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Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	Sacred Language, Ordinary People Dilemmas of Culture and Politics in Egypt Niloofar Haeri Palgrave Macmillan The cultures and politics of nations around the world may be understood (or misunderstood) in any number of ways. For the Arab world, language is the crucial...

Trade Paperback : $32.95 Buy	The Nawal El Saadawi Reader Nawal El Saadawi Zed Books Writer, doctor and militant, Nawal el Saadawi has had a major influence on the lives of women and men globally. Author of many books, both fiction and...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Lords of the Lebanese Marches Violence & Narrative in an Arab Society Michael Gilsenan I.B. Tauris Lords of the Lebanese Marches looks at relations between different forms of power, violence and hierarchy in Akkar, the northernmost province of Lebanon,...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	The Rhetoric of Violence Arab-Jewish Encounters in Contemporary Palestinian Literature and Film Kamal Abdel-Malek Palgrave Macmillan Despite the urgent need to develop understandings of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in light of the current situation in the Middle East, the role of...

Hardcover : $51.00 Buy	Between Revolution and State The Path to Fatimid Statehood: Qadi al-Nu'man and the Construction of Fatimid Legitimacy Ismaili Heritage #11 Sumaiya A. Hamdani Institute for Ismaili Studies This book examines the most important writings of a tenth century Islamic theologian and jurist who was one of the most original thinkers of his period. It...

Hardcover : $94.00 Buy	Close Relationships Incest and Inbreeding in Classical Arabic Literature Geert Jan van Gelder I.B. Tauris This is a groundbreaking and comprehensive study of the diverse facts and opinions concerning incest and close-kin marriage found in literary and non-literary...

Trade Paperback : $33.00 Buy	Gender, Modernity and Liberty Middle Eastern and Western Women's Writings: A Critical Sourcebook Edited by Reina Lewis and Nancy Mickelwright I.B. Tauris This book presents a dialogue between Western and Middle Eastern women that is often presumed never to have happened. Not only were women from the Middle East...

Hardcover : $79.00 Buy	'Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition The Art of Spiritual Flight Edited by Leonard Lewisohn and Christopher Shackle Institute for Ismaili Studies Farid al-Din 'Attar (d. 1221) was the principal Muslim religious poet of the second half of the twelfth century. Best known for his masterpiece Mantiq al-tayr,...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Woman at Point Zero Second Edition Nawal El Saadawi Zed Books "All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face. But...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	God Dies by the Nile Second Edition Nawal El Saadawi Zed Books Nawal El Saadawi is the 2007 recipient of the African Literature Association’s Fonlon-Nichols Award! "People have become corrupt everywhere. You can search...

Hardcover : $94.00 Buy	Desert Voices Bedouin Women's Poetry in Saudi Arabia Library of Modern Middle East Studies #74 Moneera Al-Ghadeer Tauris Academic Studies The Bedouin, or "desert dwellers," have a rich cultural heritage often expressed through music and poetry. Here Moneera Al-Ghadeer provides us with the first...

Hardcover : $73.00 Buy	An Anthology of Ismaili Literature A Shi'i Vision of Islam Edited by Samira Sheikh, K. Kassam & H. Landolt Institute for Ismaili Studies One of the richest and most rewarding, yet at the same time least familiar, traditions of Muslim literature is that of the Shi'i Imami Ismailis. Although many...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Persian Historiography History of Persian Literature A, Vol X A History of Persian Literature #10 Edited By Charles Melville and Ehsan Yarshater I.B. Tauris Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic...

Trade Paperback : $33.00 Buy	America in an Arab Mirror Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature, 1668 to 9/11 and Beyond Edited by Kamal Abdel-Malek and Mouna El Kahla Palgrave Macmillan This distinguished anthology presents for the first time in English travel accounts by Arab writers who have visited America between 1668 and 2009. The view of...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Sacred Script Muhaqqaq in Islamic Calligraphy Nassar Mansour I.B. Tauris Arabic calligraphy is at once an expression of piety, aesthetic sensibility and artistic discipline. Muhaqqaq was an early term which captured care, clarity...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry Edited by Leonard Lewisohn I.B. Tauris The romantic lyricism of the great Persian poet Hafiz (1315-1390) continues to be admired around the world. Recent exploration of that lyricism by Iranian...

Hardcover : $99.00 Buy	Patronage and Poetry in the Islamic World Social Mobility and Status in the Medieval Middle East and Central Asia Library of Middle East History Jocelyn Sharlet Tauris Academic Studies Arabic and Persian panegyric poetry was one of the most important genres of literature in the medieval Middle East and Central Asia. Jocelyn Sharlet argues...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	The Shipwrecked Sailor in Arabic and Western Literature Ibn Tufayl and His Influence on European Writers Library of Modern Middle East Studies #117 Mahmud Baroud Tauris Academic Studies From the ancient Egyptian tale of a Shipwrecked Sailor through to Sinbad and Robinson Crusoe, the stranded castaway living and philosophizing alone on a...

Trade Paperback : $42.00 Buy	The Role of the State in West Asia Transactions #14 Edited by Annika Rabo and Bo Utas I.B. Tauris/Swedish Research - Istanbul West and Central Asia have for centuries contributed to shaping the identity of Europe by constituting a significant other. This work looks at social, cultural...

Hardcover : $107.00 Buy	Beyond The Dunes An Anthology of Modern Saudi Literature Edited by Salma K. Jayyusi, Mansour al-Hazimi and Izzat Khattab I.B. Tauris This collection opens up the diverse and rich contemporary literature of Saudi Arabia to an English-speaking audience. Salma K Jayyusi, Mansour al-Hazimi and...

Hardcover : $79.00 Buy	The Art of Omar Khayyam Illustrating FitzGerald's Rubaiyat William Mason and Sandra Martin I.B. Tauris This book describes a phenomenon unique in publishing history -- a book of poetry, published anonymously nearly 150 years ago -- purporting to be the...

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Passenger to Teheran Vita Sackville-West; Introduction by Nigel Nicolson Tauris Parke Paperbacks In 1926 Vita Sackville-West travelled to Iran to visit her husband, Harold Nicolson, who was serving as a diplomat in Teheran. Her route was deliberately...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Sensibilities of the Islamic Mediterranean Self-Expression in a Muslim Culture from Post-Classical Times to the Present Day The Islamic Mediterranean Robin Ostle I.B. Tauris From the mountains of Lebanon to the shores of Turkey and North Africa, the Islamic Mediterranean has always been a dynamic cultural hub, where the stories and...

Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	The Secret of Laughter Magical Tales from Classical Persia Shusha Guppy Tauris Parke Paperbacks Shusha Guppy, editor of The London Paris Review and prize winning author, narrates this unique collection of Persian stories that have been handed down through...

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