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Middle Eastern History Books
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The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.49 — 38,478 ratings — published 2020
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,022 ratings — published 1989
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 13,465 ratings — published 2009
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,012 ratings — published 1978
A History of the Arab Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,704 ratings — published 1991
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,913 ratings — published 2003
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 5,861 ratings — published 2012
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 10,906 ratings — published 1983
Jerusalem: The Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,846 ratings — published 2011
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,526 ratings — published 2005
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Vintage)
by (shelved 11 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,759 ratings — published 2005
A History of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,827 ratings — published 1993
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,437 ratings — published 2010
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 51,359 ratings — published 2015
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,973 ratings — published 2006
The Arabs: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,686 ratings — published 2009
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,295 ratings — published 2001
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,750 ratings — published 2023
Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,189 ratings — published 2008
The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,140 ratings — published 1973
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,024 ratings — published 2015
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,852 ratings — published 2015
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,448 ratings — published 2010
Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,538 ratings — published 2005
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,310 ratings — published 2022
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,319 ratings — published 2019
Iran: A Modern History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 921 ratings — published 2017
The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,040 ratings — published 1976
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,283 ratings — published 2013
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,285 ratings — published 2005
From Beirut to Jerusalem (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,315 ratings — published 1989
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 38,922 ratings — published 2006
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,464 ratings — published 2012
The Modern Middle East: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 872 ratings — published 2004
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,350 ratings — published 2013
After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,751 ratings — published 2009
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,795,675 ratings — published 2007
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 238,481 ratings — published 2003
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,658 ratings — published 2024
The Venture of Islam, Vol 1: The Classical Age of Islam (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 549 ratings — published 1974
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,046 ratings — published 2021
The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,519 ratings — published 2016
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,377 ratings — published 2018
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,981 ratings — published 2017
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle that Shaped the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,334 ratings — published 2011
In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 748 ratings — published 2014
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.41 — 213,665 ratings — published 2007
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,508 ratings — published 2004
What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.55 — 4,013 ratings — published 2001
The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,507 ratings — published 1995
“BCCI's ascendancy was also due to business practices that were highly unusual in the staid world of banking. Other banks gave toaster ovens to new depositors; BCCI provided prostitutes... The report says that the woman was reputed to have first won the attention of the royal family "by arranging to get virgin women from the villages from the ages of 16 to 20... According to one U.S. investigator with substantial knowledge of BCCI's activities, some BCCI officials have acknowledged that some of the females provided some members of the Al-Nahyan family were young girls who had not yet reached puberty, and in certain cases, were physically injured by the experience. The official said that former BCCI officials had told him that BBCI also provided males to homosexual VIPs.”
― House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
― House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
“MOST OF THE NATIONS OF the Middle East can be divided into those with long histories and no oil, and those that have lots of oil and very little history. With a few notable exceptions, both groups share a common feature: they were cobbled together by outsiders. The borders of the modern Middle East were drawn by Europeans after the First World War with no regard for the interests or backgrounds of the people who inhabited it.”
― And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
― And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
