Near east high res by Ollie

EGYPT, THE NEAR EAST, ISLAM & THE MIDDLE EAST

CONTENTS (ARRANGED BY PUBLISHER) WELCOME TO THE CASEMATE ACADEMIC EGYPT, NEAR EAST, ISLAM & MIDDLE EAST CATALOG ! Featured within is a fantastic array of the latest and forthcoming titles from our distributed publishers as well as our own imprint Oxbow Books. The catalog is divided into the three subject areas for ease of browsing with plenty of gems in every section. We are delighted to welcome newly distributed publishers Stacey International and Mimesis Edizioni in this catalog. Both publish in a broad range of subject areas; you can see Mimesis’ titles on the Near East on p11 and their titles on the Middle East on p19. Stacey International’s titles focusing on the Middle East are on p20. You’ll see that some titles have eBooks editions available. New eBooks are becoming available all the time so check out our website for the most up to date selection. You can download these digital editions from our own website and they are also available from your favorite eBook retailer. We look forward to seeing many of our customers at conferences in the coming months. Do stop by our booth to say hello. See the full list of conferences we will be attending at our website www.casemateacademic.com where you can also see the full range of titles available from us and find out more information about all the publishers featured in this catalog. With best wishes, The Casemate Academic Marketing Team

EGYPT Oxbow Books American Society of Papyrologists Archaeopress Archaeology Australian Centre for Egyptology British Museum Press Czech Institute of Egyptology Golden House Publications Griffith Institute Hirmer Verlag GmbH James Clarke & Company Lutterworth Press Oriental Institute for the University of Chicago Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology Journal of Juristic Papyrology Sidestone Press NEAR EAST Oxbow Books Archaeopress Archaeology British Institute for the Study of Iraq British Museum Press Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) Franz Steiner Verlag INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory) International Monographs in Prehistory Mimesis Edizioni Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Peabody Museum Publications Sidestone Press ISLAM & THE MIDDLE EAST Arabian Publishing Archaeopress Archaeology Aris & Phillips Oxbow Books Gibb Memorial Trust British Museum Press Franz Steiner Verlag James Clarke & Company Khalili Collections Legenda Lutterworth Press Medina Publishing Midsea Books Mimesis Edizioni Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) Pindar Press Silphium Press Stacey International

Front cover image from the title, “A City from the Dawn of History” by John MacGinnis (p. 8), courtesy of Oxbow Books.

1 2 2 3 4 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 8-9 10 10 10 10 11 11 11 11 12-13 13 13 14 14 14 14 15 16 16 17 17 17 17 18-19 19 19 19 19 19 20

Oxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology printing over 70 titles a year written by leading academic and individual researchers from around the world. the language of ramesses late egyptian grammar

radiocarbon and the chronologies of ancient egypt

By Francois Neveu & Maria Cannata

Edited by C. Bronk Ramsey & Andrew J. Shortland

François Neveu enables the reader to explore the Ramesside age through an understanding of Late Egyptian. This phase corresponds to the language spoken from the 17th to the 24th dynasty, which became a written language – used for private letters, administrative, legal and literary texts, as well as some official inscriptions – during the Amarna period (circa 1364 BC). The first part of the book covers the basics of the grammar, the morphology, while the second part is devoted to the syntax, covering first the verbal system and then the nominal forms. Two appendices, one devoted to interrogative constructions and another to syllabic writing, complete the work. The book incorporates the most recent work on the subject and the clarity with which Neveu presents linguistic and grammatical points, and the hundreds of examples used to illustrate the grammatical presentation, makes this the ideal tool for anyone interested in learning Late Egyptian grammar in order to read and understand texts from this period. These texts also introduce the reader to the daily life of the Deir el-Medina workers, the social movements that shook the community, the conspiracies at court, the embezzlement of some priests and other prominent community figures, major historical events, as well as the stories and novels studied and read by the society of the time. Maria Cannata’s translation makes this key work available in English for the first time. 9781782978688, $59.95, PB, 282p, NYP - due 2015, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $47.96 coptic documentary texts from kellis

This volume presents the findings of a major international project on the application of radiocarbon dating to the Egyptian historical chronology. Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Cranfield in the UK, along with a team from France, Austria and Israel, radiocarbon dated more than 200 Egyptian objects made from plant material from museum collections from all over the world. The results comprise an accurate scientifically based chronology of the kings of ancient Egypt obtained by the radiocarbon analysis of short-lived plant remains. The research sheds light on one of the most important periods of Egyptian history documenting the various rulers of Egypt's Old, Middle and New Kingdoms. Despite Egypt's historical significance, in the past the dating of events has been a contentious undertaking with Egyptologists relying on various chronologies made up from archaeological and historical records. The radiocarbon dates nail down a chronology that is broadly in line with previous estimates. However, they do rule out some chronologies that have been put forward particularly in the Old Kingdom, which is shown to be older than some scholars thought. The research has implications for the whole region because the Egyptian chronology anchors the timing of historical events in neighbouring areas tied to the reign of particular Egyptian kings. The results will allow for more historical comparisons to be made in countries like Libya and Sudan, which have conducted radiocarbon dating techniques on places of archaeological interest in the past. 9781842175224, $84, PB, 80 b/w & col illus, 192p, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $67.20

volume 2 p. kellis vii

current research in egyptology 2012

By Iain Gardner, Anthony Alcock & Wolf-Peter Funk

proceedings of the thirteenth annual symposium

Edited by Luke McGarrity, Carl Graves, Emily Millward, Marsia Sfakianou Bealby & Gabrielle Heﬀernan

This is the second volume on fourth century Coptic documents written on papyri and boards, found in the ruins of houses at Kellis, the Roman predecessor of the village of Ismant el-Kharab in the Dakhleh Oasis. It is concerned with 75 letters and associated household accounts and lists, mostly from House 3. The documents are transcribed and translated with commentary. Together, these two volumes break new ground in providing a unique insight into the social and economic relations of a sectarian group within a late antique village, and the opportunity to study that group’s interaction with other communities. They give voice to ordinary people and provide genuine insights into literacy and the role of women, communications and travel, multilingual society and normative forms of belief and practice. Dakhleh Oasis Project Monograph 16

The thirteenth Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) conference was held from the 27th – 30th March 2012 at the University of Birmingham and once again provided a platform for postgraduates and early career Egyptologists, as well as independent researchers, to present their research. These proceedings for CREXIII represent the wide-range of themes that were offered by delegates during the conference, and cover all periods of Egyptian history; from Predynastic skeletal analysis through to Egyptology during the Islamic Middle Ages. These twelve papers include gender studies, analysis of Egyptian festivals, revisiting of chronological models, archaeological reanalysis of ancient landscapes, as well as social, historical and linguistic studies allowing a new appraisal of many aspects of Egyptian culture and history. 13

9781782976516, $130, HB, b/w illus & CD of photos, 320p, 2015, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $104

9781782971566, $66, PB, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $52.80

current research in egyptology 14 (2013)

Edited by Kelly Accetta, Renate Fellinger, Pedro Lourenço Gonçalves, Sarah Musselwhite & W. Paul van Pelt The fourteenth Current Research in Egyptology conference, held at the University of Cambridge in March 2013 brought together speakers and attendees from six continents and hosted more than 50 presentations covering multiple aspects of Egyptology and its related fields. The aim of the conference was to cross cultural and disciplinary boundaries. The papers presented in these proceedings reflect this aim by presenting current research that draws on insights derived from anthropology, archaeology, archaeobotany, ethnography, organic chemistry, geography, linguistics, and law, amongst others. 9781782976875, $38, ePub, b/w images, 232p, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $30.40 9781782976899, $38, pdf Special Offer Price $30.40 9781782976868, $76, PB Special Offer Price $60.80

the oasis papers 6 proceedings of the sixth international conference of the dakhleh oasis project

Edited by Roger S. Bagnall, Paola Davoli & Colin A. Hope The Dakhleh Oasis Project is a long-term holistic investigation of the evolution of human populations in the changing environmental conditions of this isolated region in the Western Desert of Egypt. The Project began in 1978 and has combined survey and excavation to collect an extensive range of geological, environmental and archaeological data which covers the last 350,000 years of human occupation. This latest volume in the Monograph series publishing the results of the Project contains 41 papers with a wealth of new research and significant discoveries, from Prehistory, through Pharaonic and Roman times to the Christian period. Dakhleh Oasis Project Monograph 15 9781842175248, $160, HB, 512p, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $128

Use discount code 609-14 to receive special offer price

Featured are two of Casemate Academic’s distribution partners, American Society of Papyrologists and Archaeopress Archaeology. View more from these great publishers by visiting our website.

Announcing the New Series, Archaeopress Egyptology cultural expression in the old kingdom elite tomb

dating the tombs of the egyptian old kingdom

body, cosmos and eternity

By Joyce Swinton

research on

new trends of

By Sasha Verma Cultural Expression in the Old Kingdom Elite Tomb considers the material and immaterial culture left behind by the ancient Egyptian elite in their tombs starting some 5000 years ago. The book intends to understand this culture reflecting the ‘intention’ of the ancient Egyptians. All these ‘intentions’ are now inaccessible to us, a paradox indeed. The author starts by examining the ways in which other Egyptologists have understood tomb culture over the past century. Two main clusters of thought dominate the history of this topic, the literal and/or the symbolic meaning. The literal is a popular approach for the modern world; the symbolic encompasses the ancient Egyptians’ ideas about the meaning of life in this and the next world, and metaphysical perfection. The author uses a third mid-way course between the literal and the symbolic; i.e. an attempt to study the evidence in its reality and to search for common, universal factors which may be present and which may aid understanding. The result is an inventory, analysis and synthesis of the core components of Egyptian cultural dynamics as reflected in the iconographic evolution of Old Kingdom elite tombs. New horizons are opened up for describing and interpreting cultural data of many different levels. Archaeopress Egyptology 1

iconography

The decorated tombs of the Egyptian Old Kingdom offer detailed knowledge of a society that in all probability was the first nation state in history. Yet scholars continue to find it difficult to access the full potential of this great body of data because so few of the tombs can be dated with sufficient precision to provide a relative chronology for the evidence they offer. The system of dating these monuments presented here builds on the work of previous scholars. In this volume the author explains how the dating method was devised. This required establishing ‘life-spans’ for 104 criteria, features drawn from tomb iconography. The system is then applied to Memphite and provincial monuments spanning the Fourth to the Sixth Dynasties. The findings are that the more criteria a monument contains, the closer the system can narrow its date, certainly to a particular reign and within a generation in some cases. The final chapter analyzes and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the system. Archaeopress Egyptology 2 9781905739820, $68, PB, illus throughout in b/w, 198p, 2014, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $54.40

9781905739783, $80, PB, illus throughout in b/w, 294p, 2014, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $64 ships, saints and sealore cultural heritage and ethnography of the mediterranean and the red sea

Edited by Dionisius A. Agius, Timmy Gambin, Athena Trakadas & Harriet Nash Just as the sea has played a pivotal role in the connectivity of people, economies and cultures, it has also provided a common platform for inter-disciplinary cooperation amongst academics. This book is a selection of conference papers and other contributions that has seen the comingtogether of scholars and researchers from backgrounds as diverse as archaeology, history, ethnography, maritime and heritage studies of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. Its strength lies in the way such diversity has been harnessed to provide an engaging and insightful study of the sea and its influences on various factors of life - both past and present.

and symbolism of ancient egyptian coffins

Edited by Rogerio Sousa In February 2013, the Symposium Body, Cosmos and Eternity: the Symbolism of Coffins in Ancient Egypt convened at the historical building of the University of Porto to debate conceptual frameworks underlying the contemporary study of Egyptian coffins. Rising from the close association with the depiction of the mummified body, the anthropoid coffins soon absorbed a rich mythological imaginary related to the constellation of Nut, the mother goddess of the sky supposed to give birth to Osiris, and evolved continuously, integrating larger and more complex sets of beliefs, mirroring the increasingly bolder use of coffins in the funerary rituals. It was this complex set of beliefs involving the coffin that we proposed to explore in this series of symposia. Following our original purpose, the studies presented in this volume display an excellent overview on the new trends of research on coffin studies, with diverse contributions concerned either with symbolism or social significance of coffins, museums´ collections or archaeological finds. These studies superbly showcase the richness of coffins as documental sources for the study of Egyptian religion, economy and society. Archaeopress Egyptology 3 9781784910020, $52.50, PB, illus throughout in col & b/w, 211p, 2014, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $42 papyrological texts in honor of roger s. bagnall

Edited by Rodney Ast, Hélène Cuvigny, Todd Hickey & Julia Lougovaya The volume contains 70 new or substantially revised editions of documentary and non-documentary papyri and ostraca from Egypt edited by an international team of specialists. Texts span the 7th century B.C.E. to the 9th century C.E. They are written mainly in Greek but also in Latin, Egyptian, and Arabic. Each text is accompanied by a translation, line-by-line commentary, and photo. The volume includes the standard indices found in papyrological text editions. American Studies in Papyrology 53 9780979975868, $69.95, HB, 392p, 2013, American Society of Papyrologists Special Oﬀer Price $55.96

9781905739950, $64, PB, illus throughout in b/w, 180p, 2014, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $51.20

To view full details including contents listings on our website - visit www.casemateacademic.com

Macquarie University was the first Australian institution to introduce a full training program in Egyptology and to conduct Australian-based expeditions to excavate, record and preserve Egyptian sites. Under the auspices of the A.C.E site reports and research studies are published and distributed to scholars throughout the world. beni hassan

the cemetery of meir

volume i: the tomb of khnumhotep ii

volume i: the tomb of pepyankh-the middle

By Naguib Kanawati, Linda Evans & Anna-Latifa Mourad

By Eﬀy Alexakis, A. L. Mourad, S. Shafik & Naguib Kanawati

The magnificent tomb of Khnumhotep II has never been completely recorded in drawing and photographs since its pioneering publication by P. E. Newberry in 1893. This report comprises detailed colored plates, complete line drawings as well as the translation and interpretation of all the scenes and inscriptions in the tomb. The commentary includes studies on the tomb architecture, the extensive biography of the owner, the represented arrival of the Asiatics, and the depicted flora and fauna. Australian Centre for Egyptology: Reports 36 9780856688461, $170, PB, 104 col plts & 44 b/w folded plts, 82p, NYP - due 2014, Australian Centre for Egyptology Pre-Publication Price $136 the old kingdom cemetery at tehna, volume i the tombs of nikaiankh i, nikaiankh ii and kaihep

By Elizabeth M. Thompson The early Old Kingdom tombs at Tehna are cut into the eastern escarpment bordering the Nile, some 12 kilometers north of Minya in Upper Egypt. The cemetery consists of more than 15 rockcut tombs, 3 of which are illustrated and described in this first volume of the site. Complete with detailed color illustrations and line drawings, the book records the wall scenes, sculpture, architecture, finds and a translation of inscriptions including a rare legal document in the tomb of Nikaiankh I. ACE Reports 35 9780856688652, $150, PB, 48 col plts & 18 b/w plts including 12 folded plts, 102p, 2014, Australian Centre for Egyptology Special Oﬀer Price $120

