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Guerrilla Odyssey
Modernization, Secularism, Democracy, and Fadai Period of National Liberation in Iran, 1971-1979
Inbunden, 2010
352 kr
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Emerging in the early 1970s, the Organization of Iranian People's Fadai Guerrillas (OIPFG) become one of the most important secular leftist political organizations in Iran. Despite their lasting influence and the way in which their efforts helped shape the history of Iran for decades to come, …
Emirate, Egyptian, Ethiopian
Colonial Experiences in Late Nineteenth-Century Harar
Häftad, 2018
714 kr
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In October 1875, two months after the takeover of the Somali coastal town of Zeila, an Egyptian force numbering 1,200 soldiers departed from the city to occupy Harar, a prominent Muslim hub in the Horn of Africa. In doing so, they turned this sovereign emirate into an Egyptian colony that became a …
Shaykh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
Spiritual Mentor of Wasati Salafism
Av Sagi Polka
Inbunden, 2019
683 kr
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One of the most prominent Sunni clerics in the Muslim world today, Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi influences the discourse around matters central to the Islamic faith and to Islam's relationship with Western culture. As the spiritual leader of the wasat.iyya movement, he is the voice of the moderate …
Emirate, Egyptian, Ethiopian
Colonial Experiences in Late Nineteenth-Century Harar
Inbunden, 2018
819 kr
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In October 1875, two months after the takeover of the Somali coastal town of Zeila, an Egyptian force numbering 1,200 soldiers departed from the city to occupy Harar, a prominent Muslim hub in the Horn of Africa. In doing so, they turned this sovereign emirate into an Egyptian colony that became a …
Syria from Reform to Revolt
Volume 2: Culture, Society, and Religion
Av Christa Salamandra, Leif Stenberg
Häftad, 2015
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
309 kr
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As Syria’s anti-authoritarian uprising and subsequent civil war have left the country in ruins, the need for understanding the nation’s complex political and cultural realities remains urgent. The second of a two-volume series, Syria from Reform to Revolt: Culture, Society, and Religion draws …
Becoming Turkish
Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey 1923-1945
Av Hale Yilmaz
Häftad, 2016
338 kr
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Deepens our understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post–Ottoman Turkey through the perspective of ordinary citizens.
Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Häftad, 2023
328 kr
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Treating the everyday as central to the study of regional and international politics, this book reconstructs the last two decades of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, leading up to the 2011 events that sanctioned its fall. It provides a unique and vivid look into the political dynamics that characterized …
Iranian Intellectuals and the West
The Tormented Triumph of Nativism
Häftad, 1996
225 kr
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Mehrzad Boroujerdi challenges the way many Americans perceive present-day Iran as well as how Iranians view the West. He examines the works of thinkers seminal in defining modern Iran (virtually unknown in the U.S.) and concludes the Islam was not the primary source of their inspiration. Their …
Cultural Schizophrenia
Islamic Societies Confronting the West
Häftad, 1997
218 kr
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This study of the relationship between Muslim culture and Western modernity, portrays a society bound to its own glorified history - yet facing an external reality from the West. The meeting of these two worlds leads to a profound distortion, especially in how the Muslim world sees itself.
Drawing Boundaries
Oil, Empire, and the Making of the Emirati State
Inbunden, 2025
869 kr
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The boundaries between the seven constituent emirates of the United Arab Emirates form one of the most complex territorial landscapes in the Middle East that is marked simultaneously by striking fragmentation on the map and inconspicuousness on the ground. Niklas A. Haller traces how such …
Empire and Nation in the City
Rusçuk from Ottoman Rule to Bulgarian Statehood
Av Mehmet Çelik
Inbunden, 2026
754 kr
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To curb the influence of minority populations and "outside enemies," the Ottoman government implemented new and experimental Tanzimat reforms within the empire’s center and provincial regions. By the 1860s, the city of Rusçuk in present-day Bulgaria and capital of the Ottoman Danube province became …
Story of the Daughters of Quchan
Gender and National Memory in Iranian History
Häftad, 1998
341 kr
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In 1905 Iranian women had been sold to pay taxes or taken as booty in a raid by tribesmen from a village. The narration of this event took all Iran by storm and shortly after the opening of the new parliament in 1906 relatives of these women demanded that parliament punish those responsible. …
Religion, Society, and Modernity in Turkey
Av Serif Mardin
Inbunden, 2006
697 kr
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This is a selection of the finest essays by Serif Mardin, offering a historical and cultural analysis of the late Ottoman period and Republican Turkey. This book collects Serif Mardin's seminal essays written throughout the span of his prolific career. Comprising some of the author's finest and …
Tradition and Modernity in Turkey
Yiddish Plays in Translation
Häftad, 2015
339 kr
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An anthology of five Yiddish plays in translation—all written by well-known playwrights in the first quarter of the twentieth century— God, Man, and Devil also includes two independent scenes, which in Nahma Sandrow''s words, "show off the raucous characteristic of Yiddish theater, especially in …
Genesis of Young Ottoman Thought
A Study in the Modernization of Turkish Political Ideas
Av Serif Mardin
Häftad, 2000
297 kr
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Extensively documented and updated since its first publication in 1962, this volume provides a detailed study of the men and events that have shaped Turkey's modern political ideologies.
