History Books on Middle East

144 English books about Middle East

A reading list of history books about Middle East, each with a short summary and purchase links.

Old and New Testaments Connected : In the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations, from the Declensions of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the Time of Christ

Humphrey Prideaux · 2015

The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah Map

2003

The kings and kingdoms of Israel and Judah

White Wing Publishing House · 2002

The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and neighbouring nations, from the declension of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the time of Christ

Humphrey Prideaux · 1725

Exchange in the Mamluk Sultanate

M. J. Saleh · 2023

Mamluk Sultanate and Its Periphery

Frédéric Bauden · 2023

The Neo-Babylonian Empire

Michael Jursa · 2023

Mamluk Sultanate

Carl F. Petry · 2022

Abbasid Caliphate

Tayeb El-Hibri · 2021

Nomen Est Omen: David Ayalon, the Mamluk Sultanate, and the Reign of the Turks

Jo Van Steenbergen · 2021

Studies on the History and Culture of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517)

Stephan Conermann; Miura, Tōru 1953-; V & R unipress GmbH · 2021

The Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo, 1261-1517

Mustafa Banister · 2020

Liturgy and devotion in the crusader states: introduction

Iris Shagrir; Cecilia Gaposchkin · 2020

Crusader States and Their Neighbours

Nicholas Morton · 2020

Liturgy and Devotion in the Crusader States

Iris Shagrir; Cecilia Gaposchkin · 2019

Baghdad During the Abbasid Caliphate

Guy Le Strange · 2017

Establishment of the Abbasid Caliphate in Cairo

2016

Recognition of the Abbasid Caliphate from the eleventh to the thirteenth century

2016

Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria

Amalia Levanoni; Reuven Amitai · 2016

Early Abbasid Caliphate

Hugh Kennedy · 2015

History of Al-Tabari Vol. 26 : The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate

Carole Hillenbrand · 2015

Practising diplomacy in the Mamluk Sultanate

Doris Behrens-Abouseif · 2014

Politics and war in the Crusader States, 1118–87

2014

Crusading and the Crusader States in the thirteenth century, 1217–74

2014

Crusading and the Crusader States

Andrew Jotischky · 2014

Divided Kingdom of Israel and Judah C. 975--536 BC

Betty Banaszak · 2012

The crusader states

Malcolm Barber · 2012

Holy War And Rapprochement Studies In The Relations Between The Mamluk Sultanate And The Mongol Ilkhanate 12601335

Reuven Amitai · 2010

The Transition of Babylonia from the Neo-Babylonian Empire to Achaemenid Rule

Michael Jursa · 2007

The Rise of the Neo-Babylonian Empire Map (Wall Poster Maps)

2004

The Overthrow of the Umayyad Caliphate

2002

The Umayyad Family and its Rise to the Caliphate

2002

The second Umayyad Caliphate

Janina M Safran · 2000

The Neo-Babylonian Empire and Babylon in the Latter Prophets (Harvard Semitic Monographs)

David Stephen Vanderhooft · 2000

The waning of the Umayyad caliphate

Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari · 1989

The History of al-Tabari, vol. XXVI. The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate

Carole Hillenbrand · 1989

The early Abbasid Caliphate

Hugh (Hugh N.) Kennedy · 1981

Nabonidus and Belshazzar: A Study of the Closing Events of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (Yale Oriental Ser. Researches : No. 5)

Raymond P. Dougherty · 1978

The history of Tyre, from the beginning of the second millenium B.C.E. until the fall of the Neo-Babylonian empire in 538 B.C.E

