Spring / Summer 2025
& Ziv Rubinovitz
Middle East Studies
Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt Peace Process
Between Ideology and Political Realism
Gerald M. Steinberg
Focusing on the personality of Menachem Begin, Steinberg and Rubinovitz offer a new look into the peace negotiations between Israel and Egypt in the 1970s.
Perspectives on Israel Studies
07 January 2025 282pp
9780253071279 £21.99 / $28.00 NIP
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Time beneath the Concrete
Palestine between Camp and Colony
Nasser Abourahme
Taking as his primary object Palestinian refugee camps, created in the fallout of the eliminatory violence of Israel’s founding, Abourahme shows how these camps become the primary place where settler colonial attempts to dominate space and time encounter Indigenous refusal.
25 February 2025 248pp 14 illus
9781478031444
£21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478028239 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Islamists in a Zionist Coalition
The Political and Religious Origins
Uriya Shavit
This book argues that while the decision of the United Arab List to join a Zionist coalition led to dramatic consequences, it was grounded in decades of religious writings that prepared the ground for its legitimization, and aligned with a political orientation with which significant segments of the Arab population identified since the founding of the modern state of Israel.
11 March 2025 194pp
9781978842748
£25.99 / $32.95 PB 9781978842755
£100.00 / $120.00 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Palestinian National Revival
In the Shadow of the Leadership Crisis, 1937–1967
Moshe Shemesh
Former Israeli intelligence officer Moshe Shemesh offers a fresh understanding of the complex history and politics of the Middle East in this new analysis of the Palestinian national movement. With unprecedented access to Arabic sources, Shemesh provides new perspectives on interArab politics and the history of the intractable Arab-Israeli conflict.
Perspectives on Israel Studies
07 January 2025 340pp 9780253071743 £27.99 / $35.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Longing and Belonging
Jews in the Modern Islamic World
Edited by Nancy E. Berg & Dina Danon
Just as much as the Sephardi and Mizrahi experience complicates prevailing paradigms in the study of Jewish modernity, so too does it enrich understandings of modernity across Muslim societies. The volume tells a story of longing, belonging, and longing to belong, of multiple affinities in a world that no longer exists.
Jewish Culture and Contexts
25 February 2025 288pp
9781512827118 £54.00 / $64.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Occasions for Poetry
Politics, Literature, and Imagination Among the Early Modern Ottomans
Oscar AguirreMandujano
Placing Ottoman court poetry in its social and historical context, Oscar AguirreMandujano argues that poetry functioned as a political act. AguirreMandujano examines the occasions that compelled the Ottomans to compose poetry, to present it to their superiors, to share it with their peers, and to spend considerable efforts and time to make poetry often and to make it well.
25 March 2025 240pp
9781512827309 £67.00 / $79.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Lingua Ex Machina
Media in the Revitalization of Modern Hebrew
Ido Ramati
After lying dormant for two millennia as a mainly written language, Hebrew awoke from its literary slumber to become a living modern vernacular. This revitalization is unique and unprecedented in world history, and its success has been studied in fields from linguistics to cultural history. However, the role of modern technologies in mediating this revival has not yet been considered.
Jewish Culture and Contexts
11 February 2025 280pp 9781512826531 £54.00 / $64.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979
Talinn Grigor & Houri Berberian
With this book, Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor offer the first history of Armenian women in modern Iran. Foregrounding the work of Armenian women's organizations, the authors trace minoritarian politics and the shifting relationships among doubly minoritized Armenian female subjects, Iran's central nodes of power, and the IranoArmenian patriarchal institutions of church and political parties.
04 March 2025 418pp 50 halftones
9781503629417 £63.00 / $75.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
War in Syria and the Middle East
A Political and Economic History
Federico Manfredi Firmian
In War in Syria and the Middle East, Federico Manfredi Firmian uses historical, political, and economic lenses to examine how Syria’s civil war is part of a broad pattern of social breakdown increasingly prevalent across the Arab and Islamic worlds
01 April 2025 288pp 1 map
9781477331095 £54.00 / $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Wrong Winds
Ahmad Almallah
Writing during the first months of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, PalestinianAmerican poet Ahmad Almallah traverses European cities, Almallah encounters the impossibility of being a Palestinian, left alone in a world full of sympathizers and enemies. The poems in Wrong Winds discover the world again and form an impossible dialogue with the dead and dying.
