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Any suggestions on good books about middle eastern history? Specifically pre-WW1 stuff (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by Jonathan12345@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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So with all the stuff going on recently in Gaza and Iran, and with all the islamophobic comments I've been seeing recently on youtube, I realized I really didn't know as much about middle eastern history as I'd like to. I did learn some in history class, which was decent enough and fortunately lacked chuddish overtones, but I'd like to know much more since there was so much they could fit into the course. Does anyone have good suggestions? Doesn't have to be explicitly communist, but I would prefer if the author wasn't a raging midwest armybro pro-iraq war chud.

Thanks in advance!

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[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

I was reading Eurocentrism. It's not specifically about the Middle East. But the author writes a lot about a materialist history of West Asia. It was in Hakim's recommended reading list, btw.

Samir Amin can be exceptionally critical of Islam. But he's half-Egyptian, and I'm fully white, and so probably he has a voice to be critical. I was just taken aback by some of the things he wrote.