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The 'Constitution of Medina'
  • Muḥammad's First Legal Document
  • 2nd edition
  • Michael Lecker
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    25 September 2025
    Print publication:
    31 January 2024
  • The 'Constitution of Medina' is probably the first legal document of Mu?ammad and dates back to the first year after his hijra (622 CE), or 'emigration', which brought him from his hometown Mecca to the cluster of towns known as Yathrib or Medina in the Hijaz (northern Arabia) and marked the beginning of the Islamic era.

    Muslim historians and jurists have been familiar with this important document for centuries, and aware of its legal and theological implications for Islamic law. It was first brought to the attention of scholars in the West at the end of the nineteenth century by Wellhausen, who accepted it as an authentic document from the time of the Prophet. Since then, such leading orientalists as Goldziher, Gil, Serjeant, Goto, U. Rubin and J. B. Simonsen have studied various aspects of it.

    This monograph offers an edited translation and interpretation of the earliest and most important document from the time of Mu?ammad. Lecker's focus is on the Jewish tribes, the Treaty of the Mu'minun and the Treaty of the Jews.

    Formerly published by Darwin Press.

Africa and the Gulf Region
  • Blurred Boundaries and Shifting Ties
  • Edited by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Dale F. Eickelman
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    25 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2015
  • The ties that bind Africa and the Gulf region have deep historical roots that influence both what Braudel called the longue durée and the short-term events of current policy shifts, market-based economic fluctuations, and global and local political vicissitudes. This book, a collaboration of historians, political scientists, development planners, and a biomedical engineer, explores Arabian-African relationships in their many overlapping dimensions. Thus histories constructed from the 'bottom up' - records of the everyday activities of commerce, intermarriage, and gender roles - offer an incisive complement to the 'top down' histories of dynasties and the elite. Topics such as migration, collective memory, scriptural and oral narratives, and contemporary notions of food security and 'soft' power pose new questions about the ties that bind Africa to the Gulf.

The Place to Go
  • Contexts of Learning in Baghdad, 750-1000 C.E.
  • Edited by Jens Scheiner, Damien Janos
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    25 September 2025
    Print publication:
    31 January 2021
  • This work focuses on the intellectual and educational history of Baghdad in the early ?Abbasid and Buyid periods (eighth-tenth centuries). It covers a wide range of disciplines taught in the metropolis before the institutionalization of the madrasa system.
    Among these fields of knowledge are Arabic poetry and literature, the transmission of prophetic reports, Arabic historiography and astronomical-astrological teaching. Christian learning in the city is highlighted by two contributions, while two more papers focus on Jewish practices of knowledge production.

    The volume seeks to promote a better understanding of Baghdad's multi-cultural circles of learning, the transmission of knowledge, and common patterns of patronage during this period.

Studies in Early Islamic History
  • Martin Hinds
  • Edited by Jere Bacharach, Lawrence I. Conrad, Patricia Crone
  • Introduction by G. R. Hawting
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    25 September 2025
    Print publication:
    31 January 2021
  • A collection of all of Martin Hinds' (1941-1988) full-length articles which appeared in journals as well as one of his articles for the 'Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition'. Most of the articles have to do with the early period of Islamic history, while two others deal with the early Abb sid caliphate.

    The volume is especially important in light of the fact that all of the articles were revised by the editors based on Hinds' own corrected copies.

Islamic Finance
  • Risk, Stability and Growth
  • Edited by Mehmet Asutay, Abdullah Q. Turkistani
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    25 September 2025
    Print publication:
    29 February 2016
  • In response to the recent global financial crisis, Islamic finance, as a religiously authentic proposition, has shown resilience throuh its inherited principles such as risk sharing and the avoidance of speculation. Such approaches have provided stability, which in turn has brought unprecedented growth to the sector. The studies in this volume focus on examples in the GCC countries to provide empirical analysis of the risk aspects of Islamic finance, to test its stability, identify its growth trajectories, and measure its impact on economic growth.