The tomb of Pepyankh-the Middle is completely preserved, containing valuable information on various aspects of the Egyptian provincial administration and on daily life in the Sixth Dynasty. Both burial shafts of the tomb owner and his wife end in beautifully decorated and extremely well preserved burial chambers. This book presents a new record in line drawings and coloured photographs of all architectural and artistic features of the entire chapel and burial apartments. ACE Reports 31 9780856688454, $150, PB, 82 pages of text, 72 colour photographs, 25 line drawings, 2012, Australian Centre for Egyptology Special Oﬀer Price $120 the chapel of kahai and his family the tombs of nikaiankh i, nikaiankh ii and kaihep

By Miral Lashien The tomb of Kahai and his family was previously published only in black and white photographs by Moussa and Altenmüller under the title of The Tomb of Nefer and Ka-Hay. As one of the most colorful tombs of the Old Kingdom, the present publication offers magnificently rich color plates and context line drawings showing all the intricate details of the scenes and inscriptions. As such, this monograph is a significant addition to the study of Egyptian art in the Old Kingdom. Contrary to the belief that Nefer prepared the joint tomb for himself and his father Kahai, the author shows that we have here a rare case of a son dying before his father with the latter adding an alcove dedicated for his son in his chapel. Other sons of Kahai were later included in the decoration, making this a true family burial place. ACE Reports 33 9780856688362, $150, PB, 76 col plts (148 photos) & 11 b&w plts including folded plts, 56p, 2013, Australian Centre for Egyptology Special Oﬀer Price $120 behind the scenes

the cemetery of meir

daily life in old kingdom egypt

volume ii: the tomb of pepyankh the black

Edited by A. McFarlane & A. L. Mourad

By Naguib Kanawati & Linda Evans The tomb of Pepyankh the Black (D2) at Meir was published by Blackman in his series The Rock Tombs of Meir (vol. 5, London, 1953). The Australian Centre for Egyptology (ACE) rerecorded all the scenes and inscriptions in the chapel after these had been conserved by the Supreme Council of Antiquities, with many additional details surfacing. The ACE has also undertaken conservation work in the burial chamber which yielded interesting information on the decoration of burial chambers in the Old Kingdom. The tomb is one of the most completely decorated and preserved provincial tombs of the Old Kingdom with scenes covering various themes from the life of the tomb owner as well as the most complete scenes of the funerary procession. All the scenes and inscriptions are published in detailed, colored photographs as well as line drawings. They are accompanied by a textual description of the scenes, translation of the hieroglyphic texts and a comparative analysis with other contemporary tombs. ACE Reports 34 9780856688416, $150, PB, 67 col plts (128 photos) & 31 b&w plts mostly folded plts, 66p, 2013, Australian Centre for Egyptology Special Oﬀer Price $120

Scenes from the Old Kingdom tombs represent our main sources for the study of daily life of private individuals. Written by a number of specialists with years of research, this monograph deals with various aspects of life in ancient Egypt, presented in an accessible manner to the scholar and lay-person alike. Richly illustrated with an excellent selection of photographs and drawings, the book aims to bring the reader as close as possible to the Egyptian sources, allowing them to delve into the world behind the scenes. ACE Studies 10 9780856688607, $100, PB, 59 col plts & 167 b/w drawings, 196p, 2013, Australian Centre for Egyptology Special Oﬀer Price $80 bulletin of the australian centre for egyptology volume 24 (2013)

Bulletin of the ACE 24 9781741384086, $35, PB, 2013, Australian Centre for Egyptology Special Oﬀer Price $28

Use discount code 609-14 to receive special offer price

The British Museum Press publishes award-winning illustrated books for general readers, families, academics and students. Inspired by the famous collections of the British Museum, titles range across the fine and decorative arts, history, archaeology and world cultures. ancient lives new discoveries

tell dafana reconsidered

eight mummies, eight stories

the archaeology of an egyptian

By John H. Taylor & Daniel Antoine

frontier town

By Francois Leclere & Jeﬀrey Spencer In recent years, British Museum curators have collaborated with scientists and medical experts to find new ways of studying ancient Egyptian mummies. Ever-developing, non-invasive scanning techniques have produced astonishing results, allowing us to understand more clearly how people lived and died in the ancient Nile Valley. Piecing together key biographical data and information, it has been possible for the first time to discover more about who these people were in ancient Egyptian society, their status and beliefs. Eight significant mummies are ‘explored’, each carefully selected to tell a different story. They include a young female temple singer, an unknown man of high status, and a child from the Roman era. For each of the mummies featured, a personal profile is built up, leading on to an investigation of a particular aspect of life or death in the ancient society to which they belonged. Diet, disease, personal adornment and childhood are just some of the themes covered and help to remind us that all the mummies were once living people. CT scans have revealed a wealth of information, such as the health problems that the individual must have suffered during life, age at death and sometimes cause of death, the manner of mummification and on occasion irregularities in the process. Illustrated throughout with astonishing CT images (segments and 3D models), the book reveals each stage of the virtual unwrapping. As each layer is removed, the reader is able to observe the bandages, skin, muscles, skeleton and internal organs, as well as any objects placed inside the mummies. Technology is transforming our understanding of these past inhabitants of the Nile valley, refining previous interpretations and providing answers to long-held questions. In some cases, we have at last been able to ‘see’ the person behind the mask. Funerary objects are also highlighted for context: for example, non-invasive imaging of the contents of canopic jars; analyses of embalming substances, and identification of wood species and pigment types used in coffins. The majority of the material is drawn from the British Museum’s extensive Egypt and Sudan collections. 9780714119120, $34.95, PB, 225 col illus, 192p, 2014, British Museum Press Special Oﬀer Price $27.96 colossal statue of ramesses ii

By Anna Garnett Ramesses II, King of Egypt (1279–1213 BC) ascended the throne as the third king of the Nineteenth Dynasty at the age of twenty-five. In his sixty-seven year reign he probably built more temples and sired more children than any other Egyptian king. Today, he is popularly known as Ramesses 'the great'. Beautifully illustrated with photographs of the statue and contextual images, this book tells the story of this magnificent artifact, discussing the draw of colossal Egyptian sculpture and the history of the reign of Ramesses II. Objects in Focus 9780714151090, $8.50, PB, 30 illus, 64p, NYP - due 2015, British Museum Press Pre-Publication Price $6.80 standard of ur

By Sarah Collins The Standard of Ur is one of the most famous objects to be discovered from ancient Mesopotamia. This beautifully illustrated short introduction tells the story of discovery and significance of this splendid object. Objects in Focus 9780714151137, $8.50, PB, 30 illus, 64p, NYP - due 2015, British Museum Press Pre-Publication Price $6.80

A comprehensive re-evaluation of the objects discovered in the 1886 excavation at Tell Dafana and a new assessment of the site’s significance from the seventh to the fifth century BC. British Museum Research Publication 196 9780861591992, $80.00, PB, 70 maps, 206p, NYP - due 2014, British Museum Press Pre-Publication Price $64

kom firin ii the urban fabric and landscape

By Neal Spencer The second and final publication of the British Museum's fieldwork at Kom Firin, presenting key findings from the western Nile Delta, a little-explored yet strategically important area of Egypt. Focusing on two principal areas of the excavations, inside the north-eastern corner of the New Kingdom enclosure and an area of Saite occupation, this new research publication offers a detailed discussion of artefact assemblages, faunal remains, the ancient landscape and a chapter on modern Kom Firin. British Museum Research Publication 192 9780861591923, $120, PB, 200 site images, finds & ceramics drawings & images, fold out maps & site plans, 304p, 2014, British Museum Press Special Oﬀer Price $96 kom firin i the ramesside temple and the site survey

By Neal Spencer This is the first monograph on the British Museum fieldwork at Kom Firin in Egypt's Nile Delta, a settlement created around the time of Ramses II, and occupied until late Antiquity. This volume focuses on the survey and remote sensing of the site, along with a full publication of the Ramesside temple. British Museum Research Publication 170 9780861591701, $90, PB, 240 half-tones, 80 line drawings, 16 full colour images, with fold-out maps, 200p, 2008, British Museum Press Special Oﬀer Price $72 egyptian stelae in the british museum from the 13th - 17th dynasties volume i, fascicule i: descriptions

By M. Marée & D. Franke The British Museum holds the largest collection of Middle Kingdom stelae outside Egypt. This is the first full publication of the collection: the scenes and inscriptions of each of the 42 stelae are described in detail, with textual notes and explanatory diagrams. This is an outstanding work of scholarship by unrivaled authorities in the field. The scenes and inscriptions of each of the forty-two stelae are described in detail, with full translations, textual notes and explanatory diagrams. Each catalog entry includes a wide-ranging general commentary on phraseology, formulae and titles, on the importance of each stela in its historical and social context, and on aspects of epigraphy and iconography. Wherever possible, stela owners are identified and family trees given. 1 9780714119878, $120, HB, 48 b/w plts & 6 col plts, 288p, 2013, British Museum Press Special Oﬀer Price $96

To view full details including contents listings on our website - visit www.casemateacademic.com

Featured are two of Casemate Academic’s distribution partners, Czech Institute of Egyptology and Golden House Publications. View more from these great publishers by visiting our website. bahriya oasis

a good scribe and exceedingly wise man

recent research into the past of an

studies in honour of w.j. tait

egyptian oasis

Edited by A. Dodson, J. Johnston & W. Monkhouse

Edited by Marek Dospěl & Lenka Suková Through its 14 chapters, this book presents the outcomes of the recent exploration of Bahriya, an Egyptian oasis located in the Western Desert about 350 km south-west of Cairo. Part I of the volume is devoted to the southern part of the Oasis (also known as El-Hayz) and the exploration carried out there by the team led by the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague. Part II concentrates on the northern part of the same oasis bringing forth the results of scholarly research by the French team led by Université de Strasbourg. Complementing the two parts is Part III with the final chapter which deals with water-management in the Western Desert as a whole. Containing chapters written by archaeologists, Egyptologists, philologists and natural scientists, this richly illustrated book attempts at providing as comprehensive picture of the past of the Bahriya Oasis as can be drawn from the hitherto research, encompassing a wide range of aspects from settlement history and environment to material culture and written evidence. 9788073084578, $146, HB, 8 pages of col plts, 314p, 2013, Czech Institute of Egyptology Special Oﬀer Price $116.80 authentizität, artefakt und versprechen in der archäologie, workshop vom 10. bis 12. mai 2013, ägyptisches museum der universität bonn series: internet-beiträge zur ägyptologie und sudanarchäologie xv

Edited by Martin Fitzenreiter The volumes presents a collection of conference papers on authenticity of antiquities, but also five essays on authenticity in general. Articles include one on fake Egyptian Book of the Dead papyri and one on the Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt and fakes at the beginning of the Twentieth century. Three articles present case studies on specific museum collections. Eleven articles in German, two in English. 9781906137359, $50, PB, 154p, 2014, German text, Golden House Publications Special Oﬀer Price $40 prehistoric egypt, socioeconomic transformations in north-east africa from the last glacial maximum to the neolithic, 24.000 to 4.000 bc

By G. J. Tassie

A volume of essays honouring the ongoing career of Professor John Tait, Emeritus Edwards Professor of Egyptology at University College London, and Vice-President of the Egypt Exploration Society, by his friends, colleagues and students. Subjects covered range from Middle Kingdom tomb-furnishings, through texts in a range of ancient languages to modern biography, reflecting the wide range of interests of Professor Tait. GHP Egyptology 21 9781906137335, $120, PB, 348p, 2014, Golden House Publications Special Oﬀer Price $96 gedanken und materialien zur frühgeschichte der mathematik in ägypten

By Walter F. Reineke Egyptian mathematical texts are known from 2nd millennium BC papyri., but it is clear that the knowledge preserved there is often much older. The book looks at evidence for mathematics in the 4th and 3rd millennium BC. This work is an habilitation written in the 1980s and only know published. Studies from the Internet on Egyptology and Sudanarchaeology XVI 9781906137342, $60, PB, 224p, 2014, German text, Golden House Publications Special Oﬀer Price $48 what did the poor take with them? an investigation into ancient egyptian eighteenth and nineteenth dynasty grave assemblages of the non-elite from qau, badari, matmar and gurob

By Eileen Goulding This study investigates the grave assemblages of the non-elite during the New Kingdom, using several different burial sites. Based on the author’s database of over 3,000 artifacts, the statistical results will indicate if there was any noticeable shift in funerary practices from the early Eighteenth Dynasty to the end of the Nineteenth Dynasty, from an emphasis on replicating an earthly life after death by including practical, daily-life articles, to a more religious attitude, which necessitated the inclusion of a greater number of religious artifacts. Interpretation of the results may give some insight into the sociological and religious framework of the time, and if and why it changed. 9781906137328, $50, PB, 136p, 2013, Golden House Publications Special Oﬀer Price $40 going out in daylight – prt m hrw the ancient egyptian book of the dead

Prehistoric Egypt, Socioeconomic Transformations in North-east Africa from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Neolithic, 24.000 to 4.000 BC takes a supra-regional approach to the environmental and socioeconomic landscapes of SW Asia and NE Africa across this crucial period. Using a rich array of empirical data combined with a holistic theoretical approach, this book challenges many of the current ideas on the beginnings of food production in North-east Africa, and the secondary effects this transition had on human settlements and cultures. Some of the key issues examined include the autochtonous domestication of cattle in the Eastern Sahara, the development of different pottery techno-complexes, the role of the Sinai and the Negev in the spread of ovicaprines, and the mechanisms by which domesticated wheat, barley and other domesticated species entered Egypt.This book is essential reading for anybody interested in the origins of the ancient Egyptian civilization.

First full illustrated translation with Egyptian transliteration, aiming to present with their individual histories all the compositions on prt m hrw "Book of the Dead" papyri from the New Kingdom to Ptolemaic Period. The volume gives at least one version of every written composition, together with one or more images for the essential pictorial component of all writings for which illustrations are known. Writings at the margins or outside the prt m hrw corpus, including all ascribed "Book of the Dead" numbers in Egyptological publications, are included in the final section. The translations are supported by a thematic and historical introduction and closing glossary. GHP Egyptology 20

9781906137304, $150, PB, b/w illus, 540p, 2014, Golden House Publications Special Oﬀer Price $120

9781906137311, $140, PB, 641p, 2013, Golden House Publications Special Oﬀer Price $112

translation, sources, meanings

By Stephen Quirke

Use discount code 609-14 to receive special offer price

decorum and experience: essays on ancient culture for john baines

niebuhr in egypt

Edited by Elizabeth Frood & Angela McDonald

By Roger H. Guichard Jr.

