Nonfiction - Middle Eastern Reads
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Gallipoli
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /One of the most famous battles in history, the WWI Gallipoli campaign began as a bold move by the British to capture Constantinople, but this def...
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The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Today's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over one hundred years following the death of Mohammed in 632, Arabs had subjugated...
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Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits, and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /In the late sixteenth century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home country. Historian Sir Noel ...
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The Crusades: An Epitome
PaperbackOriginal price $12.50 - Original price $12.50Original price $12.50$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This sweeping yet succinct new survey introduces readers to the history of the crusades from the eleventh to the twenty-first century. By synthes...
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Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Drawing on the accounts of early European travelers, original Arabic sources on jurisprudence and etiquette, and treatises on coffee from the per...
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A Fez Of The Heart: Travels around Turkey in Search of a Hat
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Inspired by a dusty fez in his parents’ attic, Jeremy Seal set off in 1993 to trace the astonishing history of this cone-shaped hat. Soon the qui...
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The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War, but few know the full story of how war actually came to the region. As ...
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The Middle Ages in 50 Objects
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The extraordinary array of images included in this volume reveals the full and rich history of the Middle Ages. Exploring material objects from t...
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A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Nearly two-thirds of the New Testament—including all of the letters of Paul, most of the book of Acts, and the book of Revelation—is set outside ...
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The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple, 1119-1312
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The warrior knights of the cross The Knights Templar were one of the most famous Christian military orders of the medieval period. Officially en...
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The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This is the first serious study of Tamerlane, the great nomad conqueror who rose to power in 1370 on the ruins of the Mongol Empire and led his a...
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The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In the wake of Jerusalem's fall in 1099, the crusading armies of western Christians known as the Franks found themselves governing not only Musli...
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The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From Michael Haag, bestselling author of The Templars: The History and the Myth, comes The Tragedy of the Templars, an exciting new look at the r...
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Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In this vivid and timely history, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general's reasons for leading th...
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Napoleon in Egypt / Edition 250
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Napoleon's conquest of Egypt in 1798 was the first contact between a Western power with imperial goals and an ancient regime of an African societ...
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The Crusades: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /With flair and originality, Christopher Tyerman presents a clear and lively discussion of the Crusades, bringing together issues of colonialism, ...
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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many ...
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The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple, 1119-1312
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /The warrior knights of the cross The Knights Templar were one of the most famous Christian military orders of the medieval period. Officially end...
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The First Crusade: "The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres" and Other Source Materials / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The First Crusade received its name and shape late. To its contemporaries, the event was a journey and the men who took part in it pilgrims. Only...
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Nordic Religions in the Viking Age
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The popular image of the Viking as a horn-helmeted berserker plying the ocean in a dragon-headed long boat is firmly fixed in history. Imagining ...
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Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book, 2001 "Revisions have made this anthology stronger and even more essential."--Choice ...
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Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The New York Times bestselling author of A History of God skillfully narrates the history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and c...
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From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /While the social identity of women in medieval society hinged largely on the ritual of marriage, identity for men was derived from belonging to a...
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signale...
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