Middle Eastern Studies

How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belonging

A groundbreaking account of how prolonged grassroots mobilization lays the foundations for durable democratization

An exploration of the ways that shifting relations between materiality and language bring about different forms of politics in Tehran

A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources

An essential history of Wahhābism from its founding to the Islamic State

Muslim intellectuals who sought to establish the boundaries of modern Muslim identity

An essential single-volume companion to the critical interpretation of Islamic scripture

Enduring lessons from the desert soundscapes that shaped the Christian monastic tradition

How states deny the full potential of refugees as people and perpetuate social inequality

The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab world—and how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle East

A compact, incisive history of a war that was an ominous prelude to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literature

A compelling book that casts the Qur’anic encounter with Jews in an entirely new light

A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governance

A major history of the British Empire’s early involvement in the Middle East

An in-depth look at Qatar's migrant workers and the place of skill in the language of control and power

A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel

How a controversial biblical tale of conquest and genocide became a founding story of modern Israel