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Histoires Grecques
Maurice Sartre
Translated by Catherine Porter
Hardcover January 2009
Arab-Byzantine Coins
Clive Foss
Paperback November 2008
Lighting in Early Byzantium
Laskarina Bouras
Maria Parani
Paperback November 2008
Everyday Jihad
Bernard Rougier
Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh
As southern Lebanon becomes the latest battleground for Islamist warriors, Rougier plunges us into the heavily populated Palestinian refugee camp at Ain al-Helweh, which became a site for militant Sunni Islamists in the early 1990s. Rougier documents how Sunni fundamentalists, through their own interpretations of sacred texts and jihad, took root in this Palestinian milieu, and explains how radical religious allegiances overcome traditional nationalist sentiment in communities marked by poverty and despair.
Paperback October 2008
Sowing the Dragon's Teeth
Eric McGeer
The military achievements of the emperors Nikephoros Phokas, John Tzimiskes, and Basil II brought the Byzantine Empire to the height of its power by the early eleventh century. This volume presents new editions and translations of two military treatises–the Praecepta militaria of Nikephoros Phokas and the revised version included in the Taktika of Nikephoros Ouranos.
Paperback September 2008
Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety
Daphna Ephrat
Paperback September 2008
Jerusalem
Simon Goldhill
Jerusalem is more than a tourist site—it is a city where every square mile is layered with historical significance, religious intensity, and extraordinary stories. It is a past marked by three great forces: religion, war, and monumentality. In this book, Goldhill takes on this peculiar archaeology of human imagination, hope, and disaster to provide a tour through the history of this most image-filled and ideology-laden city.
Hardcover May 2008
Al Qaeda in Its Own Words
Edited by Gilles Kepel
Edited by Jean-Pierre Milelli
Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh
Introduction and notes by Thomas Hegghammer
Introduction and notes by Stephane Lacroix
Introduction and notes by Jean-Pierre Milelli
Introduction and notes by Omar Saghi
To reveal Al Qaeda’s inner workings, Gilles Kepel and his collaborators, all scholars of Arabic and Islam, have collected and brilliantly annotated key texts of the major figures from whom the movement has drawn its beliefs and direction. The resulting volume offers an unprecedented glimpse into the assumptions of the salafist jihadists who have reshaped political life at the beginning of the third millennium.
Hardcover April 2008
The Quest for Democracy in Iran
Fakhreddin Azimi
The Constitutional Revolution of 1906 launched Iran as a pioneer in a broad-based movement to establish democratic rule in the non-Western world. In a book that provides essential context for understanding modern Iran, Azimi traces a century of struggle for the establishment of representative government.
Hardcover April 2008
The Economic History of Byzantium
Edited by Angeliki E. Laiou
Paperback March 2008
Holon
Michael Chazan
Liora Kolska Horwitz
Excavations at the open-air site of Holon, carried out by Tamar Noy between 1963 and 1970, were some of the first successful salvage projects in the region. This volume brings together the results of interdisciplinary research on the site of Holon--geology, dating, archaeology, paleontology, taphonomy, and spatial analysis--by a team of leading international researchers. This book will be an essential point of reference for students and specialists working in the archaeology of human evolution.
Paperback January 2008
The Middle East under Rome
Maurice Sartre
Translated by Catherine Porter
Translated by Elizabeth Rawlings
Sartre has written a long overdue and comprehensive history of the Semitic Near East (modern Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel) from the eve of the Roman conquest to the end of the third century C.E. and the dramatic rise of Christianity. His broad yet finely detailed perspective takes in all aspects of this history, not just the political and military, but economic, social, cultural, and religious developments as well.
Paperback October 2007
From Egypt to Babylon
Paul Collins
Hardcover October 2007
That the World May Know
James Dawes
What can we do to prevent more atrocities from happening in the future, and to stop the ones that are happening right now? That the World May Know tells the powerful and moving story of the successes and failures of the modern human rights movement. Drawing on firsthand accounts from fieldworkers around the world, the book gives a painfully clear picture of the human cost of confronting inhumanity in our day.
Hardcover September 2007
Everyday Jihad
Bernard Rougier
Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh
As southern Lebanon becomes the latest battleground for Islamist warriors, Rougier plunges us into the heavily populated Palestinian refugee camp at Ain al-Helweh, which became a site for militant Sunni Islamists in the early 1990s. Rougier documents how Sunni fundamentalists, through their own interpretations of sacred texts and jihad, took root in this Palestinian milieu, and explains how radical religious allegiances overcome traditional nationalist sentiment in communities marked by poverty and despair.
Hardcover May 2007