Category: Middle East

Islam and the Middle East: The Aesthetics of a Political Inquiry (Research Monographs, No. 2)

By: Abul-Fadl, Mona

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) : 1990

Seller ID: 31668

ISBN-13: 9780912463742

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. This monograph addresses the inadequacy and validity of existing theoretical perspectives on the Middle East. The critique presented offers Islam as a unifying constant rather than a sporadic phenomenon correlated to the flux of social, political and economic conditions and argues that Islam should be conceptually incorporated into any analysis of the region. Index. 61p. Measures 6x9 inches.
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Amnesty International Now: Iraq: Life in the Shadow of War (Spring 2003)

By: Amnesty International

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Amnesty International : 2003

Seller ID: 23616

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Previous owner's name printed on back. Illustrated. Features Iraq. Also the conversion of Gov. Ryan on the death penalty, the firewall of China, political profiling, and more. 30p.
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Fractured Lands

By: Anderson, Scott

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: New York Times : 2016

Seller ID: 26030

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket. 104p. Measures 9.5x11 inches. Photography by Paolo Pellegrin.

Tells the catastrophic story of how the Arab world has descended into chaos since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Includes personal stories and haunting black and white photographs.
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Aramco World (Vol. 49, No. 1, January/February 1998)

By: Arndt, Robert (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Aramco World : 1998

Seller ID: 14078

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Good

Unmarked. Small tear on cover. Features "Lebanon's Renaissance of the Arts" by Sarah Gauch. Also articles on the Muslim communities of Tibet, the new generation in the Middle East, growing numbers of books for Muslim children and the poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye.
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Dishonest Broker: The Role of the United States in Palestine and Israel

By: Aruri, Naseer H.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: South End Press : 2003

Seller ID: 29941

ISBN-13: 9780896086876

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Argues that the U.S. rejectionist policy toward Palestinian participation and Palestinian rights has become a policy that focuses more on the process than on peace. 265p. Appendix: Settlements and Settler in the West Bank, 1967-2001.
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Israel Exploration Journal (Vol 19, No. 2, 1969)

By: Avi-Yonah, M. (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Jerusalem, Israel, Israel Exploration Journal : 1969

Seller ID: 28713

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked. Bend and tanning on cover. pp65130. Illustrated with ten plates plus drawings and tables. Articles include "Tell Turmus in the Huleh Valley" by Y. Dayan, "Source Areas for Obsidian Recovered at Munhata, Beisamoun, Hazorea and El-Khiam" by G.A. Wright and A.A. Gordus, "Seal-Impressions from Tomb 107 at Kurnub (Mampsis)" by A. Negev, and more.
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Israel Exploration Journal (Vol 19, No. 4, 1969)

By: Avi-Yonah, M. (editor)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Jerusalem, Israel, Israel Exploration Journal : 1969

Seller ID: 23472

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked. Illustrated. Some tanning around the edges. pp193-234.

Includes "Excavations in the area of the ancient synagogue at Gaza (preliminary report)" by Ovadiah, the 'Periphrastic Imperative" in Aramaic and Hebrew" by Greenfield, "A Note on an Inscription from Kurnub" by Mann, "Tracian Units in the Royal Army" by Jarret, and "Remarques sur le changement de statut administratif de la province de Judee…" by Pflaum.
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Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here (June - September 2013)

By: Beausoleil, Beau; Bodman, Sarah

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Center for the Books, NYC : 2013

Seller ID: 29414

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

A few marks in the introduction. Beautifully illustrated. Measures 6.75x9.25 inches. Includes artists' responses to the tragic loss of a cultural and intellectual hub in Baghdad that occurred as the result of a bomb explosion on March 5, 2007.

Artists include Laurie Alpert, Guy Begbie, Ama Bolton, Cathy Deforest, Barbara Hosein, Susan Newmark, Roni Someck, and others.
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Journal of Near Eastern Studies (Vol 42, April 1983, No. 2)

By: Biggs, Robert D. (editor)

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : 1983

Seller ID: 28697

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Illustrated. pp85-165.

