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

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...

Shunned by Arab states for much of its existence, Israel has become in recent years a key factor in efforts by Gulf states to punch above their weigh...

Wynn offers an interrogation of urban life and gendered mobilities in Cairo, Egypt..

Levi reflects on recent scholarship to identify multiple causal factors that contributed to the Bukharan crisis of the 18th century...

Rahmaninejad's memoir provides a fascinating glimpse into the political and artistic life of Iran...

Contrary to popular and even scholarly expectations, medieval erotic literature emphasized female sexual satisfaction...

Modest fashion is a growing, global multi-billion-dollar market...

Is there a link between the colonization of Palestinian lands and the enclosing of Palestinian minds?

The canonization of what counted as “classical” was itself a markedly modern move and gesture, El-Shamsy argues...

Harb offers a delightful and formidable study on the details and development of poetics and aesthetics in medieval Arabic literature...

One of these movements, Socialist Lebanon, took root in the 1960s, and much Arab political thought has developed in its shadow ever since.,,

Turkey was both a model case of elite-led modernization and a laboratory for development projects that could then be exported to other societies....

Reynolds argues that contrary to many scholarly and popular claims about the God of the Qur’an as either merciful or vengeful, God is in fact both...

We are schooled to believe that states formed more or less synchronously with settlement and agriculture. Scott asks us to question this belief.

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Kurd’s rich case study illustrates how certain authoritarian strategies used by the PA increased societal polarizing...

Yadgar provides a novel analysis of the interplay between Israeli nationalism and Jewish tradition, arriving at a fresh understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through its focus on internal questions about Israeli identity...

Gualtieri uncovers the dynamic and complex stories of Arabic-speaking migrant communities who came to call Southern California home...

The life of Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) was as puzzling as it was brief...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Dursteler describes the early modern Mediterranean world, its arrangement and political issues, and its changes in the wake of the Battle of Lepanto (1571)...