Middle Eastern History

A Culture of Ambiguity

An Alternative History of Islam Thomas Bauer Translated by Hinrich Biesterfeldt and Tricia Tunstall

In this magisterial cultural and intellectual history, Thomas Bauer reconsiders classical and modern Islam by tracing differing attitudes toward ambiguity. He explores the tension, present through many centuries, between one strand that aspires to annihilate all uncertainties and another competing tendency that looks for ways to live with complexity.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-17065-9 $145.00 / £120.00 cloth 978-0-231-17064-2 2021 336 pages Israel's Counterterrorism Strategy

Origins to the Present Boaz Ganor

Boaz Ganor provides an authoritative analysis of Israel’s approach to counterterrorism throughout its existence. The book features revelatory personal testimony from senior Israeli decision makers who have played pivotal roles in counterterrorism strategy.

$40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19923-0 $160.00 / £125.00 cloth 978-0-231-19922-3 2021 424 pages

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN TERRORISM AND IRREGULAR WARFARE

Friend or Foe

Militia Intelligence and Ethnic Violence in the Lebanese Civil War Nils Hägerdal

Under what circumstances are civil war combatants more or less likely to commit ethnic violence? Nils Hägerdal examines the Lebanese civil war to offer a new theory that highlights the interplay of ethnicity and intelligence gathering.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20065-3 $145.00 / £120.00 cloth 978-0-231-20064-6 2021 240 pages

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN MIDDLE EAST POLITICS

Oil Leaders

An Insider’s Account of Four Decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's Global Energy Policy Ibrahim AlMuhanna

Oil Leaders offers an unprecedented glimpse into the strategic thinking of top figures in the energy world from the 1980s through the recent past. Ibrahim AlMuhanna—a close adviser to four different Saudi oil ministers over that span of time—examines the role of individual and collective decision-making in shaping market movements.

$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-18974-3 May 2022 328 pages CENTER ON GLOBAL ENERGY POLICY SERIES

Worldmaking in the Long Great War

How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East Jonathan Wyrtzen

This book offers a new account of how the Great War unmade and then remade the political order of the Middle East. Ranging from Morocco to Iran and spanning the eve of the war into the 1930s, it demonstrates that the modern Middle East was shaped through complex and violent power struggles among local and international actors.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18629-2 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-18628-5 August 2022 328 pages Barbary Captives

An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa Edited by Mario Klarer

In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both men and women, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslaved in North Africa. Barbary Captives brings together a selection of early modern slave narratives in English translation for the first time.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-17525-8 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-17524-1 March 2022 416 pages

Lumbering State, Restless Society

Egypt in the Modern Era Nathan J. Brown, Shimaa Hatab, and Amr Adly

Lumbering State, Restless Society offers a comprehensive and compelling understanding of modern Egypt. Nathan J. Brown, Shimaa Hatab, and Amr Adly guide readers through crucial developments in Egyptian politics, society, and economics from the middle of the twentieth century through the present.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20171-1 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20170-4 2021 288 pages

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN MIDDLE EAST POLITICS