Middle Eastern history Books

Volume I of "The Devils And Evil Spirits Of Babylonia", a 1903 work by Reginald C. Thompson that looks at the religion and spiritual beliefs of Babylon, the powerful kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia that existed from the 18th to 6th centuries BC. It...

A writer wanting to pen a classic tragedy could find no better subject than the centuries' old, sad tale of Iraq. The last chapters in such a story, unfortunately, would also involve America, whose very presence in Iraq has no rational bearing.Iraq,...

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Between November 1947 and May 1948 war between the Palestinian Arab community and the Jewish community encompassed Palestine, with Jerusalem and Jaffa becoming focal points in the conflict due to their centrality, size and symbolic importance...

Over the wartime period, millions of people across the Empire died as a result of warfare, epidemics, famines and massacres. However, for the Ottoman leaders their entry into the war was not just a response to a life-or-death struggle, but rather...

Rather than a centralized state, Iran in the nineteenth century was a delicate balance between tribal groups, urban merchant communities, religious elites, and an autocratic monarchy. While Russia gained an increasingly dominant political role in Iran...

This book scrutinises how political actors in the Israeli parliament (the Knesset) have articulated the security-democracy nexus in their discourses. Security crises expose political leaders to an uncomfortable dilemma: guaranteeing the safety of...

Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran is an original historiographic examination of the idea of freedom in early modern Iran within a larger context of the formation of modern Muslim thought. The study develops an appropriate method for the...

Patterns of Nationhood and Saving the State in Turkey tackles a theoretical puzzle in understanding the state policy changes toward minorities and nationhood, first by placing the state in the historical context of the international system and second by...

This book offers a new insight into the political, social, and religious conduct of religious-Zionism, whose consequences are evident in Israeli society today. Before the Six-Day War, religious-Zionism had limited its concern to the protection of...

This book analyzes UN intervention discourses and practices in Iraq and develops a deconstructive approach to international interventions. Hitherto, most analyses of the conflict in Iraq in 2003 have established the UN's role as path-dependent on...

The Ottoman Empire in the Tanzimat Era generates a new history of the Ottoman Empire's Tanzimat reforms in the provinces of Edirne and Ankara. It studies variation across the two provinces and the crucial role of local intermediaries such as notables,...

Edward Said's Orientalism, now more than fifty years old, has to be one of the most frequently cited books among academics in a wide range of disciplines, and the most frequently assigned book to undergraduates at colleges.Among the common questions...

This book examines the development and issuance of the Balfour Declaration, the document that set the stage for the creation of the state of Israel, within its global setting. The heart of the book demonstrates that the Declaration developed and...

Das Buch ""Das Christenthum und die �����ltesten Religionen des Orients"" von Johann Andreas Lebrecht Richter wurde im Jahr 1819 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Studie �����ber die verschiedenen Religionen des Orients und deren...

Das Buch ""Das Alte und Neue Morgenland V2"" wurde im Jahr 1818 von Friedrich Ernst ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Darstellung der Geschichte und Kultur des Nahen Ostens, insbesondere des Alten und Neuen Morgenlandes. Der Autor...

Le Guide Indicateur Des Sanctuaires Et Lieux Historiques De La Terre Sainte, Partie 3 (1876) �����crit par De Hamme, Le Fr�����re Lievin est un livre qui pr�����sente une liste compl�����te des sanctuaires et des lieux historiques de la Terre Sainte...

De Isidori Pelusiotae Vita Scriptis Et Doctrina Commentatio Historica Theologica est opus Hermanni Agatho Niemeyerus, quod anno MDCCCXXV editum est. In hoc libro, auctor historiam vitae, scriptorum, et doctrinae Isidori Pelusiotae, theologorum saeculi...

""Etudes Sur Les Fragments Coptes: Des Conciles De Nicee Et D'Ephese (1852)"" est un livre �����crit par Charles Lenormant. Ce livre est une �����tude sur les fragments coptes des conciles de Nic�����e et d'�����ph�����se. Il contient des analyses...

Essai sur Mo�����se de Khoren (1866) est un livre �����crit par C. E. Pichard. Il s'agit d'une �����tude approfondie de l'�����uvre de Mo�����se de Khoren, un historien arm�����nien du V�����me si�����cle. L'auteur analyse les diff�����rentes sources...

Das Buch ""Die Theologie des Bachja Ibn Pakuda"" von David Kaufmann wurde im Jahr 1874 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine Studie �����ber die Theologie und Philosophie des j�����dischen Denkers Bachja Ibn Pakuda, der im 11. Jahrhundert in...

Synopsis Institutionum Chaldaearum Et Syrarum est opus Iacobus Alting, theologus et professor in Academia Franekerensis, in anno MDCCXVII editum. Libellus tractat de historia, lingua et religione Chaldaeorum et Syrorum, populorum antiquorum qui in...

Specimen Horarum Hebraicarum Ac Arabicarum, Ut Et Observationum Biblicarum est liber a Carolo Buttinghausen anno MDCCXLVIII editus. In hoc libro, auctor exempla horarum Hebraicarum et Arabicarum exhibet, simulque observationes biblicas praebet. Liber...

Rudimenta Mythologiae Semiticae Supplementa Lexici Aramaici (1848) est opus auctore Boetticher, Paulo, quod de mythologia Semitica tractat. In hoc libro, Boetticher additamenta lexici Aramaei praebet, quae ad intelligendum mythologiam Semiticam utile...

