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Arabic & Islamic Studies

fy2026: Titles added to UK Libraries between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026

Arabic & Islamic Studies

fy2025: Titles added to UK Libraries between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025

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  1. An alliance against Babylon : the U.S., Israel, and Iraq / John K. Cooley. Pluto Press. -- ebook.
  2. Battleground : ten conflicts that explain the new Middle East / Christopher Phillips. Yale University Press. -- ebook.
  3. The Caravan : Abdallah Azzam and the rise of global jihad / Thomas Hegghammer. Cambridge University Press. -- ebook.
  4. Les chevaux de Dieu / Les Films du nouveaux monde présentent une coproduction Ali n' productions, Les Films du nouveaux monde, Stone Angels, YC Aligator film, Artémis productions ; un film de Nabil Ayouch ; écrit par Jamal Belmahi ; produit par Nabil Ayouch, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Eric van Beuren, Patrick Quinet = Yā khayl Allāh / Lī Fīlm dī Nūfū Mūnd tuqaddim ; fīlm li Nabīl ʻAyūsh ; kitābat Jamāl Bilmāḥī ; intāj Nabīl ʻAyūsh, Biyīr Anj Lu Būkām, Īrīk fān Būrin, Bāṭrīk Kīnī. Kanopy Streaming. -- streaming video.
  5. Civil war in Syria : mobilization and competing social orders / Adam Baczko, Gilles Dorronsoro, Arthur Quesnay. Cambridge University Press. -- ebook.
  6. Disrupted city : walking the pathways of memory and history in Lahore / Manan Ahmed Asif. Distributed by Two Rivers Distribution; The New Press. -- ebook.
  7. Esma Farouk, Lost in the Souk . -- print book.
  8. Fatima / Yasmina et Philippe Faucon présentent une co-production France-Canada, Istiqlal Films, Arte France cinéma, Rhône-Alpes cinéma, Possibles Média ; réalisé par Philippe Faucon ; scénario, adaptation et dialogue, Philippe Faucon ; producteurs, Yasmina Nini-Faucon, Philippe Faucon ... Serge Noël. Kanopy Streaming. -- streaming video.
  9. Feminists, Insha'allah! : the story of Arab feminism / Drôle de Trame Productions, with participation of France Télévisions ; a film by Feriel Ben Mahmoud. Women Make Movies; Kanopy Streaming. -- streaming video.
  10. The history and achievements of the Islamic golden age / with Eamonn Gearon. Kanopy Streaming; The Great Courses. -- streaming video.
  11. A history of Jordan / Philip Robins. Cambridge University Press. -- ebook.
  12. A History of the Muslim World : From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity. Princeton University Press. -- ebook.
  13. The home we make / by Maham Khwaja ; illustrated by Daby Zainab Faidhi. Lee & Low Books Inc. -- print book.
  14. Inch'Allah dimanche / Film Movement ; Philippe Dupuis-Mendel presente ; une production Bandits Longs en coproduction avec ARP ; written and directed by Yamina Benguigui. Kanopy Streaming. -- streaming video.
  15. Inside/outside Islamic art and architecture : a cartography of boundaries in and of the field / edited by Saygin Salgirli. Bloomsbury Visual Arts. -- print book.
  16. The middle ages around the world. episode 4, creating an Islamic culture. Kanopy Streaming; The Great Courses. -- streaming video.
  17. The modern Middle East : a sourcebook for history / edited by Camron Michael Amin, Benjamin C. Fortna, and Elizabeth Frierson. Oxford University Press. -- ebook.
  18. The morphophonological development of the classical Aramaic verb / by Joseph L. Malone. Eisenbrauns. -- ebook.
  19. Le pain nu : récit autobiographique / Mohamed Choukri ; présenté et traduit de l'arabe par Tahar Ben Jelloun. François Maspero. -- print book.
  20. Power, patronage, and memory in early Islam : perspectives on Umayyad elites / edited by Alain George and Andrew Marsham. Oxford University Press. -- ebook.
  21. Reclaiming a plundered past : archaeology and nation building in modern Iraq / Magnus T. Bernhardsson. University of Texas Press. -- ebook.
  22. Reel bad Arabs : how Hollywood vilifies a people / a Media Education Foundation production ; directed by Sut Jhally ; produced by Jeremy Earp Media Education Foundation. -- streaming video.
  23. Republic of dreams : ordinary people, extraordinary struggles, and the future of Iraqi Kurdistan / Nicole F. Watts. New York University Press. -- ebook.
  24. Stolen blood antiquities / a Babel Press production with the participation of France Télévisions. Kanopy Streaming; Java Films. -- streaming video.
  25. Surviving the war in Syria : survival strategies in a time of conflict / Justin Schon. Cambridge University Press. -- ebook.
  26. Twentieth century religious thought Islam [electronic resource] Alexander Street Press. -- ebook.
  27. The world after Gaza : a history / Pankaj Mishra. Penguin Press. -- ebook.
  28. The world imagined : collective beliefs and political order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian international societies / Hendrik Spruyt. Cambridge University Press. -- ebook.
  29. Yasmeen Lari, green architect : the true story of Pakistan's first woman architect / written by Marzieh Abbas ; illustrated by Hoda Hadadi. Clarion Books an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. -- print book.