This diverse collection of papers aims to reflect a broad area of subjects that have captured John Baines’ interests over the years, focusing in particular on the Ancient Egyptian world. The first part of the volume is made up of papers on the written word, text and language, and the second part focuses on the sensory world of art, religion and experience. The final section of the book consists of essays on the politics, value and landscape of ancient culture. 9780900416927, $120, HB, b/w illus throughout, 304p, 2013, Griﬃth Institute Special Oﬀer Price $96 kleopatra die ewige diva

Cleopatra was Egypt’s last pharaoh, Julius Caesar’s lover, and shared Mark Antony’s fate. She was a legend and has inspired the imagination of many generations. This volume presents her many faces, from antiquity to present-day pop culture. 9783777420882, $58, HB, 360 illus, 336p, 2013, German text, Hirmer Verlag GmbH Special Oﬀer Price $46 the manichaean codices of medinet madi

By James M. Robinson The seven Manichaean papyrus codices of the fourth or fifth century were discovered in illicit excavation in 1929 in the Egyptian desert. They were acquired in about equal halves by A. Chester Beatty for his library and by Carl Schmidt for the papyrus collection of the Staatliche Museen of Berlin. Having had access to the inventories, correspondence, and files in Berlin, Robinson provides translations of the German and French documents to increase access to information previously unavailable to the scholarly community. He narrates the slow and problem-ridden path of the acquisition, conservation, and editing of these important works, including their movements between dealers, collectors, scholars, and the military in Egypt, London, Dublin, Berlin, Schondorf, Göttingen, Warsaw, Leningrad, Los Angeles, Claremont, and Copenhagen. 9780227175040, $50, PB, 10 tbls, 342p, NYP - due 2014, James Clarke & Co Pre-Publication Price $40 the story of the bodmer papyri from the first monaster's library in upper egypt to geneva and dublin

By James M. Robinson The United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) entrusted author James Robinson with tracking down the place where the Nag Hammadi Codices had been discovered. Priests whom the author interviewed in the region told Robinson that the codices had once been in the possession of a priest in the town of Dishna, a bit further upstream than Nag Hammadi itself. Robinson found that this priest had not had the Nag Hammadi Codices but rather the Bodmer Papyri. For Dishna is where the monastery headquarters of the first monastic order was located. The Bodmer Papyri discovery consisted of all that was left of the library of the Pachomian monastic order: Coptic letters of Pachomius and very early Greek copies of Luke and John, perhaps donated when Athanasius was in hiding at the monastery. These treasures were preserved in a jar hidden in the mountain where monks were buried. This book traces the story of the Bodmer Papyri from beginning to end. 9780227172780, $40, PB, 224p, 2013, James Clarke & Co Special Oﬀer Price $32

european science in a biblical world

When Roger H. Guichard Jr. discovered a French translation of the works of Carsten Niebuhr, sole survivor of the 1761–1767 Royal Danish Expedition to the Yemen, he was astounded. 'They were not just another dry account of one man’s travels, but represented the record of a serious intellectual enterprise involving Enlightenment science, sacred philology, the Bible as history, “Orientalism,” Egyptology, and discovery'. Having translated them from French to English, and then cross-referenced his translations with the original German texts, 'Niebuhr in Egypt' is not, as one might expect, simply a presentation of his translation. 9780718893354, $55, PB, 24 b/w illus, 354p, 2014, Lutterworth Press Special Oﬀer Price $44 thonis-heracleion in context

Edited by Damian Robinson & Franck Goddio This book presents the papers delivered at the symposium Heracleion in Context held in Oxford in March 2013. Scholars explore the maritime trading economy of the Egyptian port of Thonis-Heracleion during the Late Period and place it within the wider context of maritime trade at this time. Thonis-Heracleion was the gateway to Egypt, the obligatory port of entry and customs point, and a vital node in the trading network of the eastern Mediterranean through which goods flowed into and out of Egypt. Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology Monograph 8 9781905905331, $90, HB, NYP - due 2014, Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology Pre-Publication Price $72 creativity and innovation in the reign of hatshepsut occasional proceedings of the theban workshop

Edited by José M. Galán, Betsy M. Bryan & Peter F. Dorman This volume publishes the proceedings of the Theban Symposium that took place in May 2010, in Granada, Spain, at the Institute for Arabic Studies of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), on the general theme of “Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut.” The volume contains nineteen papers that present new perspectives on the reign of Hatshepsut and the early New Kingdom. The authors address a range of topics, including the phenomenon of innovation, the Egyptian worldview, politics, state administration, women’s issues and the use of gender, cult and rituals, mortuary practices, and architecture. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 69 9781614910244, $64.95, PB, 284 figs & 6 tbls, 442p, 2014, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Special Oﬀer Price $51.96 bir umm fawakhir 3 excavations 1999-2001

By Carol Meyer, with contributions by Lisa A. Heidorn, Salima Ikram, Richard L. Jaeschke, Thomas C. Roby, and Wendy Smith Bir Umm Fawakhir 3 is the last of the final reports on the archaeological surveys and excavations at the Byzantine site of Bir Umm Fawakhir in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt; it remains the only intensively studied ancient Egyptian goldmining operation, and one of very few completely mapped towns of the era. Along with other recent excavations and surveys, it demonstrates the Byzantine empire’s continuing activities in the Eastern Desert, not abandonment, as had long been believed. Oriental Institute Publications 141 9781614910206, $64.95, HB, 48 figures, 132 plates, 9 tables, 2014, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Special Oﬀer Price $51.96

To view full details including contents listings on our website - visit www.casemateacademic.com

Featured are two of Casemate Academic’s distribution partners, Journal of Juristic Papyrology and Sidestone Press. View more from these great publishers by visiting our website. loi et coutume dans l’égypte grecque et romaine

catalogue of the footwear in the coptic museum (cairo)

les facteurs de formation du droit en égypte

By Andre J. Veldmeijer & Salima Ikram

d'alexandre le grand à la conquête arabe

By Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski The book is devoted to the sources of law from Egypt during the millennium from the rule of Alexander the Great (332 B.C.) till Arab conquest. They are known through documents, mostly Greek, but also Egyptian and Latin, written on papyri, which since the XIX century occupy the historians of law. The work is divided/organized into two parts according to chronological order. The study of law sources introduces the reader to the variety of problems steming from the papyrological documents. In the époque of European Integration this subject calls for the highest attention of historians and lawyers. JJP Supplements XXI 9788393842506, $136, HB, 381p, NYP - due 2014, French text, Journal of Juristic Papyrology Pre-Publication Price $108.80 the rise of nobadia social changes in northern nubia in late antiquity

By Artur Obłuski

This catalog presents the ancient Egyptian footwear in the collection of the Coptic Museum in Cairo. The catalogue contains detailed descriptions and measurements, photographs and drawings. Each description of a footwear category is followed by short discussions, addressing topics such as typology and dating. In addition a fairly large corpus of comparative material is presented as well, none of which has been published before. The present work will form an important resource for future study. This catalogue is one of the results of the Nuffic Tailor Made Training for the curators of the Coptic Museum in Cairo, jointly organized by the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo and the American University in Cairo in close collaboration with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Coptic Museum Authorities and the Ministry of State for Antiquities Affairs. 9789088902536, $120, PB, 129 col & 202 b/w, 330p, NYP - due 2014, Sidestone Press Pre-Publication Price $96 chasing chariots

The author of this book presents an innovative approach to the history of Nubia. The period covered includes the fall of Meroe and the rise of the united kingdom of Nobadia and Makuria. The emphasis was put on the analysis of social and political change/dynamics/transformations. Moreover some major improvements of the chronological nomenclature have been suggested. To date, it has been largely influenced by the early 20th cent. politically incorrect approach to African cultures and the contemporary state of research. The author implies that there is actually no reason which would compel modern scholars to study and describe the history of Nubia in other ways than the rest of the world. It means that all studies postdating this path-breaking book should be based on actual political changes and not vague racial or religious criteria. JJP Supplements XX 9788392591993, $92, HB, 5 maps, 6 charts & 21 figs, 240p, NYP - due 2014, Journal of Juristic Papyrology Pre-Publication Price $73.60 old nubian texts from qasr ibrim (p. qi4)

By Giovanni Ruﬃni British excavations at the important archaeological site of Qasr Ibrim have yielded numerous written sources composed in Greek, Coptic, Old Nubian, and Arabic. However, only a small number of them have been published so far, among them some sixty Old Nubian texts, both literary and documents. They were edited between 1988 and 1991 by Gerald Michael Browne. After twenty years of stagnation in this field, Ruffini took up the task initiated by Browne and produced the edition of further sixty-two Old Nubian texts, this time only documents. Texts included in this volume supplement Ruffini’s 2012 monograph (Medieval Nubia. A Social and Economic History) and provide illustrattion for his recosntruciotn of social and economic life of the Middle Nile Valley in the 12th–14th century. The Journal of Juristic Papyrology: Supplements 22 9788393842513, $70, HB, 70 illus, 350p, NYP - due 2014, Journal of Juristic Papyrology Pre-Publication Price $56 jjp 42 (2012) journal of juristic papyrology

Edited by Tomasz Derda, Adam Łajtar & Jakub Urbanik $86, HB, 2013, English/Italian/French/German text, Journal of Juristic Papyrology Pre-Publication Price $68.80

proceedings of the first international chariot conference (cairo 2012)

Edited by Andre J. Veldmeijer & Salima Ikram The present work is the result of the First International Chariot Conference, jointly organized by the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) and the American University in Cairo (AUC) (30 November to 2 December 2012). The intention of the conference was to make a broad assessment of the current state of knowledge about chariots in Egypt and the Near East, and to provide a forum for discussion. A wide variety of papers are included, ranging from overviews to more detailed studies focusing on a specific topic. These include philology, iconography, archaeology, engineering, history, and conservation. The book is of interest to scholars as well as anyone with an interest in ancient technology, transportation, or warfare. Dr. André J. Veldmeijer is Assistant Director for Egyptology of the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo and has worked as archaeologist in Egypt since 1995 as specialist in, among others, leatherwork and footwear. Dr. Salima Ikram is Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, and has worked as an archaeologist in Egypt since 1986. 9789088902093, $100, PB, 126 b/w & 89 col illus, 270p, 2013, Sidestone Press Special Oﬀer Price $80 9789088902109, $20.99, pdf Special Oﬀer Price $16.79 leatherwork from qasr ibrim (egypt). part i footwear from the ottoman period

By Andre J. Veldmeijer Throughout its long history, stretching from the 25th Dynasty (c. 752-656 BC) to the Ottoman Period (c. 15001811 AD), Qasr Ibrim was one of the most important settlements in Egyptian Nubia. The site has produced an unprecedented wealth of material and due to the – even for Egypt – extraordinary preservation circumstances, includes objects that are made of perishable organic materials, such as wood, leather, and flax. The present volume focuses on one of these groups: footwear that is made from leather and dated to the Ottoman Period. The footwear, recovered during the years that the Egypt Exploration Society worked at the site, is described in detail, including a pictorial record consisting of photographs and drawings (both technical and artist’s impressions). 9789088900969, $170, PB, 500 fc & 20 b/w illus, 462p, 2013, Sidestone Press Special Oﬀer Price $136 9789088901720, $20.99, pdf Special Oﬀer Price $16.79

Use discount code 609-14 to receive special offer price

mari

Edited by Marjan Mashkour & Mark Beech

capital of northern mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium.

ARCH This two part volume brings together over 60 specialists to present ARCHAEOZ 31 papers on the latest research into archaeozoology of the Near of theEast. The papers are wide-ranging in terms of period and geographical coverage: from Palaeolithic rock shelter assemblages in Syria to Byzantine remains in Palestine and from the Caucasus to Cyprus. Papers are grouped into thematic sections examining M arjan M patterns of Palaeolithic and Neolithic subsistence in northern Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Iranian plateau; Palaeolithic to Neolithic faunal remains from Armenia; animal exploitation in Bronze Age urban sites; new evidence concerning pastoralism, nomadism and mobility; aspects of domestication and animal exploitation in the Arabian peninsula; several case studies on ritual animal deposits; and specific analyses of patterns of animal exploitation at urban sites in Turkey, Palestine and Jordan. 9781782978442, $76, HB, b/w & col illus, 464p, NYP - due 2015, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $60.80 defining the sacred approaches to the archaeology of religion in the near east

Edited by Nicola Laneri Religion is a phenomenon that is inseparable from human society. It brings about a set of emotional, ideological and practical elements that are pervasive in the social fabric of any society and characterizable by a number of features. these include the establishment of intermediaries in the relationship between humans and the divine; the construction of ceremonial places for worshipping the gods and practicing ritual performances; and the creation ritual paraphernalia. The aim of this collection of papers is to attempt to bridge these two dimensions by breaking down existing boundaries in order to form a more comprehensive vision of religion among ancient Near Eastern societies. 9781782976790, $50, PB, b/w illus, 200p, NYP - due 2015, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $40 the archaeology and history of the southern transjordan/edomite plateau and the dead sea rift valley to the west the bronze age through the islamic period

(3800/3700 bc–ad 1917)

By Burton MacDonald Burton MacDonald presents an in-depth study of the archaeology and history of human presence over the past five-six thousand years in the southern segment of the Transjordan/Edomite Plateau and the Dead Sea Rift Valley to the west. The evidence from archaeology for the area spans the entire period though the time for which literary evidence is available is only the past 4000 years, from the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 BC). Once literary evidence is available, however, it complements the archaeological record and, as can be amply demonstrated, the written records can be clarified only through the archaeological data. 9781782978329, $120, HB, b/w & col illus, 208p, NYP - due 2015, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $90 ancient irrigation systems of the aral sea area the history, origin, and development of irrigated agriculture

By B. V. Adrianov & Simone Mantellini Ancient Irrigation Systems in the Aral Sea Area, is the English translation of Boris Vasilevich Andrianov's work, Drevnie orositelnye sistemy priaralya , concerning the study of ancient irrigation systems and the settlement pattern in the historical region of Khorezm, south of the Aral Sea (Uzbekistan). This work holds a special place within the Soviet archaeological school because of the results obtained through a multidisciplinary approach combining aerial survey and fieldwork, surveys, and excavations. American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph 9781842173848, $35, HB, 300p, NYP - due 2014, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $26

the archaeology of tell hariri on the euphrates

By Jean-Claude Margueron According to archaeological evidence gleaned over more than 70 years, Mari appears to have been the most important city in northern Mesopotamia from its foundation at about 2950 BC to 1760 BC. Situated at the heart of a river system and progressively linked with an overland network, Mari was the city that controlled the relations of central and southern Mesopotamia. The evidence shows that there was not one city of Mari, but three successive cities, each having specific features. 9781782977315, $70, HB, b/w illus, 176p, NYP - due 2014, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $52 documentary sources in ancient near eastern and greco-roman economic history methodology and practice

Edited by Heather D. Baker & Michael Jursa This volume breaks new ground in approaching the Ancient Economy by bringing together documentary sources from Mesopotamia and the Greco-Roman world. Addressing textual corpora that have traditionally been studied separately, the collected papers overturn the conventional view of a fundamental divide between the economic institutions of these two regions. 9781782977582, $66, HB, b/w illus, 336p, NYP - due 2014, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $49.50 the land of assur and the yoke of assur studies on assyria 1971-2005

