MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES: Context & Overviews

Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel.

This title looks at Islam's role in the modern world, doing so in the context of the religion's history and development over the last 13 centuries.

The set covers the modern history of the Middle East and North Africa, with major sections on Colonialism and Imperialism, the World Wars, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the United Nations involvement in the region.

The volume assumes no previous knowledge of the Qur'an, Islam or Arabic. Technical terms are explained in the text itself and the style of each entry is designed to be as self-contained as possible.

The Encyclopædia Iranica is a comprehensive research tool dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World focuses on the Islamic dimension of the Muslim experience in recent history, with background articles grounding the information in its historical context.