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  • Greater Syriaby Daniel Pipes

    Oxford University Press 1992; US$ 50.00

    While for many years scholars and journalists have focused on the more obvious manifestations of political life in the Middle East, one major theme has been consistently neglected. This is Pan-Syrian nationalism--the dream of creating a Greater Syria out of an area now governed by Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Turkey. Though not nearly as well known as Arab or Palestinian nationalism and hardly studied in depth, Pan-Syrianism has had a profound effect on Middle Eastern politics since the end of World War I. In Greater Syria, the noted Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes provides the first comprehensive account of this intriguing, important, and little understood ideology.  more...

  • The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africaby Getzel M. Cohen

    University of California Press 2006; US$ 15.95

    This authoritative and sweeping compendium, the second volume in Getzel Cohen's organized survey of the Greek settlements founded or refounded in the Hellenistic period, provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the settlements in Syria, The Red Sea Basin, and North Africa from 331 to 31 BCE. Organized geographically, the volume pulls together discoveries and debates from dozens of widely scattered archaeological and epigraphic projects. Cohen's magisterial breadth of focus enables him to provide more than a compilation of information; the volume also contributes to ongoing questions and will point the way toward new avenues of inquiry. more...

  • Early Urbanism on the Syrian Euphratesby Lisa Cooper

    Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 44.95

    Studying archaeological evidence from sites, covering over 200 kilometres of the banks of the Euphrates River, this title explores the growth and development of human settlement in these sites, during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages from circa 2700 to 1550 BC. It is suitable for students of archaeology and ancient history. more...

  • Syria and the Palestiniansby Ghada Hashem Talhami

    UPF 2001; US$ 55.00

    ''A critically important addition to our knowledge of Syria and the Palestinians.''-- William W. Haddad, California State University, Fullerton ''A powerful and persuasive contribution to the discourse on Arab nationalism. It is based on original research never before seen in the English language. more...

  • Syria's Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Processby Marius Deeb

    Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 90.00

    This study demonstrates that Syria's role in the Middle East has been, since 1974, an unabated terrorist war against all attempts to resolve peacefully the Arab-Israeli conflict. more...

  • The Truth about Syriaby Barry Rubin

    Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 9.99

    Syria has long presented a serious problem for the Middle East region and US policy. Yet, very little is known about the role it has played in shaping the destiny of the Middle East. This work looks at the critical issues that have made the country the powderkeg of the Middle East and offers an analysis of the effects of the developments. more...

  • Nazism in Syria and Lebanonby Götz Nordbruch

    Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 145.00

    This book reconstructs the intellectual and political encounters with Nazism in Lebanon and Syria under French mandate rule and situates them in the context of an evolving local political culture. more...

  • Islamic Piety in Medieval Syriaby Daniella Talmon-Heller

    BRILL 2007; US$ 158.00

    Presents a study of the religious thought and practice of Muslims of various social echelons in Syria during the crusades and the anti-Frankish jihad. This book analyzes the texture of medieval Islamic piety. more...

  • Money, Power and Politics in Early Islamic Syriaby John Haldon

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 104.95

    The transformation of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire from the middle of the seventh century CE under the impact of Islam has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in recent years, and as more archaeological material becomes available, has been subject to revision and rethinking in ways that radically affect what we know or understand about the area, about state-building and the economy and society of the early Islamic world, and about issues such as urbanisation, town-country relations, the ways in which a different religious culture impacted on the built environment, and about politics. This volume represents the fruits of a workshop held at Princeton University in May 2007 to discuss the ways in which recent work has affected... more...

  • The Syrian Warsby J.D. Grainger

    BRILL 2010; US$ 200.00

    This book examines the causes and courses of the series of wars in the Hellenistic period fought between the kingdom of the Seleukids and the Ptolemies over possession of Syria. This is a subject always mentioned by historians of the period in a glancing or abbreviated way, but which is actually wholly central to the development of both kingdoms and of the period as a whole. Other than relatively brief summaries no serious account has ever been produced. This extended consideration will bring to the centre of research on the Hellinistic period this long sequence of wars. Arguably they were the basic causes of the failure of both kingdoms in the face of Roman aggression and interference. more...