Studies in Middle Eastern History – serie
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The Turban for the Crown
The Islamic Revolution in Iran
Häftad, 1990
303 kr
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This comprehensive history of the Iranian Revolution views it in the context of an ongoing conflict between religious and political authorities dating back to the establishment of Shi'ism as the state religion of Iran in 1501. The historical context is seen as being critical in understanding the …
Lebanon
A History, 600 - 2011
Häftad, 2015
808 kr
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In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its vicinity. He offers a fresh perspective on the antecedents of modern multi-communal Lebanon, tracing the consolidation of Lebanon's Christian, Muslim, and Islamic derived sects …
Egypt, Islam, and the Arabs
The Search for Egyptian Nationhood 1900-1930
Av Israel Gershoni, James P. Jankowski
Inbunden, 1987
3223 kr
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Throughout the 20th century, Egyptian nationalism has alternately revolved around three primary axes: a local Egyptian territorial nationalism, a sense of Arab ethnic-linguistic nationalism, and an identification with the wider Muslim community. This detailed study is devoted to the first major …
Language and Change in the Arab Middle East
The Evolution of Modern Political Discourse
Av Ami Ayalon
Inbunden, 1987
1903 kr
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This study of the rise of modern Arabic shows nineteenth-century linguistic changes in the eastern Arab world to mirror changing perceptions and responses to the West, and to act as a guide to the emergence of modern Arabic concepts, institutions, and practices. Arabists.
East Encounters West
France and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century
Inbunden, 1988
3319 kr
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In 1720 an Ottoman ambassador arrived in France to observe Western civilization and report on what he saw and how it could be applied in the Ottoman Empire. Based on his accounts, this book studies the impact of the West on the Empire, and of this Ottoman embassy on the two societies.
The Fertile Crescent, 1800-1914
A Documentary Economic History
Inbunden, 1988
2786 kr
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This is the first systematic economic history of the Fertile Crescent throughout the nineteenth century, a region encompassing what is now Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and a small part of Turkey. Charles Issawi, an authority on the Middle East, has compiled and edited a comprehensive …
Islamic Reform
Politics and Social Change in Late Ottoman Syria
Inbunden, 1990
2948 kr
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This book examines Syria's religious, intellectual, and political history during the period of transformation before World War I. Focusing on an attempt to reform Islamic belief and practice at the turn of the century, Commins shows how the reformers used debates over the religious law of Islam to …
Iran's First Revolution
Shi'ism in the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1909
Av Mangol Bayat
Inbunden, 1992
3319 kr
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This is the most thorough and comprehensive history to date of the constitutional revolution of 1905-09, which resulted in the establishment of Iran's first parliamentary democracy, and which provides a crucial context for an understanding of the country's religious revolution of 1978-9.
Nasser's Blessed Movement
Egypt's Free Officers and the July Revolution
Av Joel Gordon
Inbunden, 1992
2186 kr
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This book examines a key period in the formation of modern Egypt, the early years of military rule following the coup of 1952. The Free Officers Corp, a group of junior officers, overthrew Egypt's parliamentary regime in July 1952 and over the next few years consolidated their rule, brutually …
Eunuchs and Sacred Boundaries in Islamic Society
Av Shaun Marmon
Inbunden, 1996
2929 kr
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In this thought-provoking interdisciplinary work, Shaun Marmon describes how eunuchs, as a category of people who embodied ambiguity, both defined and mediated critical thresholds of moral and physical space in the household, in the palace and in the tomb of pre-modern Islamic society. The author's …
King Hussein and the Challenge of Arab Radicalism
Jordan, 1955-1967
Av Uriel Dann
Häftad, 1992
1115 kr
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Uriel Dann explores the political history of the formative years of the Jordanian state, uncovering the sources of its durability against forces seeking to alter fundamentally the traditional bases of Arab politics.