07 April 2025 70pp
9781964499482 £13.99 / $17.95 PB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
I Want Golden Eyes
Maria Dadouch
Translated by M. Lynx Qualey & Sawad Hussain
A girl must save herself and her family after discovering her society's secrets in this sci-fi novel in translation. I Want Golden Eyes is set on the Comoros Islands at the end of this century in a futuristic city called Quartzia, the home of a genetically privileged minority called the Golden Eyes.
Emerging Voices from the Middle East 14 April 2025 128pp
9781477323359 £13.99 / $18.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Secrets I Won't Take with Me
Home, War, and the Struggle for Peace in Israel
Yossi Beilin
Yossi Beilin, a key Israeli political leader puts forward his riveting first-hand account of pivotal moments from recent Israeli history, including the Oslo Peace Accords, the founding of the Birthright Initiative, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the rise of the Israeli far right.
30 April 2025 360pp 16 images
9780817362027
£23.99 / $29.95 PB
9780817322304
£100.00 / $120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS
States Without People
Revolt and Defeat in the Middle East
Billie Jeanne Brownlee & Maziyar Ghiabi States Without People explores how revolts that preceded the outbreak of war in the Middle East have fostered a right-wing political culture. Brownlee and Ghiabi take readers into the phenomenological depths of citizen politics in Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Egypt, across the Arabian Peninsula, and beyond.
McGill-Queen's Studies in Protest, Power, and Resistance
07 April 2025 272pp 9780228024156 £32.00 / $39.95 PB MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Crisis and Crossfire
The United States and the Middle East Since 1945
Peter L. Hahn Traces the origins of the contemporary challenges facing the United States in the Middle East by analyzing the broad contours of U.S. policy in the region. Examines the U.S. approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict, exploring the interstate wars of the 194s–198s, the quests to make peace in the 197s–21s, and the enduring strife between Israel and Palestine.
20 April 2025 340pp 27 photos, 3 maps, index 9781640125773 £23.99 / $29.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
New Directions in Israeli Media
Film, Television, and Digital Content
Edited by Yaron Peleg, Eran Kaplan & Ido Rosen
In New Directions in Israeli Media, fourteen contributors detail the shifting dynamics of Israeli cinema, television, and online content in the digital age, exploring how globalization, technological advances, and changing audience preferences are reshaping creative industries.
06 May 2025 364pp 10 b&w photos
9781477331033 £46.00 / $55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Living On Psychiatry and the Future of Disaster in Turkey
Christopher T. Dole Living On not only offers insight into Turkey's transformations over the opening decades of the twenty-first century, but it also sheds light on a more general arrangement of disaster, governance, and medical expertise—one that increasingly characterizes our era of planetary ecological crisis.
08 April 2025 328pp 1 halftone
9781503642515 £24.99 / $32.00 PB
9781503641778 £108.00 / $130.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Negotiating ArabIsraeli Peace
Patterns, Problems, Possibilities
Laura Zittrain Eisenberg & Neil Caplan
By measuring contemporary diplomatic episodes against the pattern of counterproductive negotiating habits, Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace makes possible a coherent comparison of almost eighty years of Arab-Israeli negotiations and gives readers a framework with which to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of peace-making attempts in the past, present, and future.
22 April 2025 484pp 44 b&w illus., 13 maps, 9780253072559 £37.00 / $46.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
No Place for Grief
Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine Lotte Buch Segal Advances an understanding of loss, mourning, and grief in contemporary Palestine Westerners 'know' Palestine through images of war and people in immediate distress. No Place for Grief reveals a new language that describes the entanglement of absence and intimacy, endurance and everyday life, and advances an understanding of loss, mourning, and grief in contemporary Palestine.
The Ethnography of Political Violence
13 May 2025 224pp 1 b&w illus.
9781512827934 £19.99 / $24.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Mirages of Reform
The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World
Steve L. Monroe
Drawing on elite interviews, firm and industry-level data, and evidence from Jordan to Morocco, Mirages of Reform reveals how international and domestic factors interact to shape the Arab world's rugged trade policy terrain. Insightful and well researched, this book imparts important lessons and warnings about the reprecussions of economic reform in the region.
15 May 2025 246pp 1 chart, 10 graphs
9781501780608 £41.00 / $48.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Harvests
of Liberation
Cotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt
Ahmad Shokr
Ahmad Shokr tells a story of decolonization through the lens of cotton, Egypt's prized export. He follows a range of actors— colonial advisors, nationalist leaders, agrarian reformers, merchant-financiers, landowners, and rural workers—whose interactions moved the levers of the cotton trade from institutions that facilitated accumulation on an imperial scale to new sites of control within the nation-state.
