Culture and Society
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The UAE and Foreign Policy
Foreign Aid, Identities and Interests
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
This book offers a concise and detailed analysis of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) foreign aid as a main instrument in its foreign policy. Exploring the cultural factors that have impacted on the foreign policy behaviour of the UAE and its foreign aid, the author argues that Arabism and Islamic...
Published July 4th 2011 by Routledge
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Islam and Science
The Intellectual Career of Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
In examining the work of eminent fourteenth century Iranian Shiite scholar Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi, this book is the first rigorous attempt to explain the cross-fertilization of scientific and religious thought in Islamic civilization. Nisaburi did not consider himself a scientist alone,...
Published September 16th 2007 by Routledge
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Ghazali's Politics in Context
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
Imam Abü Hamid al-Ghazali is perhaps the most celebrated Muslim theologian of medieval Islam yet little attention has been paid to his personal theology. This book sets out to investigate the relationship between law and politics in the writings of Ghazali and aims to establish the extent to which...
Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
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Orientalism Revisited
Art, Land and Voyage
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
The publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism in 1978 marks the inception of orientalism as a discourse. Since then, Orientalism has remained highly polemical and has become a widely employed epistemological tool. Three decades on, this volume sets out to survey, analyse and revisit the state of the...
Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
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Ibn al-Haytham's Theory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry
A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 3
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
Theory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 3, provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world. The present text is complemented by two preceding...
Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
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Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt
Ibn al-Nafis, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
The discovery of the pulmonary transit of blood was a ground-breaking discovery in the history of the life sciences, and a prerequisite for William Harvey’s fully developed theory of blood circulation three centuries later. This book is the first attempt at understanding Ibn al-Nafis’s anatomical...
Published April 22nd 2013 by Routledge
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The Three Principles of Mulla Sadra
Divine Gnosis, Self-Realisation and the Dangers of Pseudo-Knowledge in Islam
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
This is the first translation into English of Seh Asl (Three Principles) by the important sixteenth century thinker Mulla Sadra. It contains a detailed introduction by Colin Turner that contextualizes the work and a footnoted commentary on the text itself. Also included is an epilogue and...
To Be Published May 31st 2014 by Routledge
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Arabic Geometrical Methods and the Philosophy of Mathematics
A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 4
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
This volume provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world. It also includes extensive commentary from one of world’s foremost authorities on the subject....
To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
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Free Will and Predestination in Islamic Thought
Theoretical Compromises in the Works of Avicenna, Ghazali and Ibn Arabi
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
The subject of "human free-will" versus "divine predestination" is one of the most contentious topics in classical Islamic thought. By focusing on a theme of central importance to any philosophy of religion, and to Islam in particular, this book offers a critical study of the intellectual...
To Be Published December 15th 2013 by Routledge
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Theological Approaches to Qur'anic Exegesis
A Practical Comparative-Contrastive Analysis
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
This book provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the various schools of Qur'anic exegesis, from the earliest periods through to the present day. Employing a comparative-contrastive methodology, the author examines traditional and rational schools of thought – such as the Mu’tazili, Shi...
Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
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Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in Al-Andalus
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in al-Andalus investigates a largely overlooked subset of Muslim and Jewish love poetry in medieval Spain: hetero- and home-erotic love poems written by Muslim and Jewish religious scholars, in which the lover and his sensual experience of the beloved are compared to...
To Be Published October 1st 2013 by Routledge
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The Routledge Dictionary of Turkish Cinema
The first critical and analytical dictionary of Turkish Cinema, this book provides a comprehensive overview of Turkish cinema from its beginnings to the present day. Addressing the lacuna in scholarly work on the topic, this dictionary provides immense detail on a wide range of aspects of Turkish...
To Be Published December 10th 2013 by Routledge
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Education in Afghanistan
Developments, Influences and Legacies Since 1901
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Society
A comprehensive and up to date study of the history of education in Afghanistan since 1901, this book demonstrates how modern education emerged and charts its fluctuating process of development, regression and destruction. Combining historical and contemporary analysis of key international and&...
Published April 22nd 2013 by Routledge
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Women and Turkish Cinema
Gender Politics, Cultural Identity and Representation
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle East Film and Media
Since 2000, there has been a considerable effort in Turkish cinema to come to terms with the military’s intervention in politics and subsequent national trauma. It has resulted in an outpouring of cinematic texts. This book focuses on women and Turkish cinema in the context of gender politics,...
Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
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Christian Communities in the Middle East
Faith, Identity and Integration
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics
The Christian communities in the Middle East exist in an environment where religion has retained strong social significance but society is dominated by a different faith. This work explores the different historical processes of state building to examine regime policies towards the Christian...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Music of the Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia and the Upper Gulf States
Music of the Arabian Peninsula presents and evaluates the traditional music of Saudi Arabia and her Gulf neighbors, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar. Because of the large physical size of the Arabian Peninsula, diverse environments, and the subsequent regional differences, the volume is divided into...
To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
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Suicide Bombings
Series: Shortcuts
In an age when the Western world is preoccupied with worries about weapons of mass destruction in terrorist hands, terrorists across many parts of the globe are using a more basic device as a weapon – life itself. Suicide bombing has become a weapon of choice among terrorist groups because...
Published April 6th 2011 by Routledge
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Applying Ibn Khaldun
The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
The writings of Ibn Khaldun, particularly the Muqaddimah (Prolegomenon) have rightly been regarded as being sociological in nature. For this reason, Ibn Khaldun has been widely regarded as the founder of sociology, or at least a precursor of modern sociology. While he was given this recognition,...
To Be Published July 18th 2013 by Routledge
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Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa
A Postcolonial Outlook
Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and cultural issues in film, cartoons...
Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Values in Sustainable Development
Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
To enhance sustainable development research and practice the values of the researchers, project managers and participants must first be made explicit. Values in Sustainable Development introduces and compares worldviews and values from multiple countries and perspectives, providing a survey of...
To Be Published August 26th 2013 by Routledge
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The Language of Global Development
A Misleading Geography
Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society
To Be Published June 13th 2014 by Routledge
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The Future of Quality News Journalism
A Cross-Continental Analysis
Series: Routledge Research in Journalism
In the face of the continuously changing challenges of the digital age, it is difficult for quality news journalism to survive on any significant scale if a means for adequately funding it is not available. This new study, a follow-up to 2007’s The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies,...
To Be Published August 19th 2013 by Routledge
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Understanding Media and Culture in Turkey
Structures, Spaces, Voices
Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
Discourse (both popular and academic) surrounding Turkey has leaned toward the reductionist and the de-contextualized, framing Turkish media, culture and politics in polarized terms such as East vs. West, Modern vs. Traditional or Muslim vs. Christian. The objective of this new volume is to...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Al Jazeera and the Global Media Landscape
The South is Talking Back
Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
This book analyzes how and why Al Jazeera English (AJE) became the channel of choice to understand the massive protests across the Arab world 2011. Aiming to explain the ‘Al Jazeera moment,’ it tracks the channel’s bumpy road towards international recognition in a longitudinal, in-depth analysis of...
To Be Published October 7th 2013 by Routledge
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Digital Media and Reporting Conflict
Blogging and the BBC’s Coverage of War and Terrorism
Series: Routledge Research in Journalism
This book explores the impact of new forms of online reporting on the BBC’s coverage of war and terrorism. Informed by the views of over 100 BBC staff at all levels of the corporation, Bennett captures journalists’ shifting attitudes towards blogs and internet sources used to cover wars and other...
Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge
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The Coptic Christian Heritage
History, Faith and Culture
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the heritage of Coptic Christians. The contributors combine academic expertise with intimate and practical knowledge of the Coptic Orthodox Church and Coptic heritage. The chapters explore historical, cultural, literary and material aspects,...
To Be Published October 20th 2013 by Routledge