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Historical Dictionary of Egypt
Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr.
and Robert Johnston


Ibn Battuta
Makers of Islamic Civilization
L. P. Harvey


In Praise of Books
A Cultural History of Cairo’s Middle Class, Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century
Nelly Hanna


In the House of Law
Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine
Judith Tucker


In the House of Muhammad Ali
A Family Album, 1805–1952
Hassan Hassan
Introduced by Elizabeth and Robert Fernea


Islamic Civilization
History and Treasures
Text by Francesca Romana Romani


Islamic History
A Framework for Enquiry
R. Stephen Humphreys


Islamic History through Coins
An Analysis and Catalogue of Tenth-Century Ikhshidid Coinage
Jere L. Bacharach


Islamic Roots of Capitalism
Egypt, 1760–1840
Peter Gran
Foreword by Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot


Labib Habachi
The Life and Legacy of an Egyptologist
Jill Kamil


Landlocked Islands
Two Alien Lives in Egypt
Anna and Pierre Cachia


Life Is More Beautiful than Paradise
A Jihadist’s Own Story
Khaled al-Berry
Translated by Humphrey Davies


Lucie Duff Gordon
A Passage to Egypt
Katherine Frank


Making Big Money in 1600
The Life and Times of Ismail Abu Taqiyya, Egyptian Merchant
Nelly Hanna


Medieval Islamic Medicine
Peter E. Pormann
and Emilie Savage-Smith


Memories in Translation
A Life between the Lines of Arabic Literature
Denys Johnson-Davies
Foreword by Naguib Mahfouz


Muhammad Abduh
A Biography
Mark Sedgwick


My Hope for Peace
Jehan Sadat


Naguib Mahfouz
His Life and Times
Rasheed El-Enany


Napoleon’s Egypt
Invading the Middle East
Juan Cole


Nasser
His Life and Times
Anne Alexander


Occupied Territories
The Untold Story of Israel’s Settlements
Gershom Gorenberg


Pyramids Road
An Egyptian Journey
Midhat Gazalé


Quakers in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
The Dilemmas of NGO Humanitarian Activism
Nancy Gallagher


Re-envisioning Egypt
1919–1952
Edited by Arthur Goldschmidt
and Amy Johnson
and Barak Salmoni


Remembering Childhood in the Middle East
Memoirs from a Century of Change
Collected and edited by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Introduction by Robert A. Fernea


Rites for the Dead
Funerals and the Afterlife in Early Islam
Leor Halevi


Said Nursi
Makers of Islamic Civilization
Colin Turner
and Hasan-Uddin Horkuc


Science and Politics in Egypt
A Life’s Journey
Rushdi Said


Siwa
The Oasis
Alan Blottiere


Society and Economy in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean 1600–1900
Essays in Honor of André Raymond
Edited by Nelly Hanna
and Raouf Abbas


The American University in Cairo, 1919–1987
Lawrence R. Murphy

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