By J. Nicholas Postgate This book brings together a selection of twenty-eight previously disparate articles by Nicholas Postgate that represent some thirty years of engagement with the nature of Assyrian society and government. Most are broadly synthetic and deal with general issues; they are a tremendous body of work, and this will be an invaluable collection for everyone interested in Assyria. 9781782977414, $55, PB, b/w illus, 368p, NYP - due 2014, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $44 a city from the dawn of history erbil in the cuneiform sources

By John MacGinnis The city of Erbil, which now claims to be one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, lies on the rich alluvial plains at the foot of the piedmont of the Zagros mountains in a strategic position which made it a natural gateway between Iran and Mesopotamia. This work is dedicated to the cuneiform sources. Together these include hundreds of documents stretching from the late third millennium to the mid first millennium BC. 9781782977971, $45, PB, fully col illus, 148p, NYP - due 2014, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $34 wool economy in the ancient near east and the aegean from the beginnings of sheep husbandry to institutional textile industry

Edited by Catherine Breniquet & Cécile Michel The history of the Ancient Near East covers a huge chronological frame, from the first pictographic texts of the late 4th millennium to the conquest of Alexander the Great in 333 BC. The 22 papers presented here explore the place of wool in the ancient economy of the region, where large-scale textile production began during the second half of the 3rd millennium. Ancient Textiles Series 17 9781782976318, $60, HB, b/w & some col images, 400p, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $48

To view full details including contents listings on our website - visit www.casemateacademic.com

By Benjamin Mutin & C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky

textile terminologies in the ancient near east and mediterranean from the third to the first millennia bc

Edited by Cécile Michel & Marie-Louise Nosch The site of Tepe Yahya in southeastern Iran is famous, among other important aspects, for the Proto-Elamite complex dated to around 3000 BC (Period IVC). The material culture of Period IVC is not exclusively limited to its Proto-Elamite component, but is also characterized by the presence of elements from other Middle-Asian cultural ceramic traditions. In addition to a synthesis of the Proto-Elamite period and the material assemblage at Tepe Yahya, The Proto-Elamite Settlement and Its Neighbors provides an updated review and comprehensive discussion of the Proto-Elamite sphere, its relations to Mesopotamia, and its eastern Middle Asian neighbors. American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph 9781782974192, $40, HB, 2014, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $32 ancient iran and its neighbours local developments and long-range interactions in the

4th millennium bc

Edited by Cameron A. Petrie The fourth millennium BC was a critical period of socioeconomic and political transformation in the Iranian Plateau, witnessing the appearance of the world’s earliest urban centres, hierarchical administrative structures, and writing systems. 20 papers illustrate forcefully how the re-evaluation of old excavation results, combined with much new research, has dramatically expanded our knowledge and understanding of local developments on the Iranian Plateau and of long-range interactions during the critical period of the fourth millennium BC. The British Institute of Persian Studies Archaeological Monographs Series III 9781782972273, $115, HB, b/w & col illus, 400p, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $92 the neolithisation of iran

Edited by Roger Matthews & Hassan Fazeli Nashli The period c. 10,000–5000 BC witnessed fundamental changes in the human condition with societies across the Fertile Crescent shifting their alignment from millennia-old practices of seasonally mobile hunting and foraging to year-round sedentism, plant cultivation and animal herding. British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology 9781782971900, $66, PB, 272p, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $52.80 the earliest neolithic of iran

2008 excavations at

sheikh-e abad and jani

Edited by Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews & Yaghoub Mohammadifar Over a period of several millennia, from the Late Pleistocene to the Early Holocene (c. 13,000-7000 BC), communities in south-west Asia developed from hunter-foragers to villagerfarmers, bringing fundamental changes in all aspects of life. These Neolithic developments took place over vast chronological and geographical scales, with considerable regional variability in specific trajectories of change. Two vital and consistent aspects of change were a shift from mobile to sedentary lifestyles and increasingly intensive human management of animal and plant resources, leading to full domestication of particular species. Building on earlier campaigns of archaeological investigation, the current phase of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project is designed to explore these issues in one key region, the Zagros zone including central west Iran. These two sites make major contributions to knowledge regarding the origins of sedentism and increasing resource management in Southwest Asia, and associated developments in social, cultural and ritual practices in this formative region of human cultural development. CZAP Report 1 9781782972235, $70, HB, b/w illus, 224p, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $56

Written sources from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, from the third to the first millennia BC, provide a wealth of terms for textiles. 22 chapters offer the first comprehensive survey of this important material, with special attention to interconnections in textile terminology among languages and cultures, across space and time. Ancient Textiles Series 8 9781782973911, $55, PB, 326p, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $44 9781842177532, $30, ePub Special Offer Price $24 9781842177556, $30, pdf Special Offer Price $24 souvenirs and new ideas

Edited by Diane Fortenberry During the 18th and 19th centuries, many travellers aimed to record their travels through Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Levant and Turkey by collecting souvenirs and mementos of places they had visited. This book explores the human desire to retain the memory of a foreign journey, studying the collections gathered from the travels of intrepid female solo voyagers to European royalty. 9781842178157, $45, PB, 200p, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $36 textile production and consumption in the ancient near east archaeology, epigraphy, iconography

Edited by Marie-Louise Nosch, Henriette Koefoed & Eva Andersson Strand In the past, textile production was a key part of all ancient societies. The Ancient Near East stands out in this respect with the overwhelming amount of documentation both in terms of raw materials, line of production, and the distribution of finished products. Ancient Textiles Series 12 9781842174890, $55, HB, 8 col & 82 b/w illus, 200p, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $44 9781782971115, $30, ePub, Special Offer Price $24 9781782971139, $30, pdf Special Offer Price $24 persia's imperial power in late antiquity the great wall of gorgan and the frontier landscapes of sasanian iran

By H. Omrani Rekavandi, T. J. Wilkinson, J. Nokandeh & Eberhard Sauer The Gorgan Wall stretches for over 200km through northern Iran. Until recently, the majority opinion attributed the wall to the Parthians (3rd century BC - 3rd century AD). Scientific dating has now established the wall was created in the 5th/6th century AD by the Sasanians. This is a major study of this significant monument. British Institute of Persian Studies Monograph 2 9781842175194, $150, HB, illus, 800p, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $120 nishapur revisited stratigraphy and ceramics of the qohandez

By Rocco Rante & Annabelle Collinet Nishapur in eastern Iran was an important Silk Road city, its position providing links to central Asia and China, Afghanistan and India, the Persian Gulf and the west. An introduction to the site details the Irano-French excavation reported here as well as information on the former American and Iranian excavations. The focus of this book is the stratigraphy and the pottery of the site. 9781842174944, $70, HB, 105 col illus, 144p, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Oﬀer Price $56

Use discount code 609-14 to receive special offer price

rural settlements on mount carmel in antiquity

excavations at tell nebi mend, syria volume i

By Shimon Dar

Edited by Peter J. Parr

In the years 1983-2013, an archaeological expedition under the auspices of the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology of Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, was active on Mount Carmel, Israel. The expedition comprised archaeologists, team members, students and other professionals, as well as pupils from schools in the Sharon and Daliyat el-Carmel. This book describes ten rural mountain sites through which it seeks to reconstruct the character of all the settlements on the mountain and at its foot. 9781905739875, $78, PB, illus throughout in col & b/w, 198p, 2014, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $62.40 roman pottery in the near east: local production and regional trade proceedings of the round table held in berlin,

9781782977865, $96, HB, 408p, NYP - due 2014, Council for British Research in the Levant Pre-Publication Price $76.80 beyond the fertile crescent late palaeolithic and neolithic communities of the

19-20 february 2010

jordanian steppe. the azraq basin project volume 1:

Edited by Bettina Fischer-Genz, Yvonne Gerber & Hanna Hamel

project background and the late palaeolithic

Discussions and scientific exchange are crucial for the advancement of a young discipline such as the study of Roman pottery in the Near East. Therefore an international workshop with 20 participants dedicated solely to the study of Roman common ware pottery in the Near East was held in Berlin on 18th and 19th February 2010. Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery 3 9781905739677, $70, PB, illus throughout, 222p, 2014, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $56 the ancient mediterranean trade in ceramic building materials

(geological context and technology ) By Andrew Garrard & Brian Byrd This is the first published volume of the Azraq Project, a large-scale archaeological and palaeoenvironmental survey and excavation project undertaken between 1982 and 1989 in the ecologically diverse sub-region of the Azraq Basin in north-central Jordan: an area rich in Palaeolithic and Neolithic archaeology. Levant Supplementary Series 13 9781842178331, $90, HB, 448p, 2013, Council for British Research in the Levant Special Oﬀer Price $72 landscape and interaction: troodos survey vol 1

a case study in carthage and beirut

methodology, analysis and interpretation

By Philip Mills

By Michael Given, A. Bernard Knapp, Jay Noller, Luke Sollars & Vasiliki Kassianidou

This study addresses the level of interregional trade of ceramic building material (CBM), traditionally seen as a high bulk low value commodity, within the ancient Mediterranean between the third century BC and the seventh century AD. It examines the impact of different modes of production, distribution and consumption of CBM. 9781905739608, $60, PB, illus throughout in col & b/w, 132p, 2013, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $48 ivories from nimrud (1949-1963) vii, 1 and 2 ivories from rooms sw11/12 and t10 fort shalmaneser

By Georgina Hermann & Stuart Laidlaw Fifty years have passed since the British School of Archaeology in Iraq raised the last ivory from the soil of Fort Shalmaneser. Literally thousands were found, many of which have already been published inIvories from Nimrud I-V, while VI recorded the outstanding pieces from the North West Palace. Ivories from Nimrud VII, Ivories from Rooms SW11/12 and T10 completes the publication of the assemblages in the Fort, as far as records permit. Ivories from Nimrud VII 9780903472296, $180, HB, 676p, 2013, British Institute for the Study of Iraq Special Oﬀer Price $144 the cyrus cylinder and ancient persia

The TAESP project explored the complex and dynamic relationship between landscape and people over 12,000 years in the Troodos mountains. This volume presents the archaeology, material culture, geography and environmental record of the survey area, producing a series of chronological and thematic analyses of the interaction between people and landscape. Levant Supplementary Series 14 9781782971870, $90, HB, b/w & col illus, 400p, 2013, Council for British Research in the Levant Special Oﬀer Price $72 landscape and interaction, troodos survey vol 2 the taesp landscape

By Michael Given, A. Bernard Knapp, Luke Sollars, Jay Noller & Vasiliki Kassianidou The TAESP Landscape, the second of two volumes, presents an area-by-area analysis of the fieldwork and research undertaken by the Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project (TAESP) in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus. Covering four regions of the survey area the volume focuses on explicit research questions appropriate to each region. Levant Supplementary Series 15 9781782971887, $76, HB, b/w & col illus, 296p, 2013, Council for British Research in the Levant Special Oﬀer Price $60.80

a new beginning for the middle east

later prehistory of the badia

By John Curtis, Neil MacGregor & Irving Finkel

excavation and surveys in eastern jordan, volume 2

The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most famous objects to have survived from the ancient world. The Cylinder was inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform on the orders of the Persian King Cyrus the Great after he captured Babylon in 539BC. The book offers a new translation of the Cyrus Cylinder by Irving Finkel and the publication of two fragments of a cuneiform tablet that show how the Cyrus Cylinder was probably a proclamation and not just a foundation deposit. 9780714111872, $40, HB, 110 col, 144p, 2013, British Museum Press Special Oﬀer Price $32

The archaeological site of Tell Nebi Mend, a tell on the Homs plain in present-day Syria, is universally recognised as the location, first, of Qadesh, where, in c. 1286 BC, the armies of Ramesses II of Egypt and Muwatalli II of Great Hatti fought the most famous battle of pre-classical antiquity, and, second, of Laodicea ad Libanum, founded most probably in the 3rd century BC as the capital of a district of the Seleucid empire. Excavations undertaken over 12 seasons aimed to fill a gap in archaeological knowledge between the northern and southern Levant.

By A. V. G. Betts, D. Cropper, L. Martin & C. McCartney The Jordanian badia is an arid region that has been largely protected from modern development by its extreme climate and has preserved a remarkably rich record of its prehistoric past. This is the second of two volumes to document extensive surveys and excavations in the region from Al-Azraq to the Iraqi border over the period 1979–1996. Levant Supplementary Series 11 9781842174739, $96, HB, 240p, 2013, Council for British Research in the Levant Special Oﬀer Price $76.80

To view full details including contents listings on our website - visit www.casemateacademic.com

Featured are four of Casemate Academic’s distribution partners, Franz Steiner Verlag, INSTAP Academic Press, International Monographs Prehistory and Mimesis Edizioni.

politics, culture and religion between

proceedings of the 5th conference of the societas iranologica europaea

parthia and rome

vol. i. ancient

Edited by Lucinda Dirven

Edited by Antonio Panaino & Andrea Piras

hatra

& middle iranian studies

Hatra is the richest archaeological site in the Parthian Empire known to date and has great potential for a better understanding of this enigmatic empire and its relationship with Rome. After an introduction to this little known site, seventeen contributions written by leading experts in the field provide the reader with the latest insights into this important late-Parthian settlement. They touch upon three themes. The first section, "Between Parthia and Rome" contains three articles that discuss the relationship between Parthia and Rome on the one hand, and Parthia and its vassal states on the other. The seven contributions in "The City and its Remains" take the rich archaeological evidence from Hatra as a starting point and use this to reconstruct the city's history. Oriens et Occidens 21

Proceedings of the 5th conference of the Societas Iranologica Europaea held in Ravenna, 6-11 October 2003. The new publication series, opened by the present volume, has the ambition to fill a gap in the research landscape in the field of Asian Studies. In spite of the considerable development of comparative and contrastive research into Indo-Iranian languages and civilizations, and notwithstanding the general trend to interdisciplinarity in the studies of the multicultural areas of Central Asia, of Iran maior, of the Indian subcontinent and the surrounding territories, we still miss a forum for publications in the sphere of Philology, Cultural and Social History, with a special focus on the topics and regions in question. Indo-Iranica - series Purpurea, 2nd edition

9783515104128, $95, HB, 40 b/w photos & 38 b/w illus, 363p, 2013, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Oﬀer Price $76

9788884834652, $70, PB, 762p, 2014, Mimesis Edizioni Special Oﬀer Price $56

space, place and identity in northern anatolia

proceedings of the 5th conference of the societas iranologica europaea

Edited by Tonnes Bekker-Nielsen

vol. ii. classical

Until now, most studies of Roman Anatolia have been focused on the strongly Hellenised and urbanised regions of western and southern Asia Minor. In this volume, the first on its subject, thirteen contributors from nine different countries address the question of how local identities were created and maintained in northern Anatolia from the fall of Mithradates VI to the middle Byzantine period. In a region that did not possess a Hellenistic polis-tradition, the fledgling inland cities founded by Pompey the Great struggled to develop an urban identity of their own, while the old-established Greek colonies on the Black Sea coast had to come to terms with the reality of Roman domination without abandoning their Hellenic identity. Geographica Historica 29 9783515107488, $79, PB, 27 col illus & 33 b/w illus & 87 coins, 271p, 2014, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Oﬀer Price $63.20

