Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.

While contemporary Middle Eastern religious practices are overwhelmingly monotheistic, most of the region's ancient traditions were polytheistic, including the Semitic religions, the Egyptian religion, the Greek religion, and various Iranian religions.

Over 100 maps, including 13 of the Middle East and 6 of Gulf states (PDF format) The Library of US Congress map collection is an extremely valuable site for the maps of early modern Middle East and the Gulf as well as the modern ones.

2015年4月3日 · Much can be learned from the colonial statistics by the French and the British that administered the entire Arab World intermittently until WWII. These can be supplemented by anthropological monographs. Locally, Turkey did produce some such data until 1960 openly, and into the 1970s, secretly.

2019年5月22日 · Historically, several religions have been practiced by the communities in the Middle East such as Zoroastrianism, Samaritanism, and Manichaeism. The largest Abrahamic religions in the world have their roots to the Middle East.

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Despite the historical rise and prominence of Islam in the Middle East, the many belief systems which originated in the region allow it to maintain a highly diverse religious makeup today. Indeed, out of the entire global Muslim population only roughly 20% live within the Middle East.

2024年10月9日 · Maps cover the rise and spread of the world's religions, including Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Contains over 50 detailed maps with explanation and references.

2020年1月12日 · We can accurately simplify the Middle East as a Muslim region with the exception of Israel. To many people in the West, the Middle East is a slate with a bunch of squiggly lines demarking faceless countries and looks like:

A middle east resource site and wall map, including information on religion, economics, oil, water, maps, 25 country profiles and more.