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Literature for understanding and learning about the Middle East, its history, and its conflicts?

>> No.14493368

The Bible

>> No.14493450

>>14493368
Based and Christpilled.

Aside from The Bible and The Quran, what else?

>> No.14493477

Iranian Leviathan by Jorjani. It can be found on libgen

>> No.14493655

>>14493477
Thank you. I suppose /his/ would be a better play to ask too.

>> No.14493830

Foucault

>> No.14493855

>>14493364
These women will probably die :(

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The English Job- Jack Straw

>> No.14494100

>>14493855
Everyone is going to die anon.

>> No.14494112

>>14494100
But they'd be killed thanks to a gay war and soon.

>> No.14494122

>>14493364
Perry Anderson - American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

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>>14494100
>implying

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>>14494100
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uz6anwm47g

>> No.14494464

>>14493477
Iranian Leviathan is complete trash. I even wrote a review criticizing it. KYS, you fucking idiot.

>> No.14494540

>>14494464
Not him, can I read your review?

>> No.14494556

>>14493368
>>14493450
Low IQ

>> No.14494564

>>14494540
I don't feel like posting the review, but I can summarize it. The main contention I have is he makes weird, erratic associations that most modern scholars don't accept like Buddha being a Scythian who was revolting against Zoroastrianism and Lao Tzu being the same as Buddha... All these ungrounded theories flood his shit book that it's almost unreadable. I'm not joking. There are so many issues here, and the whole thing reads like a schizophrenic messed.
His semi-Nordicist readings on archaeogenetics are also shit, which I criticized with peer-review journal articles and the Global25 in R software using ancient and modern autosomal samples. I think the whole thing reeks of inferiority complex in many ways, since he didn't really discuss this stuff with any precision.
Also, there is something somewhat Satanic with his obsession in critique metaphysical dualism with a more macabre nondualism, which was stolen from a short story I privately shared with him. He promised to help find a publisher for me, but he never followed up on it. I did publish it elsewhere. Regardless, he just thinks the Faustian mentality is better than the virtuous one, and he kind of takes it too far in some areas.

>> No.14494573

>>14494540
>>14494564
Also, the book isn't even about foreign policy. He just has some commentary on foreign policy, but it's not even the focal point of his book. It's just delirious and chauvinist bullshit tinged with serious inferiority complex.

>> No.14494588

>>14494573
>>14494564
Well, thanks. I wouldn’t mind reading the whole review

>> No.14495322

>>14493368
/thread

>> No.14495681

Go with Michael B. Oren’s Power, Faith, and Fantasy

Then a General History on the Region.

If you truly want to understand, though, I recommend War Histories, think-tank podcasts, a history of Islam, and keeping up with the news.