Middle East Culture Books

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1. Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era

   By Pamela Karimi

   Since 1979 the focus on Iran’s internal politics and its foreign relations has distracted attention from more subtle transformations, which took place prior to and in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution. This book explores Iranian domesticity and consumer culture from before the revolution...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-78183-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Founding Figures and Commentators in Arabic Mathematics: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 1

   By Roshdi Rashed

   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....

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58217-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Iranian Music: A Century of Popular Entertainment from Motrebi to Losanjelesi

   By Gay Breyley, Sasan Fatemi

   This book provides broad coverage of popular music in Iran in the twentieth century right up to the present day. It includes an examination of the role of popular music in Iranian society and culture as well as its ongoing development and genres....

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-57512-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Gender and Violence in the Middle East

   Edited by Moha Ennaji, Fatima Sadiqi

   This book examines the issue of gender and violence in the Middle East and North Africa. While gender-based violence is a universal phenomenon, it takes interesting nuances and in this region where tradition, social norm, religion, war, and politics intermingle in a powerful space-based patriarchy....

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-59411-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. The Making of the Arab Intellectual: Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood

   Edited by Dyala Hamzah

   This book examines the rise and development of the Arab intellectual under colonial rule through to independence. It includes coverage of a number of states and individuals including liberals, radical secularists and salafi intellectuals....

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-48834-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies

   Edited by Michael Kemper, Stephan Conermann

   This book examines the Russian/Soviet intellectual tradition of Oriental and Islamic studies, which comprised a rich body of knowledge especially on Central Asia and the Caucasus. The Soviet Oriental tradition was deeply linked to politics – probably even more than other European ‘Orientalisms’. It...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-59977-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Of Dishes and Discourse: Classical Arabic Literary Representations of Food

   By Geert Jan van Gelder

   Considers how Arab and Islamic culinary culture may be represented in literary forms. Scholars of the medieval Islamic period are keenly aware of the importance of food and wine as themes in literature. Van Gelder's witty and subtle approach teases the most out of texts as well as enabling the...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-59578-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture: A Ninth Century Bookman in Baghdad

   By Shawkat M. Toorawa

   Toorawa re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of third to ninth century Baghdad by demonstrating and emphasizing the significance of the important transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an increasingly literate one. This transformation had a profound influence on...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-59589-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Popular Culture and Nationalism in Lebanon: The Fairouz and Rahbani Nation

   By Christopher Stone

   Based on an award-winning thesis, this volume is a pioneering study of musical theatre and popular culture and its relation to the production of identity in Lebanon in the second half of the twentieth century. In the aftermath of the departure of the French from Lebanon and the civil...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-78166-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Arab Culture and the Novel: Genre, Identity and Agency in Egyptian Fiction

    By Muhammad Siddiq

    This book explores the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt. It uses the example of the Egyptian novel to interrogate the root causes – religious, social, political, and psychological – of the lingering...

    July 2010 | 978-0-415-59743-2 | Paperback (Routledge)