& contemporary iranian studies

Edited by Antonio Panaino & Andrea Piras Proceedings of the 5th conference of the Societas Iranologica Europaea held in Ravenna, 6-11 October 2003. The new publication series, opened by the present volume, has the ambition to fill a gap in the research landscape in the field of Asian Studies. The special ‘Series purpurea’, moreover, will unite selected writings of leading scholars, who have decisively enriched the research fields mentioned above, both by the results of their studies and by new (meta)methodological perspectives they have created. Indo-Iranica - series Purpurea, 2nd edition 9788884834645, $70, PB, 555p, 2014, Mimesis Edizioni Special Oﬀer Price $56 the scholarly contribution of ilya gershevitch to the development of iranian studies

Edited by Antonio Panaino

amilla the quest for excellence. studies presented to guenter kopcke in celebration of his 75th birthday

Edited by Robert B. Koehl Contributions by 34 scholars are brought together here to create a volume in honor of the long and fruitful career of Guenter Kopcke who is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Articles pertain to various topics on the ancient art, architecture, and archaeology of the greater Eastern Mediterranean region: from Pre-Dynastic Egypt to the Bronze Age Aegean and Anatolia, Cyprus and the Near East, and Etruscan Italy. Prehistory Monographs 43 9781931534734, $80, HB, 11 tbls in text & 235 figs in text, 444p, 2013, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory) Special Oﬀer Price $64.00 9781623033132, $48, pdf, Special Oﬀer Price $38.40 natufian foragers in the levant terminal pleistocene social changes in western asia

Edited by Ofer Bar-Yosef & François R. Valla This volume contains papers from a recent symposium on the late Pleistocene Natufian culture, which is one of the most important precursors of the Neolithic Revolution in the Levant. Detailed studies of environmental changes, subsistence strategies, tool making and using technologies, demographic issues, and symbolic behavior provide an updated knowledge of this culture. Archaeological Series 19 9781879621466, $85, HB, 381 illus, 717p, 2013, International Monographs in Prehistory Special Oﬀer Price $68 9781879621459, $50, PB Special Oﬀer Price $40

This volume contains the proceedings of the international seminar dedicated to the scholarly contribution offered by Dr. Ilya Gershevitch (Cambridge University, England) to the development of Iranian Studies which was held in Ravenna, 11th April 2003, on the second anniversary of his sudden death. The variety and complexity of the subjects represented in this volume reflect his most significant scientific interests and the wide and extraordinary competence of this great protagonist of Ancient, Middle and Modern Iranian studies. Philosophy 9788884833143, $24.50, PB, 141p, 2014, Mimesis Edizioni Special Oﬀer Price $19.60 bert g. fragner selected writings

Edited by Antonio Panaino & Velizar Sadovski The present volume contains a selection of the scholarly work of one of Europe’s most prominent representatives of modern, transdisciplinary Oriental studies: Bert Georg Fragner. His amazing work in the fields of Iranian, Central Asian and Islamic Studies, as well as Social and Cultural Anthropology, is well known far beyond the specific circles of academia. His achievements in these disciplines have lead him to reach institutional functions: Full Professor at the Universities of Berlin and Bamberg, Germany, President of the Societas Iranologica Europaea, First President of the German Oriental Society, Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and, in recent years, founder and Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies. The new publication series, opened by the present volume, has the ambition to fill a gap in the research landscape in the field of Asian Studies. Indo-Iranica - series Purpurea, 2nd edition 9788857500997, $95.50, PB, 650p, 2014, Mimesis Edizioni Special Oﬀer Price $76.40

Use discount code 609-14 to receive special offer price

The Oriental Institute is a museum and research organization devoted to the study of the ancient Near East. Founded in 1919 by James Henry Breasted, the Institute, a part of the University of Chicago, is an internationally recognized pioneer in the archaeology, philology, and history of early Near Eastern civilizations. hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago volume s, fascicule 4 volume s, fasc 4

Hittite Dictionary S.4 9781885923790, $50, PB, 534p, NYP - due 2015, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Pre-Publication Price $40

ancient settlement patterns and cultures in the ram hormuz plain, southwestern iran excavations at tall-e geser and regional survey in the ram hormuz area

By Abbas Alizadeh, Loghman Ahmadzadeh & Mehdi Omidfar After a decade-long hiatus in the years of World War II, archaeological fieldwork was resumed in Iran in 1948. In that year, the Oriental Institute returned to its long tradition of archaeological research by sending Donald McCown to the lowlands of southwestern Iran to conduct a series of surface surveys to find a multi-period site for excavation. For his survey, McCown chose the Ram Hormuz region, southeast of lowland Susiana and the region south and east of the provincial town of Ahvaz down to the Persian Gulf. McCown recorded 118 sites in the Ram Hormuz and Ahvaz areas and eventually chose for excavation the large prehistoric mound complex Tall-e Geser. Three months of excavation in 1948 and 1949 yielded materials and that were kept in Chicago for many years. Apart from short articles, the site was never fully published. In Part 1 of this two-part volume, Abbas Alizadeh and colleagues have undertaken a final publication of the site. Part 2 of this volume presents the results of regional surveys conducted in the Ram Hormuz plain from 2005 to 2008, which were undertaken by Alizadeh and colleagues with the goal of understanding the semi-nomadic, mobile component of lowland Susiana and its hinterlands through time. Oriental Institute Publications 140 9781885923974, $105, HB, 117 figs, 199 plts & 29 tbls, 324p, 2014, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Special Oﬀer Price $84 mesopotamian pottery a guide to the babylonian tradition in the second millennium b.c.

By James A. Armstrong, Hermann Gasche, Steven W. Cole, Abraham Van As & Loe Jacobs

in remembrance of me feasting with the dead in the ancient middle east

Edited by J. David Schloen & Virginia Rimmer Herrmann This Oriental Institute Museum exhibit catalog looks at how the living commemorated and cared for deceased ancestors in the ancient Middle East. The focus of the exhibit is the memorial monument (stele) of an official named Katumuwa (ca. 735 BC), discovered in 2008 by University of Chicago archaeologists at the site of Zincirli, Turkey. Part I of the catalog presents the most comprehensive collection of scholarship yet published on the interpretation of the Katumuwa Stele, an illuminating new document of ancestor cult and beliefs about the soul. In Part II, leading scholars describe the relationship between the living and the dead in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, and the Levant (Syria-Palestine), providing a valuable introduction to the family and mortuary religion of the ancient Middle East. The fifty-seven objects cataloged highlight the role of food and drink offerings and stone effigies in maintaining a place for the dead in family life. Oriental Institute Museum Publications 37 9781614910176, $29.95, PB, 140 illus, 176p, 2014, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Special Oﬀer Price $23.96 extraction & control studies in honor of matthew w. stolper

Edited by Charles E. Jones, Christopher Woods, Michael Kozuh & Wouter F. M. Henkelman Matthew Wolfgang Stolper began working for the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary in 1978 and became full professor in the Oriental Institute 1987, focusing on Neo-Babylonian and Middle Elamite. Matt has worked tirelessly to raise the necessary funding, to assemble a team of scholars, to promote the importance of the Persepolis Fortification Archive to academic and popular audiences, and most significantly, to concisely, passionately, and convincingly place the Persepolis Archives in their Achaemenid, ancient Near Eastern, and modern geo-political contexts. The twenty-six papers from Stolper's colleagues, friends, and students show the breadth of his interests. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 68 9781614910015, $34.95, PB, 140 illus & 9 tbls, 352p, 2014, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Special Oﬀer Price $27.96 early megiddo on the east slope (the "megiddo stages") a report on the early occupation of the east slope of megiddo. result of the oriental institute's excavations, 1925-1933

This volume presents the results of the long-term co-operation of archaeologists from the University of Ghent and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago to establish the ceramic chronology for Mesopotamia in the second millennium B.C. Drawing only upon pottery found in good context in well-conducted excavations, going back to the 1930s, but relying especially on the collaboration of other excavators who were working in southern Iraq from the 1960s onward, James Armstrong and Hermann Gasche, with the participation of cuneiformist Steven Cole and ceramic specialists Abraham Van As and Loe Jacobs, have created a typology of all major forms, showing the subtle changes that occurred in individual shapes through time at one site and at related sites. It also shows regional variations in shapes. Their graphic presention of the forms makes visible a centuries-long break in occupation of numerous sites in southern Iraq beginning in the time of Samsuiluna, the successor to Hammurabi of Babylon, and another break at the end of the millennium. Mesopotamian History and Environment, Series II, Memoirs VI

This report completes prior publications by Clarence S. Fisher (1929), P. L. O. Guy (1931), Robert M. Engberg and Geoffrey M. Shipton (1934a), and P. L. O. Guy and Robert M. Engberg (1938) on the earliest utilization and occupation of the slope at the southeast base of the high mound of Megiddo (Tell el-Mutesellim). That area, labeled by the excavators the “East Slope,” and identified by them in their notations as “ES,” was excavated by the Oriental Institute between the years 1925, when work commenced, and 1933, when the last of it was apparently cleared down to bedrock. While the primary focus of this report is on Square U16 (an area of 25 x 25 m), where most of the early remains (i.e., of the Early Bronze Age and earlier) excluding tombs were encountered, this work also deals with the later remains within that same, limited precinct. Oriental Institute Publications 139

9781614910183, $180, HB, 9 tbls & 100s of illus, 388p, 2014, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Special Oﬀer Price $144

9781885923981, $75, HB, 138 figs, 120 plts & 21 tbls, 156p, 2014, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Special Oﬀer Price $60

By Eliot Braun, David Ilan, Ofer Marder, Yael Braun & Sariel Shalev

To view full details including contents listings on our website - visit www.casemateacademic.com

Featured are three of Casemate Academic’s distribution partners, Oriental Institute of Chicago Press, Peabody Museum Publications and Sidestone Press. View more from these great publishers by visiting our website. barda balka

the hittite dictionary of the oriental institute of the university of chicago, volume Š, fascicle 3

By Bruce Howe The Paleolithic site of Barda Balka (“standing stone,” “stone to lean upon” in local Kurdish) is situated about 3 kilometers northeast of Chemchemal in Kirkuk Province, Iraq. Until recent years, the site was marked by a natural monolith of limestone conglomerate 3.5 meters high on a rather barren slope partly littered with Acheulean-type bifaces, pebble tools, cores, and flake artifacts. The site was discovered in 1949 by members of the Directorate General of Antiquities of Iraq while on archaeological reconnaissance in the district. In 1951, during a field season of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago under the direction of Robert J. Braidwood (which not only conducted the excavations at nearby Jarmo and Karim Shahir but also carried out wider geological and prehistoric reconnaissance in the extended Chemchemal Valley area), Barda Balka was visited and further studied by Herbert E. Wright Jr. of the University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Bruce Howe, then of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University. Wright and Howe returned shortly thereafter to conduct a four-day sounding campaign of trenching and localized geological investigations. This volume is Howe’s final report of these investigations at Barda Balka. Oriental Institute Communications 31 9781614910008, $29.95, PB, 3 figs, 3 tbls & 10 plts, 32p, 2014, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Special Oﬀer Price $23.96 heaven on earth temples, ritual, and cosmic symbolism in the ancient world

Edited by Deena Ragavan The volume is the result of the eighth Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar, held on March 2-3, 2012. Seventeen speakers, from both the US and abroad, examined the interconnections between temples, ritual, and cosmology from a variety of regional specializations and theoretical perspectives. The seminar revisited a classic topic, one with a long history among scholars of the ancient world: the cosmic symbolism of sacred architecture. Archaeologists, art historians, and philologists working not only in the ancient Near East, but also Mesoamerica, Greece, South Asia, and China, re-evaluated the significance of this topic across the ancient world. Oriental Institute Seminars 9 9781885923967, $24.95, PB, 174 illus, 463p, 2013, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Special Oﬀer Price $19.96 our work modern jobs

– ancient origins

Edited by Jack Green & Emily Teeter Our Work: Modern Jobs – Ancient Origins is the catalog for a photo-based exhibit that reveals that many modern professions originated in the ancient Middle East. Artifacts from the Oriental Institute Museum were paired with a baker, farmer, manicurist, brewer, poet, boat builder, judge and other professionals to show the antiquity of these jobs. The portraits are accompanied by commentary on the contributions of the ancient Middle East to life today and new insights into how members of the public view their relationship to the past. This volume will be of interest to educators, historians, and those interested in fine-arts photography. Oriental Institute Museum Publications 36 9781885923998, $19.95, PB, 17 illus, 24 tintype portraits & 29 col object photos, 128p, 2013, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Special Oﬀer Price $15.96

Edited by H. G. Guterbock, Harry A. Hoﬀner & T. P. J. van den Hout The Hittite language is the earliest preserved member of the Indo-European family of languages. It was written on clay tablets in central Asia Minor over a five hundred year span (ca. 1650-1180 B.C.) which witnessed the rise, the floruit, and the decline of many political powers in the Near East. It is studied today for a wide variety of reasons. Historical linguists seek information in Hittite texts to elucidate the relationships between the various member languages of the Indo-European family, as well as the probable structure of their common parent, Proto-Indo-European. Historians find in Hittite annals, treaties, royal edicts, and political correspondence information of great value in reconstructing the sequence of events on the international scene of mid-second-millennium Western Asia. Anthropologists, mythographers, and students of comparative religion mine the riches of Hittite religious texts: myth, magic rituals to cure ailments, festivals to worship the gods of the empire. Students of the history of law discover ancient precedents for legal procedures which have survived to this day. All of these interested researchers share a dependence upon the written texts. None can penetrate further than our limited understanding of this language allows. [From the Preface, CHD L–N, p. ix]. 9781885923950, $25, PB, ,176p, 2013, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Special Oﬀer Price $20 eurasian prehistory a journal for primary data

This journal is a joint venture endorsed by the American School of Prehistoric Research at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Institute of Archaeology at Jagiellonian University in Poland. The aim of this journal is to publish lengthy site reports with many illustrations and other data-based articles on aspects of the palaeolithic and neolithic of Eurasia. 10 1-2 9788393421855, $25, PB, b/w illus, 185p, 2014, Peabody Museum Publications Special Oﬀer Price $20 tying the threads of eurasia trans-regional routes and material flows in transcaucasia, eastern anatolia and western central asia, c.3000-1500bc

By Toby C. Wilkinson The famous ‘Silk Roads’ have long evoked a romantic picture of travel through colorful civilizations that connected the western and eastern poles of Eurasia, facilitating the exchange of exotic luxury goods, peoples, pathogens and ideas. But how far back can we trace such interaction? Increasing evidence suggests considerable time-depth for Trans-Eurasian exchange, with the expanding urban networks of the Bronze Age at times anticipating later caravan routes. Tying the Threads of Eurasia applies advanced GIS modelling and critical social archaeology to carefully selected material remains from these earlier connections in order to understand and explain macro-scale processes of interaction in the wider ancient Near East between 3000 and 1500BC. Evidence related to precious stone, metal and textile objects found in Transcaucasia, eastern Anatolia and Central Asia are examined critically and spatially to provide new insights into changing socio-economic relations within and beyond these case-study regions. This book will be of interest to archaeologists and historians researching routes of exchange and interaction, macro-scale historical change or GIS approaches to archaeology, and to specialists of the Bronze Age Near East, especially Anatolia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Iran. Sidestone Press Dissertations 9789088902444, $120, PB, ca. 200 full col illus, 410p, 2014, Sidestone Press Special Oﬀer Price $96

