Technology, Tradition and Survival: Aspects of Material Culture in the Middle East and Central Asia (History and Society in the Islamic World)

The participants handle the historical past, originality, style and class of conventional technological know-how, expertise and fabric tradition within the center East and important Asia, their impression at the background of Europe and the West, and the danger posed via glossy Western technologies.

Palestine and Israel in the 19th and 20th Centuries

First released in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Medieval Persia 1040-1797

Medieval Persia 1040-1797 charts the impressive historical past of Persia from its conquest by means of the Muslim Arabs within the 7th century advert to the trendy interval on the finish of the eighteenth century, whilst the effect of the west turned pervasive. David Morgan argues that knowing this advanced interval of Persia’s background is essential to figuring out glossy Iran and its major function at the overseas scene.

1001: Persiranian Stories of Love and Revenge

During this intimate and tumultuous ancient fiction, Iran performs a starring function lower than a degree identify, "Persiran. " We have interaction with its heritage via 3 generations of a vividly drawn aristocratic family members referred to as the Poonakis, starting with dual princes who're dedicated to one another, and finishing nowa days – after the Khomeini revolution – with one other set of dual brothers who're mortal enemies.