20 May 2025 296pp 7 halftones, 1 map 9781503642799
£24.99 / $32.00 PB 9781503640085 £108.00 / $130.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Dread Heights
Tribulation and Refuge after the Syrian Revolution
Basit Kareem Iqbal
The Dread Heights details how the Islamic tradition guides refugees, relief workers, and religious scholars in a world of brutal sieges and mass displacement. Through an ethnography of religious imagination and theological argumentation, Iqbal demonstrates what is at stake beyond secular frames for migration and relief.
Thinking from Elsewhere
01 July 2025 304pp 4 b&w illus
9781531510329
£27.99 / $35.00 PB 9781531510312
£103.00 / $125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Heritage State
Religion and Preservation in Contemporary Qatar Trinidad Rico
Through an exploration of the rise of a powerful advocate for global and local heritage at the turn of the century in the State of Qatar, this book describes the possibilities for thinking about and acting on a heritage that expertly negotiates secular and religious contexts and purposes.
15 May 2025 192pp 10 b&w halftones
9781501781216 £32.00 / $37.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
On
the Semicivilized Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo
Julia Elyachar
Drawing on thirty years of ethnographic research in Cairo, family archives from Palestine and Egypt, and research on Ottoman debt and finance to rethink catastrophe and potentiality in Cairo and the world today, Elyachar offers a sweeping analysis of coloniality that shaped—and blocked—sovereign futures for those dubbed barbarian and semicivilized in the former Ottoman Empire.
31 May 2025 240pp 11 illus 9781478031901 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478028635 £86.00 / $102.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Tarab
Music, Ecstasy, Emotion, and Performance
Edited by Michael Frishkopf, Scott Marcus & Dwight Reynolds
In Arab culture, at the ineffable point where music meets emotion, lies ṭarab. Often glossed as the ecstasy experienced and expressed when performing or listening to singing, instrumental works, and recitations of poetry, ṭarab is both a practice and an orienting concept central to musical aesthetics and spirituality characteristic of Middle Eastern cultures.
22 July 2025 296pp 25 b&w photos 9781477331439 £50.00 / $60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
War on Sacred Grounds
Ron E. Hassner
In this updated edition, Hassner reevaluates his findings and conclusions and surveys ongoing conflicts over holy sites. He investigates the causes and properties of struggles, and proposes ways for managing these disputes. He also analyses successful compromises that reduced conflict in Jerusalem in 1967 and in Mecca in 1979.
Religion and Conflict
15 May 2025 258pp 14 b&w halftones
9781501780158 £24.99 / $31.95 PB
9781501780141 £108.00 / $130.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Fear in the Middle of a Vast Field
and Other Stories
Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa
Translated by Maisaa Tanjour
Edited by Alice Holttum
A selection of stories by Syrian author and playwright Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa about characters enduring the horrors of the Syrian civil war. It is a cry against fear and death as much as it is an ode and a homage to life and love in times of both war and peace.
Emerging Voices from the Middle East
03 June 2025 140pp 9781477331835 £13.99 / $18.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Agents of Change
American Jews and the Transformation of Israeli Judaism
Adam S. Ferziger
Shedding light on the impact of American migration in forming a burgeoning moderate religious direction in Israeli life that has challenged the hegemony of the long dominant direction within Religious Zionism, Agents of Change offers a fresh perspective on the multifaceted collaboration of ideas and practices that exists between Israel and America.
29 July 2025 336pp 19 b&w images, 2 tables 9781479817542 £32.00 / $39.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Making Levantine Cuisine
Modern
Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean
Edited by Anny Gaul, Graham Auman Pitts & Vicki Valosik
Akin to the region itself, the culinary repertoires that comprise Levantine cuisine endure and transform— are unified but not uniform. This book brings much-needed scholarly attention to the region’s culinary cultures while teasing apart the tangled histories and knotted migrations of food.
05 August 2025 248pp 1 map
9781477331880
£27.99 / $34.95 NIP UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
A Movement's Promise
The Making of Contemporary Palestinian Theater
Samer Al-Saber
With this book, Samer Al-Saber tells the story of the Palestinian Theater Movement over nearly three decades, as they created plays and productions that articulated versions of Palestinian identity, critiqued social norms, celebrated and extended Palestinian cultural values, and challenged the power disparity created by the Occupation.