Arabic & Islamic Studies

fy2024: Titles added to UK Libraries between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024

Arabic & Islamic Studies

fy2023: Titles added to UK Libraries between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023

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  1. Arab national project in Youssef Chahine's cinema [electronic resource] / Malek Khouri. American University in Cairo Press. -- ebook.
  2. Au revoir les enfants / ecrit et réalisé par Louis Malle ; une co-production, Nouvelles Editions de Films, M.K.2 Productions, Stella Film. Kanopy Streaming. -- streaming video.
  3. Le beau Serge / Gaumont présente une production Ajym-Films ; un film produit, écrit et réalisé par Claude Chabrol. Kanopy Streaming. -- streaming video.
  4. The broken promise of global advocacy : inequality in global interest representation / Marcel Hanegraaff and Arlo Poletti. New York University Press. -- ebook.
  5. Carry you with me : ten years of portraits / LJ Roberts. Editions du Collège de France. -- print book.
  6. Chetvŭrti kont︠s︡ert za piano i orkestŭr = Quatrie|me concerto pour piano et orchestre, [op. 48] / Pancho Vladigerov = Pantcho Vladiguerov ; prerabomka za dve piana om avmora = arrange| pour 2 pianos par l'auteur. Kanopy Streaming. -- streaming video.
  7. Clearwater rhapsody = Qing shui yao : for piano trio and erhu / Bright Sheng. Kanopy Streaming; The Criterion Collection. -- streaming video.
  8. Cléo de 5 à 7 / Janus Films ; Ciné Tamaris presents; Rome Paris Films ; Georges de Beauregard, Carlo Ponti ; scénario et réalisation Agnès Varda. Kanopy Streaming; The Criterion Collection. -- streaming video.
  9. Day hiking the Daniel Boone National Forest : includes Natural Bridge and Cumberland Falls State Parks / Johnny Molloy. Metropolitan Books Henry Holt and Company. -- print book.
  10. Des louanges : entrer dans le psautier / André Wénin. Honoré Champion éditeur. -- print book.
  11. Dim sum, here we come! / story and pictures by Maple Lam. DelMonico Books-DAP; Los Angeles County Museum of Art. -- print book.
  12. Don't look away : art, nonviolence, and preventive publics in contemporary Europe / Brianne Cohen. University of Notre Dame Press. -- print book.
  13. Drum time junior : five solo pieces for drumset / Nils Rohwer. Ithaca Press. -- ebook.
  14. El Anatsui : the reinvention of sculpture / Okwui Enwezor, Chika Okeke-Agulu. Kanopy Streaming. -- streaming video.
  15. Ernest Lehman : the sweet smell of success / Jon Krampner. Kanopy Streaming; Janus Films. -- streaming video.
  16. Études modernes : pour flûte = Modern studies : for the flute = Moderne Etüden : für Flöte = Estudios modernos : para flauta / Paul Jeanjean. Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles. -- print book.
  17. I figli d'Italia bella "Cessato il suon dell'armi", SC 3 Giacomo Puccini ; herausgegeben von = a cura di = edited by Virgilio Bernardoni ; Vorwort von = introduzione di = Foreword by Gabriella Biagi Ravenni Honoré Champion éditeur. -- print book.
  18. God's scrivener : the madness and meaning of Jones Very / Clark Davis. Oxford University Press. -- print book.
  19. Hacking identity - dancing diversity : in the framework of Esch2022 - European Capital of Culture = dans le cadre de Esch2022 - capitale européenne de la culture / ed. Françoise Poos, Anett Holzheid. Palgrave Macmillan. -- print book.
  20. Hail! bright Cecilia : ode on St. Cecilia's Day, 1692 : soli (SAATBB), coro (SSAATB), 2 oboi, 2 flauti dolce, 2 trombe, timpani, 2 violini, viola, basso continuo / Henry Purcell ; herausgegeben von Julia Rosemeyer. Kanopy Streaming. -- streaming video.