The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East
  • States, Resources and Armies
  • Edited by Averil Cameron
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    25 September 2025
    Print publication:
    31 January 2021
  • A comparative analysis of Byzantine, Sasanian and Muslim armies and their impact on state resources. Contributions discuss the organization and financing of the army in the late Roman state, the transformations and continuities of the late Sasanid state and with authority and armies in the early Muslim state. Thus, the volume brings together perspectives from neighbouring fields, presents military issues in an intercultural manner and assembles important pieces of knowledge in a comprehensive manner.

The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East
  • Land Use and Settlement Patterns
  • Edited by Geoffrey King, Averil Cameron
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    25 September 2025
    Print publication:
    31 January 2021
  • This volume revisits archaeological evidence from Syria, Palestine, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and Egypt describing a variety of land-use patterns and the development of a particular type of settlement across the Near East.

Russia and the Syrian Conflict
  • Moscow's Domestic, Regional and Strategic Interests
  • Nikolay Kozhanov
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    09 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 July 2016
  • This book is the first to offer a comprehensive survey of Moscow's foreign policy interests in Syria. The author considers the Kremlin's diplomacy on Syria within the broader system of Russian foreign policy in the Middle East; he analyses the influence of Russian domestic dimensions on Moscow's approaches to the subject; and he considers how Moscow's priorities in Syria have evolved during the last five years and what factors influenced this evolution. Key factors considered include: Russian presence in the Middle East before and after the fall of the Soviet Union; The challenge of the 'Arab Spring'; Why it was so important to save Assad?; How serious is the jihadist threat for Russia?; Russian military involvement in the Syrian conflict: what will be the outcome?; Significance of Moscow's military intervention in the wider Middle East context.

The Late Antique World of Early Islam
  • Muslims among Christians and Jews in the East Mediterranean
  • Edited by Robert G. Hoyland
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    09 September 2025
    Print publication:
    31 January 2021
  • This book offers a number of innovative studies on the three main communities of the East Mediterranean lands-Muslims, Jews and Christians-in the aftermath of the seventh-century Arab conquests. It focuses principally on how the Christian majority were affected by and adapted to their loss of political power in such arenas as language use, identity construction, church building, pilgrimage, and the role of women. Attention is also paid to how the Muslim community defined itself, administered justice, and regulated relations with non-Muslims.

    This book will be important for anyone interested in the ways in which the cultures and traditions of the late antique Mediterranean world were transformed in the course of the seventh to tenth centuries by the establishment of the new Muslim political elite and the gradual emergence of an Islamic Empire.

Turkish-Saudi Relations
  • Cooperation and Competition in the Middle East
  • Sinem Cengiz
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    09 September 2025
    Print publication:
    31 December 2020
  • Are the Middle East's two heavyweights, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, friends or foes? What are the main drivers behind their rivalry or cooperation? The nature of their relationship has region-wide repercussions, affecting the calculations of both regional and global actors.

    This book is the first to offer a comprehensive and nuanced examination of the main drivers in the complex relationship between Turkey and Saudi Arabia, focusing on the role of domestic, regional and international dynamics.

    Three decades are examined: the 1990s, the 2000s and the 2010s. Thus a review of the recent history of the relationship outlining the background dynamics goes on to identify the key turning points in the post-2011 Middle East, in which the two states have frequently found themselves on a collision course due to their widely differing domestic, regional and international agendas.

The Trucial Coast Political Reports 1958-1963
  • The Slow Progress from Pearls to Oil
  • Edited by David Heard
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    09 September 2025
    Print publication:
    31 May 2021
  • The Trucial Coast Political Reports are a unique record of events, commented on by a small group of British men living in Sharjah and Dubai. This was in the years leading up to the commencement of oil exports from the desert of Abu Dhabi.

