This edited volume is an open access title and assembles both the historical consciousness and transformation of the MENA region in various disciplinary and topical facets.

Bill Bell, Director of the Centre for the History of the Book, The University of Edinburgh.

This volume of essays on Thomas Browne aims to set the man and his works in new contexts.

A fresh interpretation of the development of sectarian identities and communal violence in Lebanon from the 1840s to the 1860s, challenging those who have viewed sectarian violence as an Islamic reaction against westernization or as the ...

The book is based on the latest research in psychology and is jam-packed with action strategies.

The papers in the volume are all based on new research, and they constitute together a coherent and convergent set of case studies which demonstrate the vitality and inventiveness of early modern natural philosophers, and their awareness of ...

The book also examines the historical development of mapping, reviews the emergence of thematic mapping in modern Europe, and explores how maps produce space and place.

History and evolution of Christian and Jewish communities in the Ottoman empire over 400 years.

This collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in Arabic philosophy, provides an introduction to the field by way of chapters devoted to individual thinkers (such as al-Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes) or groups, especially during ...