Uses the Arab experience to explain the appeal of constitutional documents to authoritarian political regimes.

Through an analysis of political, art historical, and literary discourse, this book considers French fascination with the Gothic cathedral.

Israeli and American critics debate what constitutes Jewish identity in modern Jewish literature.

Covers Israel's policy toward Islamic institutions within its borders, 1948-2000.

An expert on the thought of medieval Islamic philosopher Suhrawardi argues that philosophers have romanticized this work as a revival of “oriental” wisdom.

Explains the prohibition of alcohol in Islam using a wide range of materials from the early Islamic period.

Examines the difficulties of Palestinian-Arab political life in Israel.

Offers a complete survey of the French May Events of 1968 through narrative, analysis, and documents.

Examines masculinity in German culture, society, and literature from 1945 to the present.

Interdisciplinary explorations into the work of one of the premier writer-survivors of the Holocaust.

Examines the screenplays of the master British dramatist and screenwriter Harold Pinter.

Explores Western and Muslim scholarship on multiple aspects of the Twelver Shi’ite tradition.

A collection of essays on the novelist María de Zayas and other seventeenth century Spanish women writers.

Raises the radical question of how Dante’s understanding of poetry shaped his theology, his ethics, and, more generally his sense of the organization of knowledge or encyclopedia.

Explores the lyric context of Inferno 5.

English translation and introductory study of a previously unedited Hispano-Arabic legend of Alexander the Great.

Argues that critical comments appended to early printed editions of Petrarch’s Rime sparse inflected the reception and understanding of Petrarch’s vernacular poetry in Renaissance Europe.

Examines eighteenth-century French and English landscape gardens as representations of nationalist expression.

A historiography of Ottoman Basra, a trade center in the eighteenth century.

A portrait of the Samarran Turk community while in the employ of the 'Abbasid caliphate during the ninth century.

Shows how the laws governing civil society are used to regulate Islamic activism in Jordan.

Examines African American contributions, both historical and contemporary, to criminological thought.

A groundbreaking treatment of heritage survival in African and African American cooking.

Examines the cultural, historical, and ideological factors influencing British cinema during World War II and the postwar years, with attention to male-female relationships as well as to utopian desires for a better postwar world.

Addresses the social significance of orthodox Islam during the medieval period in Baghdad.