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NEW TITLES • MIDDLE EAST STUDIES NEW TITLES • MIDDLE EAST STUDIES THOMAS F. MADDEN TOBY WILKINSON, translator Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World Writings from Ancient Egypt PAID Presort Std INTRODUCTION BY THE TRANSLATOR “No place has had a better claim than Istanbul to being the historical center of our plan- U.S. Postage Permit No. 169 et—capital to multiple empires, a focal point of Christianity and Islam, and now a global Staten Island, NY Toby Wilkinson has translated a rich selection of pieces from Ancient Egypt, ranging transport and commercial hub. Writing with verve and sympathy, Madden weaves scholar- from accounts of battles to hymns to stories to royal proclamations. Entertaining and re- ship, travel, and literature into a compelling narrative of crushing loss and unexpected re- velatory, this is an essential resource for studying one of humankind’s great civilizations. newal.”—Charles King, author of Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul Penguin Classics Paperback • 384 pages • 978-0-14-139595-1 • $17.00 Viking Hardcover • 400 pages • 978-0-670-01660-0 • $32.00 JERRY BROTTON SHIHAB AL-DIN AL-NUWAYRI The Sultan and the Queen The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam EDITED AND TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ELIAS MUHANNA “The Sultan and the Queen is both a colorful narrative of [an] extraordinary time and a “From the structure of the heavens to the curious anatomy of the hippopotamus, with reminder that our own fortunes and those of the wider Islamic world have been inter- stops to view everything from book-keeping to aphrodisiacs, this charming fourteenth- twined for much longer than we might think.”—Dan Jones, The Times century encyclopedia gives a glimpse of the entire world as seen by a very learned Egyp- “Brotton is a gifted writer who is able to present this history as an exciting series of criti- tian summing up the powerful tradition of medieval Islamic scholarship known in his cal and suspense-filled encounters.”—The Washington Post time. Elias Muhanna’s very readable translation allows the reader to gain a rounded ex- Viking Hardcover • 352 pages • 978-0-525-42882-4 • $30.00 perience of a deeply interesting bygone world.”—Roy P. Mottahedeh, Harvard University “Finally, thanks to Elias Muhanna’s expert translation, editing, and explanatory notes, we have access to a real encyclopedia to place alongside Borges’s mythical Chinese text.” JACK WEATHERFORD —Elliott Colla, Georgetown University Genghis Khan and the Quest for God Penguin Classics Paperback • 352 pages • 978-0-14-310748-4 • $18.00 ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street NY 10014-3657 New York, How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom ONE OF THE GUARDIAN’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR “Weatherford returns to Genghis Khan and offers a startling conclusion: that the West- ern tradition of secularism in fact was enhanced by the religious tolerance of the great Mongolian warlord. An engaging, well-researched—and counter-intuitive—intellectual ABOLQASEM FERDOWSI odyssey.”—Victor Davis Hanson, Stanford University, author of Carnage and Culture The Persian Book of Kings Viking Hardcover • 432 pages • 978-0-7352-2115-4 • $28.00 Shahnameh: TRANSLATED BY DICK DAVIS; FOREWORD BY AZAR NAFISI Originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan in the tenth century, the SEAN MCMEEKIN Shahnameh tells the story of pre-Islamic Persia, from the mythical creation. Davis—“our pre-eminent translator from the Persian” (The Washington Post)—has revised The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and - and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi’s masterpiece, adding more than 100 the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 pages of newly translated text. Davis’s elegant combination of prose and verse allows the “McMeekin, combining groundbreaking archival research with a genius for historical Shahnameh to sing its tales directly, interspersed with explanations to aid modern readers. narrative, tells the story of the war in the East….There are many histories of World War Penguin Classics Paperback • 1,040 pages • 978-0-14-310832-0 • $30.00 I; few are as important or as readable as this one.”—Walter Russell Mead Penguin Paperback • 576 pages • 978-0-14-310980-8 • $20.00 MALCOLM C. LYONS, translator WALTER LAQUEUR and Tales of the Marvellous and News of MIDDLE EAST STUDIES DAN SCHUEFTAN, editors the Strange: A Medieval Arab Fantasy Collection INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT IRWIN The Israel-Arab Reader Dating from at least a millennium ago, the earliest known Arabic short stories survived A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict New Titles for 2017 in a single, ragged manuscript in a library in Istanbul. 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MADDEN TOBY WILKINSON, translator Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World Writings from Ancient Egypt PAID Presort Std INTRODUCTION BY THE TRANSLATOR “No place has had a better claim than Istanbul to being the historical center of our plan- U.S. Postage Permit No. 169 et—capital to multiple empires, a focal point of Christianity and Islam, and now a global Staten Island, NY Toby Wilkinson has translated a rich selection of pieces from Ancient Egypt, ranging transport and commercial hub. Writing with verve and sympathy, Madden weaves scholar- from accounts of battles to hymns to stories to royal proclamations. Entertaining and re- ship, travel, and literature into a compelling narrative of crushing loss and unexpected re- velatory, this is an essential resource for studying one of humankind’s great civilizations. newal.”—Charles King, author of Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul Penguin Classics Paperback • 384 pages • 978-0-14-139595-1 • $17.00 Viking Hardcover • 400 pages • 978-0-670-01660-0 • $32.00 JERRY BROTTON SHIHAB AL-DIN AL-NUWAYRI The Sultan and the Queen The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam EDITED AND TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ELIAS MUHANNA “The Sultan and the Queen is both a colorful narrative of [an] extraordinary time and a “From the structure of the heavens to the curious anatomy of the hippopotamus, with reminder that our own fortunes and those of the wider Islamic world have been inter- stops to view everything from book-keeping to aphrodisiacs, this charming fourteenth- twined for much longer than we might think.”—Dan Jones, The Times century encyclopedia gives a glimpse of the entire world as seen by a very learned Egyp- “Brotton is a gifted writer who is able to present this history as an exciting series of criti- tian summing up the powerful tradition of medieval Islamic scholarship known in his cal and suspense-filled encounters.”—The Washington Post time. Elias Muhanna’s very readable translation allows the reader to gain a rounded ex- Viking Hardcover • 352 pages • 978-0-525-42882-4 • $30.00 perience of a deeply interesting bygone world.”—Roy P. Mottahedeh, Harvard University “Finally, thanks to Elias Muhanna’s expert translation, editing, and explanatory notes, we have access to a real encyclopedia to place alongside Borges’s mythical Chinese text.” JACK WEATHERFORD —Elliott Colla, Georgetown University Genghis Khan and the Quest for God Penguin Classics Paperback • 352 pages • 978-0-14-310748-4 • $18.00 ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street NY 10014-3657 New York, How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom ONE OF THE GUARDIAN’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR “Weatherford returns to Genghis Khan and offers a startling conclusion: that the West- ern tradition of secularism in fact was enhanced by the religious tolerance of the great Mongolian warlord. An engaging, well-researched—and counter-intuitive—intellectual ABOLQASEM FERDOWSI odyssey.”—Victor Davis Hanson, Stanford University, author of Carnage and Culture The Persian Book of Kings Viking Hardcover • 432 pages • 978-0-7352-2115-4 • $28.00 Shahnameh: TRANSLATED BY DICK DAVIS; FOREWORD BY AZAR NAFISI Originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan in the tenth century, the SEAN MCMEEKIN Shahnameh tells the story of pre-Islamic Persia, from the mythical creation.