26 August 2025 312pp 30 halftones
9781503643277 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9781503642584 £108.00 / $130.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contours of Israeli Politics
Jewish Ethnicity, Religious Nationalism, and Democracy
Hannah M. Ridge
The timely Contours of Israeli Politics focuses on the socio-political ramifications of this hierarchy within the upper stratum of Israeli society. Using public opinion studies and qualitative data, Hannah Ridge examines the effects of this social hierarchy to address attitudes on Israeli ethnicity and religious majoritarianism, support for Israeli democracy, and preference for an expanded territorial state and peace with its neighbors.
November 2024 210pp
9781439925843
£23.99 / $29.95 PB
9781439925836 £83.00 / $99.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Exile and the Nation
The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran
Afshin Marashi
Tracing the cultural and intellectual exchange between Iranian nationalists and the Parsi community during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Afshin Marashi shows how this interchange led to the collective reimagining of Parsi and Iranian national identity. This book reframes Iranian nationalism within the context of the modern era.
12 August 2025 328pp 36 b&w photos, 2 maps
9781477320808 £27.99 / $34.95 NIP UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Indigenous Affinities
Toward Solidarity Across the Global South
Amal Eqeiq
Inspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity and South-South encounters, Indigenous Affinities examines the multifaceted connection between Chiapas and Palestine. In tracing unseen threads that connect parallel geographies of struggle found in contemporary Mayan and Palestinian narratives, Indigenous Affinities proposes affinity as a new conceptual framework.
02 September 2025 224pp
9781531510282
£24.99 / $32.00 PB 9781531510275 £91.00 / $110.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Fabricating Homeland Security
Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel
Rhys Machold Homeland security is rarely just a matter of the homeland; it involves the circulation and multiplication of policing practices across borders. Though the term "homeland security" is closely associated with the United States, Israel is credited with first developing this all-encompassing approach to domestic surveillance and territorial control. Today, it is a central node in the sprawling global homeland security industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
South Asia in Motion
24 September 2024 372pp 29 halftones
9781503640719 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9781503639690 £116.00 / $140.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem
Frontier Inventiveness in the Age of the Crusades
Benjamin Z. Kedar Through stories of the lives of the kingdom's inhabitants, Kedar presents the remarkable creativity of the Franks in various fields as they faced challenges in new surroundings thousands of miles from their countries of origin. The culmination of Kedar's half-century of scholarship on the Crusades and the medieval Levant, it is an innovative history of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
15 August 2025 560pp 23 b&w images, 1 map
9781501781704 £28.99 / $34.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Recent Highlights
Capitalist Colonial
Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture
Matan Kaminer Kaminer's ethnography of the region and its people, argues that the paid and unpaid labor of Thai migrants has been essential to resolving the clashing demands of the bottom line and Zionist ideology here as elsewhere in Israel's farm sector. Kaminer's account mobilizes capitalism and colonialism as a combined analytical frame to comprehend the forms of domination prevailing in the Arabah.
26 November 2024 298pp
9781503641099
£23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503640511
£100.00 / $120.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sacred Places Tell Tales
Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo
Yoram Meital
Sacred Places Tell Tales narrates not only the past but also the unprecedented transformations that have occurred in recent years in Egypt. While only a handful of Jews live in Egypt, the preservation of Jewish heritage, first and foremost synagogues and cemeteries, enjoy a growing interest in public discourse and popular culture. This new desire to preserve Jewish heritage is inseparable from the ongoing public debate about Egyptian society, its characteristics, and its identity, past and present.
Jewish Culture and Contexts
09 July 2024 368pp
9781512825886 £54.00 / $64.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The Modern Israeli and Palestinian Diasporas
A Comparative Approach
Edited by Nahum Karlinsky
The collected essays cover such topics as the experiences of Palestinian exiles within Israel, today’s Israeli diaspora, Israeli Jews in the United States, literatures of Palestinian transnationals, and Berlin as a queer IsraeliJewish immigrant enclave. The Modern Israeli and Palestinian Diasporas challenges the very notion of a homeland.
17 December 2024 344pp 6 b&w illus
9781477330401 £46.00 / $55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
State of Shock
The Kibbutz in Israel from Avant-Garde to Fetish, 1948-1955
Lior Libman
State of Shock decodes one of the most iconic images of Zionism and Israel: the kibbutz. Libman offers original theoretical and historiographical insights into the imagery of the kibbutz, and Israeliculture. This book defines the kibbutz’s as a cultural trauma which robbed it of interpreting historical experience.