God and Juggernaut
Iran's Intellectual Encounter with Modernity
Häftad, 2002
216 kr
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By focusing almost entirely on intellectual discourse among the clergy, this text engages the major theoretical discourses of modernity in an attempt to address some of the central theoretical issues involved in modernity and Iran's experience of these issues.
Factional Politics in Post-Khomeini Iran
Av Mehdi Moslem
Häftad, 2002
328 kr
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Since President Mohammad Khatami's landslide victory in May 1997, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been a study in contradictions. Whilst Khatami condemned his nations's fanatical past, there still remains an opposing faction towards the West. This study analyses Iran's post-revolutionary politics.
Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran
Av Mark J Gasiorowski, Mark J. Gasiorowski m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
587 kr
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Mohammad Mosaddeq is widely regarded as the leading champion of secular democracy and resistance to foreign domination in Iran's modern history. Mosaddeq became prime minister of Iran in May 1951 and promptly nationalized its British-controlled oil industry, initiating a bitter confrontation …
Britain and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906-1911
Foreign Policy, Imperialism, and Dissent
Inbunden, 2006
712 kr
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In this book, Mansour Bonakdarian provides a detailed account of the British involvement and support of the Iranian constitutional and national struggle of 1906-1911, which was directed against the Iranian autocracy and Anglo-Russian imperial intervention of Iran. In particular, Bonakdarian …
Globalization and the Muslim World
Culture, Religion, and Modernity
Av Birgit Schaebler, Birgit Schaebler m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
218 kr
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Written by scholars from a range of disciplines concerned with the Middle East and Islam (history, religious studies, anthropology, sociology, political science) and covering the Muslim world extensively (from Malaysia, Turkey, Sudan, Egypt, Israel/Palestine to Muslim communities in Europe and the …
In the Path of Hizbullah
Inbunden, 2004
286 kr
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Of the many Islamist groups that have emerged within the Muslim world over the last two decades, perhaps none has had so great an impact on Middle Eastern and International affairs as Hizbullah, the Party of God. This group of mainly Lebanese Shi'ite Muslims gained both infamy and fame by its …
Corporatist Ideology in Kemalist Turkey
Progress or Order?
Inbunden, 2004
509 kr
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This book provides an informed analysis of the ideological content of Kemalism - the name given to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's party's political thought and practice - and the persistently official and semi-official, hegemonic ideology of the Turkish Republic, formally founded in 1923. Through a …
Algeria and France, 1800-2000
Identity, Memory, Nostalgia
Inbunden, 2006
524 kr
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This is a cohesive collection that brings together the most recent and innovative scholarship on the subject of memory and identity in the France-Algeria colonial and postcolonial relationship, exploring topics from history and photography to culture and religion. The relationship between Algeria …
Class and Labor in Iran
Did the Revolution Matter?
Av Farhad Nomani, Sohrab Behdad
Häftad, 2006
259 kr
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In the past twenty-five years Iran has experienced a revolution and a turbulent post revolutionary period under an Islamic state that declared itself the government of the oppressed while it struggled to establish a utopian Islamic economy. In this pioneering work Farhad Nomani and Sohrab Behdad …
Politics of Public Memory in Turkey
Av Esra Özyürek
Inbunden, 2007
294 kr
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Turkish society is frequently accused of having amnesia. It has been said that there is no social memory in Turkey before Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded modern Turkey after the first World War. Indeed, in 1923, the newly founded Turkish Republic committed to a modernist future by erasing the memory …
Urban Social History of the Middle East 1750-1950
Av Peter Sluglett, Peter Sluglett
Inbunden, 2008
409 kr
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The great cities of the Middle East and North Africa have long attracted the attention and interest of historians. With the discovery and wider use over the last few decades of the Islamic court records and Ottoman administrative documents, our knowledge of Middle Eastern cities between the …
Kurdish Quasi-State
Development and Dependency in Post-Gulf War Iraq
Inbunden, 2010
286 kr
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Explains the nature of the Kurdish north transformation, once an isolated outpost for the Iraqi army and local militia, now an internationally recognized autonomous region, and how it has influenced the relationship between the Kurdistan region and Iraq's central government. The book shows how …
Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran
The Life and Legacy of a Popular Female Artist
Inbunden, 2011
237 kr
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For more than a century Iran’s social, political, and cultural history has been defined by a struggle toward or away from modernity. In this book Talatoff makes a compelling argument that, despite revolutionary upheaval, the ideals of modernity remain remote due to the absence of a modern notion of …
Education of Women and the Vices of Men
Two Qajar Tracts
Inbunden, 2010
294 kr
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At the close of the nineteenth century, modern ideas of democracy and equality were slowly beginning to take hold in Iran. Exposed to European ideas about law, equality, and education, upper- and middle-class men and women increasingly questioned traditional ideas about the role of women and their …
Pious Citizens
Reforming Zoroastrianism in India and Iran
Inbunden, 2011
453 kr
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In Pious Citizens, Ringer tells the story of a major intellectual revolution in nineteenth- and early twentieth–century India and Iran, one that radically transformed the role of religion in society. At this time, key theological debates revolved around Zoroastrianism’s capacity to generate …
