Nonfiction - Middle Eastern Reads
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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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Islam and Salvation in Palestine: The Islamic Jihad Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Hatina (Middle Eastern history, Tel Aviv U., Israel) traces the history of the Palestinian Jihad movement from its origins in 1981, in Gaza up to...
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The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Wael B. Hallaq boldly argues that the "Islamic state," judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both impossible ...
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History of Christianity
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, a...
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Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The world's leading Islamicist offers a concise introduction to this rich and diverse tradition of 1.2 billion adherents. In this informative an...
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The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This book reveals how, for well over a millennium and across three continents - Asia, Africa, and Europe - non-Muslims who were vanquished by jih...
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In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In just over a hundred years—from the death of the Mohammed in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750—the followers of the Prophet ...
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Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /This stunning collection showcases the love poetry and mystical teachings at the heart of the Islamic tradition in accurate and poetic original t...
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The Origins of Israel, 1882-1948: A Documentary History
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /In 1880 the Jewish community in Palestine encompassed some 20,000 Orthodox Jews; within sixty-five years it was transformed into a secular proto...
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The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam
PaperbackOriginal price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /At the end of the sixteenth century and the turn of the first Islamic millennium, the powerful Mughal emperor Akbar declared himself the most sac...
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The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem: Judah under Babylonian Rule
PaperbackOriginal price $54.50 - Original price $54.50Original price $54.50$71.99$71.99 - $71.99Current price $71.99| /The period of the demise of the kingdom of Judah at the end of the 6th century B.C.E., the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians, the exile of the...
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Footnotes in Gaza
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /"Sacco brings the conflict down to the most human level, allowing us to imagine our way inside it, to make the desperation he discovers, in some sm...
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Transformations of Tradition: Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Transformations of Tradition probes how the encounter with colonial modernity conditioned Islamic jurists' conceptualizations of the shari'a. Dep...
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The Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo, 1261-1517: Out of the Shadows
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Mustafa Banister presents a thorough investigation of a forgotten dynasty: the Cairene descendants of the Abbasid family. He uncovers the public an...
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Queens and Prophets: How Arabian Noblewomen and Holy Men Shaped Paganism, Christianity and Islam
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /A groundbreaking examination of female power in pre-Islamic Arabia 'A genuinely paradigm-shifting work by one of the most exciting and innovative s...
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Israel Always: Experiencing God's Pursuit of You Through His Chosen People
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"A succinct and compelling survey of everything Israel!" --J. Randall Price, author, professor, archaeologist God's faithfulness to Israel is an i...
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Taming the Messiah: The Formation of an Ottoman Political Public Sphere, 1600-1700
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /In the history of the Ottoman Empire, the seventeenth century has often been considered an anomaly, characterized by political dissent and social c...
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The New World of Islam
PaperbackOriginal price $15.96 - Original price $15.96Original price $15.96$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The New World of Islam, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we hav...
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Christian Monastic Life in Early Islam
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /During the rise of Islam, Muslim fascination with Christian monastic life was articulated through a fluid, piety-centred movement. Bradley Bowman e...
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The Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Heroes and Villains
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Why are stories told about the Khārijites? The Islamic tradition portrays Khārijism as a heretical movement of militantly pious zealots, a notion l...
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England's Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied impo...
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Reading Revolutionary Iran: The Worldview of the Islamic Republic's Religio-Political Elite
HardcoverOriginal price $126.99 - Original price $126.99Original price $126.99$155.99$155.99 - $155.99Current price $155.99| /The burden of this book is twofold. The first half is charged with identifying and critiquing the many prejudices and misconceptions that inform po...
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The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In October 1978, a day that started like any other for Ali Mirsepassi - full of anti-Shah protests - ended in near death. He was stabbed and dumped...
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The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$140.99$140.99 - $140.99Current price $140.99| /In October 1978, a day that started like any other for Ali Mirsepassi - full of anti-Shah protests - ended in near death. He was stabbed and dumped...
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