Middle East category: 7830 books
Recasting Iranian Modernity
International Relations and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Critically deploying the idea of uneven and combined development this book provides a novel non-Eurocentric account of Iran’s experience of modernity and revolution. Recasting Iranian Modernity presents the argument that Eurocentrism can be decisively overcome through a social theory that has international...
The Limits of Westernization
A Cultural History of America in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: "Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?" When the pollsters reversed the question—"Which country is Turkey's number one enemy in international relations?"—the United States came in...
Arguing Sainthood
Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1997
In Arguing Sainthood, Katherine Pratt Ewing examines Sufi religious meanings and practices in Pakistan and their relation to the Westernizing influences of modernity and the shaping of the postcolonial self. Using both anthropological fieldwork and psychoanalytic theory to critically reinterpret theories...
Afghanistan
Identity, Society and Politics Since 1980
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Over the last three decades Afghanistan has been plagued by crisis from Soviet invasion in 1979 and Taliban rule to US invasion following the events of 9/11. Here the top specialists on Afghanistan, including Olivier Roy, Ahmad Rashid and Jonathan Goodhand, provide a unique overview of the evolution,...
Losing Balance: De-Democratization of America
De-Democratization of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the broader Middle East. Readers will come away from this book with an
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Gleave brings together studies by experts in the area of religion in nineteenth-century Iran in order to present new insights into Qajar religion, political and cultural history. Key topics covered include the relationship between religion and the state, the importance of archival materials for the...
If the Oceans Were Ink
An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Hailed by The Washington Post **as “**mandatory reading,” and praised by Fareed Zakaria as “intelligent, compassionate, and revealing,” a powerful journey to help bridge one of the greatest divides shaping our world today.
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by Reynold A. Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
The Mystics of Islam
by Reynold A. Nicholson.
The title of this book sufficiently explains why it is included in a Series 'exemplifying the adventures and labours of individual seekers or groups of seekers in quest of reality.' Sufism, the religious philosophy of Islam, is described in the...
by Zoltan Matrahazi
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The news of snow in Egypt and across the Middle East made headlines in the international media in late 2013, and many people who live in the region saw snow for the first time in their lives. It was a rare event, something that does happen sometimes, but not too often – the last snow fall in Cairo...
Exit the Colonel
The Hidden History of the Libyan Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
In Exit the Colonel, Ethan Chorin, a longtime Middle East scholar and one of the first American diplomats posted to Libya after the lifting of international sanctions, goes well beyond recent reporting on the Arab Spring to link the Libyan uprising to a flawed reform process, egregious human rights...
The Dialectics of Post-Soviet Modernity and the Changing Contours of Islamic Discourse in Azerbaijan
The Dialectics of Post-Soviet Modernity and the Changing Contours of Islamic Discourse in Azerbaijan
Toward a Resacralization of Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Azerbaijan’s independence came after seven decades of militant atheism of Soviet modernization project and emerged into staunch secularism of Western modernity, two factors that, on a par with the country’s precarious neighborhood, promised a sustained indigenous effort towards the desacralization...
Islamist Radicalisation in North Africa
Politics and Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
In the current climate of political extremism and violence, much attention has been directed towards "radicalisation" as the reasons behind such courses of action, along with a conviction that those who are radicalised represent an irrational deviation from the conventionally accepted norms...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
The essays in this collection examine the emergence of Islam as a force in today’s international political arena. Driven by a concern to understand factors leading to, and the implications of, this heightened political profile the contributors go beyond polemics and apologetics. The book critically...
Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon
A History of the Internationalization of Communal Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2002
In this long-awaited work, Samir Khalaf analyzes the history of civil strife and political violence in Lebanon and reveals the inherent contradictions that have plagued that country and made it so vulnerable to both inter-Arab and superpower rivalries. How did a
fairly peaceful and resourceful...