Product Description: In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States declared war on terrorism. More than ten years later, the results are decidedly mixed. Here world-renowned author, diplomat, and scholar Akbar Ahmed reveals an important yet largely ignored result of this war: in many nations it has exacerbated the already broken relationship between central governments and the largely rural Muslim tribal societies on the peripheries of both Muslim and non-Muslim nations...read more

Product Description: First published in 1980, this groundbreaking Routledge Revival is a reissue of an original and authentic anthropological account of Pukhtun society by Professor Akbar Ahmed. Combining extensive fieldwork data collected among the Mohmand tribe in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan with historical and literary sources, Professor Ahmed’s study seeks to construct an ideal-type model of Pukhtun society based on the ideal Code of the Pukhtuns and to analyse the conditions of its maintenance and transformation...read more

A history of the nation of Jordan and a discussion of its role in the Middle East.

Presents a history of the nation of Iraq and provides a discussion of how that history factors into the current politics of the Middle East. (view table of contents)

A history of the nation of Iran and a discussion of how that history factors into the current politics of the Middle East.

Presents a history of the nation of Turkey and offers a discussion of its role in the Middle East. (view table of contents)

A history of Saudi Arabia, focusing on the country's role in the current political climate of the Middle East.

A history of the nation of Israel and a discussion of how the history of that nation and of the Jewish people fuel turmoil in Middle East today, especially the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis.

Product Description: After Terror presents sustained reflections by some of the world's most celebrated thinkers on the most pressing question of our time: how can we find ways to defuse the ticking bombs of terrorism and excessive interventions against it? It offers an antidote to the fatalistic global holy war perspective that afflicts much contemporary thought, focusing instead on the principles, issues, and acts needed to shift course from alienation and conflict to a path of sanity and goodwill among cultures and civilizations...read more

Contains essays which discuss Islamic thought from a social science perspective, covering Islamic teachings on such topics as politics, the economy, women's rights, and science.

A history of Syria, focusing on the country's role in the current political climate of the modern Middle East.

A history of the nation of Yemen and a discussion of its role in the Middle East.

A discussion of the people known as Kurds, including their history as well as their contemporary status in the Middle East.

A history of the nation of Kuwait and a discussion of its role in the Middle East.