Middle Eastern Studies
How the “recycling” of the Ottoman Empire’s uses of genealogy and religion created new political orders in the Middle East
A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near East
New perspectives on early globalisms from objects and images
A richly detailed history of the Bacris and the Busnachs, two renowned Jewish families whose influence and reputation shook the capitals of Europe and America
A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era
A capacious history of decolonization, from the decline of empires to the era of globalization
A vivid and compelling collection of quotations from the influential contemporary artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat
How Arabic influenced the evolution of vernacular literatures and anticolonial thought in Egypt, Indonesia, and Senegal
An innovative analysis that traces the continuity of the state’s custodianship of Islam as the preferred religion in the Middle East and North Africa
How the booming Islamic finance industry became an ultramodern hybrid of religion and markets
Why the pursuit of state recognition by seemingly marginal religious groups in Egypt and elsewhere is a devotional practice
How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO’s relationship to Zionism and Israel
An essential history of Wahhābism from its founding to the Islamic State
A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Latif Al Ani’s photographs and contemporary Iraqi artists continue to challenge the colonial appropriation of Iraq’s ancient past
Muslim intellectuals who sought to establish the boundaries of modern Muslim identity
An essential single-volume companion to the critical interpretation of Islamic scripture
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 exploration of the ways that shifting relations between materiality and language bring about different forms of politics in Tehran
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
A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient world
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
Enduring lessons from the desert soundscapes that shaped the Christian monastic tradition
A compelling book that casts the Qur’anic encounter with Jews in an entirely new light
A major history of the British Empire’s early involvement in the Middle East
A monumental work of history that reveals the Ottoman dynasty's important role in the emergence of early modern Europe
The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literature
A compact, incisive history of a war that was an ominous prelude to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel