Books in the Crosscurrents: New Studies on the Middle East series

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.