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Gilgamesh

A New Translation of the Ancient Epic

by Sophus Helle ...

A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic graceGilgamesh is a Babylonian epic from three thousand years ago, which tells of King Gilgamesh’s deep love for the wild man Enkidu and his pursuit of immortality when Enkidu dies. It is a story about love between men, loss and grief, the confrontation with ... Read more

$16.19 USD

A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic graceGilgamesh is a Babylonian epic from three thousand years ago, which tells of King Gilgamesh’s deep love for the wild man Enkidu and his pursuit of immortality when Enkidu dies. It is a story about love between men, loss and grief, the confrontation with
... Read more
Ancient Egypt: Pyramids and Pharaohs

Egyptian Books for Kids

by Baby Professor ...

Series series Children's Ancient History Books
Bring ancient Egypt back to life with this fun educational book! What makes this book unique is that it tackles the subject of pharaohs and pyramids in a highly interactive way. There are only a handful of texts included so there’s more space for pictures, and the imagination. Go ahead and secure a copy of this learning resource today! ... Read more

$4.49 USD

Bring ancient Egypt back to life with this fun educational book! What makes this book unique is that it tackles the subject of pharaohs and pyramids in a highly interactive way. There are only a handful of texts included so there’s more space for pictures, and the imagination. Go ahead and secure a copy of this learning resource today!
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The Medes, the Persians and the Romans | Children's Middle Eastern History Books

by Baby Professor ...

History is a very interesting yet boring topic for most children. The reason is because they'll be reading about names, dates and events from the past. But history needs to be studied because many valuable lessons can be picked by just reviewing the events of the past. The decisions your child makes today could be indirectly influenced by the lessons learned from this Middle Eastern History Book. ... Read more

$3.59 USD

History is a very interesting yet boring topic for most children. The reason is because they'll be reading about names, dates and events from the past. But history needs to be studied because many valuable lessons can be picked by just reviewing the events of the past. The decisions your child makes today could be indirectly influenced by the lessons learned from this Middle Eastern History Book.
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ORTADOĞU’NUN NÂKIS AHENGİ

Ortadoğu Makaleleri-I

by Hüseyin Öztürk ...

Ortadoğu siyaseti 1900'lü yıllardan beri uluslararası ilişkilerin en hareketli ve en kırılgan unsurlarından biridir. Syces-Picot antlaşması, Balfour deklarasyon gibi Avrupalı düzenlemelerle bölgede suni şekilde bir yapı oluşturulmuştur. Ancak dekolonizasyon dönemiyle birlikte bölgede kendine özgü bir uyum meydana gelmiştir. Ancak bu uyumu pozitif manada algılamamak gerekir. Zira Ortadoğu'da ... Read more

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Ortadoğu siyaseti 1900'lü yıllardan beri uluslararası ilişkilerin en hareketli ve en kırılgan unsurlarından biridir. Syces-Picot antlaşması, Balfour deklarasyon gibi Avrupalı düzenlemelerle bölgede suni şekilde bir yapı oluşturulmuştur. Ancak dekolonizasyon dönemiyle birlikte bölgede kendine özgü bir uyum meydana gelmiştir. Ancak bu uyumu pozitif manada algılamamak gerekir. Zira Ortadoğu'da
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3rd Grade History: The Egyptian Civilization

Egyptian Books for Kids

by Baby Professor ...

Series series Children's Ancient History Books
Learn about the Egyptian civilization like you're actually there! That's the magic of carefully selected images that appropriately depict life way back then. Pictures tell a thousand stories therefore making learning a fun and visual experience. This book is the perfect companion of those text-heavy books used at school. Grab a copy of this interactive book today! ... Read more

$4.49 USD

Learn about the Egyptian civilization like you're actually there! That's the magic of carefully selected images that appropriately depict life way back then. Pictures tell a thousand stories therefore making learning a fun and visual experience. This book is the perfect companion of those text-heavy books used at school. Grab a copy of this interactive book today!
... Read more
DAVID OF SASSUN

NATIONAL EPOS OF ARMENIA

by F.B. Collins (Translator) ...

