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  • Routledge Revivals: Moslem Women Enter a New World (1936)

    by Ruth Frances Woodsmall ...
    First published in 1936, this book surveys the changing place of women across the contemporaneous Muslim world, focusing on several nations where they constitute a demographic majority — Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Palestine, Trans-Jordan, Turkey, Syria — and one where they do not, namely India. It begins by outlining some of the areas of change, for example regarding the veil, purdah and divorce. This is ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    1001 Questions and Answers on General History (Unabridged)

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    by Benjamin Hathaway ...
    Narrated by Jose Sivertsen, Douglas Slade, Pat Coe, Frances Small ...

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    3 hours 59 min

    Calling all history buffs! Curious minds rejoice! Embark on a whirlwind tour of time with "1001 Questions and Answers on General History" by Benjamin Hathaway. This captivating audiobook dives deep into humanity's grand narrative, from ancient empires to modern marvels. Test your knowledge with over a thousand thought-provoking questions that span the globe. Unearth the who, what, when, and why ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    A Hard Country

    by Anatol Lieven ...
    **A sophisticated look at Pakistan—one of the most overlooked, yet vastly consequential, countries of modern times“Lieven’s eye for detail, command of subcontinental history and old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting make this in many ways an excellent primer on Pakistan.” —Wall Street JournalNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Daily Telegraph and The Independent**Since Pakistan’s formation as a ... Read more

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  • The Pakistan Paradox

    Instability and Resilience

    by Christophe Jaffrelot ...
    Pakistan was born as the creation of elite Urdu-speaking Muslims who sought to govern a state that would maintain their dominance. After rallying non-Urdu speaking leaders around him, Jinnah imposed a unitary definition of the new nation state that obliterated linguistic diversity. This centralisation - 'justified' by the Indian threat - fostered centrifugal forces that resulted in Bengali ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Arab Spring: The Making of the New Middle East

    by Hichem Karoui ...
    This is a collection of essays written about the Arab revolts, and trying to answer the questions many people are raising: why did such revolts occur? Were they preceded by precursory signs? What role played the domestic political elite in toppling the dictators? What role played the foreign powers? What were the claims of the protesters? Were they manipulated? How about the political process that ... Read more

    $11.60 USD

  • South Sudan

    A New History for a New Nation

    by Douglas H. Johnson ...
    Series series Ohio Short Histories of Africa
    Africa’s newest nation has a long history. Often considered remote and isolated from the rest of Africa, and usually associated with the violence of slavery and civil war, South Sudan has been an arena for a complex mixing of peoples, languages, and beliefs. The nation’s diversity is both its strength and a challenge as its people attempt to overcome the legacy of decades of war to build a new ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Harem Years

    The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist

    by Huda Shaarawi ...
    Translated by Margot Badran ...
    A firsthand account of the private world of a harem in colonial Cairo—by a groundbreaking Egyptian feminist who helped liberate countless women.In this compelling memoir, Shaarawi recalls her childhood and early adult life in the seclusion of an upper-class Egyptian household, including her marriage at age thirteen.Her subsequent separation from her husband gave her time for an extended formal ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ottoman Ulema, Turkish Republic

    Agents of Change and Guardians of Tradition

    by Amit Bein ...
    To better understand the diverse inheritance of Islamic movements in present-day Turkey, we must take a closer look at the religious establishment, the ulema, during the first half of the twentieth century. During the closing years of the Ottoman Empire and the early decades of the Republic of Turkey, the spread of secularist and anti-religious ideas had a major impact on the views and political ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Bazaar Politics

    Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town

    by Noah Coburn ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    After the fall of the Taliban, instability reigned across Afghanistan. However, in the small town of Istalif, located a little over an hour north of Kabul and not far from Bagram on the Shomali Plain, local politics remained relatively violence-free. Bazaar Politics examines this seemingly paradoxical situation, exploring how the town's local politics maintained peace despite a long, violent ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Colonial Effects

    The Making of National Identity in Jordan

    by Joseph Massad ...
    Colonial Effects analyzes the creation and definition of modern Jordanian identity. Massad studies two key institutions-- the law and the military--and uses them to create an original and precise analysis of the development of Jordanian national identity in the postcolonial period.Joseph A. Massad engages recent scholarly debates on nationalism and richly fulfills the analytical promise of Michel ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Histories of City and State in the Persian Gulf

    Manama since 1800

    by Nelida Fuccaro ...
    Series Book 30 - Cambridge Middle East Studies
    In this path-breaking and multi-layered account of one of the least explored societies in the Middle East, Nelida Fuccaro examines the political and social life of the Gulf city and its coastline, as exemplified by Manama in Bahrain. Written as an ethnography of space, politics and community, it addresses the changing relationship between urban development, politics and society before and after ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Race and Slavery in the Middle East

    Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean

    Edited by Terence Walz, Kenneth M. Cuno ...
    In the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet relatively little is known about them. Studies have focused mainly on the mamluk and harem slaves of elite households, who were mostly white, and on abolitionist efforts to end the slave trade, and most have relied heavily on western language ... Read more

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