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?

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

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

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

The story of Morocco’s independence struggle against France and Spain is a complicated one...

The past decade has seen a tremendous production of scholarship on American missionary endeavors in the Middle East...

Sjöberg is interested in the violence and expulsion of ethnic Greeks from Anatolia before, during and especially after World War One...

Walton explores how members of three contemporary Muslim groups, the Nur community, the Gülen movement, and Alevis, articulate religiosity within the Turkish public sphere...

Kassymbekova explores technologies of governance used in early Soviet Tajikistan in order to implement Soviet plans for industrialization and collectivization...

Fahrenthold sheds a timely light on Syrian and Lebanese immigrants who established vibrant diaspora communities in the Americas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

Chamberlin reminds us that the Cold War was not at all Cold for hundreds of millions of people...

Ter-Matevosyan looks into the origins, evolution, and transformational phases of Kemalism between the 1920s and 1970s...

Mittermaier conducts a dazzling and at many times moving ethnography of an Islamic economy of giving and charity in Egypt..

Aaron Rock-Singer focuses on three principal characters to tell us the story of the Islamic revival: Salafis, the Muslim Brothers, and state institutions...

Dixon investigates the Japanese and Turkish states’ narratives of their “dark pasts,” the Nanjing Massacre (1937-38) and Armenian Genocide (1915-17), respectively...

For hundreds of years, people living on the coasts of  the Mediterranean Sea enslaved one another...

How do peripheral places assert the centrality of their identity?

Gökçe Günel explores the United Arab Emirates’s planned Masdar City, an experimental attempt at designing an emissions-free society.

Reese, explores the social effects of the British empire, and its attending conditions, on Muslims in the port city of Aden...

Krieg's volume brings together a group of prominent Gulf scholars to discuss the Gulf crisis that pits a Saudi-United Arab Emirates-led alliance against Qatar...