12 November 2024 277pp
9781512826661 £50.00 / $59.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Read in the Name of Your Lord
Islamic Literacy Development in Revolutionary Egypt
Nermeen Mouftah
Traces the push for universal literacy as a project caught between revolutionary activism and Islamic reformism in post-Mubarak Egypt. Nermeen Mouftah demonstrates how the rise in modern scripturalism underpinned literacy activism, blurring the binary between secular and religious knowledge.
05 November 2024 244pp 9 b&w illus.
9780253071040
£23.99 / $30.00 PB
9780253071033 £67.00 / $80.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
To Be a Jewish State Zionism as the New Judaism
Yaacov Yadgar Yadgar delves into what the designation “Jewish” amounts to in the context of the sovereign nation-state, and what it means for the politics of the state to be identified as Jewish. Deeply informs the democratic crisis in Israel, discussing whether Jewish laws put into effect by the state or political moves made to ensure a Jewish majority can be seen as undermining democracy.
19 November 2024 224pp
9781479832408 £24.99 / $30.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Seviyye Talip
Halide Edib Adivar
Translated by Iclal Vanwesenbeeck
Set in the early twentieth century and a bestseller in Turkey in 1910, this novel follows Fahir, a reformist who graduates from Oxford University. Fahir returns to Istanbul after a voluntary exile to a love triangle with Macide, a Muslim Turkish woman, and Seviyye, a rebellious Turkish soprano.
12 November 2024 277pp 3 illus
9781477330647 £16.99 / $21.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Unsettled Labors Migrant Care Work in Palestine/Israel
Rachel H. Brown
Rachel H. Brown draws from interviews with caretakers, public statements, court documents, and firsthand fieldwork to explore the overlooked labor of migrant workers in Israel’s eldercare industry. Brown argues that live-in eldercare in Palestine/Israel is an often invisible area where settler colonialism is reproduced culturally, economically, and biologically.
02 August 2024 277pp
9781478030591 £22.99 / $28.95 PB
9781478026358 £90.00 / $107.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Republic
of Dreams
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan
Nicole F. Watts Watts, a former journalist and now professor of political science, has spent over a decade researching the struggles of the Kurdish people in Iraq, and in vivid, lyrical prose, she tells their story through the eyes of Peshawa, a young Muslim Kurd whose family barely survived the Halabja Massacre and then fled for their lives.
14 January 2025 352pp 18 b&w images
9781479823062 £29.99 / $35.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Relative Strangers
Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference
Arpan Roy
Examining how memory, intergenerational transmission, and kinship work together, Relative Strangers sheds light on Romani life in Palestine. Arpan Roy presents an ethnographic portrait of Dom Romani communities living between Palestine and Jordan, zooming in on everyday life in working-class neighborhoods, and under conditions of perpetual war and instability.
15 January 2025 277pp
9781487569457
£21.99 / $32.95 PB
9781487558710 £60.00 / $90.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Master Peace
Lebanon's Violence and the Politics of Expertise
Nikolas Kosmatopoulos
Based on multi-sited ethnographic research centering on Beirut, Master Peace examines the politics of expertise in the application of metropolitan theories of violence in post–civil war Lebanon. Through research, interviews, and UN agencies Kosmatopoulos argues that so-called experts have often misrepresented the violence they are tackling.
17 December 2024 224pp 6 b&w images 1 table 9781512826739 £25.99 / $32.50 PB 9781512826753 £100.00 / $120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Library of Arabic Literature
The Book of Monasteries
al-Shābushtī
Translated by Hilary Kilpatrick
Foreword by Wiebke Denecke
A tour of the monasteries of the Middle East, presenting the rich variety of poetry and prose associated with each monastery. Starting with Baghdad, readers are taken up the Tigris into the mountains of south-eastern Anatolia before moving to Palestine and Syria, along the Euphrates down to the old Christian center of Ḥīrah and onward to Egypt.
Library of Arabic Literature
04 March 2025 392pp
9781479835928 £12.99 / $17.00 PB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Genius of Invective
Ibn Zaydūn's Letter Explained
Ibn Nubātah
Edited and translated by Peter Webb In eleventh-century Cordoba, the celebrated poet Ibn Zaydūn found himself jockeying for the affections of Wallādah. Looking to embarrass a rival suitor, Ibn Zaydūn mischievously wrote and publicized an eloquent, erudite, and searing rejection letter in Wallādah’s name. Nubātah supplements Ibn Zaydūn’s complete letter with concise biographies of every figure referenced in it and glosses arcane Arabic terms.
