Mirzai offers the first history of slavery in modern Iran from the early nineteenth century to emancipation in the mid-twentieth century...

Hanieh shows that the economies of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, and Kuwait are about more than just the “black gold.”

Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world...

Leeuwen thoroughly examines an array of intricate ways in which the Thousand and One Nights shaped the developments of literatures across the world...

A history of the "middle sea" from prehistory to today....

Despite the competition it posed to the Romans’ eastern empire and the longevity it enjoyed compared to its Iranian predecessors,..

Anwar al-Awlaki was, according to one of his followers, “the main man who translated jihad into English.”

Bressoud takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story of how calculus evolved into the subject we know today...

Wright maps the intellectual history of the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa, the Tijaniyya...

In the early decades of the eighteenth century, Yemen hosted a bustling community of merchants who sailed to the southern Arabian Peninsula from the east and the west, seeking and offering a range of commodities, both luxury and mundane....

Mahdi offers a comparative analysis of the portrayals of Arab Americans in film and interrogates how such representations have been, and continue to be, disrupted and challenged...

Why did the modern economy emerge in northwestern Europe at some point in the 17th or 18th century but not in the Middle East?

Smiley examines the emergence of rules of warfare surrounding captivity and slavery in the context of Ottoman-Russian military rivalry between 1700 and 1878....

Moussawi challenges representations of contemporary Beirut as an exceptional space for LGBTQ people by highlighting everyday life in a city where violence is the norm...

The book focuses on the intersection of racecraft around Muslims and imperial projects of domination by gathering committed scholars and activists to reflect on how we’ve gotten here and how we can move forward...

Freitag offers a rich urban and biographical history of Jeddah...

Gabbay shows that contrary to assumptions about Islam’s patrilineal nature, there is in fact precedent in pre-modern Islamic history of Muslims' recognition of bilateral descent...

Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to end with peace, Palestinians must come to terms with the fact that there will be no "right of return."

Who exactly was Abu Nasr Qursawi and what was his reformist project to grapple with this situation?

Desai offers an alternative history of East Africa in the Indian Ocean world...

Barlas demonstrates how a Muslim believer can fully adopt an antipatriarchal reading of the Qur’anic text while maintaining belief in its Divine Providence...

Jesus was Jewish? Yes, he was...and how.

The edited volume is not only an at times ethnographic dive into Middle Eastern sports’ multiple facets but also in many ways a mapping of how much remains to be explored....

Haeri offers a collection of captivating biographies of Muslim women rulers and political leaders...

Alpers offers a concise yet an immensely informative introduction to the Indian Ocean world, which remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions...