Middle Eastern Studies 2024 - 2025

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UNSETTLED AMERICAN JEWS AND THE MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE OREN KROLL-ZELDIN

Examines how young Jewish Americans’ fundamentally Jewish values have led them to organize in solidarity with Palestinians

280 PP | CLOTH | $30.00 | 9781479821457

HOMEGROWN RADICALS A STORY OF STATE VIOLENCE, ISLAMOPHOBIA, AND JIHAD IN THE POST9/11 WORLD YOUCEF SOUFI

How the War on Terror created the conditions for the emergence of a novel theory of jihad

272 PP | CLOTH | $32.00 | 9781479832262

A riveting indictment of a government that fails to help citizens in need of aid, protection, and humanity

272 PP | CLOTH | $89.00

Offers vivid stories of nonconformist Muslim communities In North American Religions

REPUBLIC OF DREAMS ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY STRUGGLES, AND THE FUTURE OF IRAQI KURDISTAN

NICOLE F. WATTS

A harrowing political history of Kurdish Iraq told through the rags-to-riches story of a childhood refugee

352 PP | CLOTH | $35.00 | 9781479823062

TO BE A JEWISH STATE ZIONISM AS THE NEW JUDAISM

YAACOV YADGAR

Examines the meaning of Jewish politics in Israel

248 PP | CLOTH | $30.00 | 9781479832408

THE STATE OF DESIRE RELIGION AND REPRODUCTIVE POLITICS IN THE PROMISED LAND LEA TARAGIN-ZELLER

An intimate account of Orthodox family planning amid shifting state policies in Israel

MUHAMMAD IN THE SEMINARY PROTESTANT TEACHING ABOUT ISLAM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

DAVID D. GRAFTON

Uncovers what Christian seminaries taught about Islam in their formative years

A DEMON SPIRIT

ARABIC HUNTING POEMS

ABŪ NUWĀS

EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY JAMES E. MONTGOMERY Verses on hunter and quarry

488 PP | CLOTH $35.00 | 9781479834129

ARABIAN HERO

ORAL POETRY AND NARRATIVE LORE FROM NORTHERN ARABIA

SHĀYIʿ AL-AMSAḤ

EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY MARCEL KURPERSHOEK

The heroic deeds and words of a warrior poet of northern Arabia

320 PP | CLOTH | $30.00 | 9781479834167

THE DOCTORS’ DINNER PARTY

IBN BUṬLĀN

TRANSLATED BY

PHILIP F. KENNEDY AND JEREMY FARRELL FOREWORD BY EMILY GOWERS A witty satire of the medical profession

A rich anthology of preIslamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt 250 PP | PAPER | $16.00 | 9781479827480

THE DIVINE NAMES A MYSTICAL THEOLOGY OF THE NAMES OF GOD IN THE QURʾAN

ʿAFIF AL-DIN ALTILIMSANI

EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY YOUSEF CASEWIT

300 PP | CLOTH

$30.00 | 9781479826124

ESSENCE OF REALITY

DEFENSE OF PHILOSOPHICAL SUFISM AYN AL-QUḌĀT

EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY MOHAMMED RUSTOM A groundbreaking exposition of Islamic mysticism

YOGA SUTRAS OF

ABŪ RAYḤĀN AL-BĪRŪNĪ TRANSLATED BY MARIO KOZAH

FOREWORD BY DAVID GORDON WHITE

A brilliant crosscultural Arabic interpretation of a key text of yoga philosophy

EARLY ARABIC HUNTING POEMS

EDITED BY JAMES E. MONTGOMERY

FOREWORD BY ALICE OSWALD

| 9781479834259 FATE THE HUNTER

REQUIREMENTS OF THE SUFI PATH A DEFENSE OF THE MYSTICAL TRADITION IBN KHALDŪN

EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY CAROLYN BAUGH

Sufism through the eyes of a legal scholar

320 PP |

THE BOOK OF TRAVELS

ARABIC

ḤANNĀ DIYĀB

TRANSLATED BY ELIAS MUHANNA

INTRODUCTION BY JOHANNES STEPHAN

ABŪ NUWĀS EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY JAMES E. MONTGOMERY Verses on hunter and quarry

