Middle East Anthropology Books

New and Published Books

1. The War in Darfur

   Reclaiming Sudanese History

   By Anders Hastrup

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Society

   No other crisis in Africa has received as much attention in the West during the past 10 years as the war in Darfur, yet the underlying complexities of the war and the background to the crisis remains poorly understood by scholars, activists and aid workers. This anthropological study of the war in...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. Salafi Ritual Purity

   In the Presence of God

   By Richard Gauvain

   Series: Islamic Studies Series

   Since 9/11, Salafism has attracted a great deal of attention from the world’s media, which predominantly focuses on its potential for revolutionary violence. Salafism remains poorly understood both in Western media, where it is now the focus of considerable debate, and in Western academia, where...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. Comte de Gobineau and Orientalism

   Selected Eastern Writings

   Edited by Geoffrey Nash, Daniel O'Donoghue

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   Though known to specialists, Comte de Gobineau’s vital if idiosyncratic contribution to Orientalism has only been accessible to the English reader through secondary sources. Especially important for its portrayal of an esoteric Sufi sect like the Ahl-i Haqq, and its vivid narrative of the Babi...

   Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. Memory and Conflict in Lebanon

   Remembering and Forgetting the Past

   By Craig Larkin

   Series: Exeter Studies in Ethno Politics

   This book examines the legacy of Lebanon’s civil war and how the population, and the youth in particular, are dealing with their national past. Drawing on extensive qualitative research and social observation, the author explores the efforts of those who wish to remember, so as not to repeat past...

   Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. A Discourse on Domination in Mandate Palestine

   Imperialism, Property and Insurgency

   By Zeina B. Ghandour

   British discourse during the Mandate, with its unremitting convergence on the problematic ‘native question’, and which rested on racial and cultural theories and presumptions, as well as on certain givens drawn from the British class system, has been taken for granted by historians. The validity of...

   Published July 25th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
6. The Moral Economy of the Madrasa

   Islam and Education Today

   Edited by Keiko Sakurai, Fariba Adelkhah

   Series: New Horizons in Islamic Studies

   The revival of madrasas in the 1980s coincided with the rise of political Islam and soon became associated with the "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West. This volume examines the rapid expansion of madrasas across Asia and the Middle East and analyses their role in society within...

   Published March 3rd 2011 by Routledge
7. Libya

   Continuity and Change

   By Ronald Bruce St John

   Series: The Contemporary Middle East

   This book examines the socioeconomic and political development of Libya from earliest times to the present, concentrating in particular on the four decades of revolutionary rule which began in 1969. Focusing on the twin themes of continuity and change, Ronald Bruce St John emphasises the full...

   Published February 24th 2011 by Routledge
8. Syria's Kurds

   History, Politics and Society

   By Jordi Tejel

   Series: Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies

   This book is a decisive contribution to the study of Kurdish history in Syria since the mandatory period (1920-1946) up to nowadays. Avoiding an essentialist approach, Jordi Tejel provides fine, complex and sometimes paradoxical analysis about the articulation between tribal, local, regional, and...

   Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge
9. Palestinian Political Prisoners

   Identity and community

   By Esmail Nashif

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

   Since the occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, more than a quarter of the Palestinians have been imprisoned by Israel on political grounds. This is the first major study that examines the community of Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system. Esmail Nashif...

   Published June 24th 2010 by Routledge
10. Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict

    Edited by Philip Carl Salzman, Donna Robinson Divine

    Postcolonial theory is one of the main frameworks for thinking about the world and acting to change the world. Arising in academia and reshaping humanities and social sciences disciplines, postcolonial theory argues that our ideas about foreigners, ‘the other,’ particularly our negative ideas about...

    Published February 19th 2009 by Routledge