In this innovative historical portrait of society in the premodern Middle East, Abraham Marcus takes us on a guided tour of a past world, revealing its inner wo

In this innovative book, Keith Watenpaugh connects the question of modernity to the formation of the Arab middle class. The book explores the rise of a middle c

The Modern Middle East is a collection of translated sources covering the period from 1700 to the present. Sources include official and private archives, the pe

The Islamic world's artistic traditions experienced profound transformation in the 19th century as rapidly developing technologies and globalizing markets usher

This introductory text explores the gendered history of the modern Middle East, from the eighteenth century to the present, studying the various ways in which g