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Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt
The Sexual World of the Arabian Nights
Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age
Egypt and the Struggle for Power in Sudan
From the Monarchy to the Republic Mohammad Salama
David Ghanim
Towards an Intellectual History of the Present Edited by Jens Hanssen and Max Weiss
From World War II to Nasserism Rami Ginat
Examines the influence of Islam, as a religion, a practice, and a tradition, on Egypt’s visual and literary modernity. August 2018 228 x 152 mm c.288pp 6 b/w illus. 978-1-108-41718-1 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99
A lively discussion of the sexual life contained in the Arabian Nights, appealing to academics and general readers.
Cutting-edge scholarship on postwar Arab intellectual history that challenges conventional thinking about authoritarianism, religion and revolution in the modern Middle East.
April 2018 228 x 152 mm 194pp 978-1-108-44225-1 Paperback £21.99 / US$28.99
A revised history of Egypt’s doctrine of the unity of the Nile Valley, tracing its struggle from monarchy to revolution. August 2017 228 x 152 mm 292pp 978-1-107-19793-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
February 2018 228 x 152 mm 454pp 978-1-107-19338-3 Hardback £105.00 / US$135.00
Arab lands, and on the formidable early eighteenth century Chief Harem Eunuch El-Hajj Beshir Agha, Jane Hathaway focuses here on the careers of these Eunuchs, and how the office evolved over time. She deft ly brings
Hathaway
“Building on an impressive body of work on Ottoman Egypt and the
her subjects out of the shadows to produce a work with a strong narrative
Empire, 1300-1923 “Long accustomed to despise palace intrigues and the people that used to Hathaway. 9781107108295. PPC. C M Y K
spin them in the past, we usually prefer to forget the enormous role that ‘the backstairs of power’ play in our own time. Now Jane Hathaway’s wideranging and fascinating account shows how eunuchs from East Africa came into the Ottoman palace, and how sultans and courtiers elevated or destroyed them for reasons of their own.” Suraiya Faroqhi, University of Munich “The first book-length account of the black eunuchs of the Ottoman sultanate, Hathaway’s study deft ly weaves the Istanbul and Egyptian power bases of the Chief Harem Eunuch’s office into a riveting story of rise through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and then irrelevance in the reform era of the nineteenth. Individual figures come vibrantly alive, some rivaling the grand vizier in influence. Particularly novel is a chapter on memorializing of the Harem eunuchs through painted images, tombs, and gravestones.”
The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem
thread that is at once scholarly and accessible.” Caroline Finkel, author of Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman
The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem
From African Slave to Power-Broker Jane Hathaway
Leslie P. Peirce, New York University
Cover illustration: El-Hajj Beshir Agha leads Sultan Ahmed III’s sons, escorted by viziers, to the Circumcision Room in the Fourth Court of Topkapı Palace. From Vehbi, Surname-i Hümayun (1720). Topkapı Palace Museum Library, MS A. 3593, fol. 173b. By permission of the Topkapı Palace Museum Library.
Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs
A History of Algeria
Politics and Authority from Cordoba to Cairo and Baghdad Ali Humayun Akhtar
James McDougall
The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem
An essential introduction to the history of Algeria, spanning a period of five hundred years.
This book investigates the relationship between government and religion in Middle Eastern history from Morocco to Egypt and Iraq.
From African Slave to Power-Broker Jane Hathaway
April 2017 228 x 152 mm 448pp 32 b/w illus. 3 maps 978-0-521-61730-7 Paperback £23.99 / US$29.99
A study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the sultan’s harem in Istanbul under the Ottoman Empire.
June 2017 228 x 152 mm 276pp 978-1-107-18201-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
August 2018 228 x 152 mm 340pp 27 b/w illus. 6 maps 6 tables 978-1-107-10829-5 Hardback c. £65.00 / c. US$99.00
Ottoman Women during World War I Everyday Experiences, Politics, and Conflict Elif Mahir Metinsoy
Using the newest sources, this book reveals the experience of Ottoman Muslim women during World War I. November 2017 228 x 152 mm 290pp 978-1-107-19890-6 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
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The Political Economy of the Kurds of Turkey From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic Veli Yadirgi
An examination of the link between the economic and political development of the Kurds in Turkey, and Turkey’s Kurdish question. August 2017 228 x 152 mm 320pp 4 b/w illus. 10 maps 47 tables 978-1-316-63249-9 Paperback £21.99 / US$27.99
A History of the Ottoman Empire Douglas A. Howard
This illustrated textbook covers the full history of the Ottoman Empire, from its genesis to its dissolution. February 2017 247 x 174 mm 412pp 63 b/w illus. 9 maps 978-0-521-72730-3 Paperback £27.99 / US$34.99
The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East Michael Provence
A study of the period of armed conflict following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East. August 2017 228 x 152 mm 314pp 15 b/w illus. 4 maps 978-0-521-74751-6 Paperback £23.99 / US$29.99
Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean A Social History Beshara B. Doumani
A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East Heather J. Sharkey
Beshara B. Doumani uses a variety of local sources to examine everyday family life throughout the Ottoman Empire.