Use discount code 609-14 to receive special offer price

the poem of fernán gonzález

yes, the arabs can too

languages of southern arabia

By Peter Such & Richard Rabone

By Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber & Michael Worton

proceedings of the

supplement to the seminar for arabian

Fernán González lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of León. Hispanic Classics 9781910572009, $100, HB, b/w illus, NYP - due 2015, Aris & Phillips Pre-Publication Price $80 9781910572016, $39.95, PB Pre-Publication Price $31.96

Much has been written about the role and presence of the Arabs in the world at the beginning of this millennium, and their ability to meet the challenges overwhelming our planet. This new book penetrates to the heart of the Arab situation by a new route, hitherto uncharted. The author gives us a practical and precise summary of his own contemporary Arab experience from an intercontinental perspective. It is a translation of the Arabic original, first published in 2009. 9780957106093, $40, HB, 176p, 2013, Arabian Publishing Ltd Special Oﬀer Price $32

archaeology in the 'land of tells and ruins'

living to some purpose

a history of

secular iraqi and

excavations in

arab statesman

the holy land

By Adnan Pachachi & Peter Sluglett

inspired by the

memoirs of a

photographs and accounts of leo boer

Edited by Bart Wagemakers Recently, a travel account and 700 photographs came to light by the hand of Leo Boer, a former student of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem who, at the age of 26 in 1953–4 visited many archaeological sites in the area of present-day Israel and the Palestinian Territories. These documents inspired 20 internationally-renowned scholars to report on what we know today of nine particular sites chosen from the many that Leo Boer visited 60 years ago. 9781782972457, $85, HB, b/w & col illus, 264p, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $68 9781782972464, $39.50, ePub Special Offer Price $31.60 9781782972488, $39.50, pdf Special Offer Price $31.60 half past ten in the afternoon

By James Budd Much of this book is a record of the time the author spent between 1965 and 1970 as an English teacher in Aneiza – a provincial town in central Saudi Arabia. In an entertaining series of anecdotes, he describes the daily life and customs of its people, his relations with colleagues and students at the local secondary school, and the events leading up to his ‘removal’ from the town he had come to regard as home, his transfer to Riyadh, and final departure from the country. 9780957676336, $40, HB, 240p, 2014, Arabian Publishing Ltd Special Oﬀer Price $32

Often described as Iraq’s elder statesman, Dr Adnan Pachachi has enjoyed one of the longest and most distinguished political careers of modern times, both domestically and on the world stage. In a life spanning nine decades, he has served his country as Ambassador to the United Nations and as Foreign Minister, and has worked tirelessly to establish a secular and antisectarian political culture in Iraq. In this honest and affecting memoir, Dr Pachachi charts the course of his dedication to democratic, pluralist, tolerant and civilized values. 9780957106031, $50, HB, 17 photos, 240p, 2013, Arabian Publishing Ltd Special Oﬀer Price $40 the principles of arab navigation

Edited by William Facey & Anthony R. Constable Throughout history, the Indian Ocean has been a zone of interaction between far-flung civilizations served by ports, and connected with the Mediterranean by the Gulf and Red Sea. Bringing together six scholars specializing in the maritime history and culture of the Arabs , this book makes a new and vital contribution to the study of a nautical culture that has hitherto not received its due share of attention. 9780957106017, $70, HB, col throughout & 11 maps, 160p, 2013, Arabian Publishing Ltd Special Oﬀer Price $56

studies volume 44 2014

Edited by Orhan Elmaz & Janet C.E. Watson The special session in 2013, Languages of Southern Arabia, was the fifth in the Seminar for Arabian Studies special session series. This was the first special session with an explicit linguistic focus to be held at the Seminar. 9781905739813, $60, PB, illus throughout in b/w, 153p, 2014, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $48 proceedings of the seminar for arabian studies volume 44 2014 papers from the forty-seventh meeting, london, 26–28 july 2013

Edited by Robert Hoyland & Sarah Morris The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the only international academic forum which meets annually for the presentation of research in the humanities on the Arabian Peninsula. It focuses particularly on the fields of archaeology, architecture, art, epigraphy, ethnography, history, language, linguistics, literature, and numismatics from the earliest times to the present day. Many papers presented at the Seminar have been published in the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies. 9781905739806, $130, PB, illus throughout in col & b/w, 357p, 2014, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $104 proceedings of the seminar for arabian studies 2013

Edited by Lloyd Weeks & Janet Watson Papers from the forty-sixth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, held at the British Museum, London, 13–15 July 2012. 43 9781905739653, $130, PB, illus in col & b/w, 361p, 2013, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $104 proceedings of the seminar for arabian studies, volumes 1-37 dvd

For the first time, a DVD of PSAS volumes 1-37 as searchable PDF files; includes author index. A rare opportunity to acquire certain long out-of-print volumes of the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies. 9781905739257, $990, CD, 2013, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $792

To view full details including contents listings on our website - visit www.casemateacademic.com

The Gibb Memorial Trust is a registered charity, set up to commemorate the death at the age of 45 of Elias John Wilkinson Gibb. Its objective is to promote the study and advancement of research into the history, literature, philosophy and religion of the Turks, Persians and Arabs. fazli isfahani's safavid chronicle

By Charles Melville & A. H. Morton This publication provides a digital reproduction of a unique manuscript, recently rediscovered in Cambridge, which chronicles the reign of Shah Abbas, the greatest ruler of the Safavid dynasty of Persia. Abbas's forty-year reign revived the fortunes of the dynasty, and made Persia a prominent power in the early 17th century, developing strong commercial and diplomatic links with western Europe. His reign has been documented by several court historians, but the new and exciting discovery of Fazli Beg's contemporary chronicle, long thought to have been lost, makes available a wealth of new information about Abbas's reign and Safavid provincial administration in general. Lying miscataloged for over 150 years in the Old Library of Christ's College, Cambridge, the manuscript contains the author's own substantial marginal annotations, which are preserved in this digital reproduction of the work. At the same time, the previous two volumes of his history on two earlier rulers of the Safavid dynasty are also published here for the first time, in facsimile, from two other unique surviving manuscripts - one preserved in the University Library in Cambridge, and one in the British Library, London. This publication brings the whole work together as it currently exists. The text is provided on 4 CD-Roms, which are accompanied by an explanatory booklet. The text is also indexed for easy access. 9780906094495, $190, HB, 4 CD-Roms & booklet, NYP - due 2015, Gibb Memorial Trust Pre-Publication Price $152

the jaysh al-tawshīḥ of lisān al-dīn ibn al-khaṭīb muwashshaḥāt

an anthology of andalusian arabic

By Alan Jones

The Jaysh al-tawshih is second only to the Uddat al- Jalis of Ibn Bishri (published in this series in 1992) as a source of Andalusian Arabic muwashshahat. It contains 182 poems, of which 111 survive only in it, and includes 16 muwashshahat with 'Romance kharjas'. This edition contains the Arabic text. Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies 9781909724587, $50, PB, , 328p, NYP - due 2014, Arabic text, Gibb Memorial Trust Pre-Publication Price $40 ibn dāniyāl three arabic medieval shadow plays

By Paul Kahle

fārs-nāma of ibnu l-balkhī

By G. Le Strange & Reynold A. Nicholson This description of the province of Fars, was written around the beginning of the 12th century A.D. The author cites his qualifications for it "I was well acquainted with the present condition of the people of Fars ... being well versed also in the events of their history and exactly acquainted with the story of their kings and rulers." This is a reprint of the edition of 1952. Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies 9781909724662, $40, PB, 240p, NYP - due 2014, Persian text, Gibb Memorial Trust Pre-Publication Price $32 the rude, the bad and the bawdy essays in honour of professor geert jan van gelder

Edited by Adam Talib, Marlé Hammond & Arie Schippers Throughout his distinguished career devoted to the study of Arabic language and literature, Geert Jan van Gelder sustained a particular interest in humour and irreverence: in mujūn, broadly understood as literary expressions of indecency, encompassing the obscene, the profane, the impudent, and the taboo. Contributors to this honorific compilation tackle this subject from a wide variety of perspectives beyond the merely prurient in studies detailing the ways in which indecency has been signified, signalled, evaluated, and preserved , and including translations and commentaries of exemplarily audacious texts. Together these chapters cover a range of interrelated and complex issues on sexuality, gender, language, and poetics from an array of perspectives and with a variety of approaches, reflecting the interests and methodologies of several generations of scholars across numerous specialisations within the field of Middle Eastern and Islamic literary studies. One intriguing area of investigation that has emerged is the question of what becomes of mujūn in the modern era and how it transforms and mutates across space, time, and genre. Many other questions arise to from the ways in which the chapters complement each other in their interrogation of boundaries, broadly construed—be they historic turning points or gradual evolutions, cultural dichotomies and fusions, the so-called gender gap, or the dividing line between the erotic and the pornographic. 9781909724334, $75, HB, 336p, NYP - due 2014, Gibb Memorial Trust Pre-Publication Price $60 books and bibliophiles studies in honour of paul auchterlonie on

Very few examples of medieval Arabic drama have survived, a fact which constitutes a serious loss to our knowledge of Arab literary history. However, we can form some idea of the kind of work of which we have been deprived by examining the three shadow plays preserved for us, those of Ibn Daniyal, the thirteenth century poet and wit. These three plays display in all their vitality, directness and even coarseness the kind of entertainment popular in medieval Egypt. They are literary, social and historical documents, unique of their kind, presenting a veritable gallery of characters, high and low, from all sides of Egyptian life. This edition offers for the first time the complete text, edited over a long period by a number of scholars and provided with a critical apparatus. The language used entails great textual problems yet it rewards study, combining wit, dramatic entertainment and sophisticated poetry. These shadow plays cannot be ignored in any history of Arabic literature. Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies 9781909724624, $36, PB, 196p, NYP - due 2014, Arabic text, Gibb Memorial Trust Pre-Publication Price $28.80

the bio-bibliography of the muslim world

Edited by Robert Gleave The diverse studies presented in this volume recount the production, understanding and organization of Muslim literature, both in the Muslim world and Western Europe. First, there are bio-bibliographical studies of Middle Eastern and Muslim literature, in which contributors examine texts and their interrelations in a series of discrete studies, demonstrating how biobibliography is reliant on the resources devised and maintained by librarians. Recurrent themes include the vexed question of “authorship”; extant books, tracts or reports are attributed to particular authors, but their content, at times, seems to indicate an alternative author. In the second section, the focus is on the advancement of the study of this literary heritage outside of the Muslim world, primarily in Western Europe. These studies describe the processes and individuals within the development of the western study of the Islamicate world and reflect some of the interests of Paul Auchterlonie, to whom the volume is dedicated. 9781909724402, $65, HB, 10 b/w images, 176p, NYP - due 2014, Gibb Memorial Trust Pre-Publication Price $52

Use discount code 609-14 to receive special offer price

Featured are three of Casemate Academic’s distribution partners, British Museum Press, Gibb Memorial Trust and Franz Steiner Verlag. a history of ottoman poetry volume i

1300-1450 By E. J. W. Gibb The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.J.W. Gibb’s devotion to Ottoman Turkish literature. By the time of his early death in 1901 only the first volume had appeared in print. The remainder was almost complete and was seen through the press by Gibb’s friend and literary executor, the Persian scholar E. G. Browne. The History was designed to provide the first extended account in English of Ottoman literature. The first four volumes cover four developmental phases, largely under the influence of Persian literature, from around 1300 to the middle of the nineteenth century. The fifth volume introduces the ‘New School’ of Ottoman poetry produced in Gibb’s own era and inspired by French models. The sixth volume contains in Ottoman printed script the texts of all works quoted in English translation in the previous volumes. No comparable study has appeared in English since Gibb’s magnum opus. His History of Ottoman Poetry has become a classic work which is still widely referred to and valuable for students, scholars and anyone with a general interest in Middle Eastern literature and culture. Volume I (originally published 1900, during Gibb’s lifetime) begins with an introduction on the origin, character and scope of Ottoman poetry, and provides an explanation of its principal verse forms and rhyme schemes. Gibb then discusses poets of the period 1300 to around 1450, considering this a formative era in which poetry was generally more ‘West-Turkish’ in style and strongly influenced by local dialect than Ottoman later became. Gibb’s method in all volumes is to supply biographical information on each writer, drawn primarily from Ottoman biographical dictionaries of poets, followed by English translations of some of their more significant poems and synopses of longer texts. Gibb Memorial Trust Turkish Studies 9780906094181, $40, PB, 472p, 2013, Volume I, Gibb Memorial Trust Special Offer Price $32 9780906094198, $40, PB, 405p, 2013, Volume II Special Offer Price $32 9780906094396, $40, PB, 400p, 2013, Volume III Special Offer Price $32 9780906094587, $40, PB, 376p, 2013, Volume IV Special Offer Price $32 9780906094594, $40, PB, 258p, 2013, Volume V Special Offer Price $32 9780906094624, $40, PB, 400p, 2013, Volume VI Special Offer Price $32 9781909724266, $190, PB, 2300p, 2013 Special Offer Price $152 the kashf al-mahjub (the revelation of the veiled) of ali b. 'uthman al-jullãbi hujwiri. an early persian treatise on sufism

By Reynold A. Nicholson Al-Hujwīrī came from Ghazna, now in Afghanistan, then the capital of the mighty Ghaznavid Empire. He was a Sufi mystic who travelled widely in the Middle East and Transoxiana. The Kashf al-Maḥjūb was probably written in Lahore, where he is buried, not long before his death in about 1074. One of the oldest Sufi works in Persian, it is a substantial treatise aiming to set forth a complete system of Sufism. This is achieved partly by the discussion of acts and saying of the great figures of the past, partly by discussion of features of doctrine and practice and the examination of the different views. Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies 9780906094372, $34, PB, 464p, 2014, Persian text, Gibb Memorial Trust Special Oﬀer Price $27.20 the life, personality and writings of al-junayd

By Ali Hassan Abdel-Kader This volume contains an edition and translation of the extant epistles of Abū l-Qāsim b. Muḥammad al-Junayd. Al-Junayd was an influential holy man and spiritual thinker who lived in Baghdad in the ninth century. His writings are marked with many of the features of the tradition that later became known as Taṣawwuf, Islamic Mysticism. Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies 9780718902230, $29.99, PB, 276p, 2014, Arabic text, Gibb Memorial Trust Special Oﬀer Price $23.99

mujūn: libertinism in medieval muslim society and literature

By Zoltan Szombathy This book is about an aspect of mediaeval Arabic culture and literature known in Arabic as mujùn, a concept that students of mediaeval Arabic texts may find rather hard to define but which is a recurrent term and a widespread phenomenon in mediaeval Arabic literature, and probably common in real life. 9780906094617, $80, HB, 256p, 2013, Gibb Memorial Trust Special Oﬀer Price $64 abbasid studies iv

