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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 21 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.49 — 35,066 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 — 9,808 ratings — published 1989
A History of the Arab Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,639 ratings — published 1991
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 12,700 ratings — published 2009
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,659 ratings — published 1978
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 5,592 ratings — published 2012
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,516 ratings — published 2003
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 — 7,206 ratings — published 2005
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 10,562 ratings — published 1983
Jerusalem: The Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,454 ratings — published 2011
A History of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,795 ratings — published 1993
The Arabs: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,535 ratings — published 2009
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,624 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 — 6,171 ratings — published 2001
The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,108 ratings — published 1973
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 — 7,038 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 — 995 ratings — published 2015
The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,023 ratings — published 1976
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 — 4,693 ratings — published 2015
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,448 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 — 1,474 ratings — published 2005
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,475 ratings — published 2023
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,937 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 — 1,260 ratings — published 2019
Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,017 ratings — published 2008
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,283 ratings — published 2010
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 — 16,894 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 — 11,773 ratings — published 2005
From Beirut to Jerusalem (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,126 ratings — published 1989
Iran: A Modern History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 787 ratings — published 2017
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 48,700 ratings — published 2015
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,208 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 — 9,587 ratings — published 2009
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,735,484 ratings — published 2007
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 37,532 ratings — published 2006
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 4.35 — 3,186 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 — 538 ratings — published 1974
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 5,814 ratings — published 2020
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,450 ratings — published 2012
The Modern Middle East: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 853 ratings — published 2004
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 205,340 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 — 3,952 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 — 2,467 ratings — published 1995
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 230,552 ratings — published 2003
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,815 ratings — published 2021
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 — 9,831 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 3.92 — 12,188 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 4.07 — 5,040 ratings — published 2011
Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,813 ratings — published 2016
A History of Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as middle-eastern-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,620 ratings — published 2008
“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
