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New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

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Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, “Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2016)
2016/11/6

How did the preeminent theorist and philosopher Michel Foucault experience and observe the Iranian r

Nile Green, “Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam” (Oxford UP, 2015)
2016/10/17

The historical convergence of European imperialism and technological innovation in communication and

Ahmed Ragab, “The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, Charity” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
2016/9/21

In his shining new book The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, and Charity (Cambridge Un

Sarah Abrevaya Stein, “Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century” (U. of Chicago Press, 2016)
2016/9/19

Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s rich new book, Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews,

Miki Kratsman with Ariella Azoulay, “The Resolution of the Suspect” (Radius Books, 2016)
2016/8/30

The Resolution of the Suspect by Israeli photographer Miki Kratsman, with text by Ariella Azoulay, i

Anders Ingram, “Writing the Ottomans: Turkish History in Early Modern England” (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015)
2016/8/22

You read a lot about “Orientalism,” that is, the often odd ways in which Westerners tried to underst

Paul M. Cobb, “The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades” (Oxford UP, 2014)
2016/7/25

The Crusades loom large in contemporary popular consciousness. However, our public understanding has

Vanessa Ogle, “The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950” (Harvard UP, 2015)
2016/7/13

From the 1880s onward, Beirut-based calendars and almanacs were in high demand as they packaged at l

Reza Zarghamee, “Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World” (Mage Pub, 2013)
2016/7/5

From his modest beginnings in southern Iran, the Persian king Cyrus II went on to conquer three of t

Elizabeth Hurd, “Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion” (Princeton UP, 2015)
2016/6/27

Among the most frequent demands made of Islam and Muslims today is to become more moderate. But what

Bard Kartveit, “Dilemmas of Attachment: Identity and Belonging among Palestinian Christians” (Brill, 2014)
2016/6/18

Bard Kartveit‘s Dilemmas of Attachment: Identity and Belonging among Palestinian Christians (Brill,

Marc Lynch, “The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East” (PublicAffairs, 2016)
2016/6/13

Marc Lynch is the author of The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East (Public Affa

Eid Mohamed, “Arab Occidentalism: Images of America in the Middle East” (I.B. Tauris, 2015)
2016/6/2

Edward Said’s 1978 book, Orientalism, dramatically shifted how people think about the production of

Irene L. Gendzier, “Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East” (Columbia UP, 2015)
2016/5/18

In Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East (Co

Dana Sajdi, “The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant” (Stanford UP, 2012)
2016/5/16

In her stunning new book The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman

Asma Afsaruddin, “Contemporary Issues in Islam” (Edinburgh UP, 2015)
2016/5/4

As the title of the monograph suggests, Contemporary Issues in Islam (Edinburgh University Press, 20

Hillel Cohen, “Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929” (Brandeis UP, 2015)
2016/4/27

In Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929 (Brandeis University Press, 2015), Hillel Cohen, seni

Kenneth Garden, “The First Islamic Reviver: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and his Revival of the Religious Sciences” (Oxford UP, 2014)
2016/3/21

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 1111) is one of the most famous Muslim thinkers in history. His autobiograp

Jason Mokhtarian, “Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests: The Culture of the Talmud in Ancient Iran” (U of California Press, 2015)
2016/2/22

In Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests: The Culture of the Talmud in Ancient Iran (University of C

Kishwar Rizvi, “The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East” (UNC Press, 2015)
2016/2/8

In her excellent new book The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contem