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Middle Eastern studies
from the University of Chicago Press
The books in this subject catalog are not all the books published by the University of Chicago Press in this field, but only our most recent and important books. We recommend you start with this catalog. For a more extensive listing you may go to the subject index of our complete catalog, or you may search our title database using a subject term. To see just our very latest books (titles released in the last six months) go to our new releases pages.
- Abu El-Haj, Nadia: Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society
- Abu Qurrah, Theodore: Theodore Abu Qurrah
- Afary, Janet: Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism • Read an excerpt.
- al-Ghazali: The Niche of Lights
- Algaze, Guillermo: Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization: The Evolution of an Urban Landscape
- Allen, Lindsay: The Persian Empire
- Allison, Robert: The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815
- Almond, Gabriel A.: Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms around the World
- Ankori, Gannit: Palestinian Art
- Appleby, R. Scott: Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East • Read an excerpt.
- Beeman, O. William: The Great Satan vs. the Mad Mullahs: How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other
- Bhabha, Homi K.: Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation
- Blank, Jonah: Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras • Read an excerpt and interview with the author.
- Brumberg, Daniel: Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran
- Buber, Martin: A Land of Two Peoples: Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs
- Burgoyne, L. Michael: The Defense of Jisr al-Doreaa: With E. D. Swinton's "The Defence of Duffer's Drift"
- Chaffetz, David: A Journey through Afghanistan
- Chérif, Mustapha: Islam and the West: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida
- Cohen, Dalia: Palestinian Arab Music: A Maqam Tradition in Practice
- Danielson, Virginia: "The Voice of Egypt": Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century
- Derluguian, Georgi M.: Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography
- El-Rouayheb, Khaled: Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800
- El-Shamy, Hasan M.: Folktales of Egypt
- Fathy, Hassan: Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt
- Feldman, Marian H.: Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an "International Style" in the Ancient Near East, 1400-1200 BCE
- Gilbertson, Ashley: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War • See a website for the book.
- Griffin, Nicholas: Caucasus: A Journey to the Land between Christianity and Islam
- Hammoudi, Abdellah: Master and Disciple: The Cultural Foundations of Moroccan Authoritarianism
- Hewsen, Robert H.: Armenia: A Historical Atlas • View sample maps.
- Jamieson, Alan G.: Faith and Sword: A Short History of Christian-Muslim Conflict
- Kamali, Masoud: Multiple Modernities, Civil Society and Islam: The Case of Iran and Turkey
- Khuri, Fuad I.: An Invitation to Laughter: A Lebanese Anthropologist in the Arab World
- Lambert, Phyllis: Fortifications and the Synagogue: The Fortress of Babylon and the Ben Ezra Synagogue, Cairo
- Lewis, Bernard: The Political Language of Islam
- Lincoln, Bruce: Holy Terrors, Second Edition: Thinking About Religion After September 11 • Read an excerpt.
- Lincoln, Bruce: Religion, Empire, and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib
- Mahdi, Muhsin: Alfarabi and the Foundation of Islamic Political Philosophy
- Marty, Martin E.: Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements
- Marty, Martin E.: Fundamentalisms Comprehended
- Massad, A. Joseph: Desiring Arabs
- Meiselas, Susan: Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, Second Edition
- Moaddel, Mansoor: Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism: Episode and Discourse
- Nissen, Hans J.: From Mesopotamia to Iraq: A Concise History
- Palace Arts Foundation: Palace of Gold and Light: Treasures from the Topkapi, Istanbul
- Pandolfo, Stefania: Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from a Moroccan Space of Memory
- Rahman, Fazlur: Islam
- Rahman, Fazlur: Islam and Modernity: Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition
- Ravitzky, Aviezer: Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism
- Rosen, Lawrence: The Culture of Islam: Changing Aspects of Contemporary Muslim Life
- Rosen, Lawrence: Varieties of Muslim Experience: Encounters with Arab Political and Cultural Life
- Rothfield, Lawrence: The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum
- Rumi, Jalal al-Din: Mystical Poems of Rumi
- Sadra, Mulla: The Elixir of the Gnostics: A parallel English-Arabic text
- SAID: Landscapes of a Distant Mother • Read an excerpt.
- Saliba, Therese: Gender, Politics, and Islam
- Shelemay, Kay Kaufman: Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews
- Shulman, David: Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine
- Sufian, M. Sandra: Healing the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the Zionist Project in Palestine, 1920-1947
- Suhrawardi, Shihab al-Din: Philosophy of Illumination
- The Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy: The European Union, Turkey and Islam
- Tufayl, Ibn: Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale
- United States Army: Instructions for American Servicemen in Iraq during World War II
- Wedeen, Lisa: Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria
- Wedeen, Lisa: Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen
- Wharton, Annabel Jane: Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas, Theme Parks
- Wheatley, Paul: The Places Where Men Pray Together: Cities in Islamic Lands, Seventh through the Tenth Centuries
- Wheeler, Brannon: Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam
- Whitlock, Gillian: Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit
- Wikan, Unni: In Honor of Fadime: Murder and Shame • Read an excerpt.
- Yah'ya ibn 'Adi: The Reformation of Morals: A parallel English-Arabic text
- Zayd, Nasr Abu: Reformation of Islamic Thought: A Critical Historical Analysis
- Zerubavel, Yael: Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition
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