SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

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1. Nazism in Syria and Lebanon

   The Ambivalence of the German Option, 1933–1945

   By Götz Nordbruch

   Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

   The increasingly vibrant political culture emerging in Lebanon and Syria in the 1930s and early 1940s is key to the understanding of local approaches towards the Nazi German regime. For many contemporary observers in Beirut and Damascus, Nazism not only posed a risk to Europe, but threatened to...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Subalterns and Social Protest

   History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa

   Edited by Stephanie Cronin

   Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

   The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives. The collection is unique in its historical depth - ranging from the medieval period to the present - and its...

   Published January 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. Islam and the Politics of Secularism

   The Caliphate and Middle Eastern Modernization in the Early 20th Century

   By Nurullah Ardic

   Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

   This book examines the process of secularization in the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th century through an analysis of the transformation and abolition of Islamic Caliphate. Focusing on debates in both the center of the Caliphate and its periphery, the author argues that the...

   Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. Medieval Arabic Historiography

   Authors as Actors

   By Konrad Hirschler

   Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

   Medieval Arabic Historiography is concerned with social contexts and narrative structures of pre-modern Islamic historiography written in Arabic in seventh and thirteenth-century Syria and Eygpt. Taking up recent theoretical reflections on historical writing in the European Middle Ages, this...

   Published April 5th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Ottoman Administration of Iraq, 1890-1908

   By Gökhan Çetinsaya

   Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

   This is a study of the nature of Ottoman administration under Sultan Abdulhamid and the effects of this on the three provinces that were to form the modern state of Iraq. The author provides a general commentary on the late Ottoman provincial administration and a comprehensive picture of the nature...

   Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge
6. Late Ottoman Society

   The Intellectual Legacy

   By Elisabeth Özdalga

   Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

   When the Ottomans commenced their modernizing reforms in the 1830s, they still ruled over a vast empire. In addition to today's Turkey, including Anatolia and Thrace, their power reached over Mesopotamia, North Africa, the Levant, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. The Sultanate was at the apex of a...

   Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge
7. Opposition and Legitimacy in the Ottoman Empire

   Conspiracies and Political Cultures

   By Florian Riedler

   Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

   This book looks at opposition to the Ottoman government in the second half of the nineteenth century, examining a number of key political conspiracies and how these relate to an existing political culture. In his detailed analysis of these conspiracies, the author offers a new perspective on an...

   Published December 19th 2010 by Routledge
8. Court Cultures in the Muslim World

   Seventh to Nineteenth Centuries

   Edited by Albrecht Fuess, Jan-Peter Hartung

   Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

   Courts and the complex phenomenon of the courtly society have received intensified interest in academic research over recent decades, however, the field of Islamic court culture has so far been overlooked. This book provides a comparative perspective on the history of courtly culture in Muslim...

   Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge
9. The City in the Ottoman Empire

   Migration and the making of urban modernity

   Edited by Ulrike Freitag, Malte Fuhrmann, Nora Lafi, Florian Riedler

   Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

   The nexus of urban governance and human migration was a crucial feature in the modernisation of cities in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century. This book connects these two concepts to examine the Ottoman city as a destination of human migration, throwing new light on the question of...

   Published November 22nd 2010 by Routledge
10. Untold Histories of the Middle East

    Recovering Voices from the 19th and 20th Centuries

    Edited by Amy Singer, Christoph Neumann, Selcuk Aksin Somel

    Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

    Much traditional historiography consciously and unconsciously glosses over certain discourses, narratives, and practices. This book examines silences or omissions in Middle Eastern history at the turn of the twenty-first century, to give a fuller account of the society, culture and politics. With a...

    Published July 15th 2010 by Routledge