40 years of publishing on the Middle East

In 2023 I.B. Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury, is celebrating 40 years of publishing radical, insightful and representative books on the Middle East and the Islamic World. Here are some of our highlights…

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A History of the Tajiks Iranians of the East Richard Foltz, Concordia University, Canada

In this comprehensive and up-to-date history, spanning the Sogdian to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural and political history of the Tajiks. Across eight chapters, the author explores the revitalisation of Persian culture under the Samanid Empire in the Tajik heartlands of historical Khorasan and Transoxiana; the evolution of the politics of Tajik identity; and traces the history of the ethnic Tajik diaspora today. This revised edition includes a new chapter on the Tajiks’ situation in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan since 2018, covering the effects of the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021 and the COVID pandemic in all three countries, as well as border clashes with Kyrgyzstan.

UK July 2023 US July 2023 288 pages 16 colour illus

PB 9780755649655 • £25.99 / $35.95 • HB 9780755649648 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9780755649679 • £23.39 / $32.39 ePdf 9780755649662 • £23.39 / $32.39

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Love and Poetry in the Middle East

Love and Literature from Antiquity to the Present

Edited by Atef Alshaer

This book analyses love poetry in various ancient and contemporary languages of the Middle East, including Akkadian, ancient Egyptian, Classical and Modern Standard Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Turkish and Kurdish, including literary materials that have been discovered and highlighted for the first time. Together, the chapters reflect the discursive evolution of the theme of love, and the sensibilities, styles and techniques used to convey it. They chart the way in which poems in ancient poetry give way to complex and varied reflections of human sentiments in the medieval languages, and on to the modern period which in turn reflects the complexities and nuances of present times. A snapshot of the diverse literary languages and their relationship to the theme of love.

UK August 2023 US August 2023 272 pages 1 bw illus

PB 9780755640980 £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755640942 ePub 9780755640966 • £76.50 / $103.94 ePdf 9780755640959 • £76.50 / $103.94

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Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran and India

James White, University of Oxford, UK

Examines how the movement of authors created Arabic and Persian literary communities, sometimes running in parallel and sometimes intersecting, which linked Iran, India and the Arabian Peninsula in a system of exchange. Delving into a wealth of 17th century literature, James White illuminates how human mobility made the poetry and prose of this period into an interconnected corpus, where writers used cognate forms, imagery and rhetoric to connect with one another across vast distances. The book focuses on six case studies to demonstrate that migration was multidirectional and multilingual, and connects these findings to material philology

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 256 pages

HB 9780755644568 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780755644582 • £76.50 / $103.94 ePdf 9780755644575 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: I.B. Tauris Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Persian Literature • I.B. Tauris

SOAS Palestine Studies

Series Editors: Dina Matar & Adam Hanieh, both SOAS, University of London, UK

The Folktales of Palestine

Cultural Identity, Memory and the Politics of Storytelling

Farah Aboubakr, University of Edinburgh, UK

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 256 pages

PB 9780755650996 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9781788314268 ePub 9781786725790 • £26.09 / $36.44 ePdf 9781786735799 • £26.09 / $36.44

Series: SOAS Palestine Studies • I.B. Tauris

Occupying Habits

Everyday Media as Warfare in IsraelPalestine

Daniel Mann, Kings College London, UK

This book explores the impact that mobile phone cameras and social media have had on Israel’s security regime. Daniel Mann shows that although visual media poses a threat to Israel’s modus operandi in the West Bank and Gaza, it is also paving the way for new modes of surveillance and control that are becoming ubiquitous. By examining photos, film and footage – and identifying the individuals that created them – the book reveals how Israel has expanded its capacity to shape the narrative of the military occupation of the Palestinian territories, and how it delegates the responsibility of image production and distribution to soldiers and civilians. Mann argues that this is a radical remodelling of its modes of governance and a reconfiguration of the stakes of political action, showing the growing function of media shaping warfare.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 192 pages • 30 bw illus

PB 9780755646890 • £28.99 / $39.95

Previously published in HB 9780755633906 ePub 9780755633920 • £76.50 / $103.94 ePdf 9780755633913 • £76.50 / $103.94

Series: SOAS Palestine Studies I.B. Tauris