  21. Heroes with a hundred names : mythology and folklore in the early fiction of Robert Penn Warren / Leverett Butts. Kanopy Streaming; StudioCanal. -- streaming video.
  22. Hiroshige : thirty-six views of Mount Fuji / Jocelyn Bouquillard ; translation from French: David Rocher. Kanopy Streaming. -- streaming video.
  23. Histories / Nithard ; edition, translation, and introduction by Marco Conti ; with a foreword by Thomas F. X. Noble. Kanopy Streaming; The Great Courses. -- streaming video.
  24. Honor, romanticism, and the hidden value of modernity / Jamison Kantor. Albin Michel. -- print book.
  25. Humour in old English literature : communities of laughter in early medieval England / Jonathan Wilcox. Metropolitan Books Henry Holt and Company. -- print book.
  26. I am stronger than anxiety / Elizabeth Cole. Distributed by Random House; Shambhala. -- print book.
  27. Isla de rojo coral : para violín y guitarra / Leo Brouwer. Routledge. -- print book.
  28. Iznik ceramics at the Benaki Museum / John Carswell, Mina Moraitou ; with Melanie Gibson. Kanopy Streaming. -- streaming video.
  29. Jukebox empire : the mob and the dark side of the American dream / David Rabinovitch. Kanopy Streaming. -- streaming video.
  30. Kirikou et la sorcière / une film de Michel Ocelot en collaboration avec Raymond Burlet. Kanopy Streaming; StudioCanal. -- streaming video.
  31. La langue du ciel : le sublime en France au XVIIe siècle / Sophie Hache. H Champion. -- print book.
  32. Le chagrin et la pitie : chronique d'une ville franc̨aise sous l'occupation / un film de Marcel Ophuls ; a Milestone film release. Kanopy Streaming; Kino Lorber. -- streaming video.
  33. Le retour de Martin Guerre / fun film de Daniel Vigne. Kanopy Streaming; Cohen Film Collection. -- streaming video.
  34. Leo Strauss and Islamic political thought / Rasoul Namazi. Cambridge University Press. -- print book.
  35. La littérature est une affaire politique : enquête autour de 26 écrivains français / Alexandre Gefen ; Aurélien Bellanger [and twenty-five others]. Éditions de l'Observatoire. -- print book.
  36. The middle ages around the world. episode 4, creating an Islamic culture. Kanopy Streaming; The Great Courses. -- streaming video.
  37. Mohammed Ali et les beaux-arts; centenaire de Mohammed Ali. Société royale dé̓tudes historiques. -- print book.
  38. Mon oncle / Panoramic Films présente une production Specta-Gray-Alter Films ; coproduction franco-italienne Film del Centauro et Cady-Films ; collaboration artistique Jacques Lagrange, assisté de Jean L'Hôte ; un film de Jacques Tati. Kanopy Streaming. -- streaming video.
  39. Muslim comics and warscape witnessing / Esra Mirze Santesso. The Ohio State University Press. -- print book.
  40. Nietzsche on conflict, struggle and war / James S. Pearson. Gallimard. -- print book.
  41. Novel competition : American fiction and the cultural economy, 1965-1999 / Evan Brier. Classiques Garnier. -- print book.
  42. Old-fashioned modernism : rural masculinity and Midwestern literature / Andy Oler. Editions de l'Observatoire. -- print book.
  43. Palimpsests of themselves : logic and commentary in postclassical Muslim South Asia / Asad Q. Ahmed. University of California Press. -- print book.
  44. Philosophie du triathlon / Raphaël Verchère ; préface, Georges Vigarello. Les éditions du Volcan. -- print book.
  45. La Pointe-Courte / Janus Films ; Ciné-Tamaris présente ; scénario et réalisation, Agnès Varda. Kanopy Streaming; The Criterion Collection. -- streaming video.
  46. Pour le sport : physical culture in French and francophone literature / edited by Roxanna Curto and Rebecca Wines. Liverpool University Press. -- ebook.
