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  • Oman Under Qaboos
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    Oman Under Qaboos

    This is an examination of the political, economic and social development of Oman from the accession Sultan Qaboos in a palace coup in 1970 to the promulation of the basic law of 1996. The book argues that the sultanate does not follow the "rentier" model...
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  • In the Anglo-Arab Labyrinth In the Anglo-Arab Labyrinth
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    In the Anglo-Arab Labyrinth

    The McMahon-Husayn correspondence has been at the heart of Anglo-Arab relations since World War I. It aroused great controversy, particularly over Palestine. Here, it is examined in historical context to determine why it was so obscure and what lay in...
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  • Between Capital and Land Between Capital and Land
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    Between Capital and Land

    Tuten shows how the Jewish National Fund (JNF) proved to be flexible in its fundraising to obtain its land-purchase objectives during the Second World War. He provides a detailed examination of the Jewish National Fund's internal development...
    $373.00

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  • Managing Water Conflict Managing Water Conflict
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    Managing Water Conflict

    Countries are meeting increasing water demand by building reservoirs and by diverting water from one area to another. When the water belongs to an international river system, these measures lead to riparian conflicts. However, water scarcity not only...
    $231.00

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  • Britain, the Hashemites and Arab Rule Britain, the Hashemites and Arab Rule
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    Britain, the Hashemites and Arab Rule

    Timothy Paris examines Winston Churchill's involvement in the struggle for power in a number of Middle Eastern countries between 1920 and 1925. His study traces the development of the Sherifian policy, a policy that was devised by the British.
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  • Decision on Palestine Deferred
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    Decision on Palestine Deferred

    Professor Penkower's latest book, Decision on Palestine Deferred, offers the first sustained, documented account of Palestine and the Anglo-American alliance during the Second World War. Firmly grounded in three decades of archival research, his spirited...
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  • Israeli-Egyptian Relations, 1980-2000 Israeli-Egyptian Relations, 1980-2000
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    Israeli-Egyptian Relations, 1980-2000

    A memoir by former diplomat Ephraim Dowek which provides a comprehensive study of the relations between Egypt and Israel from peace until the present day. This is an informative account of the author's time in Egypt as a high-level Israeli diplomat (he...
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  • Islamic Endowments in Jerusalem Under British Mandate Islamic Endowments in Jerusalem Under British Mandate
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    Islamic Endowments in Jerusalem Under British Mandate

    Yitzhak Reiter presents a picture of the role of Islam in mandatory Jerusalem through the resources of the Waqf. The prevalent image of institutionalized corruption within the Waqf system is not completely supported by the findings of the study.
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  • The Politics of Christian Zionism 1891-1948 The Politics of Christian Zionism 1891-1948
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    The Politics of Christian Zionism 1891-1948

    For this book Professor Merkley has researched presidential archives, Jewish historical libraries and official Zionist records in the US and in Israel for evidence of the dealings between official Zionists and active Christian Restorationists. Much of...
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  • Egypt's Incomplete Revolution Egypt's Incomplete Revolution
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    Egypt's Incomplete Revolution

    The importance of Lutfi al-Khuli and the intellectual circle associated with the Nasserist regime is examined here. Rami Ginat looks at al-Khuli's contribution to the short-lived yet formidable success of Arab socialism.
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  • New Farmers' Movements in India New Farmers' Movements in India
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    New Farmers' Movements in India

    The essays in this collection focus on the reasons for and background to the emergence during the 1980s of the new farmers' movements in India. In addition to a more general consideration of the economic, political and theoretical dimensions of this...
    $137.00

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  • A Zionist Stand A Zionist Stand
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    A Zionist Stand

    A member of the Knesset, Dr Begin here reflects upon the mainstream political thought of the Likud Party which came to power in 1977. This book analyzes the basic factors relevant to the Israeli position in the Middle East, providing a different outlook...
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  • The Grand Mufti The Grand Mufti
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    The Grand Mufti

    A former military governor of Arab areas under Israeli occupation chronicles the life and career of Hussaini (1893-1974), from his early days in Jerusalem, through his Palestinian nationalist work during the 1920s and 1930s, his eclipse after 1948, and...
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  • Japan And Asian Modernities Japan And Asian Modernities
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    Japan And Asian Modernities