Edited by Monique Bernards

the hajj collected essays

Edited by Venetia Porter & Liana Saif Following on the British Museum’s critically acclaimed exhibition Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam, this volume provides over thirty papers on the history and significance of the Hajj, spanning history, politics, archaeology, pilgrims’ journeys, art, architecture, photography and material culture. This is a major multi-disciplinary study and a key reference work for anyone with an academic or personal interest in the Hajj. British Museum Research Publication 193 9780861591930, $80, PB, 150 col & 50 b/w illus, 270p, 2013, British Museum Press Special Oﬀer Price $64 undying curiosity

This volume explores the achievements of the ‘Abbasid age through the lens of Mediterranean history. When the Umayyad caliphs were replaced by the ‘Abbasids in 750, and the Arab capital moved to Baghdad, Iraq quickly became the centre not only of an imperium but also of a culture built on the foundations of the great civilizations of antiquity: Greece, Rome, Byzantium and Persia. Debunking popular misconceptions about the Arab conquests, Amira Bennison shows that, far from seeing themselves as purging the ‘ occidental’ culture of the ancient world with a ‘pure’ and ‘oriental’ Islamic doctrine, the ‘Abbasids perceived themselves to be as much within the tradition of Mediterranean and Near Eastern empire as any of their predecessors. 9780906094983, $75, HB, 352p, 2013, Gibb Memorial Trust Special Offer Price $60 9780906094792, $35, ePub Special Offer Price $28 9780906094891, $35, pdf Special Offer Price $28

carsten niebuhr and the royal danish expedition to arabia (1761–1767)

By Lawrence J. Baack In 1801, the nominations to the French Institut des sciences et des arts, the former French Academy, included Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottfried Herder, Thomas Jefferson, Friedrich Klopstock, Arthur Young, Joseph Priestly and Carsten Niebuhr. The first six are seminal figures of the 18th Century, but who was Carsten Niebuhr and why was he considered worthy of membership in Europe's most prestigious society? This book is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary study of his achievement and that of his colleagues as members of the Danish Expedition to Arabia. Oriens et Occidens 22 9783515107686, $109, HB, 22 b/w illus, 443p, NYP - due 2014, Franz Steiner Verlag Pre-Publication Price $87.20

To view full details including contents listings on our website - visit www.casemateacademic.com

an introduction

tourists, travellers and hotels in 19th-century jerusalem

By Mawil Izzi Dien

Edited by Rupert L. Chapman III, Shimon Gibson & Yoni Shapira

islamic theology in the contemporary world

An exploration of the essence of Islamic theology and its influence on contemporary society. 9780227173473, $50, PB, NYP - due 2014, James Clarke & Co Pre-Publication Price $40

christian theology and islam

Edited by James J. Buckley & Michael Root How can Christians committed to the classical Christian tradition address the issues raised by contemporary Islam? Before a much-needed dialogue between Christians and Muslims is established, Christians need to ask themselves how their Scriptures and traditions might come to bear on such a dialogue. Do the divisions among Catholic and Evangelical Christians fracture the classical Christian tradition in ways that undercut Christian-Muslim dialogue before it has even begun? Or could the classical tradition provide invaluable resources for resolving divisions between Catholic and Evangelical Christians in ways that would prepare them for meaningful conversation with Muslim brothers and sisters? And what does it have to teach us about what Christians can and must learn from Muslims about their own traditions? The scholarly essays compiled in Christian Theology and Islam consider these and further questions, offering valuable insight for concerned Christians and academics in the fields of theology and religion. 9780227174326, $39, PB, 130p, 2014, James Clarke & Co Special Oﬀer Price $31.20 islam, peace and social justice a christian perspective

By A. Christian Van Gorder

Jerusalem was a constant focus in the hearts and minds of all pilgrims and tourists travelling to the Holy Land in the nineteenth century, but knowing exactly where they might get clean and decent accommodations on arrival was of the utmost importance. This volume is a study of the rise of commercial hotel-keeping in Jerusalem, from the beginnings in the early 1840s, drawing extensively on travel accounts and archives, notably those of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Chapters cover modes of travel and the role of dragomen, the appearance of early guidebooks, and various other aspects of secular tourism, such as the development of travel bureaus in the Levant, notably the Thomas Cook & Son company, and the significant part that freemasonry played amongst tourism vendors. The Palestine Exploration Fund Annuals 11 9781907975288, $78, HB, 304p, 2013, Maney Publishing Special Oﬀer Price $62.40 villain or visionary? r. a. s. macalister and the archaeology of palestine

Edited by Samuel R. Wolﬀ R. A. Stewart Macalister is an important but controversial figure in the history of Palestinian archaeology. This volume celebrates his excavations at Gezer just over a century ago (1902–1912), under the auspices of the PEF, which was one of the first methodological and large-scale excavations in the land and, among other artifacts, unearthed the Gezer Calendar. This volume, to which many eminent scholars have contributed, not only reflects on the man and his work, but also reports on current work at both Gezer and Tell-es-Safi. It is also richly illustrated with images from the PEF archives. The Palestine Exploration Fund Annual 12 9781909662605, $84, HB, NYP - due 2014, Maney Publishing Pre-Publication Price $42 postcolonial fiction and sacred scripture

Our world is fraught with horrific expressions of violence and injustice, which are often justified by religious rhetoric. 'Islam, Peace, and Social Justice: A Christian Perspective' is a relevant, comprehensive, and empathetic examination of some of these social-justice challenges within the Muslim world. Sadly, many non-Muslims only learn about Muslim views on social-justice issues from biased and inaccurate media portrayals. This book, written by a non-Muslim friend of Muslims, offers a more sympathetic and nuanced treatment, focusing especially on points of convergence and divergence between Islam and Christianity and exploring ways in which social-justice partnerships can be forged between adherents of these two great faith traditions. The book is filled with concrete and specific examples - often quoting directly from the Qur'an and the Bible as well as the newspaper - and is practical in its approach rather than loftily sermonic. The work seeks above all to foster more substantive and constructive contexts of interfaith dialogue and action for the purposes of addressing injustice. 9780227174227, $50, PB, 292p, 2014, James Clarke & Co Special Oﬀer Price $40

rewriting the divine?

By Sura Qadiri Francophone writers from North Africa and the Middle East often choose to write within a sacred context, sometimes engaging directly with Islamist rhetoric. Novelists like Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco), Assia Djebar (Algeria) and Amin Maalouf (Lebanon) revisit scripture as a way to convey nuances which they believe have been stamped out by monolithic religious world-views. For them, fiction offers a way to break away from limited exegetical horizons, but to remain within the faith. Others, though, would go further, moving away from all religious practice, not just the excessively political or violent. Tunisian writers Abdelwahab Meddeb and Fethi Benslama propose that all literature is of its very nature outside of religion, and that its proliferation will ultimately lead to a secular society. Legenda Main Series 9781907975813, $89.50, HB, 2014, Legenda Special Oﬀer Price $71.60 non-muslims in muslim majority societies

the art of adornment

with focus on the middle east and pakistan

jewellery of the islamic lands, parts 1 and 2, 2013

By Kajsa Ahlstrand & Göran Gunner

By Michael Spink, Jack Ogden, J. M. Rogers, Mark G. Kramarovsky, Pedro Moura Carvalho & Manijeh Bayani The Collection provides an unrivalled resource for the study of Islamic jewellery, with nearly 600 cataloged pieces in gold, silver and copper alloys, of all periods from the 7th to the 20th centuries and from throughout the Islamic world – Spain to Malaysia, and Africa to the Eurasian steppes. Various sectors of production and clienteles are represented, from the court to bespoke jewellery to the urban marketplace. The jewellery also illustrates a correspondingly wide range of techniques and materials. The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art XVII

In a world where almost all societies are multi-religious and multi-ethnic, we need to study how social cohesion can be achieved in different contexts. In some geographical areas, as in the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent, people of different religious belonging have, through the ages, lived side by side, sometimes in harmony and sometimes in dissonance. In other geographical regions, as in Scandinavia, societies have been quite religiously homogeneous but only recently challenged by immigration. The implication in both locations is that the relationship between religious minority and majority is on the agenda.

9781874780861, $250, HB, Fully illus in col including line & col drawings, 702p, 2013, Khalili Collections Special Oﬀer Price $200

9780718892449, $37, PB, 166p, 2011, Lutterworth Press Special Oﬀer Price $29.60

Use discount code 609-14 to receive special offer price

Medina Publishing based on the Isle of Wight (UK) is run by Peter Harrigan, Kitty Carruthers, and Jonathan Edwards. Established in 2009, they are specialists in Middle Eastern and equestrian titles. discovering islamic art a childrens' guide with activity sheets

the world of the tahawy bedouin and their purebred arabian horses

By Mary Beardwood

By Bernd Radtke & Kirsten Radtke

Aimed at a readership age of eight years and above, Discovering Islamic Art simply and concisely introduces the fundamental elements of this huge subject - calligraphy, arabesques and geometric patterns. It also features painting, pottery, architecture, astrology, landscapes and cityscapes, woodwork and metalwork, arms and armor, science and inventions, manuscripts and books, and every page is generously illustrated. With each topic is included an activity sheet to encourage further engagement, to help children have fun and to remember more. 9781909339040, $20, PB, 312 illus, 68p, NYP - due 2015, Medina Publishing Pre-Publication Price $16 through the palace keyhole

By Ann Hutchison Sawalha From the Arab world comes a love story between an Arab man and an American woman that lasted more than half a century. Their lives spanned both sides of the Jordan River, and their love was tested by the traditions of an ancient and proud Christian tribe and the contrasts between their cultures. Although surrounded by conflicts in the Middle East, they built family hotels that survive as a tribute to his dreams and strength and her unwavering determination to support him. 9781909339354, $28, HB, 35 illus, 432p, NYP - due 2014, Medina Publishing Pre-Publication Price $22.40 9781909339347, $22, PB Pre-Publication Price $17.60 jewels from the sea pearl fishing in the arabian gulf

By Frances Gillespie Today, the citizens of the Arabian Gulf states enjoy an affluent and sophisticated lifestyle and the term 'oil state' conjures up images of vast, air-conditioned shopping malls, gleaming high-rise towers, green parks and sparkling fountains, fast new highways and the latest automobiles - all the trappings of luxury that man can devise. But it was not always so. Once, the people of the Gulf looked to another natural substance as a source of income: not oil, but pearls. Frances Gillespie is well known for her best-selling books on the region for children and adults. In this, her latest work, she tells the fascinating story of pearl fishing in the Gulf. 9781909339293, $32, PB, 216 illus, 60p, NYP - due 2014, Medina Publishing Pre-Publication Price $25.60 the blue jackal and other tales from islamic lands

By Frances Gillespie

The Tahawy Bedouin have been famed breeders of pure-bred Arabian horses for centuries. Part of the great tribe of Banu Sulaym, they roamed the Nejd of the Arabian peninsula until a wave of tribal migration nearly a millennia ago took them through the Levant and North Africa until they settled in their present homeland: Sharqiya and the Salihiya desert region of Lower Egypt. The Tahawy's horses have been an integral part of their history, their lives dependent on the strength, stamina and courage of their steeds. With unique research and images, bloodlines and memorabilia, the story is brought right up to date with contemporary pictures, making the work a timely and invaluable record for enthusiasts of the Arab horse and other noble desert beasts as well as of appeal to historians and anthropologists and those with an interest in the rich cultural heritage of the Arab world. 9780956708151, $49.99, HB, 224p, NYP - due 2014, Medina Publishing Pre-Publication Price $39.99 asil: photographic studies of the purebred arabian horse

By Tariq Dajani There's something instantly recognizable about the photography of Tariq Dajani. It's a combination of what he photographs and his curiosity in seeking a personal connection with this subject, captured using modern photographic methods which nonetheless invoke something of the Old Masters of painting. With Asil: Photographic Studies of the Purebred Arabian Horse, Dajani presents a series of beautifully observed and mastered photographs. These poetic portraits contain an elusive quality that draws the eye in,as he attempts to penetrate further into the nature and personalities of his subjects. 9780957023383, $99, HB, 51 illus, 112p, 2013, Medina Publishing Special Oﬀer Price $79.20 hidden in the sands uncovering qatar's past

By Frances Gillespie & Faisal Al-Naimi The first book of its kind to be published for a general readership from youngsters upwards, this is the fascinating, fun and educational story of Qatar’s heritage and the exciting discoveries being made by archaeologists. Hidden beneath the sand and sea and revealed on rocks are the clues which explain why this ancient land has been such a key region throughout history. Here you can follow the detective work of archaeologists and discover Qatar’s rich past. Available in English and Arabic. 9781909339033, $19.95, PB, 121 illus, 48p, 2013, Arabic text, Medina Publishing Special Oﬀer Price $15.96 9781909339064, $19.95, PB, English text Special Oﬀer Price $15.96

Once upon a time there was a good king who had three very lazy sons. As he grew older, their father began to despair. He wondered how he would ever succeed in educating his sons so that, when the time came, one of them could take over the rule of the kingdom. Experts came from far and wide to give advice, but the spoilt young princes would not listen to any of them. At last a famous wise man arrived at the court and offered to teach the princes by means of instructive fables. So charming were these stories, so full of wit and wisdom, that the King's sons were captivated by them and in time began to learn the lessons they taught. In the tales, animals could talk and had human feelings, and the same failings as humans too. They displayed arrogance, greed and cowardice, but also intelligence, bravery, and above all, loyalty to their friends. Courage, honesty and quick thinking were rewarded, but animals that were greedy or dishonest always came to a bad end.

Co-authored by HRH Princess Alia, the eldest daughter of the late King Hussein of Jordan, and Sharifa Sarra Ghazi, Small Miracles, the Story of the Princess Alia Foundation tells of an extraordinary charitable endeavour. When it was established in 2009, the authors little knew how the Foundation would fundamentally change their lives, as well as the lives of countless others - both animal and human. The story of the Princess Alia Foundation, its triumphs and tragedies, hopes and dreams, and the small miracles that take place each day, is told here - at times harrowing and heart-breaking, at times joyful and uplifting.

