Ernest Tucker

The Middle East in Modern World History

The Middle East in Modern World History examines how global trends over the last 200 years have shaped the Middle East and how these trends were affec...

Nadir Shah's Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Safavid Iran

Ascending from obscurity and without dynastic credentials, Nadir Shah tried and failed to establish his right to rule the people of Iran from the 1720...

History and Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East

Studies in Honor of John E. Woods

Introduction / Judith Pfeiffer & Sholeh A. Quinn -- |t The Mongol world empire. -- |t World-conquest and local accomodation: threat and blandishment i...

Russian-Muslim Confrontation in the Caucasus

Alternative Visions of the Conflict between Imam Shamil and the Russians, 1830-1859

This book presents two extraordinary texts - The Shining of Swords by Al-Qarakhi and a new translation for a contemporary readership of Leo Tolstoy's ...

Underworld Dwellers

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