Bücher der Reihe Crosscurrents: New Studies on the Middle East

The book is a multidisciplinary study of the Cave of Letters in the Nahal Hever of the Judean desert.

Were Muslim believers motivated by religious zeal to proclaim Islam to the non-Muslims? Consequently, was Islam spread by the sword? This is a question that has crucial implications today. The Stated Motivations for the Early Islamic Expansion extensively analyzes the earliest Arabic Muslim sources to answer these and other questions.

This book presents a comparative study of Hafez, an internationally renowned poet in the West, particularly in Germany, France, and the Anglophone world for the past 250 years, and his influence on the fifteenth-century classical Persian poet Jami.

This volume seeks to document the development of the Palestinian short story between 1944 and 1967.

This book describes risk associated with smoking among school children and adolescents living within the Palestinian territories. The book suggests ways to incorporate schools as venues for behavioral transformation and positive change to help control tobacco smoking in school children.