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Green Nile

ISBN: HB: 9781849045087, Hurst Publishers, December 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Recent international intervention in Afghanistan has reproduced familiar versions of the Afghan national story, from repeatedly doomed invasions to perpetual fault lines of ethnic division. Yet almost no attention has been paid...

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Jewish Studies

Archaeology of Jerusalem From the Origins to the Ottomans

Galor Katharina, Bloedhorn Hanswulf

ISBN: PB: 9780300216622, Yale University Press, November 2015
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 colour images, 185 black&white illus.

In this sweeping and lavishly illustrated history, Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn survey nearly four thousand years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem, from prehistoric times through the Ottoman period. The study is struct...

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Political Science

Muted Modernists The Struggle over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia

Al-Rasheed Madawi

ISBN: HB: 9781849045865, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Madawi Al-Rasheed is Visiting Professor at the Middle East Centre at LSE and Research Fellow at the Open Society Foundation. She was Professor of Anthropology of Religion at King's College, London between 1994 and 2013. Previou...

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Religion, Empire, and Torture The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226251875, ISBN: HB: 9780226481968, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 11 line drawings, 13 tables

How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? Recently this question has acquired new urgency, and in "Religion, Empire, and Torture", Bruce Lincoln approaches the problem via a classic but little-studied case: Achaemenian Per...

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Political Science

Taliban Revival Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier

Abbas Hassan

ISBN: PB: 9780300216165, ISBN: HB: 9780300178845, Yale University Press, September 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In autumn 2001, U.S. and NATO troops were deployed to Afghanistan to unseat the Taliban rulers, repressive Islamic fundamentalists who had lent active support to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda jihadists. The NATO forces defeated and dismantled the Taliba...

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Military

Middle East

Audacious Ascetic What Osama Bin Laden's Sound Archive Reveals About Al-Qaeda

Miller Flagg

ISBN: PB: 9781849044677, ISBN: HB: 9781849044844, Hurst Publishers, September 2015
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In late 2002, over 1500 audiotapes were discovered in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in a house once occupied by Osama bin Laden. "The Audacious Ascetic" is the first book to explore this extraordinary archive. It details how Islamic c...

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Middle East

Reading Clocks, Alla Turca Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire

Wishnitzer Avner

ISBN: HB: 9780226257723, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 1 table

Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own temporal culture. However, this began to change rather dramatically during the nineteenth century, as the Ottoman Empire was incr...

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Middle East

Pakistan A New History

Talbot Ian

ISBN: PB: 9781849043700, Hurst Publishers, July 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! If Pakistan is to preserve all that is good about its country – the generosity and hospitality of its people, the dynamism of its youth – it must face the deterioration of its social and political institutions. Sidestepping eas...

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Middle East

Revolt in Syria Eye-Witness to the Uprising

Starr Stephen Z.

ISBN: PB: 9781849044509, Hurst Publishers, July 2015
176 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! In January 2011 President Bashar al-Assad told the Wall Street Journal that Syria was "stable" and immune from revolt. In the months that followed, and as regimes fell in Egypt and Tunisia, thousands of Syrians took to the stre...

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Political Science

Middle East

After the Sheikhs The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies

Davidson Christopher M.

ISBN: PB: 9781849045070, ISBN: HB: 9781849041898, Hurst Publishers, June 2015
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Gulf monarchies (Saudi Arabia and its five smaller neighbours: the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain) have long been governed by highly autocratic and seemingly anachronistic regimes. Yet despite bloody...

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