R&L Logo R&L Logo
  • GENERAL
    • Browse by Subjects
    • New Releases
    • Coming Soon
    • Chases's Calendar
  • ACADEMIC
    • Textbooks
    • Browse by Course
    • Instructor's Copies
    • Monographs & Research
    • Reference
  • PROFESSIONAL
    • Education
    • Intelligence & Security
    • Library Services
    • Business & Leadership
    • Museum Studies
    • Music
    • Pastoral Resources
    • Psychotherapy
  • FREUD SET
Cover Image
Hardback
share of facebook share on twitter
Add to GoodReads

Historical Dictionary of Syria

Fourth Edition

Omar Imady; David Commins and David W. Lesch

Historical Dictionary of Syria, Fourth Edition covers the recent events in Syria as well as the history that led up to these events. The cross-referenced dictionary section has over 500 entries on significant persons, places and events, political parties and institutions, literature, music and the arts.

.

  • Details
  • Details
  • Author
  • Author
  • TOC
  • TOC
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 548 • Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-5381-2285-3 • Hardback • January 2021 • $161.00 • (£125.00)
Series: Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
Subjects: History / Middle East / General, Reference / Dictionaries, History / General

Omar Imady is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of St Andrews, and the managing editor of Syria Studies, the Centre’s journal. Imady, who was born in Damascus, is the author, co-author and editor of several works on Syria, including The Rise and Fall of Muslim Civil Society; The Syrian Uprising: Domestic Origins and Early Trajectory; Syria at War: Five Years On; and Syria at War: Eight Years On. Imady is also a novelist and his novels have been translated into several languages.

David Commins is professor of History and Benjamin Rush Chair in the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He received a Fulbright-Hays doctoral dissertation research grant to study Muslim religious reformers in the late Ottoman period at Damascus University in Syria, and he has published several books on the Middle East.

David W. Lesch is the Ewing Halsell Distinguished Professor of History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He is the author and/or editor of sixteen books, the most recent being Syria: A Modern History (2019); The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History (2019); and Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad (2013).

Editor’s Foreword

Acknowledgments

Reader’s Notes

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Map

Chronology

Introduction

THE DICTIONARY

Bibliography

About the Author

Historical Dictionary of Syria

Fourth Edition

Cover Image
Hardback
Summary
Summary
  • Historical Dictionary of Syria, Fourth Edition covers the recent events in Syria as well as the history that led up to these events. The cross-referenced dictionary section has over 500 entries on significant persons, places and events, political parties and institutions, literature, music and the arts.

    .

Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
    Pages: 548 • Trim: 6½ x 9
    978-1-5381-2285-3 • Hardback • January 2021 • $161.00 • (£125.00)
    Series: Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
    Subjects: History / Middle East / General, Reference / Dictionaries, History / General
Author
Author
  • Omar Imady is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of St Andrews, and the managing editor of Syria Studies, the Centre’s journal. Imady, who was born in Damascus, is the author, co-author and editor of several works on Syria, including The Rise and Fall of Muslim Civil Society; The Syrian Uprising: Domestic Origins and Early Trajectory; Syria at War: Five Years On; and Syria at War: Eight Years On. Imady is also a novelist and his novels have been translated into several languages.

    David Commins is professor of History and Benjamin Rush Chair in the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He received a Fulbright-Hays doctoral dissertation research grant to study Muslim religious reformers in the late Ottoman period at Damascus University in Syria, and he has published several books on the Middle East.

    David W. Lesch is the Ewing Halsell Distinguished Professor of History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He is the author and/or editor of sixteen books, the most recent being Syria: A Modern History (2019); The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History (2019); and Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad (2013).