    These men regularly met to discuss and negotiate with the Rulers of the Trucial States - sometimes in a state of mutual incomprehension - the conditions under which the Company (Petroleum Development/Trucial Coast or PD/TC) would operate in their various territories.

    Boundaries and frontiers marked out in the desert were as much a novelty to the Bedouin as the notions of royalties and depreciation were to the Rulers.

    Men such as Bird, Codrai and Henderson learnt to understand, to some extent, the language and ways of the people of the Trucial Coast. They in turn had to contend with the ways of the legal, financial and business executives in London who tended to see affairs very differently.

    It is thanks to these Company Representatives living on the Trucial Coast that the bulk of the Diaries was saved. It is due to the efforts of the London executives that much other material was lost in the name of economy of storage space.

    These Reports record important events as well as the writer's observations. The editor has included some additional material from the PD/TC company files to present a more complete account.

The Silent Revolution
  • The Arab Spring and the Gulf States
  • Edited by May Seikaly, Khawla Mattar
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    09 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 April 2014
  • How immune is the Gulf region to the changes that have engulfed the Arab world since 2011? This volume responds to this question by examining the impact of the Arab Spring on Gulf regimes and societies and contributing to debates on political participation and citizenship; sectarianism, gender and identity formation; as well as the role of the media in exposing the paradoxes of the Gulf system and its relationship to international political actors.

The Politics of Food Security
  • Asian and Middle Eastern Strategies
  • Edited by Sara Bazoobandi
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    09 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2014
  • The international food system is increasingly at risk. Increasing demand, limited and diminishing resources and rising volatility are putting new pressures on the agriculture sector globally. One of the growing critical threats to global stability and security is the inadequacy of food resources. This threat, exacerbated by global population growth, is illustrated by shifts in consumption patterns toward protein-rich diets and the growth of multinational food retail, which bring about a greater reliance on food imports. This book compares the food security policies of selected countries in Asia and the Middle East, and reviews the outcomes of policy applications in a broader context. Themes discussed include: Shifts in regional and international foreign policy, such as new alliances between countries with rich agricultural resources and wealthier importing states; Creation of food security policy competition across regions; Foreign investments and investment risks for farmland investments; Social implications, such as potential unrest; Environmental sustainability of food security programs, such as the depletion of water resources; and Impact of food security programs on trade policies and fiscal policies.

Desert Dispute
  • The Diplomacy of Boundary-Making in South-Eastern Arabia
  • J. B. Kelly
  • Edited by S. B. Kelly
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    06 September 2025
    Print publication:
    20 December 2019
  • This new and previously unpublished study, by the foremost authority on the subject, is an exhaustive one, based on thorough research in the relevant archives and direct experience of the dispute.

    As such it will be the standard reference work on this question for all who have an interest in the Gulf Arab states, their territorial origins and its effects on their increasing role in regional and world affairs.

    The struggle to delineate the boundaries of south-eastern Arabia can claim to be one of the longest running diplomatic disputes of the twentieth century, which has echoes to this day.

Islamist Occidentalism
  • Sayyid Qutb and the Western Other
  • Nadia Duvall
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    01 February 2019
  • Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was the most important radical Islamist ideologue in modern times. This groundbreaking new study analyses Qutb's thinking from his early years in Cairo to the radical Islamist stance he adopted towards the end of his life.

Occidentalism, Conspiracy and Taboo
  • Collected Essays on Islam and Politics
  • Sadik J. Al-Azm
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    15 January 2019
  • Sadik J. Al-Azm was one of the foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offered innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, Secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue.

    This fourth collection of his essays includes: (i) Syria in Revolt (2014); (ii) Experience or 'Regime of Truth'? About Translation, Arabic and the Postmodern (2014); (iii) Orientalism of the Worst Kind (2015); (iv) The Shari'a from a Secular Perspective (2015); (iv) Crossing Borders: Orientalism, lslamism and Postmodernism (2016); (v) What's in a Name: Middle East or West Asia? (2016).

