In the absence of any real certainty about the nature and intention of the early sources that tell us the story of the early Islamic period, how can we use them?

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

In July 1958, U.S. Marines stormed the beach in Beirut, Lebanon, ready for combat....

Jones shows how the Crusades was a different event depending upon one’s perspective, be that of a Norman ruler, a Byzantine princess, or a Muslim chronicler....

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history...

Lillis paints a compelling picture of a nation that is still grappling with the consequences of Joseph Stalin’s devastating disruption...

Daoudi took a group of Palestinian students to visit Auschwitz – a courageous assertion against the Holocaust denial rampant in Palestinian society,..

In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed...

Makdisi dispels the myth that the Middle East is inherently or inescapably sectarian and complicates the often overstated binary of “secular” and religious...

Sadeghi-Boroujerdi traces the rise and evolution of reformist political thought in Iran...

In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: "Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?"

Guides have been written to the city of Cairo for generations...

Hughes shows how the British Army was so devastatingly effective against colonial rebellion in the mid to late 1930s by the Palestinian Arabs...

Cohen Lustig suggests a new theoretical and historical approach to Israeli and Palestinian literature...

Frantzman spent months traveling throughout the Middle East to get a first-hand view of the region, its people and politics in war’s aftermath...

How are notions of justice and equality constructed in Islamic virtue ethics (akhlaq)?

Laderman exposes the way that imperial ambitions suffused the ideas and practices of turn-of-century humanitarian intervention...

Kassab shows her readers that the demands for human dignity, freedom, and political participation had been robustly discussed by intellectuals in Syria and Egypt during the 1990s and 2000s...

Did the early Christians believe their myths?

The book functions in some ways like an invitation—an invitation to learn something about peoples and suffering about which we know little,..

Why was a Crusade that was initially meant for Syria end up in Tunis?

Haug offers an in-depth look at the frontier zone of the Sassanian, Umayyad, and Abbasid Empires...

Foley offers eye-opening insights into a changing society that is under the international magnifying glass...

Moller traces the histories of migration of three ancient authors, Euclid, Ptolemy and Galen, from ancient Alexandria in 500 to Syria and Constantinople,