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This ambitious and wide-ranging popular history is the first narrative account of the entire Near East (Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia and ...
In 1916, in the middle of the First World War, two men secretly agreed to divide the Middle East between them. Sir Mark Sykes was ...
Abducted by slave traders from her home in Ruthenia - modern-day Ukraine - around 1515, Roxelana was brought to Istanbul and trained in the palace harem as ...
The religious thinkers, political leaders, law-makers, writers and philosophers of the early Muslim world helped to shape the 1,400-year-long development of today's secondlargest ...
THE THIRD EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, REVISED AND UPDATED
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In 1119, the people of the Near East came together in an epic clash of horses, swords, sand, and blood that would decide the fate ...
An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination
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A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should be
Many Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state ...
How the conflict between political Islamists and secular nationalists has shaped the history of the modern Middle East In 2013, just two years after the ...
Drawing on the Muslim Brotherhood's Arabic and English writings and on archival research in London and Washington, Martyn Frampton provides the first comprehensive history ...
On November 2, 1917, the British government, represented by Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour, declared that they were in favor of "the establishment in Palestine of ...
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For many centuries, the history of the crusades, as written by Western historians, was based solidly on Western sources. Evidence from the Islamic societies that ...
Few works of history make as well-structured a case for the importance of studying continuity, rather than change, than Albert Hourani's A History of ...
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