The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War, but few know the
full story of how war actually came to the region. As Sean McMeekin reveals in this startling …

At the dawn of the twentieth century, British intelligence agents began to venture in
increasing numbers to the Arab lands of the Ottoman Empire, a region of crucial geopolitical …

Under the late Ottoman Empire, the area which now forms the state of Iraq was divided into
the three provinces (Arabic, wilaya: Turkish, vilayet) of Basra, Baghdad and Mosul. In this …

This is a study of the nature of Ottoman administration under Sultan Abdulhamid and the
effects of this on the three provinces that were to form the modern state of Iraq. The author …

This updated edition of Secret Affairs covers the momentous events of the past year in the
Middle East and at home in the UK. It reveals the unreported attempts by Britain to cultivate …

This book links sectarianism in Iraq to the failure of the modern nation-state to resolve
tensions between sectarian identities and concepts of unified statehood and uniform …

The Great War campaign in Mesopotamia began as a small, Government of India operation
for the defence of Indian frontiers and British interests in the Persian Gulf. 1 However, once …

This book takes a fresh look at the foundations of modern Islam. Scholars often locate the
origins of the modern Islamic world in European colonialism or Islamic reactions to …

This paper follows the careers of 'outlawed'Indian Muslim subjects who moved outside the
geographical and political space of British India and located themselves at the intersection …

“Money was the life blood of Najaf.” Thus observed the Shi [ayn] i author,[ayn] Ali Khaqani.
1The story of the Oudh Bequest, which channeled more than 6 million rupees from the Shi …