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Middle Eastern History Books
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The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.49 — 36,085 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 — 9,883 ratings — published 1989
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 12,930 ratings — published 2009
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 30,020 ratings — published 1978
A History of the Arab Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,619 ratings — published 1991
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 — 5,674 ratings — published 2012
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,774 ratings — published 2003
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 10,669 ratings — published 1983
Jerusalem: The Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,564 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 4.26 — 7,311 ratings — published 2005
A History of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,806 ratings — published 1993
The Arabs: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,575 ratings — published 2009
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Vintage)
by (shelved 10 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,679 ratings — published 2005
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 — 6,220 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 4.08 — 1,560 ratings — published 2023
Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,036 ratings — published 2008
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,150 ratings — published 2010
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 — 1,006 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 — 4,756 ratings — published 2015
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,337 ratings — published 2010
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,599 ratings — published 2006
Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,495 ratings — published 2005
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,022 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 4.17 — 1,275 ratings — published 2019
The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,119 ratings — published 1973
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 49,405 ratings — published 2015
The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,028 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 — 17,017 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 4.17 — 11,904 ratings — published 2005
From Beirut to Jerusalem (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,180 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 — 37,926 ratings — published 2006
Iran: A Modern History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 811 ratings — published 2017
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,451 ratings — published 2012
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,246 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 — 9,627 ratings — published 2009
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,752,824 ratings — published 2007
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 4.34 — 3,335 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 4.24 — 544 ratings — published 1974
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,869 ratings — published 2021
The Modern Middle East: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 857 ratings — published 2004
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 207,296 ratings — published 2007
What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.54 — 3,969 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 — 2,475 ratings — published 1995
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 232,443 ratings — published 2003
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 5,943 ratings — published 2020
Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,503 ratings — published 2019
Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,395 ratings — published 2019
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.42 — 9,976 ratings — published 2018
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,457 ratings — published 2017
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle that Shaped the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,113 ratings — published 2011
“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
“Many countries in the Middle East are artificial creations. European colonialists drew their national borders in the nineteenth or twentieth century, often with little regard for local history and tradition, and their leaders have had to concoct outlandish myths in order to give citizens a sense of nationhood. Just the opposite is true of Iran. This is one of the world’s oldest nations, heir to a tradition that reaches back thousands of years, to periods when great conquerors extended their rule across continents, poets and artists created works of exquisite beauty, and one of the world’s most extraordinary religious traditions took root and flowered.”
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