 1974, her life took a very different turn, when her father introduced her to the world's most eligible bachelor, King Hussein of Jordan....
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Bible and Sword
by Barbara W Tuchman
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989) achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August—a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include Bible and Sword, The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (for which Tuchman was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize), Notes from China, A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, The March of Folly, and The First Salute.
Lords Of the Horizons
by Jason Goodwin
The Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds and hearts. For over six hundred years the Empire swelled and declined; rising from a dusty fiefdom in the foothills of Anatolia to a power which ruled over the Danube and the Euphrates with the richest court in Europe. But its decline was prodigious, protracted, and total. Lords of the Horizons charts the Ottoman Empire's swirling history; dramatic, detailed and alive - a journey, and a world all in one.
A History Of Islamic Societies
by Ira M Lapidus
An accessible worldwide history of Muslim societies provides updated coverage of each country and region, in a volume that discusses their origins and evolution while offering insight into historical processes that shaped contemporary Islam and surveying its growing influence.
Power, Faith and Fantasy
by Michael B Oren
Includes bibliographical references (p. [693]-741 and index.
The Middle East
by Bernard Lewis
In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that have shaped it. Elegantly sritten, scholarly yet accessible, The Middle East is the most comprehensive single volume history of the region ever written from the world's foremost authority on the Middle East.
Islamic Imperialism
by Efraim Karsh
From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So argues Efraim Karsh in this highly provocative book. Rejecting the conventional Western interpretation of Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, Karsh contends that the region's experience is the culmination of long-existing indigenous...
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Middle Eastern History Books & Ephemera
My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir
by Gartenstein-Ross, Daveed
U.S.A: J P Tarcher/Penguin Grp, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Hard Back First Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket AS NEW. Pristine red and gray binding, tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Text body also as new. An extraordinary journey of the child of Jewish hippies to apathetic undergrad to Sufi Muslim activist to Islamic extremist to FBI informer and counter-terrorist expert. Provides a unique understanding of Islamic extremists from one...
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Payitaht Yenicerileri: Padisahin “Asi” Kullari 1700-1826
by Edited : Aysel Yildiz
Istanbul: Kitap Yayinevi. 2022. New. Paperback. 15x22 cm. In Turkish. 428 p. Osmanlı tarihinin iki büyük yenisi, yani yeni ordu (çeri) ve nizam-ı cedid arasında dörtyüz yıldan fazla mevcudiyetini sürdüren Yeniçeriler'in hikayesi aynı zamanda Osmanlı asırları ile ilgili büyük anlatıların tümünün odağında yer alır: yükselme, gerileme, klasik çağ ve inhitat, merkezileşme ve merkezin zayıflaması, bozulma, ıslahat, nizam ve anayasa mücadeleleri, demokratikleş(eme)me,...
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Etude Documentaire Organisation et Fonctionnement des Institutions Ottomanes en Egypte, 1517-1917.
by Ibrahım el-MOUELHY
Ankara: Turk Tarih Kurumu, 1989. Paperback. New. 17x24 cm. In French. 205 p. Chapitre I.- Etablissement de l'Administration ottomane, I.- Conguête de l'Egypte, II. - Divan du Vali, III. - Le Defterdar et son Divan, IV. - Le Ruznamdji et son Divan, V. - La Khizanah-i Améra, VI. - La Darbkhaneh, VII. - Le Régime militaire, VIII. - Les Sandjaqs beyis, IX.- Les Kachefs, X. - Le Régime judiciaire, Chapitre II. - Le Régime judiciaire, I.- Terre Melk ou propriété foncière privée, II.- Terre Waqf, III....
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Prisoners : A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide
by Goldberg, Jeffrey
New York: Alfred A Knopf/Random House, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in FINE Condition. An unusual friendship developed between an American Jew who served as guard in the largest prison in Israel and his prisoner Rafiq, a rising leader in the PLO. Despite their fears and prejudices, they began a dialogue that grew into a friendship. This is an account of life in that harsh desert prison--mean,...
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€10.35
Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East
by Doran, Michael
Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East by Michael Doran
THERE IS A RED "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES.
