Princeton Series on the Middle East
Series editors
2014–
Cyrus Schayegh and William Blair
2008–2014
Bernard Lewis and Şükrü Hanioğlu
1998–2007
Bernard Lewis and Andras Hamori
1995–1997
Bernard Lewis and Heath W. Lowry
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Harem Ghosts: What One Cemetery Can Tell Us About the Ottoman Empire
Book“Since 1840 countless visitors to Turkey’s metropolis have passed this beautiful building and its garden graveyard without, it seems to me, realizing the gems of architecture and culture that await discovery within its dignified walls. Now, over a century and a half after the tomb arose on the heights above the Golden Horn, we have a guide that...9781558766105 -
The Saudi Kingdom: Between the Jihadi Hammer and the Iranian Anvil
BookAli S. Shihabi, B.A. Politics, Certificate in Near Eastern Studies, 1981.
"The Saudi Kingdom presents a candid and insightful analysis of Saudi Arabia’s political instability in light of the mounting domestic and international challenges facing the country today. Directly addressing Saudi Arabia’s inert monarchical ruling system, its...
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The Levant: A Fractured Mosaic
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Al-Jabartī’s History of Egypt: Edited and with an introduction by Jane Hathaway
1st Markus Wiener Publishers ed.BookThe multi-volume chronicle of the Cairo scholar Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti (1753-1825), known in Arabic as caja-’ib al-atha-r fi- al-tara-jim wa-al-akhba-r, which translates roughly as The Most Wondrous Achievements: Biographies and Reports of Events, is the single most important primary source for the history of Egypt over nearly four...
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The Shiites: A Short History: Translated from the German by Allison Brown
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The Levant: A Fractured Mosaic
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The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Muslim World
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The Book of Strangers: Mediaeval Arabic Graffiti on the Theme of Nostalgia, Attributed to Abu ’l-Faraj Al-Iṣfahānī
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The History of Islamic Theology: From Muhammad to the Present: Translated from the German by Thomas Thornton
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Beauty in Arabic Culture
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Kabul under Siege: Fayz Muhammad’s Account of the 1929 Uprising
BookTranslated, abridged, re-worked, and annotated by Robert D. McChesney, B.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1973.
In January 1929, the reigning monarch of Afghanistan, Amir Aman Allah Khan, was driven from his capital by a former soldier turned outlaw. The uprising was a response to the ruler’s attempts to modernize the tribal culture of Afghanistan. Kabul...
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The Revolt of African Slaves in Iraq in the 3rd/9th Century: With a new introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; translated from French by Léon King
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Islam, Judaism and Christianity: Theological and Historical Affiliations: Translated from German by Allison Brown
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Faces of Lebanon: Sects, Wars, and Global Extensions
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Shi’a Islam: From Religion to Revolution: Translated from the German by Allison Brown
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The Heritage of Central Asia from Antiquity to the Turkish Expansion
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Jihad in Classical and Modern Islam
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Law and Society in Islam
BookThis work covers a number of significant themes explaining the practice of Islamic law. The first article treats taqiyyah (literally, “caution”), the concealment of one’s religion when to reveal it would incur danger, which is based on a Koranic passage. The author provides not only a legal and religious analysis of taqiyyah,...
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The Middle East Economy: Decline and Recovery: Selected Essays