The Making of Saudi Arabia 1916-1936
From Chieftancy to Monarchical State
Inbunden, 1994
3155 kr
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The period covered in this book saw Saudi Arabia emerge as the state we know today. With British backing, the Saudi state expanded from its Najdi origins eastweard, westward, northward and southward, embracing at the end of the period, the greater part of the Arabian peninsula. Kostiner focuses in …
From Abdullah to Hussein
Jordan in Transition
Inbunden, 1994
3130 kr
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This book studies the six-year period in modern Jordanian political history when the Hashemite kingdom was in crisis. Based on exclusive interviews and newly-released archival resources, this stylish political history is the first scholarly study of the early years of King Hussein's rule when power …
The Imperial Harem
Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire
Av Peirce
Häftad, 1994
1318 kr
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The rise to power of the imperial harem is one of the most dramatic developments in the history of the Ottoman empire. From the beginning of the reign of Suleyman the Magnificent in 1520 until the mid-17th century, high-ranking women of the Ottoman dynasty enjoyed a degree of political power …
The Press in the Arab Middle East
A History
Av Ami Ayalon
Inbunden, 1995
1830 kr
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Newspapers and journalism began in the Middle East in the nineteenth century and evolved during a period of accelerated change which shaped their unique political, social and cultural role. Drawing on a wealth of sources, this study for the first time explores the press as a Middle Eastern …
The Young Turks in Opposition
Inbunden, 1995
1903 kr
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This is the first in-depth study of the secret society called CUP (Committee of Union and Progress), based on their own papers. It pays special attention to the Young Turks as an intellectual movement which continues to influence the thinking of Turkish intellectuals in the 1990s. It also provides …
Saddam's Word
The Political Discourse in Iraq
Av Ofra Bengio
Inbunden, 1998
620 kr
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This is the first serious attempt to understand modern Iraq through a close examination of the political discourse used by the Ba'th regime and its leader, Saddam Hussein. By analysing political terms, concepts, and idioms as disseminated through the official Iraqi mouthpieces, author Ofra Bengio …
Cross-Cultural Encounters and Conflicts
Inbunden, 1998
1129 kr
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Among the forces shaping today's international landscape, those of cultural differences and conflicts are perhaps the most prominent. Charles Issawi's latest collection of essays has been written in the belief that a study of the past encounters and conflicts between the world's major cultures can …
Pan-Arabism Before Nasser
Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question
Inbunden, 1999
957 kr
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This book aims to profoundly alter the accepted version of the history of post-World War II Pan-Arabic foreign policy. To this end, Doran convincingly demonstrates the absence of any true pan-Arabic front from the very beginning of the Arab League. Reconsidering Cairo's policy decisions during the …
Preparation for a Revolution
The Young Turks, 1902-1908
Inbunden, 2001
2463 kr
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This book is a challenging re-evaluation of the Young Turk Revolution of 1908, a seminal event in the late Ottoman Empire and in the emergence of the modern nation-states in the Middle East and Balkans. Breaking new ground, the book describes how the practical considerations forced the Young Turks …
The Politicization of Islam
Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State
Inbunden, 2001
2929 kr
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Combining international and internal perspectives, this book analyses the transformation of the Ottoman Empire over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It views privatization of state lands and the increase of domestic and foreign trade as key factors in the rise of a Muslim middle class, …
Saddam's Word
Political Discourse in Iraq
Av Ofra Bengio
Häftad, 2002
804 kr
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This is the first serious attempt to understand modern Iraq through a close examination of the political discourse used by the Ba'th regime and its leader, Saddam Hussein. By analyzing political terms, concepts, and idioms as disseminated through the official Iraqi mouthpieces, author Ofra Bengio …
Pan-Arabism before Nasser
Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question
Häftad, 2002
1115 kr
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This book aims to alter profoundly the accepted version of the history of post-World War II Egyptian foreign policy. To this end, Doran convincingly demonstrates the absence of any true pan-Arab front from the very beginning of the Arab League. Reconsidering Cairo's policy decisions during the …
The Politicization of Islam
Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State
Häftad, 2002
1595 kr
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Combining international and domestic perspectives, this book analyzes the transformation of the Ottoman Empire over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It views privatization of state lands and the increase of domestic and foreign trade as key factors in the rise of a Muslim middle class, …