Library of Arabic Literature
30 May 2025 680pp
9781479835874 £28.99 / $35.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Arabian Hero
Oral Poetry and Narrative Lore from Northern Arabia
Shāyiʿ al-Amsaḥ
Edited and translated by Marcel Kurpershoek
Shāyiʿ al-Amsaḥ’s corpus of extant poems are preserved in narratives about his chivalrous exploits transmitted orally for centuries. Kurpershoek vividly translates the deeds and verses of this compelling poet, based on recordings of latetwentieth century reciters, a testament to Shāyiʿ’s prominence as an embodiment of Bedouin virtue, courage, wiliness, and generosity.
Library of Arabic Literature
22 October 2024 312pp
9781479834167 £24.99 / $30.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Deadly Embrace
Arabic Hunting Poems
Ibn al-Mu tazz
Translated by James E. Montgomery
Foreword by A.E. Stallings
The poems of In Deadly Embrace describe hunting expeditions with animals trained to hunt, including saluki hounds and birds of prey. Groundbreaking and evocative, the poems paint vivid pictures of hunting scenes while posing deep questions about our attentiveness to the natural world and the relationship of the human to the nonhuman.
Library of Arabic Literature
01 April 2025 192pp
9781479835997 £11.99 / $15.00 PB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Recent Highlights
A Demon Spirit
Arabic Hunting Poems
Abū Nuwās
Edited and translated by James E. Montgomery Montgomery renders Abū Nuwās’s hunting poetry, or ṭardiyyāt, translated for the first time in vivid English. Nuwās’s poems radiate brilliance, ingenuity, and lyrical attentiveness to both nature and body. These hunting poems convey the crackling energy of ruthless predators and wily prey, the worryingly uncertain outcome of perilous pursuits, and the mythic perfection of warriors both human and animal.
Library of Arabic Literature
19 November 2024 472pp
9781479834129 £29.99 / $35.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Requirements of the Sufi Path
A Defense of the Mystical Tradition
Ibn Khaldūn
Translated by Carolyn Baugh
Foreword by Jesús R. Velasco
Khaldūn applies his analytical powers to Sufism, which he deems a bona fide form of Islamic piety. He writes from the perspective of an Islamic jurist and legal scholar. He characterizes Sufism and the stages along the Sufi path and takes up the question of the need for a guide along that path.
Library of Arabic Literature
10 September 2024 224pp
9781479834198 £11.99 / $15.00 NIP NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Divine Names
A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qurʾan ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī
Translated by Yousef Casewit
Foreword by Philippa Byrne
The Divine Names is a philosophically sophisticated commentary on the names of God. Penned by the seventh-/thirteenth-century North African scholar and Sufi poet ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī, The Divine Names expounds upon the one hundred and forty-six names of God that appear in the Qurʾ an.
Library of Arabic Literature
01 April 2025 464pp
9781479836031 £12.99 / $17.00 PB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Fate the Hunter
Early Arabic Hunting Poems
Translated by James E. Montgomery
Foreword by Alice Oswald
In these poems, many of them translated into English for the first time, trained cheetahs chase oryx, and goshawks glare from falconers’ arms, while archers stalk their prey across the desert plains and mountain ravines of the Arabian peninsula. Montgomery, acclaimed translator, offers a new edition and translation of twentysix early works of hunting poetry, or ṭardiyyāt.
Library of Arabic Literature
12 November 2024 184pp
9781479834259 £11.99 / $15.00 NIP NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Najm al-Dīn alKātibī’s al-Risālah al-Shamsiyyah
An Edition and Translation with Commentary Tony Street
Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī’s al-Risālah alShamsiyyah is a scholarly edition and translation of The Rules of Logic, with commentary and notes. Composed by Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī, a scholar of the Shāfiʿī school of law, al-Risālah alShamsiyyah is the most widely read introduction to logic in the Arabic-speaking world.
Library of Arabic Literature
07 May 2024 454pp
9781479827527 £62.00 / $75.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Rules of Logic
Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī
Edited and translated by Tony Street
The Rules of Logic is the most widely read introduction to logic in the Arabic-speaking world. Building on the theories of Avicenna, al-Rāzī, and other pioneers of logic, alKātibī discusses the many pitfalls of building arguments and setting out unambiguous claims in natural language. The enduring nature of the text is a testament to al-Kātibī and his impact on concepts of formal discourse and argument.