This book traces the history of conflict and contact between Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Ottoman Middle East prior to 1914.
June 2017 228 x 152 mm 370pp 25 b/w illus. 6 maps 26 tables 978-0-521-13327-2 Paperback £23.99 / US$29.99
The Contemporary Middle East, 6 April 2017 228 x 152 mm 394pp 18 b/w illus. 978-0-521-18687-2 Paperback £24.99 / US$31.99
Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World
Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire
Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Iraq
Anne F. Broadbridge
Thomas A. Carlson
The Ottoman Experience, 1347–1600 Nükhet Varlik
A wide-ranging study of the critical roles that women played in the history of the Mongol conquests and empire.
Reveals a religiously diverse preindustrial society in the Middle East, broadening studies of global Christianity and challenging Islamic history’s exceptionalism.
This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death and in the following centuries. August 2017 229 x 152 mm 354pp 10 b/w illus. 5 maps 978-1-108-41277-3 Paperback £22.99 / US$34.99
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization June 2018 228 x 152 mm c.320pp 47 b/w illus. 3 maps 5 tables 978-1-108-44100-1 Paperback £24.99 / US$32.99
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization September 2018 228 x 152 mm 316pp 2 b/w illus. 5 maps 978-1-107-18627-9 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
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Slavery and Empire in Central Asia
Child Custody in Islamic Law
Ibadi Muslims of North Africa
Jeff Eden
Theory and Practice in Egypt since the Sixteenth Century Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim
Manuscripts, Mobilization, and the Making of a Written Tradition Paul M. Love, Jr
A longitudinal history of Islamic child custody law, challenging Euro-American exceptionalism to reveal developments that considered the best interests of the child.
Combining manuscript analysis with digital tools to show how people and books worked together to build a religious tradition in North Africa.
Using newly-uncovered archival evidence, Jeff Eden sheds unprecedented light on the lives of slaves ensnared by the Central Asian slave trade. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization July 2018 228 x 152 mm c.304pp 978-1-108-47051-3 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization August 2018 228 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-108-47056-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
The First of the Modern Ottomans The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasif Ethan L. Menchinger
This book explores intellectual life, politics and reform in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire by studying statesman and historian Ahmed Vasif. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization August 2017 228 x 152 mm 356pp 978-1-107-19797-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
Muhammad’s Heirs The Rise of Muslim Scholarly Communities, 622–950 Jonathan E. Brockopp
This book describes the emergence of Muslim scholarly communities from the origins of Islam until the mid-tenth century. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization August 2017 228 x 152 mm 248pp 17 b/w illus. 978-1-107-10666-6 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization October 2018 228 x 152 mm c.288pp 27 b/w illus. 1 map 978-1-108-47250-0 Hardback c. £75.00 / c. US$99.99
Authority and Identity in Medieval Islamic Historiography Persian Histories from the Peripheries Mimi Hanaoka
An innovative exploration of the local histories of the Persianate world and its preoccupation with identity, authority, and legitimacy.
Non-Muslim Provinces under Early Islam Islamic Rule and Iranian Legitimacy in Armenia and Caucasian Albania Alison Vacca
This book explores the Christian caliphal provinces of Armenia and Caucasian Albania as part of the larger Iranian cultural sphere. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization September 2017 228 x 152 mm 316pp 7 b/w illus. 978-1-107-18851-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran
Sharaf al-Dīn ‘Alī Yazdī and the Islamicate Republic of Letters İker Evrim Binbaş
Discusses the importance of intellectual networks and the formation of the republic of letters in Islamic history.
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
April 2018 229 x 152 mm 319pp 978-1-107-56583-8 Paperback £29.99 / US$39.99
April 2018 229 x 152 mm 364pp 19 b/w illus. 1 map 978-1-107-68933-6 Paperback £29.99 / US$39.99
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