This volume is an essential reading for all who love literature, especially for those who would like to familiar themselves with the essence of the Armenian literature. The David of Sassoun (Sasountsi David - Սասունցի Դավիթ) heroic tail will bring back the nostalgic feelings associated with revisiting the Armenian classic literature. ... Read more

$3.59 USD

This volume is an essential reading for all who love literature, especially for those who would like to familiar themselves with the essence of the Armenian literature. The David of Sassoun (Sasountsi David - Սասունցի Դավիթ) heroic tail will bring back the nostalgic feelings associated with revisiting the Armenian classic literature.
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Kahlil Gibran

Man and Poet

by Suheil Bushrui, Joe Jenkins ...

The definitive biography of one of the world's most popular writersBushrui and Jenkins have produces a biography that meticulously explores the complex intricacies of this philosopher-poet. Offering fresh insights into his life, times and work, this unique book sets new criteria in evaluating Gibran. ... Read more

$7.99 USD

The definitive biography of one of the world's most popular writersBushrui and Jenkins have produces a biography that meticulously explores the complex intricacies of this philosopher-poet. Offering fresh insights into his life, times and work, this unique book sets new criteria in evaluating Gibran.
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Writers and Nations

The Case of American and Saudi Literatures

by Mohammed Ghazi Alghamdi ...

Writers and Nations:The Case of American and Saudi Literatures examines how the concept of the nation in nineteenth century American literature and twentieth century and contemporary Saudi Arabian literature is represented in an array of relevant works. Reading their works gives us a sense of their conceptions of nation as a political and/or a social community. Writers examined in this book often ... Read more

$76.58 USD

Writers and Nations:The Case of American and Saudi Literatures examines how the concept of the nation in nineteenth century American literature and twentieth century and contemporary Saudi Arabian literature is represented in an array of relevant works. Reading their works gives us a sense of their conceptions of nation as a political and/or a social community. Writers examined in this book often
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Iran and the West

Cultural Perceptions from the Sasanian Empire to the Islamic Republic

Edited by Margaux Whiskin, David Bagot ...

Since the age of the Sasanian Empire (224-651 AD), Iran and the West have time and again appeared to be at odds. Iran and the West charts this contentious and complex relationship by examining the myriad ways the two have perceived each other, from antiquity to today. Across disciplines, perspectives and periods contributors consider literary, imagined, mythical, visual, filmic, political and ... Read more

$34.28 USD

Since the age of the Sasanian Empire (224-651 AD), Iran and the West have time and again appeared to be at odds. Iran and the West charts this contentious and complex relationship by examining the myriad ways the two have perceived each other, from antiquity to today. Across disciplines, perspectives and periods contributors consider literary, imagined, mythical, visual, filmic, political and
... Read more
A History of Ottoman Poetry

Volume III - 1520-1600

by E. J. W. Gibb ...

Series series Gibb Memorial Trust Turkish Studies
The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.J.W. Gibb’s devotion to Ottoman Turkish literature. By the time of his early death in 1901 only the first volume had appeared in print. The remainder was almost complete and was seen through the press by Gibb’s friend and literary executor, the Persian scholar E. G. Browne. The ... Read more

$12.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.J.W. Gibb’s devotion to Ottoman Turkish literature. By the time of his early death in 1901 only the first volume had appeared in print. The remainder was almost complete and was seen through the press by Gibb’s friend and literary executor, the Persian scholar E. G. Browne. The
... Read more
A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature

by David Tresilian ...

Modern Arabic literature remains little known and poorly understood despite growing curiosity among European readers. This brief introduction offers a unique overview, focusing on developments over the last fifty years. It provides a guide to the literary landscape, indicating the major landmarks in the shape of authors, ideas and debates. The picture that emerges shows that the literature of the ... Read more

$7.73 USD

Modern Arabic literature remains little known and poorly understood despite growing curiosity among European readers. This brief introduction offers a unique overview, focusing on developments over the last fifty years. It provides a guide to the literary landscape, indicating the major landmarks in the shape of authors, ideas and debates. The picture that emerges shows that the literature of the
... Read more
Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture

Essays by Hamid Dabashi

Edited by Hamid Keshmirshekan ...

"Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture: Essays by Hamid Dabashi" is a collection of writings by the acclaimed cultural critic and scholar. A thorough Introduction rigorously frames chapters and identifies in Dabashi’s writings a comprehensive approach, which forms the criteria for selecting the essays for the volume. The Introduction also teases out of these essays the overarching ... Read more

$25.91 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture: Essays by Hamid Dabashi" is a collection of writings by the acclaimed cultural critic and scholar. A thorough Introduction rigorously frames chapters and identifies in Dabashi’s writings a comprehensive approach, which forms the criteria for selecting the essays for the volume. The Introduction also teases out of these essays the overarching
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Toward a Critical Rhetoric on the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Edited by Matthew Abraham ...