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Joseph In Egypten (1695) is een toneelstuk van de Nederlandse dichter Joost van den Vondel. Het stuk vertelt het Bijbelse verhaal van Joseph, die door zijn broers wordt verkocht als slaaf en uiteindelijk in Egypte terechtkomt. Daar maakt hij carri�����re...

Zigzag Journeys In The Camel Country: Arabia In Picture And Story is a travelogue written by Samuel Marinus Zwemer and published in 1911. The book is a fascinating account of the author's travels through Arabia, a land of vast deserts, rugged mountains,...

""The Story of the Exodus"" is a historical and religious book that is part of the larger series ""The Story of the Bible"". Written by Frances Edward Younghusband in 1891, it tells the story of the Hebrew people's escape from slavery in Egypt and their...

The Life of the Renowned Peter D'Aubusson: Grand Master of Rhodes is a historical biography written by Dominique Bouhours and published in 1679. The book chronicles the life of Peter D'Aubusson, a prominent figure in the Knights Hospitaller, who served...

The Life of Mohammed Ali, Viceroy of Egypt is a historical biography written by E. Churton in 1841. The book chronicles the life of Mohammed Ali, a prominent Ottoman military commander who went on to become the ruler of Egypt. The author provides a...

The Life of Mahomet V3 is a historical biography written by William Muir and published in 1861. The book provides a detailed account of the life of the Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam. The third volume of the series covers the period from the...

The Greek Question is a historical book written by Auguste Gauvain in 1918. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the political situation in Greece during the early 20th century. It delves into the country's struggle for independence from the Ottoman...

The Education of Women in Japan is a book written by Margaret Ernestine Burton and published in 1914. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the education system for women in Japan during the early 20th century. Burton's work is based on her...

The Egyptian Sketch Book is a travelogue written by Charles Godfrey Leland and published in 1874. The book chronicles his journey through Egypt, detailing his experiences and observations of the country's culture, history, and people. The book contains a...

""Sermons on the History of Joseph"" is a religious book written by William Edelman and published in 1837. The book is a collection of sermons that explore the biblical story of Joseph, the son of Jacob. The sermons examine the life of Joseph, his...

Scouts of the Desert is a novel written by John Fleming Wilson and first published in 1920. The story revolves around a group of Boy Scouts who find themselves stranded in the desert after their airplane crashes. The boys must use their survival skills...

Semitic Legends is a book written by Baron Louis Benas and was first read before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool in 1874. The book is a collection of various Semitic legends and myths from different cultures and religions, including...

Select Narratives of Holy Women: From the Syro-Antiochene or Sinai Palimpsest is a book written by Agnes Smith Lewis and published in 1900. The book contains a collection of narratives of holy women from the Syro-Antiochene or Sinai Palimpsest, which is...

Sancti Patris Nostri Cyrilli V3: Archiepiscopi Alexandrini In D. Joannis Evangelium (1872) est liber qui continet commentarios Sancti Cyrilli, qui fuit Archiepiscopus Alexandrinus, in Evangelium D. Joannis. In hoc volumine, Cyrillus explicat et...

""Rome And Turkey, In Connection With The Second Advent: Sermons"" is a book written by Edward Hoare in 1876. The book consists of a series of sermons that explore the relationship between Rome and Turkey and their connection to the second coming of...

Life In Bible Lands: Or Illustrations Of Scriptural Allusions And Imagery From The Manners And Customs Of The East (1870) is a book published by T. Nelson And Sons. The book provides a detailed account of the various customs and traditions of the people...

Le Journal D�������Un Dragon D�������Egypte, 14e Dragons (1899) est un livre �����crit par E. Dubois. Le livre raconte l'histoire d'un dragon fran�����ais qui a �����t����� envoy����� en �����gypte en 1899. Le dragon raconte son exp�����rience de la vie...

No direct explanation is given for the origin and nature of the luminous bodies, the sun, the planets, and the stars. Because, as far back as our written sources go, the Sumerians regarded the moon-god, who went by the names Sin and Nanna, as the son of...

Kemetic writings found in Alexandria's libraries were attributed collectively to Hermes, a Greek conception of the Egyptian deity Djehuti, patron of science, learning, and language. She was believed to have incarnated herself as a sage several times, and...

As every growth of seed from seed is followed by destruction, so every birth of living flesh is followed by its death, and all that decays is regenerated by the measured courses of the gods circling in the heavens.-Hermetica: Libellus III, 4Spiritual...

Zur Militäradministration der Ptolemäerzeit sind bisher nur wenige Quellen bekannt, so dass es schwer ist, ein klares Bild von diesem Zweig des ptolemäischen Verwaltungsapparates zu zeichnen. Dank der hier vorgelegten Erstedition einer Verwaltungsakte...

Images of over 150 of the original pre-cuneiform Sumerian symbols are shown in BEFORE BABEL THE CRYSTAL TONGUE, many of them discussed individually and in context. Explaining the source of ancient place names and mythological beings - Babel, Harran,...

Cindy Sheehan lost her son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, in an ambush in Sadr City, Baghdad, in early 2004. As information became available revealing that the war in Iraq was based on lies, she began speaking out against it and demanding the troops come...