The shaping of Persian art collections and interpretations of the art of Islamic Iran and Central Asia

Table of Contents: “…Why Persian Art Needs to be Studied and Collected / Yuka Kadoi and Iván Szántó -- Persian Art in Romania before World War I / Mircea Dunca -- From Armchair Literates to Art Historians: The Polish Collections of Persian Manuscripts / Magdalena Ginter-Frołow -- The Central Asian Collection at National Museums Scotland: History and Perspective / Friederike Voigt -- Persian Art in 19th-Century Vienna / Barbara Karl -- Persian Art for the Balkans in Austro-Hungarian Cultural Policies / Iván Szántó -- The Reception of Persian Art in the Czech Lands: Collections and Studies / Sabina Dvořáková -- The Mediation of Photography: Persian Paintings in European Printed Books and Journals / Iván Szántó and Tatjána Kardos -- Persian Art in France in the 1930s: The Iranian Society for National Heritage and Its French Connections / Alice Bombardier -- Philipp Walter Schulz and Friedrich Sarre: Two German Pioneers in the Development of Persian Art Studies / Joachim Gierlichs -- "The Most Important Branch of Muhammadan Art": Munich 1910 and the Early 20th Century Image of Persian Art / Eva-Maria Troelenberg -- A Loan Exhibition of Early Oriental Carpets, Chicago 1926 / Yuka Kadoi -- Tajik Art : A Century of New Traditions / Larisa Dodkhudoeva, Rustam Mukimov and Katherine Hughes…”

State-society relations in the Arab Gulf States edited by Mazhar Al-Zoby and Birol Baskan

Human resources and development in the Arabian Gulf

Gulf women

The Silent Revolution the Arab Spring and the Gulf States

Science and technology development in the Gulf States economic diversification through regional collaboration

War and public health

War or health? a reader

Subjects: “…War and society…”

Globalization and the Gulf

The occupation of Iraq winning the war, losing the peace by Allawi, Ali A., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…-- April 2004 : the turning point -- The interim Iraqi government -- Arabs and Persians -- Showdown at the shrine -- To hold or abort an election -- Corruption and the Potemkin state -- Iraqi society on the eve of free elections -- The vote -- Negotiating a constitution -- Crises and the Jaafari government -- Into uncharted waters…”

A brief history of Iraq by Fattah, Hala Mundhir, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- List of maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Iraq, the first society (prehistory to 539 BCE) -- 2: From the Persian empire to the Sassanians (539 BCE-651 CE) -- 3: Iraq under the Umayyad dynasty (651-750) -- 4: Abbasid and post-Abbasid dynasty (750-1258) -- 5: Turkish tribal migrations and the early Ottoman state (1256-1638) -- 6: Imperial administration, local rule, and Ottoman recentralization (1638-1914) -- 7: British occupation and the Iraqi monarchy (1914-1958) -- 8: Growth of the republican regimes and the emergence of Baathist Iraq (1958-1979) -- 9: Rule of Saddam Hussein and the difficult legacy of the Mukhabarat state (1979-2003) -- 10: War in Iraq (2003-2008) -- Postscript -- Appendixes: 1: Basic facts about Iraq -- 2: Chronology -- 3: Bibliography -- 4: Suggested reading -- Index.…”
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The Mongols by Morgan, David

Table of Contents: “…The Secret History of the Mongols. Chinese Sources. Persian Sources. European Sources. Modern Studies. 2. …”

Court cultures in the Muslim world seventh to nineteenth centuries

An eye for Iran the photographs of Kazem Hakimi by Hakimi, Kazem