Tag: Middle

January 10, 2025

The Medieval Scriptorium Making Books in the Middle Ages

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Free Download The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages by Sara J. Charles
English | October 29, 2024 | ISBN: 1789149169 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 13.6 MB
Illuminated with illustrations, an exploration of medieval manuscript production that offers insight into both the early history of the book and life in the Middle Ages.

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January 5, 2025

Negotiating Empire in the Middle East

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Free Download M. Talha Çiçek, "Negotiating Empire in the Middle East"
English | ISBN: 1108995381 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In the early 1840s, Ottoman rulers launched a new imperial project, partly in order to reassert their authority over their lands and subjects, crucially including the Arab nomads. By examining the evolution of this relationship between the Ottoman Empire and Arab nomads in the modern era, M. Talha Çiçek puts forward a new framework to demonstrate how negotiations between the Ottomans and the Arab nomads played a part in making the modern Middle East. Reflecting on multiple aspects of Ottoman authority and governance across Syria, Iraq, Arabia, Transjordan and along their frontiers, Çiçek reveals how the relationship between the imperial centre and the nomads was not merely a brutal imposition of a strict order, but instead one of constant, complicated, and fluid negotiation. In so doing, he highlights how the responses of the nomads made a considerable impact on the ultimate outcome, transforming the imperial policies accordingly.

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December 27, 2024

Regional Security in the Middle East A Critical Perspective

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Free Download Pinar Bilgin, "Regional Security in the Middle East: A Critical Perspective"
English | 2004 | pages: 255 | ISBN: 0415325498 | PDF | 1,2 mb
This is an accessible yet critical analysis of regional security in the Middle East. Using a non-realist approach, Bilgin provides a comprehensive study of the past, present and future of security in the region. She also considers the question of identity formation, explaining how and why various regional representations came into being, and explores the consequences of a particular identity. Finally, the author presents alternative future scenarios and their implications including a critical security studies perspective on the future of the Middle East as a security community.

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December 27, 2024

Crime and Social Change in Middle England Questions of Order in an English Town

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Free Download Ian Loader, Richard Sparks, "Crime and Social Change in Middle England: Questions of Order in an English Town"
English | 1999 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0415183359, 0415183367 | PDF | 2,1 mb
Crime and Social Change in Middle England offers a new way of looking at contemporary debates on the fear of crime. Using observation, interviews and documentary analysis it traces the reactions of citizens of one very ordinary town to events, conflicts and controversies around such topical subjects of criminological investigation as youth, public order, drugs, policing and home security in their community. In doing so it moves in place from comfortable suburbs to hard pressed inner city estates, from the affluent to the impoverished, from old people watching the town where they grew up change around them to young in-comers who are part of that change. This is a book which will give all students of crime a rare and fascinating insight into how issues at the heart of contemporary law and order politics both nationally and internationally actually play out on the ground.

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December 23, 2024

Indigenous Medicine Among the Bedouin in the Middle East

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Free Download Aref Abu-Rabia, "Indigenous Medicine Among the Bedouin in the Middle East"
English | ISBN: 1789208513 | 2020 | 232 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes in the course of rapid urbanization and education, but when serious illnesses strike, particularly in the case of incurable diseases, even educated people turn to traditional medicine for a remedy. Over the course of 30 years, the author gathered data on traditional Bedouin medicine among pastoral-nomadic, semi-nomadic, and settled tribes. Based on interviews with healers, clients, and other active participants in treatments, this book will contribute to renewed thinking about a synthesis between traditional and modern medicine ― to their reciprocal enrichment.

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