Middle East Studies Books

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1. Muslims in Britain: Making Social and Political Space

   Edited by Waqar Ahmad, Ziauddin Sardar

   This book examines the social and political position of Muslims in Britain. Contributions from academics and policy makers explore issues of religion and politics, Britishness, governance, parallel lives, gender issues, religion in civic space, ethnicity, and inter ethnic and religious relations....

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-59472-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. 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)

3. Transnational Islamic Actors and Indonesia’s Foreign Policy: Transcending the State

   By Rizal Sukma, Delphine Alles

   This book examines the growing role of transnational Islamic Non-State Actors (NSAs) in post-authoritarian Indonesia and how it has affected the making and the conduct of Indonesia’s foreign policy since the country embarked on democratization process in 1998. After the end of the New Order...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-56026-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Christian Palestinians in the Israeli State

   By Una McGahern

   Christians form a significant proportion of the Arab minority living within Israel, and many Christian Palestinians have occupied important economic and political positions. This book explores the complicated position of Christian Palestinians within Israel. It shows how analyses which...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-60571-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. 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)

6. Ibn al-Haytham & Mathematics: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 2

   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....

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58218-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Democracy, Reform, and Authoritarianism in the Arab World

   Edited by Gerd Nonneman

   The potential for reform in the pattern of persistent authoritarianism in the Arab world has been the subject of interest for policymakers, the informed general public, and scholars alike, particularly since the end of the Cold War and again after the events of 11 September 2001. It is also one...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-46915-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. The Politics of Arab Monarchies: Legacy, Survival and Reform

   By Russell E. Lucas

   A number of monarchies remain in the Middle East, despite their seeming anachronism. Examining various states from the Gulf to Morocco, this book focuses on the regimes’ institutional flexibility, careful management of support coalitions, opponents and publics....

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-49788-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Arab Media: From the First Press to the New Media

   Edited by Makram Khoury-Machool

   Arab Media charts the evolution and ownership patterns of different media forms, from the emergence of the Arab press in the second half of the nineteenth century to the rise of radio, television and satellite channels in the twentieth century and the current growth of ICT and the international...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-44373-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Economic Development in the Middle East

    By Rodney Wilson

    This text is designed to introduce the undergraduate and postgraduate student to the most pressing and topical economic issues in the contemporary Middle East. It includes coverage of the entire region and charts and growth of economic power in the Gulf. It has thematic chapters on finance,...

    May 2011 | 978-0-415-49127-3 | Paperback (Routledge)