Kuwait's Politics before Independence
  • The Role of the Balancing Powers
  • Abdulrahman Alebrahim
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    15 September 2019
  • This book re-examines the historiography of constitutional development in Kuwait. It argues that existing scholarship on the subject has several shortcomings due to the lack of consideration given to the role played by some important social forces in the Kuwaiti political scene.

    Most historians working on Kuwait's modern politics have focussed on two forces: the ruling family and the merchants. Although these two actors have undeniably been the most influential, other segments of society, such as the labour force, the villagers, the intelligentsia and the religious scholars, should not be overlooked. These forces have had a decisive impact, with varying levels of influence across time, on the balance of power in Kuwait.

    This book generates new insights by considering the role of these balancing forces in influencing the struggle between the sheikhs and the merchants over the nature of the political system in Kuwait between 1921 and 1962.

The Arab Spring
  • Ten Years On
  • Edited by Sujata Ashwarya, Mujib Alam
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 June 2022
  • It has been more a decade since people across the Arab world rose up in revolt against their governments, demanding political empowerment, social reform and economic improvement. Pro-democracy protests, as they were called in common parlance, which spread rapidly through the mobilisation of social media calls, ended up overthrowing long-standing authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya.

    That gave rise to hope for a more representative future, as well as economic reforms, after decades of mismanagement and stagnation. However, such hopes were quickly dispelled, as the political vacuum created by the elimination of regional dictatorships deepened fractures in many of these societies along ethnic, religious and tribal fault lines.

    As Islamists and secularists jockeyed for power, Egypt's brief alliance with democracy was halted by a neo-militarist, counter-revolutionary takeover. Tunisia is a notable exception, where both factions in political society have resolved to settle their differences through dialogue and set the tone for democratic politics, while the country is struggling with economic growth and transformation.

    Very little, if anything, has changed in Yemen, Libya and Syria, where long-drawn and bloody civil wars are raging. The monarchies of the Gulf have not been untouched, but remain markedly unchanged.

Grand Strategy in the Contemporary Middle East
  • The Concepts and Debates
  • Edited by Tore T. Petersen, Clive Jones
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    31 December 2021
  • This unique volume explores the role that Grand Strategy has played in the shaping of the Middle East and why, conceptually, its core principles still have traction in explaining the shifting alliances and dispensation of power across the region.

    When so much of the spatial as well as the geo-political boundaries of the Middle East are in flux, it is now time to revisit the very ideas that inform Grand Strategy that once again, are enjoying a wider intellectual renaissance in world affairs.

    Through a longitudinal method that embraces international history, regional security, and international relations, leading scholars from Europe, North America and the Middle East offer original and timely insights into how Grand Strategy has shaped not only Great Power involvement, but the designs of regional actors in their perennial search for security.

Iranian/Persianate Subalterns in the Safavid Period
  • Their Role and Depiction: Recovering 'Lost Voices'
  • Edited by Andrew J. Newman
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 June 2022
  • Subaltern studies' refers to the importance of 'subordinate' groups in the making of history. The latter are usually defined as encompassing the urban and rural underclasses, the majority in any society, although generally the term is said to refer to all non-elites, including women. Most often the discourse concentrates on instances of social protest as points whereat the 'subalterns' make their 'voices' heard in response to, or even independent of, manipulations by the elite.

    The book draws on wide-ranging sources to be explored for direct and indirect access to these voices, and include elite Persian diplomatic and political-economic (court-level) materials but also those drawn from such a broad range of 'cultural' spheres as, for example, art and architecture (including cinema, for the modern period), prose, poetry and other media and religious materials (Sunni, Shi`i and Sufi) of all genres in all relevant languages.

    The overall project seeks also to explore attitudes toward the subaltern by the authors of these sources. Finally, the project aims also to identify problems in accessing/using the sources and questions/avenues for further research across Persianate history and, in the process, to establish an on-going network to chart pathways for further associated research projects and support for these.

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