Middle East Studies
Titles in the subject of Middle East Studies from Routledge Paperbacks Direct.
Reconstructing Post-Saddam Iraq
Previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly, this volume seeks to analyze to what extent the controversial US policy of democratizing the...
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Published December 15th 2007 by Routledge.
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Democratization in the Muslim World
Changing Patterns of Authority and Power
This book examines the role that political Islam plays in processes of democratization in the Muslim world, detailing the political processes that facilitate the collective...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-46367-6
Published December 4th 2007 by Routledge.
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Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia
Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia presents a penetrating new investigation of religious radicalism in the largest Muslim country in the world.
Indonesia is a country...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-46106-1
Published October 7th 2007 by Routledge.
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The Alevis in Turkey
The Emergence of a Secular Islamic Tradition
This is the only volume dedicated to the Alevis available in English and based on sustained fieldwork in Turkey. The Alevis now have an increasingly...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44436-1
Published July 27th 2007 by Routledge.
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Deconstructing the Bible
Abraham ibn Ezra's Introduction to the Torah
Deconstructing the Bible represents the first attempt by a single author to place the great Spanish Jewish Hebrew bible exegete, philosopher, poet, astronomer, astrologer and scientist...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44444-6
Published May 30th 2007 by Routledge.
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Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia
The Umma Below the Winds
Drawing on previously unavailable archival material, this book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage. The award winning author...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44435-4
Published May 18th 2007 by Routledge.
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A Persian Renaissance
An account of the re-emergence of Persia as a world player and the reassertion of its cultural, political and spiritual links with Turkic Lands, this...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44454-5
Published May 18th 2007 by Routledge.
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Western Liberal Democracy versus the System of Shura
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44438-5
Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge.
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Jews, Muslims and Mass Media
Mediating the 'Other'
This text looks at the ways in which Jews, Muslims and the conflict between them has been covered in the modern media. Both Jews and Muslims...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44447-7
Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge.
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Islamic Insurance
A Modern Approach to Islamic Banking
Some Muslims believe insurance is unnecessary, as society should help its victims. Muslims can no longer ignore the fact that they live, trade and communicate...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44450-7
Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge.
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Medieval Islamic Economic Thought
Filling the Great Gap in European Economics
This book is a collection of papers on the origins of economic thought discovered in the writings of some prominent Islamic scholars, during the five...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44451-4
Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge.
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The Small Players of the Great Game
The Settlement of Iran's Eastern Borderlands and the Creation of Afghanistan
This book deals with the 19th century Anglo-Russian Great Game played out on the territorial chessboard of eastern and north-eastern parts of the waning Persian...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44452-1
Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge.
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Pan-Islamic Foreign Policy in a World of States
This is a timely study of the international relations of Islamic states, dealing both with the evolving theory of pan-Islamism from classical to post-caliphal times...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44453-8
Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge.
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Islam and Political Legitimacy
Akbarzadeh and Saeed explore one of the most challenging issues facing the Muslim world: the Islamisation of political power. They present a comparative analysis of...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44437-8
Published May 3rd 2007 by Routledge.
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The Dialectic of State and Society
This book contains the most detailed and comprehensive statement of Homa Katouzian's theory of arbitrary state and society in Iran, and its applications to Iranian...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44170-4
Published March 20th 2007 by Routledge.
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