Includes "Structuralist Interpretations of Pre-Islamic Poetry: Critique and New Directions" by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, "Omen Texts Concerning Lesser Known Parts of the Lungs" by Ivan Starr, "Wall Paintings from Dur Kurigalzu" by Yoko Tomabechi, "Parallels between the Gilgamesh Epic and Plato's Symposium" by George F. Held, and Book Reviews.
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Journal of Near Eastern Studies (Vol 43, April 1984, No 2)

By: Biggs, Robert D. (editor)

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : 1984

Seller ID: 28696

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Illustrated. pp89-168.

Articles include "You Can't offer your sacrifice and Eat it too: A polemical poem from the Aramaic text in Demotic Script" by Steiner and Nims, "New Evidence for the History of Astrology" by Rochberg-Halton, "The Travels of the Ark: A Religio-Political Composition" by Ahlstrom, "A Marriage Deed from 'Wardunia of Baghdad'" by Golb, "Muhammad Iqbal and Ataturk's Reforms" by Rahman, and book reviews.
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Journal of Near Eastern Studies (Vol 43, July 1984, No 3)

By: Biggs, Robert D. (editor)

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : 1984

Seller ID: 32968

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A few pencil marks in the books received section. Illustrated. pp169-262.

Articles topics include Brinkman on Mesopotamia; Donner on early Arabic inscriptions from Al-Hanakiyya; Ritner on a Uterine amulet in the Oriental Institute Collection; Killean on the development of Western grammars of Arabic; Zittler on the small shrine of Enlil at Nippur; Pardee on three Ugaritic tablet joins; and Whiting on a copper coin of Al-Muzaffar II Mahmud of Hamuh.
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Journal of Near Eastern Studies (Vol 44, April 1985, No. 2)

By: Biggs, Robert D. (editor)

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : 1985

Seller ID: 25007

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Reviews. pp81-163.

Articles include Turkish Mosque Orientation and the Secular Variation of the Magnetic Declination by Frank E. Barmore; A Comparison of the Arabic and Earlier Egyptian Contract Formularies, Part II: Terminology; Correspondences osiriennes entre les temples d'Opet et de Khonsou by Jean Claude Degardin; A propos de l'origine du nom de la Syrie by Christian Cannuyer; Hittite hashas by Charles Carter; The Significance of Aramaic 4<*n.
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Journal of Near Eastern Studies (Vol 47, April 1988, No. 4)

By: Biggs, Robert D. (editor)

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : 1988

Seller ID: 25004

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Illustrated. Book Reviews. pp81-157.Articles include: Urbanization and the Organization of Animal Production at Tell Jemmeh in the Middle Bronze Age Levant by Paula Wapnish and Brian Hesse; New Light on the Lunar Crescent Visibility Table of Ya'qub ibn Tariq by Jan P. Hogendijk; A Comparison of Arabic and Early Egyptian Contract Formularies, Part III: The Idiom of Satisfaction by Gladys Frantz-Murphy; A New Manuscript Join in the "Festival of Wood Offering (Temple Scroll XXIII) by Michael O. Wise; A Mathematical Approach to Certain Dynastic Spans in the Sumerian King List by Dwight D...
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Journal of Near Eastern Studies (Vol 47, January 1988, No. 1)

By: Biggs, Robert D. (editor)

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : 1988

Seller ID: 25073

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Illustrated. Book Reviews. 80p.

Articles include: Shah Wali Allah's Theory of the Subtle Spiritual Centers (Lata'if): A Sufi Model of Personhood and Self-Transformation by Marcia K. Hermansen; MLS HKRSYM in Phoenician Inscriptions from Cyprus, the QRSY in Arad, HKRSYM in Egypt, and BNY QYRS in the Bible by Yosel Garfinkel; A New Engraved Tridacna Shell from Kish by David S. Reese; The Historical Setting of the Uruk Prophecy by Jonathan A. Goldstein.
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Our Visit to Jerusalem

By: Bishko, Herbert

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Jerusalem, Palphot Ltd : nd

Seller ID: 28800

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked. Some age tanning. Map. Colored images throughout. This undated booklet was published after 1969. 38p.
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam

By: Bowden, Mark

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press : 2006

Seller ID: 33041

ISBN-13: 9780871139252

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. Map. Notes. Index. 680p. Measures 6.25x9.5 inches.

A riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle with militant Islam.
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Card: Reuven Cohen: Roy (detail)

By: Cohen, Reuven

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: Herzliya Museum of Art : 1996

Seller ID: 33439

Binding: Card

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Card issued by the Herzliya Museum of Art. Text in Hebrew and English. Pictures a detail of "Roy," 1996. Measures 5.5x8 inches.

Reuven Cohen, a self-taught artist, was born in 1965 in Tel Aviv.
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International Journal of Middle East Studies (Volume 34, May 2002, No. 2)

By: Cole, Juan R. I. (editor)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : 2002

Seller ID: 22712

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Some crinkling on cover. Special Issue: Nationalism and the Colonial Legacy in the Middle East and Central Asia.

Contributors include Juan R. I. Cole and Deniz Kandiyoti, Sami Zubaida, Mohamad Tavakok-Targi, Nadira A. Abdurakhimova, Marianne Kamp, Anthony Hyman, Alisher Ilkhamov, Busra Ersanli, Tyntchtykbek Tchoroev, and others.

Topics include identity and the colonial experience, Nationalism and Post-colonialism, etc.
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Stranger in Paradise: A Memoir

By: Dashti, Sayeh

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: National Library of Iran : 2000

Seller ID: 32645

ISBN-13: 9789649279138

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. 211p. Sayeh Dashti's life mirrors Iran's struggles and her experiences of moving back and forth between the US and Iran at the end of the 20th century.
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Treasures from the Holy Land: Ancient Art from the Israel Museum

By: Dever, William G.; Tadmor, Miriam; Israeli, Yael

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art : 1986

Seller ID: 30467

ISBN-13: 9780870994715

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Illustrated in color and black/white. Maps. Objects range from prehistory to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Chronology. Schematic drawings of seal impressions. Bibliography. 280p.
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Beitrage zur physischen Geographie Irans

By: Ehlers, Eckart (Hrsg.)

Price: $28.00 USD

Publisher: Marburg/Lahn : Im Selbstverlag des Geographischen Instituts der Universitat : 1974

Seller ID: 27554

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Ex-library. 116p. illustrations, maps. 116+pp. References. Text in German.
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Pocket Book of Luxor Museum

By: el-Shahawy, Abeer

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Abydos Publications : 2009

Seller ID: 32473

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Diagram of the temple. Text in English. Color plates. Glossary of Ancient Egypt terms. Bibliography. 192p. Measures 6.25 inches square.

Luxor Museum is an archaeological museum in Luxor, Egypt. It stands on the corniche, overlooking the west bank of the River Nile. Items include grave goods from the tomb of the 18th dynasty pharaoh Tutankhamun and a collection of 26 New Kingdom statues and more.
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Islamic Art

By: Ettinghauseun, Richard

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art : 1972

Seller ID: 25621

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Lavishly illustrated. Map. Unpaginated. 8.5x11 inches.

Discusses art in the New York Metropolitan Museum collection and provides an overview of Islamic art.
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Tutankhamun and the African Heritage: A View of Society in the Time of the Boy King

By: Fazzini, Richard

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art : 1978

Seller ID: 18384

ISBN-13: 9780870991875

Binding: Booklet (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Exhibition booklet. Map. Chronology. B/W and color reproductions with descriptive paragraphs on the illustrated objects. References.16p. Measures 11 x 7.5 inches.
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Brau Bhum in Mughal Times: The State, Peasants and Gosa'ins

By: Habib, Irfan; Mukherjee, Tarapada

Price: $24.00 USD

Publisher: Primus Books : 2020

Seller ID: 33680

ISBN-13: 9789389850222

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Some smudging on back of dust jacket. Dust jacket under clear mylar cover. Illustrated end papers. 4 maps. Bibliography. Index. 286p. Measures 6.25x9.5 inches.

Presents conditions of life of the ordinary people in a small region of the Mughal Empire from about the accession of Akbar (1556) to the collapse of Mughal power (1739). Uses a mass of privately preserved documents in Persian and Braj, along with historical texts, travel accounts, etc.
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Category: Middle East