Library of Arabic Literature
07 May 2024 200pp
9781479880249 £24.99 / $30.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Essence of Reality
A Defense of Philosophical Sufism
Ayn al-Quḍāt
Translated by Mohammed Rustom
Foreword by Livia Kohn
The Essence of Reality, like its author ʿAyn alQuḍāt, is remarkable for many reasons, not least of which that it is in all likelihood the earliest philosophical exposition of mysticism in the Islamic intellectual tradition. This important work would go on to exert significant influence on both classical Islamic philosophy and philosophical mysticism.
Library of Arabic Literature
07 November 2023 270pp
9781479826278 £12.99 / $16.00 PB 9781479816590 £33.00 / $36.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
A Physician on the Nile
A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years
ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī
Translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Foreword by Mansoura Ez-Eldin
A Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pestilence. ʿAbd al-Laṭīf was a keen observer of humanity, and he offers vivid first-hand depictions of starvation, cannibalism, and a society in moral free-fall.
Library of Arabic Literature
04 April 2023 264pp
9781479820078 £14.99 / $19.00 PB
9781479806249 £25.99 / $34.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bedouin Poets of the Nafūd Desert
Khalaf Abū Zwayyid, ʿAdwān al-Hirbīd and ʿAjlān ibn Rmāl
Edited and translated by Marcel Kurpershoek Bedouin Poets of the Nafūd Desert features poetry from three poets of the Ibn Rashīd dynasty–the highwater mark of Bedouin culture. The poems featured in Bedouin Poets of the Nafūd Desert vividly describe journeys on camelback, family stories, and beautiful nature scenes, offering a window into Bedouin society in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Library of Arabic Literature
09 April 2024 300pp
9781479826155 £24.99 / $30.00 PB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Love, Death, Fame
Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition
al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir
Translated by Marcel Kurpershoek
Foreword by David Elmer
Love, Death, Fame features the poetry of al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir, who has been embraced as the earliest poet in what would later become the United Arab Emirates. This collection is a prime example of Nabaṭī poetry, combining vernacular language of the Arabian Peninsula with archaic vocabulary and images dating to Arabic poetry’s very origins.
Library of Arabic Literature
01 August 2023 300pp
9781479825806 £12.99 / $17.00 PB
9781479806577 £28.99 / $37.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Book of Travels
Ḥannā Diyāb
Translated by Elias Muhanna
Introduction by Johannes Stephan
Foreword by Yasmine Seale
Afterword by Paulo Lemos Horta
The Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb’s remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again, which forever linked him to one of the most popular pieces of world literature, the Thousand and One Nights.
Library of Arabic Literature
06 September 2022 464pp
9781479820016 £14.99 / $19.00 PB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Doctors' Dinner Party
Ibn Buṭlān
Translated by Philip F. Kennedy and Jeremy Farrell
Foreword by Emily Gowers
The Doctors’ Dinner Party is an eleventhcentury satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town is invited to dinner with a group of older medical men, whose conversation reveals their incompetence, satirizing the hypocrisy of quack doctors while displaying Ibn Buṭlān’s own deep technical knowledge of medical practice.
Library of Arabic Literature
05 March 2024 168pp
9781479827480 £12.99 / $16.00 PB 9781479818778 £24.99 / $32.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Kalīlah and Dimnah
Fables of Virtue and Vice Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ
Translated by Michael Fishbein and James E. Montgomery
Foreword by Marina Warner
Like Aesop’s Fables, Kalīlah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for the entertainment of readers. Kalīlah and Dimnah is a “mirror for princes,” a book meant to inculcate virtues and discernment in rulers and warn against flattery and deception Throughout, Kalīlah and Dimnah offers insight into the moral lessons Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ wished to impart to rulers—and readers.
Library of Arabic Literature
04 April 2023 300pp
9781479825776 £12.99 / $17.00 PB
9781479806539 £28.99 / $37.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Book of Charlatans
Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd alRaḥīm al-Jawbarī
Translated by Humphrey Davies
Foreword by S. A. Chakraborty
The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth century in the cities of the Middle East, especially in Syria and Egypt. Covering everything from invisible writing to doctoring gemstones and quack medicine, the text opens a fascinating window into a subculture of beggars’ guilds and professional con artists in the medieval Arab world.