    The effect of Japan on the challenges and complexities of the modernisation process that globalisation has brought to the fore in Asia are the subject of this interdisciplinary volume by leading scholars in the field. Using fascinating examples drawn...
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  • Latin Kingdom Of Jerusalem Latin Kingdom Of Jerusalem
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    Latin Kingdom Of Jerusalem

    First published in 2006. The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem was the great lost realm of chivalry. Created by leaders of the First Crusade at the start of the 12th Century, it was a feudal state comprised of Antioch, Edessa, Tripoli, Jerusalem, Jaffa,...
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  • Ancient Japanese Rituals Ancient Japanese Rituals
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    Ancient Japanese Rituals

    First published in 2002. What is Shinto? is the key question asked by all who seek to understand Japan and the Japanese, answered in this volume by Sir Ernest Satow, the great British scholar and diplomat. Shinto is the unique and little-known religious...
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  • Siculo Arabic Siculo Arabic
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    Siculo Arabic

    First Published in 1996. Within a span of three hundred years Sicily underwent two processes of ethnic, cultural and linguistic transformation. Under the Arab rule it witnessed a period of change from Hellenization and Christianization to Arabization and...
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  • Japan Aspects and Destinies Japan Aspects and Destinies
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    Japan Aspects and Destinies

    First published in 2007. At the turn of the twentieth century, the author spent three years in Japan, at the heart of what he saw as a revolution. The modernization of the Meiji era was well underway, but far from complete. All around him, Watson saw...
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  • Land Of Enki In The Islamic Land Of Enki In The Islamic
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    Land Of Enki In The Islamic

    First published in 2005. This study results from an intensive years fieldwork completed in Bahrain in 2001. This comprised two seasons of both excavations and surveys (February-May and September-November), separated by the Bahraini summer when it was...
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  • Manga Discourse in Japan Theatre Manga Discourse in Japan Theatre
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    Manga Discourse in Japan Theatre

    During the Japanese 'bubble' economy of the 1980's, the youth of Japan began to exert unprecedented influence on Japanese culture through their spirited patronage of certain art forms previously deemed subcultural or avant-garde. Among these were manga...
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  • Tibeton Yoga & Its Secret Doc Tibeton Yoga & Its Secret Doc
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    Tibeton Yoga & Its Secret Doc

    This volume provides a faithful account of the yogic practices which Milarepa, the best known of the Tibetan yogins, successfully put to the test of practice. It explores some of the Kargylitpa School's chief doctrines from Indian Buddhistic sources.
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  • In The High Yemen In The High Yemen
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    In The High Yemen

    First Published in 2002. Scott gives a fascinating account of an expedition that took place in 1937 to the Yemen when the country was closed to Europeans by order of the Imam. Ostensibly a scientific expedition, it possesses great political, cultural,...
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  • Ibn Sa'Oud Of Arabia Ibn Sa'Oud Of Arabia
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    Ibn Sa'Oud Of Arabia

    First published in 2005. This little known traveller's account of the 1920's is at the same time amusing and perceptive. Beginning in Baghdad, travelling across the Gulf to Bahrain, Ameen Rihani enters the Arabia of Ibn Sa'oud, the fast-becoming legend...
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  • Lady Of The Hare Lady Of The Hare
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    Lady Of The Hare

    This work is the first document, relating to the practice of Jungian psychology, which records in detail the analyst's own past in the practice of analysis as well as the patients. John Layard sought to bring to psychology the illuminating study of all...
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  • Amulets and Magic Amulets and Magic
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    Amulets and Magic

    First Published in 2001. Everywhere that excavations of ancient sites, temples and tombs have been carried out, the objects most frequently brought to light are amulets and talismans. The use of these objects is not confined to anyone place, people and...
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  • Qiaoxiang Ties Qiaoxiang Ties
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    Qiaoxiang Ties

    First Published in 1999. This volume is a product of the research programme of the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, entitled International Social Organization in East and Southeast Asia: Qiaoxiang Ties during the Twentieth Century. The...
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  • Reforming Muslim World Reforming Muslim World
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    Reforming Muslim World