The Suez Crisis of 1956 is one of the most important and most studied events in the history of U.S. engagement in the Middle East. In a bold reinterpretation of the story, Ike's Gamble shows how the crisis taught President Eisenhower that Israel, not Egypt, would have to be America's ally in the region.
In 1956, President Nasser of Egypt moved to take possession... Read more about this item
THERE IS A RED "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES.
The Suez Crisis of 1956 is one of the most important and most studied events in the history of U.S. engagement in the Middle East. In a bold reinterpretation of the story, Ike's Gamble shows how the crisis taught President Eisenhower that Israel, not Egypt, would have to be America's ally in the region.
In 1956, President Nasser of Egypt moved to take possession... Read more about this item
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€14.18
Britain's Relations with the Ottoman Empire During the Embassy of Sir Nicholas O'Conor to the Porte, 1898-1908.
by JOHN BURMAN
Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2010. New. Paperback. 17x24 cm. In English. 252 p. Acknowledgements Notes on style, transliteration and dates List of abbreviations used in footnotes Introduction 1 The framework of the relationship: practice and problems 2 Foreign policy with a knife at the throat: the question of alliances 3 Britain and Ottoman territorial integrity: rights versus interests 4 A free hand in the Middle East? 5 Britain and the Ottoman opposition: rebels and revolutionaries Bibliography Index.
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€29.30
The Ottoman World, Europe and the Mediterranean.
by ÖZLEM KUMRULAR
Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2012. New. Paperback. 17x24 cm. In English. 220 p. Prologue. POLITICAL BALANCE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST 1. 'The creation of the Turkish image in the 16th-century Mediterranean: Self-reflection versus antipropaganda'. Published in: Imagining 'the Turk', ed. Bozidar Jezernik. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010. 2. 'Provocative history writing as a means of memory refreshment and antipropaganda against the Turk in the modern ages'. Presented in: 'The Turks and Islam' Conference, Sept....
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Istanbul'dan Izlenimler: 19. Yuzyil Sonlarinda Sehir
by Todor Yankov
Istanbul: Kitap Yayinevi. 2023. New. Paperback. 15x22 cm. In Turkish. 80 p. Todor Yankov (1865-1941), Almanya'da sosyal bilimler alanında gördüğü üniversite eğitimini doktor unvanıyla taçlandırarak döndüğü ülkesinde uzun yıllar okul müfettişliği ve lise öğretmenliği yaptı. Aynı zamanda, basın mecrasında da birçok gazete ve dergiye yazılar yazarak başarılı sınav verdi. Daha öğrencilik yıllarında dışa vuran yeni yerler keşfetme ve gezme merakı, ömrü boyunca...
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A History of the Middle East
by Peter Mansfield
Penguin Publishing Group, 1991. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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€6.14
A History of the Arab Peoples
by Albert Hourani
Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 551 p. Index included. world history
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€11.34
Khudozhestvennoe Nasledie Perednego Vostoka E? Pokhi Feodalizma: Monumental'no-Dekorativnoe Iskusstvo, Arkhitektura, Khudozhestvennoe Remeslo
by Bretanitskii, L. S
Moscow: Soviet Artist. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 5269000911 . Biblioteka iskusstvoznaniia series. Tan decorated cloth binding. Black and white photos. Text in Russian. History of art, architecture, and antiquities of the Middle East, with a focus on Azerbaijan. bibliographical references and index.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 251 pages .
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€37.81
The original manuscript draft of the most important work about the history of Bulak press, Tarikh Matba'at Bulak prepared by the author in 1936 to be presented to the faculty of literature in the Egyptian University in Cairo, for the MA. degree
by Abu-l Futouh Ahmad Ridwan (1908 - 1982)
long 4to, 30. 192ff, with 26, 16ff appendix. WITH UNPUBLISHED PARTS. The most important of the specific history of Bulak press which later printed in Bulak printing house in 1953 as: تاريخ مطبعة بولاق و لمحة في تاريخ الطباعة في بلدان الشرق الأوسط Unique manuscript of the author.
