Princeton Middle East Studies 2021

Princeton Middle East Studies 2021

Middle East Studies We publish innovative and exciting books exploring the Middle East, past and present, that drive research agendas forward and that engage and enlighten the general public in their pursuit of answers to big questions.

A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world

Why the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrong

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literature

A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate’s robust culture of documentation

A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval world

A compact, incisive history of one of the defining conflicts of our time

How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang region

How a controversial biblical tale of conquest and genocide became a founding story of modern Israel

The first study of album-making in the Ottoman empire during the seventeenth century

A remarkable look at an understudied feature of the Iranian justice system, where forgiveness is as much a right of victims as retribution

A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the story

A look at the developing conflicts in Christian-Muslim relations during late antiquity and the early Islamic era

How the support of patriotic sentiments in Ottoman Egypt led to an emerging Arab nationalism

The first in-depth look at how postwar thinkers in Egypt mapped the intersections between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thought

A groundbreaking history that shows how peace between Egypt and Israel ensured lasting Palestinian statelessness

The first English-language biography of the de facto ruler of the late Ottoman Empire and architect of the Armenian Genocide

An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.focused social science research

The untold story of how the Arabic Qur’an became the English Koran

A groundbreaking account of how the Book of Exodus shaped fundamental aspects of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

A powerful portrait of the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time, from the director of Human Flow

How differing forms of repression shape the outcomes of democratic transitions

Spring 2021 The Imam of the Christians The World of the Patriarch in Early Islam Philip Wood

The Last Muslim Conquest The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe Gábor Ágoston

Turkish Kaleidoscope Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence Story by Jenny White Art by Ergün Gündüz

The Translator of Desires Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi

Coping with Defeat Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State Jonathan Laurence

What Is Religious Authority?

Cultivating Islamic Community in Indonesia Ismail Fajrie Alatas

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