This edited collection brings together a group of rhetoricians seeking to develop productive ways to discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict,while avoiding the discursive impasses that so often derail attempts to exchange points of view. ... Read more

$12.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This edited collection brings together a group of rhetoricians seeking to develop productive ways to discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict,while avoiding the discursive impasses that so often derail attempts to exchange points of view.
... Read more
A History of Ottoman Poetry

Volume I - 1300-1450

by E. J. W. Gibb ...

Series series Gibb Memorial Trust Turkish Studies
The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.J.W. Gibb’s devotion to Ottoman Turkish literature. By the time of his early death in 1901 only the first volume had appeared in print. The remainder was almost complete and was seen through the press by Gibb’s friend and literary executor, the Persian scholar E. G. Browne. The ... Read more

$12.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.J.W. Gibb’s devotion to Ottoman Turkish literature. By the time of his early death in 1901 only the first volume had appeared in print. The remainder was almost complete and was seen through the press by Gibb’s friend and literary executor, the Persian scholar E. G. Browne. The
... Read more
A History of Ottoman Poetry

Volume II - 1450-1520

by E. J. W. Gibb ...

Series series Gibb Memorial Trust Turkish Studies
The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.J.W. Gibb’s devotion to Ottoman Turkish literature. By the time of his early death in 1901 only the first volume had appeared in print. The remainder was almost complete and was seen through the press by Gibb’s friend and literary executor, the Persian scholar E. G. Browne. The ... Read more

$12.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.J.W. Gibb’s devotion to Ottoman Turkish literature. By the time of his early death in 1901 only the first volume had appeared in print. The remainder was almost complete and was seen through the press by Gibb’s friend and literary executor, the Persian scholar E. G. Browne. The
... Read more
Bookless in Baghdad

Reflections on Writing and Writers

by Shashi Tharoor ...

Shashi Tharoor is once again at his provocative best. In the title essay, we learn the steep price paid by some Iraqis just to obtain a book; what does it mean when selling books, essentially selling culture, out of one’s own library is the only way to put bread on the table? Later, Tharoor reminisces about growing up with books in India and the central position of classics like the Mahabharata in ... Read more

$10.99 USD

Shashi Tharoor is once again at his provocative best. In the title essay, we learn the steep price paid by some Iraqis just to obtain a book; what does it mean when selling books, essentially selling culture, out of one’s own library is the only way to put bread on the table? Later, Tharoor reminisces about growing up with books in India and the central position of classics like the Mahabharata in
... Read more
The Lions' Den

Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky

by Susie Linfield ...

A lively intellectual history that explores how prominent midcentury public intellectuals approached Zionism and then the State of Israel itself and its conflicts with the Arab worldIn this lively intellectual history of the political Left, cultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent twentieth-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism, and then with Israel ... Read more

$21.05 USD

A lively intellectual history that explores how prominent midcentury public intellectuals approached Zionism and then the State of Israel itself and its conflicts with the Arab worldIn this lively intellectual history of the political Left, cultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent twentieth-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism, and then with Israel
... Read more
A History of Ottoman Poetry

Volume IV - 1700-1850

by E. J. W. Gibb ...

Series series Gibb Memorial Trust Turkish Studies
The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.J.W. Gibb’s devotion to Ottoman Turkish literature. By the time of his early death in 1901 only the first volume had appeared in print. The remainder was almost complete and was seen through the press by Gibb’s friend and literary executor, the Persian scholar E. G. Browne. The ... Read more

$12.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.J.W. Gibb’s devotion to Ottoman Turkish literature. By the time of his early death in 1901 only the first volume had appeared in print. The remainder was almost complete and was seen through the press by Gibb’s friend and literary executor, the Persian scholar E. G. Browne. The
... Read more
A Sea of Languages

Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History

Edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Karla Mallette ...