H. Jacob Katzenstein · 1973

The Umayyad caliphate, 65-86/684-705

ʹAbd al-Ameer ʹAbd Dixon · 1971

Baghdad during the Abbasid caliphate

Guy Le Strange · 1900

The Histories

Herodotus · 550 BCE – 430 BCE

Shahnameh

Ferdowsi · 900 CE – 1010 CE

The Muqaddimah

Ibn Khaldun · 1377 CE – 1377 CE

One Thousand and One Nights

Anonymous · 800 CE – 1400 CE

The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600

Halil Inalcik · 1300 CE – 1600 CE

Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire

Caroline Finkel · 1300 CE – 1923 CE

My Name Is Red

Orhan Pamuk · 1591 CE – 1591 CE

From Ilkhanate to Independent Kingdom

Shivan Mahendrarajah · 2026

The Buyid Dynasty

Maryam Kamali · 2025

Lydian and the Languages of the Achaemenid Empire

Elena Martínez-Rodríguez · 2025

Lycian and the Achaemenid Empire

Valerio Pisaniello · 2025

Quantities of silver used to make certain vessels in late Rome, Byzantium and the Sasanian Empire

Richard Hobbs · 2025

Petra during the Nabataean, Roman, and Byzantine Periods

Laurent Tholbecq · 2025

Settings and Trends of the Ottoman–Safavid Detente

Selim Güngörürler · 2024

Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire

Barnea, Gad; Kratz, Reinhard G. · 2024

The Ottoman Empire, Safavid Iran, and the Southern Black Sea between 1500 and 1700

Kenan İnan · 2024

Babylonian Empire 1894 Bc - 1595 Bc

A. J. Kingston · 2023

Socioeconomic Transformation in the Sasanian Empire

Hossein Habibi · 2023

Neo-Assyrian Empire

Simonetta Ponchia; Giovanni Lanfranchi · 2023

Introduction: Rethinking Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire

Nilay Özok-Gündoğan · 2022

Sumerian Civilization

Minghui Chen · 2022

Sumerian Civilization Coloring Book, Ancient Mesopotamia Epic of Gilgamesh Assyrian Uruk Mythology Drawings Coloration Activity, Annunaki Creatures Etymology Cultural Artifacts Sketches Painting

Elam Utnapishtim · 2022

The Ilkhanate

George Lane · 2022

Was the Nabataean Kingdom a “Bedouin State”?1

M.C.A. Macdonald · 2022

The Short-Lived Zand Dynasty

Percy Sykes · 2022

Babylonian Empire : History, Archaeology, and Everything You Should Know

Randy Schwerdtfeger · 2021

Sasanian Empire at War

Michael J. Decker · 2021

Apocalyptic Revolts Hurufism & Noqtavids?during the Timurid & Safavid Empires

Rajabali Kavani · 2021

Seleucid Empire

2021

Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires

Christelle Fischer-Bovet; Sitta von Reden · 2021

Parthian Empire

Rania · 2021

Slavery During the Third Dynasty of Ur

Bernard J. (Bernard Joseph) Siegel · 2021

Atlal Babil (Arabic)

2021

Chapter 7 - Between sacred and profane: human–animal relationships at Abu Tbeirah (southern Iraq)in the third millennium BC (Fierce lions, angry mice and fat-tailed sheep: Animal encounters in the ancient Near East)

Francesca Alhaique; Licia Romano; Franco D’Agostino · 2021

Corpus of Nabataean Aramaic-Greek Inscriptions

Giuseppe Petrantoni · 2021

Achaemenid Empire

Rania · 2020

Introduction: Seleucid literature on the Hellenistic stage

Marijn S. Visscher · 2020

Parthian Hegemony

Nikolaus Leo Overtoom · 2020

The Emergence of the Parthian State

Nikolaus Leo Overtoom · 2020

Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750

Tijana Krstić; Derin Terzı̇oğlu · 2020

Experiencing Achaemenid Egypt

Henry P. Colburn · 2019

The Study of Achaemenid Egypt

Henry P. Colburn · 2019

Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt

Henry Colburn · 2019

Seleucid Empire

in60Learning · 2019

Mitanni Princess

Lauren Lee Merewether · 2019

The Ottoman Empire

Thomas Milner · 2018

Concept of Monument in Achaemenid Empire

Mehr Azar Soheil · 2018

Sasanian Empire

Captivating History · 2018

Safavid Empire

Captivating History · 2018

Elam in the Middle Elamite period

Behzad Mofidi-Nasrabadi · 2018

Elamite royal inscriptions

Florence Malbran-Labat · 2018

The Old Elamite period

Luca Peyronel · 2018

Linear Elamite writing

François Desset · 2018

Elamite ceramics

Bernadette K. McCall · 2018

The Elamite language

Jan Tavernier · 2018

Elamite World

Javier Álvarez-Mon; Gian Pietro Basello; Yasmina Wicks · 2018

Textiles in the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Salvatore Gaspa · 2018

Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire

Paul J. Kosmin · 2018

Akkadian Empire

Hourly History · 2018

History of the Babylonian Empire

John Arendzen; Archibald Sayce; L. M. Publishers · 2017

Babylonian Empire - Children's Middle Eastern History Books

Baby Professor · 2017

The Arabian Frontier: A Keystone of the Sasanian Empire

Craig Morley · 2017

The Northern and Western Borderlands of the Sasanian Empire: Contextualising the Roman/Byzantine and Sasanian Frontier

Dan Lawrence; Tony J. Wilkinson · 2017

Minority Religions in the Sasanian Empire: Suppression, Integration and Relations with Rome

Lee E. Patterson · 2017

Parthian and Early Sasanian Empires

Elizabeth Pendleton; Touraj Daryaee; Michael Alram; Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis · 2017

Prosopography Neo-Assyrian Empire

Heather Baker · 2017

Queen Esther of the Median Empire

Hamma Mirwaisi · 2017

Hittites, Kassites and Mitanni - Children's Middle Eastern History Books

Baby Professor · 2017

Greek Perspectives on the Achaemenid Empire

Janett Morgan · 2016

The Jalayirs and the Early Ilkhanate

Patrick Wing · 2016

Zengid Aleppo (1127–74)

Ross Burns · 2016

Great Seljuk Empire

A. C. S. Peacock · 2015

The first International Seljuk Symposium

M. Metin Hülagü; Turkey) Uluslararası Selçuklu Sempozyum (1st 2010 Kayseri · 2014

Inherited Space – Third Millennium Political and Cultural Landscape

María Giovanna Biga · 2014

The Akkadian empire

2013

The Third Dynasty of Ur

2013

Sumerian mythology

2013

The Sumerian language

2013

A note on Sumerian fashion

2013

New Perspectives on Safavid Iran

Colin P. Mitchell · 2011

Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, 16th--17th Centuries

Sonja Brentjes · 2010

The Ottoman Empire

Mehrdad Kia · 2008

History of the Parthian Empire

Ahmad Shahvary · 2008

On the Third Dynasty of Ur

Piotr Michalowski · 2008

Land Tenure and Social Stratification in Ancient Mesopotamia: Third millennium Sumer before the Ur III dynasty

Eric L Cripps · 2007

Social Change and the Transition from the Third Dynasty of Ur to the Old Babylonian Kingdoms c.2112–1595 bce

Tonia Sharlach · 2007

Sasanian Persia

Touraj Daryaee · 2004

Akkadian

Harvey Weiss · 2002

Qajar Portraits

Julian Raby · 1999

The Assyrian Empire

Don Nardo · 1998

An economic and social history of the Ottoman Empire

Halil İnalcık; Donald Quataert · 1994

Sculpture in the Parthian Empire

Hans Erik Mathiesen · 1993

The rise and organisation of the Achaemenid Empire

W. J. Vogelsang · 1992

Role of Temples from the Third Dynasty of Ur to the First Dynasty of Babylon

F. R. Kraus · 1990

The Ottoman Empire 1450-1700

Andrina Stiles · 1989

A political history of the Achaemenid Empire

M. A. Dandamaev · 1989

Mass deportations and deportees in the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Bustenay Oded · 1979

The Seljuk vezirate: a study of civil administration, 1055-1194

Carla L. Klausner · 1973

Ottoman Empire and Islamic tradition

Norman Itzkowitz · 1972

Sumerian Economic Texts from the Third Ur Dynasty

Tom B. Jones · 1961

Slavery During The Third Dynasty Of Ur

Bernard J. Siegel · 1947

The Sumerian Takeoff

The Median “Empire”, the End of Urartu and Cyrus’ the Great Campaign in 547 B.C.

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