MENA Bibliography
| This page is concerned with books of Jewish History, Islam, Christianity, Philosophy, Arab and Mediterranean History and Culture | |||||||||
| Author | Title | Publisher/Year | ISBN/ASIN | Keywords | Language | Picture | In-Print | ||
| David Abulafia | The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean | Oxford University Press (2011) | 9780195323344 | Mediterranean History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital Audiobook | ||
| David Abulafia | The Mediterranean in History | Thames and Hudson Ltd (2016) | 9780500292174 | Mediterranean History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Violet Moller | The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found | Picador (2020) | B07H1YGPF1 | Mediterranean History/History of Knowledge | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Umberto Eco | The Name of the Rose | Vintage Classics (2004) | 9780099466031 | Literature | English |  | -Yes Book Digital Audio | ||
| Orhan Pamuk | My Name is Red | Faber & Faber (2011) | 9780571268832 | Literature | English |  | -Yes Book Digital Audio | ||
| Josephus | The Jewish War | Penguin (1981) | B002RI9Q76 | Jewish History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Simon Sebag-Montefiore | Jerusalem: A Biography | Weidenfeld and Nicholson (2011) | B004KA9VCE | History of Jerusalem | English |  | -Yes Book Digital Audio | ||
| Mark Mazower | The Greek Revolution; 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe | Penguin (2021) | B08W1TZMG9 | Greek and Ottoman History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Aristotle | The Art of Rhetoric | Penguin Classics (reissue) (1991) | 9780140445107 | Philosophy | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Richard E. Rubinstein | Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages | Mariner Books (2004) | B003KK5DPO | Philosophy/History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital Audio | ||
| Michael P.Arya | The Essential Avicenna | Xulon Press (2021) | 9781662820960 | Philosophy | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Averroes | On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy | Gibb Memorial Trust (2012) | 9780718902223 | Philosophy, Spain | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Giambatista Vico | The First New Science | Cambridge University Press (2010) | 9780521387262 | Italian Philosophy | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Edward Said | Orientalism | Penguin Books (2003) | 9780141187426 | Sociology | English |  | -Yes Book Digital Audio | ||
| Marc Schade-Poulsen | Men and Popular Music in Algeria: The Social Significance of Rai | University of Texas Press (1999) | 9780292777392 | Algerian Music | English |  | -Yes Book Digital Finding a book on Algerian Rai proved to be difficult. As this was a music scene known also for it's many female singers, I don't think that this book does the genre justice. | ||
| Albert Hourani | A History of the Arab People's | Faber & Faber (2013) | 9780571288014 | Arab History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Albert Hourani | Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798- 1939 | Cambridge University Press (1983) | 9780521274234 | Enlightenment, Learning | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Butrus al-Bustani (with Ussama Masdiki) | The Clarion of Syria: A Patriot's Call against the Civil War of 1860 | University of California Press (2019) | B07RC592QX | History, Syria, Christian, Co-existence | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Ussama Makdisi | Age of Co-Existence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World | California University Press (2019) | 9780520258884 | Ottoman Society | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour | Poems for the Millennium, Volume 4 | University of California Press (2013) | 9780520273856 | North Africa, Al-Andalus, Berber, Arab, Literature, Jewish, Roman, Phoenician, French | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Nissim Rejwan | Orientalism & the Myth of the Arab Mind | Nova Science Publishers Inc (2016) | 9781634843614 | Orientalism, Middle Eastern Culture | English |  | -Yes Book | ||
| Nissim Rejwan | The Many Faces of Islam: Perspectives on a Resurgent Civilization | University Press of Florida (2000) | 9780813018072 | Islam | English |  | -No Book | ||
| Nissim Rejwan | Arabs Face the Modern World: Religious, Cultural and Political Responses to the West | University Press of Florida (1998) | 9780813015590 | Contemporary Middle East | English |  | -No Book | ||
| Nissim Rejwan | Nasserist Ideology: Its Exponents and Critics | I.P.S.T (1974) | 9780878551620 | Egyptian Politics | English |  | -No Book | ||
| Sami Zubaida | Beyond Islam: A New Understanding of the Middle East | I.B. Tauris (2011) | B07PBQ6ZX8 | Middle East, Extremism, Cosmopolitanism, Imperialism, Culture | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Christopher de Bellaigue | The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason | Vintage (2018) | 9780099578703 | Nada, Enlightenment, Culture | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Reza Aslan | No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam | Random House Trade Paperback (2005) | 9780812982442 | Islam, Contemporary Islam, Misconceptions | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Karen Armstrong | Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet |
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| Islam, Mohammed | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Translation by N.J. Dawood | The Quran: With Parallel Arabaic Text | Penguin Classics (2015) | 9780141393841 |
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| Sarah Stroumsa | Freethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn Al-Rawandi, Abu Bakr Al Razi | Brill (1999) | 9789004113749 | Islam | English |  | -Yes Book | ||
| Joel Kraemer | Philosophy in the Renaissance of Islam | Brill Academic (1987) | 9789004072589 | Islam | English |  | -No Book | ||
| Amin Maalouf | The Crusades Through Arab Eyes | Saqi books (1984) | 9780863560231 | History | English |  | -Yes Book | ||
| Edited by Marion Baraltser | Plays by Mediteranean Women | Aurora Metro Publications (1994) | 9780951587737 | Culture | English |  | -Yes Book | ||
| Nawal El-Saadawi | The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World | Zed Books (2015) | 9781783607471 | Sociology | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Naguib Mahfouz | The Cairo Trilogy | Everyman (2001) | 9781857152487 | Literature | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Naghuib Mahfouz | Children of the Alley | Anchor Books (1997) | 9780385264730 | Literature | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