Medieval European literature was once thought to have been isolationist in its nature, but recent scholarship has revealed the ways in which Spanish and Italian authors – including Cervantes and Marco Polo – were influenced by Arabic poetry, music, and philosophy. A Sea of Languages brings together some of the most influential scholars working in Muslim-Christian-Jewish cultural communications ... Read more

$54.44 USD

Medieval European literature was once thought to have been isolationist in its nature, but recent scholarship has revealed the ways in which Spanish and Italian authors – including Cervantes and Marco Polo – were influenced by Arabic poetry, music, and philosophy. A Sea of Languages brings together some of the most influential scholars working in Muslim-Christian-Jewish cultural communications
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Strange Times, My Dear

The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature

Edited by Nahid Mozaffari, Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak ...

When Arcade Publishing originally contracted this extraordinary collection of poetry and literature, the Department of the Treasury was attempting to censor the publication of works from countries on America’s “enemies list.” Arcade, along with the PEN American Center, the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, and the Association of American University ... Read more

$11.99 USD

When Arcade Publishing originally contracted this extraordinary collection of poetry and literature, the Department of the Treasury was attempting to censor the publication of works from countries on America’s “enemies list.” Arcade, along with the PEN American Center, the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, and the Association of American University
... Read more
Love at a Crux

The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages

by Cameron Cross ...

Love at a Crux presents the emergence of versified love stories in the New Persian language as a crucial event in the history of romance. Using the tale of Vis & Rāmin (w. 1054) as its focal point, the book explores how Persian court poets in the eleventh century reconfigured "myths" and "fables" from the distant past in ways that transformed the love story from a form of evening entertainment to ... Read more

$80.99 USD

Love at a Crux presents the emergence of versified love stories in the New Persian language as a crucial event in the history of romance. Using the tale of Vis & Rāmin (w. 1054) as its focal point, the book explores how Persian court poets in the eleventh century reconfigured "myths" and "fables" from the distant past in ways that transformed the love story from a form of evening entertainment to
... Read more
Knights in Arms

Prose Romance, Masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean Trade in Early Modern England, 1565-1655

by Goran Stanivukovic ...

Drawing from medieval chivalric culture, the prose romance was a popular early modern genre featuring stories of courtship, combat, and travel. Flourishing at the same moment as the growing English trade with the Eastern Mediterranean, prose romances adopted both Eastern settings and new conceptions of masculinity – commercial rather than chivalric, erotic rather than militant.Knights in Arms ... Read more

$50.57 USD

Drawing from medieval chivalric culture, the prose romance was a popular early modern genre featuring stories of courtship, combat, and travel. Flourishing at the same moment as the growing English trade with the Eastern Mediterranean, prose romances adopted both Eastern settings and new conceptions of masculinity – commercial rather than chivalric, erotic rather than militant.Knights in Arms
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On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy (Golden Deer Classics)

by Ibn Rushd, Averroës, Averroes ...

In this treatise Ibn Rushd (Averroes) sets out to show that the Scriptural Law (shar') of Islam does not altogether prohibit the study of philosophy by Muslims, but, on the contrary, makes it a duty for a certain class of people, those with the capacity for "demonstrative" or scientific reasoning. Apparent conflicts between the teachings of Scripture and philosophy can be reconciled by allegorical ... Read more

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In this treatise Ibn Rushd (Averroes) sets out to show that the Scriptural Law (shar') of Islam does not altogether prohibit the study of philosophy by Muslims, but, on the contrary, makes it a duty for a certain class of people, those with the capacity for "demonstrative" or scientific reasoning. Apparent conflicts between the teachings of Scripture and philosophy can be reconciled by allegorical
... Read more
The Secrets of the Self

by Muhammad Iqbal ...

The Secrets of the Selfby Muhammad Iqbal, tr. by Reynold A. NicholsonA philosophical poem by the intellectual founder of the nation of Pakistan.Asrar I Khudi. The form of existence is an effect of the Self. Whatsoever thou seest is a secret of the Self.The Asrár-i Khudí was first published at Lahore in 1915. I read it soon afterwards and thought so highly of it that I wrote to Iqbal, whom I had ... Read more

$2.69 USD

The Secrets of the Selfby Muhammad Iqbal, tr. by Reynold A. NicholsonA philosophical poem by the intellectual founder of the nation of Pakistan.Asrar I Khudi. The form of existence is an effect of the Self. Whatsoever thou seest is a secret of the Self.The Asrár-i Khudí was first published at Lahore in 1915. I read it soon afterwards and thought so highly of it that I wrote to Iqbal, whom I had
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