    A comprehensive introduction to an Islamic epistemology for the natural and social sciences. Choudhury builds a philosophy of knowledge from essential sources in the Qur'anic worldview, the Tawhidi creative order, Ghazzali's epistemology, and other...
    $333.00

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  • Ethiopian Revolution 1974-1991 Ethiopian Revolution 1974-1991
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    Ethiopian Revolution 1974-1991

    First published in 1997. Ethiopia, the only country in Africa to survive the nineteenth-century European scramble for the continent, has a long, unique, and complex history. This stretches back over three million years to Lucy, or as the Ethiopians call...
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  • Gateways Of Asia Gateways Of Asia
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    Gateways Of Asia

    First Published in 1997. The dynamic role of port cities has been a major element in the thrust of modern port city literature since. In the process interactions between history and other disciplines, above all geography, economics and town planning...
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  • Survival Among The Kurds Survival Among The Kurds
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    Survival Among The Kurds

    First published in 1993. The Yezidis are a community of around 200,000 Kurds who possess their own religion, quite distinct from Islam, which most other Kurds profess, and from the Christian and Jewish faiths. The Yezidis live in the northern parts of...
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  • Around The World With A King Around The World With A King
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    Around The World With A King

    First published in 2001. This incredible journey began in 1887 and took King Kalakaua to the Unites States of America, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Siam, Singapore, Malaya. India. Egypt, Rome, London~ Belgium, Vienna, Spain, Portugal, France, and back to...
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  • Saudi Arabian Dialects Saudi Arabian Dialects
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    Saudi Arabian Dialects

    First published in 1988. Arabic linguistics is developing into an increasingly interesting and important subject within the broad field of modern linguistic studies. The scope of this discipline is wide and varied, covering diverse areas such as Arabic...
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  • Camp David Accords Camp David Accords
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    Camp David Accords

    First published in 1986. This text holds a collection of accounts by the author who was Anwar El Sadat's Foreign Minster. Sadat was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his...
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  • A Scent of Sandalwood A Scent of Sandalwood
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    A Scent of Sandalwood

    The Ginans are religious lyrics which have long been a central part of the religious life of the Indian Mizari Ismaili community (known as Khojas), and continue to form their living poetic tradition. Aziz Esmail's translation is suggestive of the depth...
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  • The Annals of the Saljuq Turks The Annals of the Saljuq Turks
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    The Annals of the Saljuq Turks

    Ibn al-Athir, who died in the 13th century, is one of the most important historians of Islam. His major chronicle, the Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh, is one of the greatest achievements of Muslim historiography for the range and comprehensiveness of the sources it...
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  • Women Workers, Migration and Family in Sarawak Women Workers, Migration and Family in Sarawak
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    Women Workers, Migration and Family in Sarawak

    In many parts of South-East Asia, women's lifestyles are going through enormous changes as women move from traditional rural, agricultural lifestyles to modern, urban lifestyles, which often involve migration to cities, taking on paid work, and having a...
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  • The Political Economy of the Cambodian Transition The Political Economy of the Cambodian Transition
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    The Political Economy of the Cambodian Transition

    Cambodia underwent a triple transition in the 1990s: from war to peace, from communism to electoral democracy, and from command economy to free market. This book addresses the political economy of these transitions, examining how the much publicised...
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  • Politics in Southeast Asia Politics in Southeast Asia
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    Politics in Southeast Asia

    This volume provides an introduction to the politics of the five key southeast Asian states - Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines - and is intended as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses on this...
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  • The Persian Book of Kings The Persian Book of Kings
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    The Persian Book of Kings

    The Shahnama, written in the tenth century by Firdawsi, is the national epic poem of Persia. It chronicles at great length (nine volumes in the full English translation, currently out of print) the reigns and deeds of the earliest Persian kings, over...
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  • The New Politics of Islam The New Politics of Islam
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    The New Politics of Islam

    This is a timely study of the international relations of Islamic states, dealing both with the evolving theory of pan-Islamism from classical to post-caliphal times and the foreign-policy practice of contemporary states, especially Saudi Arabia, Iran and...
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  • The Politics of Egypt The Politics of Egypt
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    The Politics of Egypt

    This book addresses two important matters of current concern to Middle East scholars: firstly, the nature of the Egyptian state and society and the interactive process between them and secondly, how change, which would finally lead to development, can be...
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