In this book, Aaron A. Burke explores the evolution of Amorite identity in the Near East from
ca. 2500-1500 BC. He sets the emergence of a collective identity for the Amorites, one of the …

In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the
ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater …

In The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit Mary Buck takes a new approach to the field of Amorite
studies by considering whether the site of Ugarit shares close parallels with other sites and …

Barbarians are well-known figures in the late antique landscape, familiar for centuries before
Late Antiquity began, either as a time period or as a field of study. Understanding the earlier …

Examining a single broad tribal identity-al-Azd-from the immediate pre-Islamic period into
the early Abbasid era, this book notes the ways it was continually refashioned over that time …

Located in modern-day northern Afghanistan, southern Uzbekistan, and southern Tajikistan,
the land of ancient Bactria is situated strategically on the crossroads between the Middle …

Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you
find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on this period of the …

The Ottomans ruled much of the Arab World for four centuries. Bruce Masters's work surveys
this period, emphasizing the cultural and social changes that occurred against the backdrop …

An up-to-date analysis of the history of the ancient Near East and the Arameans K. Lawson
Younger Jr. presents a political history of the Arameans from their earliest origins to the …

Rome, Persia, and Arabia traces the enormous impact that the Great Powers of antiquity
exerted on Arabia and the Arabs, between the arrival of Roman forces in the Middle East in …