  47. Présence et paradigmes du monde naturel (fin XVIe-début XVIIe siècle) / sous la direction de Cécile Huchard. Classiques Garnier. -- print book.
  48. The production of meaning in Islamic architecture and ornament / Yasser Tabbaa. Edinburgh University Press. -- print book.
  49. Professing criticism : essays on the organization of literary study / John Guillory. University of Chicago Press. -- print book.
  50. Quand l'esprit vient aux plantes : botanique sensible et subversion libertine (XVIe-XVIIe siecles) / Dominique Brancher. Librairie Droz SA. -- print book.
  51. Quand l'esprit vient aux plantes : botanique sensible et subversion libertine (XVIe-XVIIe siecles) / Dominique Brancher. Librairie Droz SA. -- print book.
  52. Re-orientations : Europe and Islamic art from 1851 to today / editor, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, Kunsthaus Zürich. Hirmer. -- print book.
  53. Reel bad Arabs : how Hollywood vilifies a people / a Media Education Foundation production ; directed by Sut Jhally ; produced by Jeremy Earp Media Education Foundation. -- streaming video.
  54. Reel bad Arabs : how Hollywood vilifies a people / a Media Education Foundation production ; directed by Sut Jhally ; produced by Jeremy Earp Media Education Foundation. -- streaming video.
  55. Salafism and political order in Africa / Sebastian Elischer. Cambridge University Press. -- print book.
  56. Ṣamt al-quṣūr = Les silences du palais = The silences of the palace ; a flim / by Moufida Tlatli. . -- streaming video.
  57. Sans toit ni loi = Vagabond / Janus Films ; Ciné-Tamaris présente un film de Agnès Varda ; production, Ciné-Tamaris, Films A 2 ; régie, Oury Milshtein ; cinécrit et réalisé par Agnès Varda. Kanopy Streaming; The Criterion Collection. -- streaming video.
  58. Six contes moraux. III, Ma nuit chez Maud = Six moral tales. III, My night at Maud's / Les films du losange, Barbet Schroeder et Pierre Cottrell présentent ; [written and directed by] Éric Rohmer. Kanopy Streaming. -- streaming video.
  59. Six contes moraux. IV, La collectionneuse = Six moral tales. IV, La collectionneuse / une coproduction Les Films du Losange, Rome-Paris Films ; Georges de Beauregard, Barbet Schroeder présentent ; [written and directed by] Eric Rohmer. Kanopy Streaming. -- streaming video.
  60. Sport et mérite histoire d'un mythe : philosophie politique du corps en démocratie / Raphaël Verchère ; préface de Philippe Liotard. Les Éditions du Volcan. -- print book.
  61. Stolen blood antiquities / a Babel Press production with the participation of France Télévisions. Kanopy Streaming; Java Films. -- streaming video.
  62. Tempête dans le bocal : la nouvelle civilisation du poisson rouge / Bruno Patino. Bernard Grasset. -- print book.
  63. Three centuries of travel writing by Muslim women / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma, editors. Indiana University Press. -- print book.
  64. Twenty-first century Arab and African diasporas in Spain, Portugal and Latin America / edited by Cristián H. Ricci. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. -- print book.
  65. Veil obsessed : representations in literature, art, and media / edited by Umme Al-wazedi and Afrin Zeenat. Syracuse University Press. -- print book.
  66. Viva Laldjerie. Kanopy Streaming. -- streaming video.
  67. What comes to my lips / Ambreen Butt. Black Dog Press. -- print book.
  68. Zizou and the Arab Spring / une film de Férid Boughedir ; une coproduction franco-tunisienne Mille et Une Productions Cinares & Marsa Films ; un coproduction avec France 3 Cinéma, Abbout Productions ; avec la participation de Canal+, France Télévisions, TV5 Monde, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée. Kanopy Streaming; Kino Lorber. -- streaming video.