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Editor’s Foreword

    Acknowledgments

    Reader’s Notes

    Acronyms and Abbreviations

    Map

    Chronology

    Introduction

    THE DICTIONARY

    Bibliography

    About the Author

ALSO AVAILABLE

  • Cover image for the book The Middle East and South Asia 2024–2025, 57th Edition
  • Cover image for the book Gods in the Desert: Religions of the Ancient Near East
  • Cover image for the book The Chatham House Version: And Other Middle Eastern Studies
  • Cover image for the book The Lebanese Forces: Emergence and Transformation of the Christian Resistance
  • Cover image for the book The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of the Kurds, Third Edition
  • Cover image for the book The History of the Tajik Civil War, 1992–1997
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of Lebanon, Second Edition
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of the Syrian Uprising and Civil War
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of the Druzes, Second Edition
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of Yemen, Third Edition
  • Cover image for the book American Alliance Policy in the Middle East, 1945-1992: Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabia
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Second Edition
  • Cover image for the book Anglo-American Defense Projects in the Postwar Middle East: Cold War or Imperialism?
  • Cover image for the book From Qajar to Pahlavi: Iran, 1919-1930
  • Cover image for the book Jihad and Genocide
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of the Arab Uprisings
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen), Second Edition
  • Cover image for the book The Middle East and South Asia 2023–2024, 56th Edition
  • Cover image for the book The A to Z of the Kurds
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of the Persian Gulf War 1990-1991
  • Cover image for the book Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of Saudi Arabia, Third Edition
  • Cover image for the book At the Dawn of the Cold War: The Soviet-American Crisis over Iranian Azerbaijan, 1941–1946
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia, Second Edition
  • Cover image for the book The A to Z of the Druzes
  • Cover image for the book The Art of Avaz and Mohammad Reza Shajarian: Foundations and Contexts
  • Cover image for the book Creating the Arabian Gulf: The British Raj and the Invasions of the Gulf
  • Cover image for the book The U.S.-Soviet Confrontation in Iran, 1945-1962: A Case in the Annals of the Cold War
  • Cover image for the book Iraq and Rupert Hay's Two Years in Kurdistan
  • Cover image for the book The Middle East and South Asia 2022–2023, 55th Edition
  • Cover image for the book Negotiating Palestinian Womanhood: Encounters between Palestinian Women and American Missionaries, 1880s–1940s
  • Cover image for the book Public Administration in Palestine: Past and Present
  • Cover image for the book The A to Z of the Berbers (Imazighen)
  • Cover image for the book The A to Z of the Gulf Arab States
  • Cover image for the book The A to Z of Iran
  • Cover image for the book The A to Z of Middle Eastern Intelligence
  • Cover image for the book Iraq and Gertrude Bell's The Arab of Mesopotamia
  • Cover image for the book United States and Iran: Different Values and Attitudes Toward Nature
  • Cover image for the book Spies, Scandals, and Sultans: Istanbul in the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire
  • Cover image for the book The Middle East and South Asia 2020-2022, 54th Edition
  • Cover image for the book From Palace to Prison: Inside the Iranian Revolution
  • Cover image for the book Iraq and Eleanor Egan's The War in the Cradle of the World
  • Cover image for the book The Middle East and South Asia 2024–2025, 57th Edition
  • Cover image for the book Gods in the Desert: Religions of the Ancient Near East
  • Cover image for the book The Chatham House Version: And Other Middle Eastern Studies
  • Cover image for the book The Lebanese Forces: Emergence and Transformation of the Christian Resistance
  • Cover image for the book The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of the Kurds, Third Edition
  • Cover image for the book The History of the Tajik Civil War, 1992–1997
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of Lebanon, Second Edition
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of the Syrian Uprising and Civil War
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of the Druzes, Second Edition
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of Yemen, Third Edition
  • Cover image for the book American Alliance Policy in the Middle East, 1945-1992: Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabia
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Second Edition
  • Cover image for the book Anglo-American Defense Projects in the Postwar Middle East: Cold War or Imperialism?
  • Cover image for the book From Qajar to Pahlavi: Iran, 1919-1930
  • Cover image for the book Jihad and Genocide
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of the Arab Uprisings
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen), Second Edition
  • Cover image for the book The Middle East and South Asia 2023–2024, 56th Edition
  • Cover image for the book The A to Z of the Kurds
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of the Persian Gulf War 1990-1991
  • Cover image for the book Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of Saudi Arabia, Third Edition
  • Cover image for the book At the Dawn of the Cold War: The Soviet-American Crisis over Iranian Azerbaijan, 1941–1946
  • Cover image for the book Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia, Second Edition
  • Cover image for the book The A to Z of the Druzes
  • Cover image for the book The Art of Avaz and Mohammad Reza Shajarian: Foundations and Contexts
  • Cover image for the book Creating the Arabian Gulf: The British Raj and the Invasions of the Gulf
  • Cover image for the book The U.S.-Soviet Confrontation in Iran, 1945-1962: A Case in the Annals of the Cold War
  • Cover image for the book Iraq and Rupert Hay's Two Years in Kurdistan
  • Cover image for the book The Middle East and South Asia 2022–2023, 55th Edition
  • Cover image for the book Negotiating Palestinian Womanhood: Encounters between Palestinian Women and American Missionaries, 1880s–1940s
  • Cover image for the book Public Administration in Palestine: Past and Present
  • Cover image for the book The A to Z of the Berbers (Imazighen)
  • Cover image for the book The A to Z of the Gulf Arab States
  • Cover image for the book The A to Z of Iran
  • Cover image for the book The A to Z of Middle Eastern Intelligence
  • Cover image for the book Iraq and Gertrude Bell's The Arab of Mesopotamia
  • Cover image for the book United States and Iran: Different Values and Attitudes Toward Nature
  • Cover image for the book Spies, Scandals, and Sultans: Istanbul in the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire
  • Cover image for the book The Middle East and South Asia 2020-2022, 54th Edition
  • Cover image for the book From Palace to Prison: Inside the Iranian Revolution
  • Cover image for the book Iraq and Eleanor Egan's The War in the Cradle of the World
facebook icon twitter icon instagram icon linked in icon NEWSLETTERS
ABOUT US
  • Mission Statement
  • Employment
  • Privacy
  • Accessibility Statement
CONTACT
  • Company Directory
  • Publicity and Media Queries
  • Rights and Permissions
  • Textbook Resource Center
AUTHOR RESOURCES
  • Royalty Contact
  • Production Guidelines
  • Manuscript Submissions
ORDERING INFORMATION
  • Rowman & Littlefield
  • National Book Network
  • Ingram Publisher Services UK
  • Special Sales
  • International Sales
  • eBook Partners
  • Digital Catalogs
IMPRINTS
  • Rowman & Littlefield
  • Lexington Books
  • Hamilton Books
  • Applause Books
  • Amadeus Press
  • Backbeat Books
  • Bernan
  • Hal Leonard Books
  • Limelight Editions
  • Co-Publishing Partners
  • Globe Pequot
  • Down East Books
  • Falcon Guides
  • Gooseberry Patch
  • Lyons Press
  • Muddy Boots
  • Pineapple Press
  • TwoDot Books
  • Stackpole Books
PARTNERS
  • American Alliance of Museums
  • American Association for State and Local History
  • Brookings Institution Press
  • Center for Strategic & International Studies
  • Council on Foreign Relations
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
  • Fortress Press
  • The Foundation for Critical Thinking
  • Lehigh University Press
  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Other Partners...