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€33,082.00
Reflections on the Image of the Turk in Europe
by NEDRET KURAN-BURÇOĞLU
Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2009. Paperback. New. 17x24 cm. In English. 99 p. Contents: PREFACE PART I / Perceptions, Representations and the Image of the Turk in Europe from 15th Century to the Present.i. Representations of the Turk in the English and German Speaking Spaces of Europe in Early Modern Ageii. Reflections of the Intellectual Life of the Turks in the European Media of the 18th Century The Memory Between Reality and Imaginationiii A Comparison of Memoires of Jean-Baptiste Vanmour and Jean...
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(Br)other Converts in the Ottoman Balkans: History, Myths, Fiction
by Zdenko ZLATAR
Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2019. Paperback. New. 17x24 cm. In English. 522 p. Illustrations Preface Introduction PART ONE: HISTORY Chapter One The Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans Chapter Two Clad in Red: The DevşirmeRuling Class Chapter Three The Question of Conversion: The Case of Bosnia PART TWO: MYTH Chapter Four From the Battle to the Black Mountain: The Myth of Kosovo Chapter Five (Br)other: Death of Smail-agha Čengić Chapter Six (Br)other: Njegoš's The Mountain Wreath PART THREE: FICTION Chapter...
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Revolutionary Iran : A History of the Islamic Republic by Axworthy, Michael
ISBN: 9780141046235
Penguin Books Ltd , 05 Oct 2015
Paperback | 528 pages
The definitive history of the Iran-Iraq war, and revolutionary Iran, essential for understanding the country todayFor over 30 years the Islamic Republic has resisted widespread condemnation, sanctions, and sustained attacks by Iraq in an eight-year war. Many policy-makers today share a weary wish that Iran would somehow just disappear as a problem. But with Iran's continuing commitment to a nuclear programme and its reputation... Read more about this item
Penguin Books Ltd , 05 Oct 2015
Paperback | 528 pages
The definitive history of the Iran-Iraq war, and revolutionary Iran, essential for understanding the country todayFor over 30 years the Islamic Republic has resisted widespread condemnation, sanctions, and sustained attacks by Iraq in an eight-year war. Many policy-makers today share a weary wish that Iran would somehow just disappear as a problem. But with Iran's continuing commitment to a nuclear programme and its reputation... Read more about this item
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Pity the Nation: the abduction of Lebanon
by Robert Fisk
Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books. Very Good. 210mm / 140mm. Paperback. 2002. 727 pages.<br>With the Israeli-Palestinian crisis reaching wartim e levels, where is the latest confrontation between these two old foes leading? Robert Fisk's explosive Pity the Nation recounts S haron and Arafat's first deadly encounter in Lebanon in the early 1980s and explains why the Israel-Palestine relationship seems s o ... .
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€6.19
Warriors at Suez : Eisenhower Takes America into the Middle East
by Donald Neff
Simon & Schuster, 1982. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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€6.10
A Reader of Ottoman Official Phraseology: Notes of the British High Commission in Constantinople to the Sublime Port, (1918-1922). Original Texts in English; Translations and Transliterations in Ottoman Turkish.
by Compiled by Muharrem VAROL
Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2020. Paperback. New. 18x25 cm. In English and Ottoman Turkish. 237 p. LIST OF DOCUMENTS: [1] HR.SYS 2533/15-5: Hacı Abdullah Bey'in Büyükada'da bulunan iki hanesinden birisini Rus mültecilerle ilgilenen görevlilere tahsis etmesi hakkında/ One of the houses of Hadjji Abdullah Bey at Prinkipo was placed for the authorities charged with provision of accommodation for Russian refugees. [2] HR.SYS 2533/27-2: İngiliz askerlerinin Eskişehir Orman İdaresi'ndeki memurlara...
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Three Days
by Sharef, Zeev
Doubleday, 1962. VG / VG -. Hardcover in lightly shelfworn dust jacket
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Ottoman History and Society: Jewish Sources
by Aryeh SHMUELEVITZ
Istanbul: The Isis Press, 1999. Paperback. New. 17x24 cm. In English. 104 p.
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€27.41
FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM
by Thomas L. Friedman
Anchor. Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket. 1990. Later Printing. Paperback. 0385413726 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 541 pages; Paperback covers with light spine creasing. There is a light crease to the back cover that is verticle and is echoed on the 4-5 pages adjacent to the cover. No ownership marks. Interior pages are clean and very lightly aging. .
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€4.73
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