9781909339224, $28, HB, 145 illus, 80p, NYP - due 2014, Medina Publishing Pre-Publication Price $22.40

9780956417084, $57.95, HB, 208 illus, 276p, 2014, Medina Publishing Special Oﬀer Price $46.36

small miracles the story of the princess alia foundation

By HRH Princess Alia Al Hussein & Sharifa Sarra Ghazi

To view full details including contents listings on our website - visit www.casemateacademic.com

wings over arabia

By Roger Harrison On 2 June 2006, a team of three gliders, one chase plane, support crew and all-terrain vehicles gathered at a fiercely hot and dusty airfield 50 kilometres outside Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia. The pilots, two Saudi Princes and the British ex-Special Forces officer who had trained them on the Stemme gliders to be flown, were about to make gliding history by flying in a great circular route round the western half of Saudi Arabia, over some of the harshest and most unforgiving desert terrain in the world. 9780956417077, $59.99, HB, 112p, 2013, Medina Publishing Special Offer Price $47.99 9781909339187, $19.95, PB Special Offer Price $15.96 9781909339194, $34.95, HB Special Offer Price $27.96 the caravan goes on

medieval to early post-medieval tenements and middle eastern imports excavations at plantation place, city of london,

1997–2003

By Ken Pitt, Lyn Blackmore, Tony Dyson & Rachel Tyson Excavations at Plantation Place provided evidence for medieval and early post-medieval occupation of an entire block in the eastern part of the City of London near the Thames waterfront. Contemporary ground surfaces and buildings did not survive, but associated pits and wells have been related by documentary and cartographic research to identified tenements in this thriving area of shops, warehouses and merchants’ residences. Important assemblages from pits and wells include vessels used in refining gold, crucibles and moulds from bronze casting, and the largest assemblage of late medieval Islamic-style glass yet found in Britain, alongside Middle Eastern ceramics. Monograph Series 66

how aramco and saudi arabia grew up together

By Frank Jungers The remarkable story of one man's journey to leadership of the world's largest energy company, this book is the first published inside account of the workings of the corporation by a CEO and represents a significant addition to the literature on the turbulent development of the world's oil industry. Frank Jungers, former President, Chairman and CEO of the petroleum giant Aramco, tells the story of his three decades in Saudi Arabia with the world's largest oil producing company. 9781909339187, $19.95, PB, 94 illus, 240p, 2014, Medina Publishing Special Oﬀer Price $15.96 9781909339194, 34.95, HB Special Oﬀer Price $27.96 georgio scala and the moorish slaves the inquisition malta 1598

9781907586163, $44, HB, fully illus in col, 140p, 2013, Museum of London Archaeology Special Oﬀer Price $35.20 studies in the decorative arts of the muslim world

By Ernst Grube A selection of twelve previously published papers by Ernst Grube which examine specific materials used in Islamic decorative arts. Six papers examine pottery and tiles, one considers Ilkhanis stucco work as represented in the mausoleum of the Shaykh Muhammad ibn Bakran and four explore the decorative arts of the Timuris period. Illustrations have been enhanced and the selection updated with additional notes and an extensive bibliography. 9780907132790, $500, HB, 324 illus, 518p, NYP - due 2014, Pindar Press Pre-Publication Price $400

Edited by Dionisius A. Agius Georgio Scala, a young man of humble origins, from Damiata, was captured on a trading vessel by the Knights of Malta in 1590 not far from his home town. He was enslaved in spite of his protestations that he was a Christian and so began the story of his life in the island of Malta. After gaining his freedom some years later, Scala made a life for himself in Valletta, the new capital and married Bernardina Mendicino. 9789993274155, $60, HB, illus in monotone, 536p, 2013, Midsea Books Special Oﬀer Price $48 yaghnobi studies i papers from the italian missions in tajikistan

Edited by Antonio Panaino, Andrea Gariboldi & Paolo Ognibene The present volume collects some contributions about the Yaghnob Valley inspired by or directly developed in the framework of the various scientific missions of the University of Bologna in Tajikistan. The articles here collected follow, as far as it is possible, a chronological order, starting with the studies concerning the history of the Yaghnobis considered in the framework of the Upper Zarafšan region, beginning from the Sogdian period to the early Islamic age, up to essays focusing on ethno-linguistics and related political aspects. Indo-Iranica et Orientalia 12

studies in the islamic decorative arts

By Robert Hillenbrand Islamic artists channeled their energies not into easel painting and large-scale sculpture, but rather into what Western scholars, obeying a very different hierarchy of art forms, rather disparagingly termed the "decorative arts" or even "the minor arts". In point of fact, some of the greatest masterpieces of Islamic art are in the media of ceramics, metalwork, textiles, ivory and glass. Often the images they bear express a complex set of meanings, for Islam inherited much material from the iconographic systems of earlier civilizations, notably those of the ancient Near East and of the classical world. Islam also developed its own distinctive vocabulary of signs and symbols. Accordingly, questions of iconography and meaning bulk large among the studies gathered together in the present volume. These studies, written over a period of almost thirty years, and taken from a wide variety of published sources, deal with aspects of the decorative arts from Spain to India and from the 7th to the 17th century. 9781904597506, $300, HB, 343 illus, 574p, NYP - due 2014, Pindar Press Pre-Publication Price $240 light car patrols 1916-19

9788857521824, $35, PB, 208p, NYP - due 2014, Mimesis Edizioni Pre-Publication Price $28

war and exploration in egypt and libya

after the yemeni spring

with the model t ford

a survey on the transition

By Claud Williams & Russell McGuirk

Edited by Anna Maria Medici & URT-IRDH The Urbino Research Team on International Relations and Human Development The role of Yemen in the War on Terror throughout the 2000s has been crucial. It is a complex country, all too often trivialized by statistics focusing on its inconvenient position as the youngest and poorest country in the Arab world. Working on the most updated economic, social, political, and strategic data, the authors bring the attention to the new scenarios after Saleh’s era, in which Yemenis are called to rebuild their country and outline a new national pact for the future. Politics, 2nd edition 9788857514376, $33, PB, 238p, 2014, Mimesis Edizioni Special Oﬀer Price $26.40

Captain Claud Williams’ memoir tells, first-hand, what it was like to be a Light Car Patrol commander during the First World War, while Russell McGuirk’s commentary provides the historical background to the formation of the Patrols and follows their activities from the British raid on Siwa Oasis to desert exploration and survey work and the Kufra Reconnaissance Scheme. Lavishly illustrated with original photographs from Light Car officers, this combined memoir and history provides a fascinating and informative picture of an unsung hero of the desert – the Model T Ford. 9781900971157, $42.95, PB, 120 figs & 2 maps, 288p, 2014, Silphium Press Special Oﬀer Price $34.36

Use discount code 609-14 to receive special offer price

Stacey International was founded in 1974, and maintains a resolute tradition of adaptive and imaginative publishing. High editorial standards in textual and illustrative content are always maintained and careful attention is given to the quality of design and production. oman

envoys to the arab world

40th anniversary edition

By Paul Tempest, James Craig & Donald Maitland

By Sir Donald Hawley & Richard Muir Oman is a country no visitor forgets. The ancient land of copper and frankincense, hub of sea and land routes linking India, Arabia and the Mediterranean; a country of rich ports, merchant houses and castles, Oman's heritage has beguiled and intrigued visitors for centuries. Its mountain ranges, fertile coastal strips, vast deserts and incense-bearing hills, once possessed a trading empire of its own. In this acclaimed book, now in its sixth edition, Sir Donald Hawley, Britain's first ambassador to Oman in the 1970s and an acknowledged authority on the country chronicles the remarkable changes that have taken place in the last 30 years. 9781906768584, $73, HB, 348p, 2012, Stacey International Special Oﬀer Price $58.40 voices of oman a different mid-east story

By Charles Olson Voices of Oman is a collection of eyewitness accounts of the most significant event of modern Omani history, the Omani Renaissance of 1970, which transformed a tent-in-the-desert culture into a modern urban state. The stories told in the 15 interviews contained in this work show the human dimension of a large historical change. Whatever cultural ground the reader may or may not share with these individuals, these stories show in poignant detail how we are all alike and how we are all different. History is the glue that holds a culture together, and Oman's past is filled with periods of glorious achievement that contribute to the contemporary Omani's sense of continuity and cultural identity. 9781906768645, $20.95, PB, 198p, 2011, Stacey International Special Oﬀer Price $16.76 kurdistan a nation emerges

By Jonathan Fryer Kurdistan is one of the Middle East's great recent success stories. The area occupies much of what is now northern and northeastern Iraq. The Kurds have a distinguished and eventful history; their capital, Erbil, claims to be the oldest continuously inhabited city. Occupying strategically important lands and formidable mineral reserves, the region has from ancient times been a magnet for invaders. 9781906768188, $55.65, HB, 164p, 2010, Stacey International Special Oﬀer Price $44.52 the arab world handbook

By James Peters Whether you are a tourist, a business traveller or an expatriate, this book is an essential companion. The Arab World Handbook collects everything into one essential volume. Covering all the countries of the Arabian peninsula - Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Yemen - it contains advice on planning a visit and making a home in the Arab world. The book covers everything from basic language and pronunciation to etiquette, culture and business practice. There are sections on geography, history, government and the law, plus useful maps and country-by-country surveys. 9781906768034, $18.95, PB, 150p, 2009, Stacey International Special Oﬀer Price $15.16 yemen, jewel of arabia

By Charles Aithie & Patricia Aithie Yemen's history, landscape, architecture and people are all equally beguiling, but for too long, they have remained undiscovered in the western world. Yemen, Jewel of Arabia pays homage to this land in words and stunning images. The book is introduced by Mark Marshall CMG - Britain's ambassador to Yemen for six years. He witnessed the country's prolonged struggle towards unification, and presents an analysis informed by his close knowledge of Yemeni history. 9781905299935, $26.95, PB, 192p, 2009, Stacey International Special Oﬀer Price $21.56

An aura of intrigue has long surrounded the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies (MECAS). This 'school for spies' was founded in 1944 and originally based for a few years in Jerusalem before relocating to the village of Shemlan, deep in the Lebanese hills. The Centre rapidly became a key training ground for young diplomats in the Arab world. 9781905299973, $29.95, HB, 275p, 2009, Stacey International Special Oﬀer Price $23.96 illustrated encyclopaedia of arabia

By Mary Beardwood This book is packed with information on everything from the food the Bedouin eat, to the adventures of Sinbad the Sailor. Each subject is illustrated with vivid pictures, diagrams and photographs and organized in clear, easy-to-follow categories. This encyclopedia will stimulate the imagination of any child living in an Arab country, as well as those who would like to learn more about the region. This book is a wonderful addition to every child's library. 9781905299942, $35, HB, 168p, 2008, Stacey International Special Oﬀer Price $28 very simple arabia

By James Peters Peters combines an authoritative text with his inimitable cartoons like no other author dealing with this subject today. The author of proves once again to be an indispensable guide and companion for any visitor (on business or pleasure) to the fascinating and sometimes demanding land that is the Arab world. Split into two parts, Simple Etiquette in Arabia and The Customs and Culture of Arabia, James Peters extracts the common denominators of etiquette in the Gulf, as well as describing the first steps in understanding the place, the people and the culture. 9781905299515, $11.95, PB, 108p, 2007, Stacey International Special Oﬀer Price $9.56 palestine political reflection

By Michel Chiha This collection of Chiha's reflections spans the volatile years of 194454, and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1949: a time when many of the seeds of modern conflict were sown. Although at times provocative, Chiha's writings retain at heart his staunch advocacy of an open, liberal and cosmopolitan culture, and the economic fruits that flourish in such an environment. Lebanese - and ardently patriotic - Chiha proves a candid analyst of Lebanon’s shortcomings, often tracing these to the partition of Palestine in 1949, and the creation of its Zionist state. 9781905299546, $39.95, HB, 176p, 2007, Stacey International Special Oﬀer Price $31.96 breaking the cycle

By Youssef Choueiri Sandwiched between Syria and Israel, Lebanon is perhaps fated to be engulfed in the frequent bouts of violence that plague the wider Middle East region. In summer 2006, Beirut found itself once more under siege as Israeli missiles rained upon the capital. More often than not, however, the fighting has been internal - Lebanon has suffered frequent civil wars throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 9781905299539, $29.95, PB, 323p, 2007, Stacey International Special Oﬀer Price $23.96 a face in the crowd

By Youmna Asseily & Ahmad Asfahani Emir Farid Hares Chehab held many of the most politically sensitive positions in Lebanon in the period from the country's independence from French rule in 1942 to the early 1970s. From his high-level posts, at the secret police, Surete Generale, and in the Diplomatic Corps, he took it upon himself to painstakingly record his observations and impressions from a unique 'insider' position. 9781905299485, $42.95, HB, 375p, 2007, Stacey International Special Oﬀer Price $34.36

To view full details including contents listings on our website - visit www.casemateacademic.com

ORDERING INFORMATION shipping

returns policy

please add (us), $6.00 for the first book and $2.50 for each additional book; (canada & mexico) add $9.00 for the first book and $7.00 for each additional; (overseas) add $12.00 for the first book and $10.00 for each additional. us orders are shipped via ups, so please include and an institutional or commercial shipping address if possible.

damaged or defective returns please call or write to the oﬃce. address for damaged or defective returns: returns dept, casemate, 22883 quicksilver drive, dulles va 20166. permission required. include invoice information. such claims must be made within 14 days of receipt. please indicate whether you desire replacement or cancellation.

booksellers and other trade customers

most of the books in this catalog are available at our normal trade terms, which will apply to the full list price of the book. some titles are only available at short discounts of 20% or 10%.a copy of our discount schedule is available from candace ash. libraries and institutes

we welcome orders direct from libraries and other organizations and we are pleased to record standing orders for series and journals. if you have any questions about this, or our terms of supply, please contact candace ash. prices

while we have tried to give accurate prices and publication dates, these are subject to change without notice. pre-publication prices are only valid before the title is published. international orders

customers outside north america can order many of the titles in this catalog from our uk oﬃce: oxbow books, 10 hythe bridge street, oxford, ox1 2ew. tel: (+44) 1865 241 249 fax: (+44) 1865 794 449 email:oxbow@oxbowbooks.com contact information:

michaela goﬀ, us marketing manager, casemate academic michaela.goﬀ@casematepublishers.com jim drenning, operations director, casemate academic jim.drenning@casematepublishers.com rajni varsani, accounts manager rajni.varsani@casematepublishers.com

overstock returns address for overstock returns: returns dept, casemate, 22883 quicksilver drive, dulles va 20166. no permission required. invoice information must accompany shipment. returned copies must be clean, saleable, and carefully packed. casemate academic retains the right to final decision in determining the saleability of returned books. returns deemed unsaleable will be sent back to the customer at the customer’s expense. period of eligibility for returns six months from invoice date. books must be in saleable condition, the current edition, and still be available from the publisher. superseded editions are not returnable 90 days after publication of new edition. credit allowed full credit will be given at the price and discount of the customer’s last purchase of each title returned. credit balances are to be used for future purchase only. examination copy policy

if you would like to consider a book for classroom use, you may request an exam copy agreeing to the following terms: you will be billed at a 20% academic discount, plus shipping charges, payable after 90 days unless we receive verification that you have adopted the book. if you do not adopt the book, you may return it for credit within 90 days or purchase it at a 20% discount for your own use. please send your request to samantha dibona, specifying your institution, intended course, projected enrollment and the dates the class will be taught. review copy requests

please submit your request to michaela goﬀ, specifying the publication that will be reviewing the book.

candace ash, customer service associate candace.ash@casematepublishers.com samantha dibona, online marketplace orders/customer service samantha.dibona@casematepublishers.com

20 MAIN STREET OAKVILLE, CT 06779

20 MAIN STREET OAKVILLE, CT

06779

PUBLICATIONS AND DISTRIBUTED TITLES IN THE NEAR EAST, EGYPT, ISLAM & THE MIDDLE EAST