468 PP | PAPER

The adventures of the man who created Aladdin

$18.00 | 9781479820016

488 PP | CLOTH $35.00 | 9781479834129 A DEMON SPIRIT

ARABIAN HERO

A PHYSICIAN ON THE NILE

THE DIVINE NAMES A MYSTICAL THEOLOGY OF THE NAMES OF GOD IN THE QURʾAN

A DESCRIPTION OF EGYPT AND JOURNAL OF THE FAMINE YEARS

ʿAFIF AL-DIN ALTILIMSANI

ʿABD AL-LAṬĪF AL-BAGHDĀDĪ

TRANSLATED BY TIM MACKINTOSH-SMITH

EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY YOUSEF CASEWIT

Flora, fauna, and famine

288 PP | PAPER

300 PP | CLOTH $30.00 | 9781479826124

$18.00 | 9781479820078

ORAL POETRY AND NARRATIVE LORE FROM NORTHERN ARABIA

BROKEN

SHĀYIʿ AL-AMSAḤ

THE FAILED PROMISE OF MUSLIM INCLUSION

EVELYN ALSULTANY

EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY MARCEL KURPERSHOEK

How diversity initiatives end up marginalizing Arab and Muslim Americans

320 PP | PAPER

| $30.00 | 9781479834167

$19.95 | 9781479805136

THE ESSENCE OF REALITY A DEFENSE OF PHILOSOPHICAL SUFISM

AYN AL-QUḌĀT

CHANGING QATAR CULTURE, CITIZENSHIP, AND RAPID MODERNIZATION

GEOFF HARKNESS

EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY MOHAMMED RUSTOM

A cultural study of modern Qatar and how it navigates change and tradition

340 PP | PAPER

The heroic deeds and words of a warrior poet of northern Arabia 350 PP | CLOTH | $40.00 | 9781479816590

$35.00 | 9781479854820

QUEER JUDAISM

LGBT

PP | PAPER | $16.00 | 9781479827480 THE DOCTORS’ DINNER PARTY

IBN BUṬLĀN

TRANSLATED BY

PHILIP F. KENNEDY AND JEREMY FARRELL FOREWORD BY EMILY GOWERS A witty satire of the medical profession

Offers a compelling look at how Orthodox Jewish LGBT persons in Israel became more accepted in their communities

CONDITIONAL BELONGING

FATE THE HUNTER EARLY ARABIC HUNTING POEMS

EDITED

EDITED BY JAMES E. MONTGOMERY FOREWORD BY ALICE OSWALD A rich anthology of preIslamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt

Groundbreaking essays by female activists and scholars documenting women’s resistance before, during, and after the Arab Spring

THE RACIALIZATION OF IRANIANS IN THE WAKE OF ANTI-MUSLIM POLITICS

SAHAR SADEGHI

ABŪ RAYḤĀN AL-BĪRŪNĪ TRANSLATED BY MARIO KOZAH

FOREWORD BY DAVID GORDON WHITE

300 PP | PAPER | $17.00

9781479813216 THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATAÑJALI

A groundbreaking exposition of Islamic mysticism 320 PP |

How race and politics have affected Iranian immigrants in the United States and Germany

A brilliant crosscultural Arabic interpretation of a key text of yoga philosophy

THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SUFI PATH

A DEFENSE OF THE MYSTICAL TRADITION IBN KHALDŪN

THE GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST LGBTI RIGHTS HOW TRANSNATIONAL CONSERVATIVE NETWORKS TARGET SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITIES

EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY CAROLYN BAUGH

PHILLIP M. AYOUB AND KRISTINA STOECKL

Sufism through the eyes of a legal scholar

An in-depth look at the global movement to curtail LGBTI rights

EDITED BY ESTHER FARMER, ROSALIND POLLACK PETCHESKY, AND SARAH SILLS

2022 Winner, Middle East Book Award

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$19.00

ISLAMOPHOBIA AND RACISM IN AMERICA

ERIK LOVE

Confronting and combating Islamophobia in America

IN OUR HEARTS

IYER ELFENBEIN

Argues that antiMuslim activity reveals how fear is corroding core American values

In North American Religions

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

EDITED BY SETENEY SHAMI AND CYNTHIA MILLER-IDRISS

The big-picture issues affecting the field In Social Science Research Council

MAN OF THE THEATER SURVIVAL AS AN ARTIST IN IRAN NASSER RAHMANINEJAD

Life in Iran as an artist under the Shah and during the Iranian Revolution

320 PP | PAPER

$21.95 | 9781613321102

DEMOCRACY

THE FORCE OF POLITICAL SETTLEMENTS IN UNCERTAIN TIMES

MANAL A. JAMAL

How Western donor assistance can both help and undermine democracy in different parts of the world

CLASSICAL ARABIC LITERATURE

A LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURE ANTHOLOGY

GEERT JAN VAN GELDER

A rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose

In Library of Arabic Literature

HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS

TRANSLATED BY BRUCE FUDGE FOREWORD BY ROBERT IRWIN

A luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder

In Library of Arabic Literature

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