This is a fascinating account of a little known ethnic minority in Iraq. Although the Assyrians, like many minorities in Iraq, lived across many modern national boundaries, they were an unusually well-off group. After the end of the British mandate in Iraq in 1932, however, it was revealed that Moslems were persecuting them. The survivors of the Assyrian people and the remnants of a once great Christian Church lived in the mountains by and large in the north part of Iraq, sometimes straddling the Turkish border.

This book published in 1937 is being reissued now because of its obvious contemporary parallels.

How was Iraq to be taken from being a "remote" and neglected portion of the Ottoman Empire in 1941 to her then-position of a political unit possessing supposedly all the machinery of a modern state? The growth of Arab nationalism in the region, the establishment of a provisional government, and the search for a ruler all had to be dealt with by the skillful British in the mandated territory.

First published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A study of the seafaring communities of the Arabian Gulf and Oman. This book presents an analysis of the significance of the dhow and how coastal communities interacted in the long tradition of seafaring. It brings together the different measures of time past, the sea, its people and their material culture.

the author, well established as a travel writer and archaeologist, undertook this journey with his wife, making seven journeys in all around the southern part of Arabia including Oman and Dhofar which from 1893 to the end of his life he made his special field for observation and travel.

In his khamriyyat, Abu Nuwas offers a glimpse of the hedonistic and dissipated world he inhabited: the world of Baghdad high society at the zenith of the Abbasid caliphate. Yet there is also a modern and up-to-date feel about his poetry that makes it ideal for presentation to an English-speaking readership, some twelve centuries after his death.

Anyone coming from Europe with so much interest centring in the Middle Ages has to accustom the eyes to a new focus. It is as if he were to come from a well-kept garden to life in mid-ocean, stretching the eyes over a waste of waters. Everything is so old in the East; and being so old, is apt to be fragmentary. Civilizations come and go; nations have their rise, their period of prosperity, and then they disappear...

An invaluable resource for those interested in the anthropology of Iraq based on the author's extensive fieldwork in Iraq.

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A short but comprehensive introduction to the central concerns of Islamic philosophy and its relationship with shari'a law.