| Rank |
Name |
ISBN |
Category |
 | | 1. |
| Adivar, Halide Edib. Memoirs of Halide Edib
A prominent novelist, social activist, journalist, and nationalist, Halide Adivar Edib(1882-1964) was one of Turkey's leading feminists in the Young Turk and early Republican period. Memoirs is the first book in her two volume English-language autobiography, published in 1926, while she and her second husband Dr. Adnan were in exile in London and Paris having fallen out of favor with Mustafa Kemal's one-party regime. Edib describes her childhood, her confrontation with her first husband's polygyny, her divorce, and her entry into political and literary writing. Edib's account of her private life provides a unique example of a woman's individual and personal struggle for emancipation and gender equality. |
| 1-59333-305-6 | Travel & Missionary, Arabic & Islamic Studies, Women, Cultures in Dialogue (1935-6994), Women's Studies |
| | 2. |
| Crone, Patricia. Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam
Patricia Crone reassesses one of the most widely accepted dogmas in contemporary accounts of the beginnings of Islam: the supposition that Mecca was a trading center. In addition, she seeks to elucidate sources on which we should reconstruct our picture of the birth of the new religion in Arabia. |
| 1-59333-102-9 | Syriac, Arabic & Islamic Studies, History, Middle East |
| | 3. |
| Browning, Robert. Justinian and Theodora
Browning’s acclaimed biography of this extraordinary and enigmatic couple includes every aspect of imperial administration and policy. It is the story of a peasant's son, who becomes emperor and enthrones a dissolute actress beside him. |
| 1-59333-053-7 | Byzantium |
| | 4. | | 1-931956-49-9 | Religion, Mandaic |
| | 5. | | 1-59333-033-2 | Eastern Christianity, Syriac, Liturgy |
| | 6. |
| Trevisanato, Siro. The Plagues of Egypt
Molecular biologist Siro Trevisanato assembles data gleaned from a variety of ancient texts and a wide range of scientific disciplines to assist in a reconsideration of the ten plagues recorded in the Biblical book of Exodus. |
| 1-59333-234-3 | Ancient Near East, Euphrates Imprint |
| | 7. | | 1-59333-268-8 | Travel & Missionary, Arabic & Islamic Studies |
| | 8. |
| Faierstein, Morris M. All is in the Hands of Heaven
Mordecai Joseph Leiner of Izbica was a unique thinker in the history of Hasidism with a highly personal vision of Judaism. His teachings, partially derived from the Przysucha-Kotsk school, adopted the concept of absolute divine providence as a cornerstone. |
| 1-59333-337-4 | Judaism in Context (1935-6978), Hebrew & Judaica |
| | 9. | | 1-59333-492-3 | Syriac, Biblical Studies, Analecta Gorgiana (1935-6854) |
| | 10. |
| Katz, Jill. The Archaeology of Cult in Middle Bronze Age Canaan
Canaanite public religious practice during the Middle Bronze Age centered on the temple and its courtyards. The evidence from Tel Haror (biblical Gerar), Israel, suggests a multi-sensory, dynamic, experience including animal sacrifices, incense burning, and ritual feasting. |
| 978-1-59333-791-9 | Religion, Ancient Near East, Biblical Studies, Gorgias Dissertations (1935-6870), Hebrew & Judaica |
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