Library of Arabic Literature
03 May 2022 300pp
9781479813247 £14.99 / $19.00 PB
9781479897636 £28.99 / $37.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies
and Cultures
The Revolution Within Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt
Yasmin Moll
Drawing on long-term fieldwork with the New Preachers, their producers, and followers in Cairo, Yasmin Moll shows how Islamic media and the social life of theology mattered to contestations over the shape of a New Egypt. These mass-mediated fractures within Islamic Revivalism were happening at a time of both revolutionary possibility and authoritarian entrenchment.
01 April 2025 368pp
9781503642416 £24.99 / $32.00 PB
9781503638358 £108.00 / $130.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dust That Never Settles
Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War
Amir Moosavi Dust That Never Settles considers how Iraqi and Iranian writers have wrestled with representing the IranIraq War and its legacy, from wartime to the present. It demonstrates how writers from both countries have transformed once militarized, officially sanctioned war literatures into literatures of mourning, and eventually, into vehicles of protest that presented powerful counternarratives to the official state narratives.
10 June 2025 248pp 1 map
9781503642959
£23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503642140 £100.00 / $120.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Recent Highlights
Colonizing Palestine
The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury
Based on extensive empirical research in local colony and national archives, Colonizing Palestine offers a microhistory of frontier interactions between Zionist settlers and indigenous Palestinians within the British imperial field. Even as left-wing kibbutzim of Hashomer Hatzair helped lay the groundwork for settler colonial Jewish sovereignty, its settlers did not conceal the prior existence of the Palestinian villages and their displacement, which became the subject of enduring debate in the kibbutzim.
12 November 2024 376pp 14 halftones, 1 map
9781503642041 £27.99 / $35.00 PB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Merchants of Knowledge
Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe
Robert G. Morrison
With this book, Robert Morrison is the first to track the network of scholars who mediated exchanges in astronomy, astrology, Qabbalah, and philosophy. Their books, manuscripts, and acts of translation all held economic value, thus commercial and intellectual exchange commingled— knowledge became transactional as these merchants exchanged texts for more intellectual material and social capital.
22 April 2025 336pp, 13 figures, 3 halftones, 1 map
9781503642683 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9781503636323 £116.00 / $140.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Jews of Edirne
The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders
Jacob Daniels
At the turn of the 2th century, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe. It was also the capital of Edirne Province— among the most religiously diverse regions of the Ottoman Empire. But by 1923, the city had become a Turkish border town, and the province had lost much of its non-Muslim population.
10 June 2025 312pp 8 halftones, 6 maps
9781503642911 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9781503641983 £108.00 / $130.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Elastic Empire
Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine
Lisa Bhungalia
Drawing on extensive research conducted in Palestine, Elastic Empire offers a novel accounting of the US security state. The US war chronicled here is not one of tanks, grenades, and guns, but a quieter one waged through the interlacing of aid and law. Situated in a landscape where the lines between humanitarianism and the global war on terror are increasingly blurred, Elastic Empire reveals the shape-shifting nature of contemporary imperial formations, their realignments and reformulations, their haunted sites, and their obscured but intimate forms.
12 December 2023 288pp 11 halftones
9781503637511 £21.99 / $28.00 PB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Forgotten Experts
Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450–1600
A. Tunç Şen Forgotten Experts offers a history of Ottoman court astrologers and traces their shifting authority and prestige over the long sixteenth century. These individuals served the Ottoman court with their expertise in mathematical, astronomical, and astrological sciences, distinguishing themselves from other occult practitioners and esoteric specialists.
20 May 2025 344pp 14 halftones, 1 map
9781503642652 £54.00 / $65.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Race and the Question of Palestine
Edited by Lana Tatour & Ronit Lentin
Offering a wide-ranging set of essays by historians, legal scholars, political scientists, sociologists, literary scholars, and race critical theorists, this collection illuminates how race should be understood in terms of its political work, and not as an identity category interchangeable with ethnicity, culture, or nationalism.
17 June 2025 304pp
9781503642973
£24.99 / $32.00 PB
9781503642133 £108.00 / $130.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
On Salafism
Concepts and Contexts
Azmi Bishara
On Salafism offers a compelling new understanding of this phenomenon, both its development and contemporary manifestations. Salafism became associated with fundamentalism when the 9/11 Commission used it to explain the terror attacks and has since been connected with the violence of the so-called Islamic State. With this book, Azmi Bishara critically deconstructs claims of continuity between early Islam and modern militancy and makes a counterargument: Salafism is a wholly modern construct informed by specific sociopolitical contexts.
27 September 2022 246pp
9781503630352 £50.00 / $60.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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