Middle East History Books

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1. Founding Figures and Commentators in Arabic Mathematics: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 1

   By Roshdi Rashed

   This volume provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world. It also includes extensive commentary from one of world’s foremost authorities on the subject....

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58217-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Ibn al-Haytham & Mathematics: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 2

   By Roshdi Rashed

   This volume provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world. It also includes extensive commentary from one of world’s foremost authorities....

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58218-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Democracy, Reform, and Authoritarianism in the Arab World

   Edited by Gerd Nonneman

   The potential for reform in the pattern of persistent authoritarianism in the Arab world has been the subject of interest for policymakers, the informed general public, and scholars alike, particularly since the end of the Cold War and again after the events of 11 September 2001. It is also one...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-46915-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Politics of Memory: Israeli Underground's Confrontations Over Boundaries of State Pantheon

   By Udi Lebel

   Providing a new angle on state control and political legitimacy, this book addresses the efforts of successive Israeli governments to establish their political dominance and legitimacy through the selective production and collective assimilation of cultural practices associated with bereavement and...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-41239-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Century-Old Myth

   Edited by Esther Webman

   This book examines the impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion across the world since it was compiled in the early 20th century. It explores the tract’s successful dissemination and how such a blatant Anti-semitic fabrication is still accepted as true by so many....

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-59892-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Routledge Handbook of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

   Edited by David Newman, Joel Peters

   The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most prominent issues in world politics today. Few other issues have dominated the world’s headlines and have attracted such attention from policy makers, the academic community, political analysts, and the world’s media. This Handbook provides a...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-77862-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Trans-Colonial Modernities in Asia

   Edited by Michael Dodson, Brian Hatcher

   The generation of national cultures in colonized areas of Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has most often been traced to the cultural-textual production of emerging ‘middle-class’ elites. This book presents cutting-edge interpretations of the emergence of Asian nationalism,...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-78062-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Memory and Conflict in Lebanon: Remembering and Forgetting the Past

   By Craig Larkin

   This book examines the legacy of Lebanon’s civil war and how the population has learnt to cope. The author explores the efforts of those who wish to forget and those who wish to remember, so as not to repeat past mistakes, shedding new light on trauma and the persistence of ethnic...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-58779-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. New Perspectives on Safavid Iran: Empire and Society

   Edited by Colin P. Mitchell

   Dedicated to the renowned Safavid historian Roger Savory, this book brings together a collection of studies on the Safavid state of Iran (1501-1722) from the perspectives of political, social, literary, and artistic history. Savory, a doyen of Safavid studies in the 1960s and 1970s, was...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-77462-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Turkish-American Relations, 1800-1952

    By Suhnaz Yilmaz

    Through the extensive use of both Turkish and American archival documents, this book examines Turkish-American relations from 1800 to 1952, starting with the earliest contacts and ending with the institutionalization of the alliance after Turkey’s entry into NATO....

    January 2011 | 978-0-415-96353-4 | Hardback (Routledge)