Middle East Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkey

   Edited by Metin Heper, Sabri Sayari

   In recent years, there has been growing interest in Turkey, stemming from the country’s developing role in regional and global politics, its expanding economic strength, and its identity as a predominantly Muslim country with secular political institutions and democratic processes. This Handbook...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. The Rise of the Ottoman Empire

   Studies in the History of Turkey, thirteenth–fifteenth Centuries

   By Paul Wittek

   Edited by Colin Heywood

   Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books

   Paul Wittek’s The Rise of the Ottoman Empire was first published by the Royal Asiatic Society in 1938 and has been out of print for more than a quarter of a century. The present reissue of the text also brings together translations of some of his other studies on Ottoman history; eight closely...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. Muslims in Britain

   Making Social and Political Space

   Edited by Waqar Ahmad, Ziauddin Sardar

   The management of social, religious and ethnic diversity is a key social policy concern in Britain, and Muslims in particular have become a focus of attention in recent years. This timely and topical volume examines the position of Muslims in Britain and how they are changing and making social,...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
4. Women, War, Violence and Learning

   Edited by Shahrzad Mojab

   This anthology provides fresh theorization of gendered dimensions of learning, war, and violence, with a view to offering new insights on the impact of violence on women’s learning and well being. The collection is an important contribution to emerging interdisciplinary approaches to the role and...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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
6. Contested Sudan

   The Political Economy of War and Reconstruction

   By Ibrahim Elnur

   Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

   Since gaining independence in 1956, Sudan has endured a troubled history, including the longest civil war in African history in Southern Sudan and more recent conflicts such as the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. This book explores this history of ensuing conflict, examining why Sudan failed to...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Everyday Economic Practices

   The 'Hidden Transcripts' of Egyptian Voices

   By Savinna Chowdhury

   Series: New Political Economy

   This book brings to the forefront the significance of local everyday economic practices to development policymaking. Chowdhury's objective in unearthing these diverse activities is two-fold. She demonstrates why it is a misrepresentation to characterize all that is economic as "capitalism...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Monetary Union in the Gulf

   Prospects for a Single Currency in the Arabian Peninsula

   By Emilie Rutledge

   Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

   At a time of momentous shifts in the balance of world economic forces epitomized by the current oil price boom, the weakening US dollar and the global credit crunch; the meteoric rise of the Arabian peninsula cannot be understated. Neither, therefore, can their planned monetary union. As key...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Intervention, Ethnic Conflict and State-Building in Iraq

   A Paradigm for the Post-Colonial State

   By Michael Rear

   Series: Studies in International Relations

   External intervention by the U.N. and other actors in ethnic conflicts has interfered with the state-building process in post-colonial states. Rear examines the 1991 uprisings in Iraq and demonstrates how this intervention has contributed to the problems with democratization experienced in the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Islands and International Politics in the Persian Gulf

    The Abu Musa and Tunbs in Strategic Context

    By Kourosh Ahmadi

    Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

    The position of the Persian Gulf as the main highway between East and West has long given this region special significance both within the Middle East and in global affairs more generally. This book examines the history of international relations in the Gulf since the 1820s as great powers such as...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge