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A detailed, rich and authoritative regional study, this book offers a unique and original insight into the effects of forced migration, displacement, economic re-organisation and the competing political ideologies focused on 'modernisation' - all of which are central to the study of the late Ottoman Empire.

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Offers a social and historical exploration of the Ottoman Empire. This book explores the Central Asian Origins of the empire, the conquest of Asia Minor, the Fall of Constantinople, the decline of empire and European conquest, reform and political awakening, and the rise of nationalism and the disintegration of the Ottoman state.

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Bosnia enjoyed a special status within the Ottoman Empire. So when Sultan Mehmet II abolished this warrior class in 1826, Bosnia rebelled. The author argues that the uprising was a response to Ottoman moves towards modernization designed to save the Ottoman Empire from decline, but which eventually led to its demise.

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Drawing upon source documents, this title provides a comprehensive study of the Tanzimat reforms in Iraq in the nineteenth century, focusing on aspects of political reform, modernization and development and analyzing both the successes and failures of the reform process.

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Although the stability of the Persian Gulf region has been of rising importance since World War II, it was during the 1980s, when the Iran-Iraq War threatened to upset the balance of power in the region, that its importance became even more magnified.

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This book analyzes the construction of the first Hebrew University, which the author identifies as central to Zionist goals, and details the challenged faced by the well-known architects and planners related to power struggles, donors wishes, and architectural concerns.

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The political economy of Iran underwent the fundamental transition from feudalism to modernity from the early 19th to the 20th century. This book provides a critical analysis of Iran's economic, social and political development and shows how the path to modernity, far from smooth, was hindered by both internal and international factors.

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By exploring the culture, literature, kinship structures and socio-political conditions of the tribe, this book highlights the ways in which alliances and divisions shifted and were used by caliphs of the period and offers insights into the Middle East at a pivotal point in its early and medieval history.

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This book examines how, through the mediation of past history and current cultural and professional experience, selected Iranian professionals who came to the United States after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, created new identities and possibilities for the future.

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A thorough investigation of the Safavid state and the significance of rhetoric, power and religion in its functioning, The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran is indispensable for all those interested in Iranian history and politics and Middle East studies.

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From ancient times to the present day, Iranian social, political, and economic life has been dramatically influenced by psychoactive agents. This book looks at the stimulants that, as put by a longtime resident of seventeenth-century Iran, Raphael du Mans, provided Iranians with damagh, gave them a 'kick', got them into a good mood.

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"Original version Mai Mohammed Al Khalifa, 1999, Arabic-Language 2end edition published as Min sawad al-Kufah ila al-Bahrayn: al-Qaramitah min fikrah ila dawlah, Bayrut: al-Mu assasah al-Arabiyah lil-Dirasat wa-al-Nashr, 2010"---verso page.

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Detailed and highly-researched history of the Iranian presidency and the holders of the post of President.

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From the bestselling author of Fighter Boys, the true story of two ruthless adversaries and a wartime killing that shook the modern world.

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A new edition with introduction by Julia Bray of this rare, important and comprehensive survey of Islamic culture and society in the tenth century

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The tenth century was a formative period for Islamic culture and Adam Mezs Renaissance of Islam offers a detailed survey of the Muslim world during that period.