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History and Society in the Islamic World


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Contemporary events in the Islamic world dominate the headlines and emphasise the crises of the Middle East and North Africa, yet the Islamic World is far larger and more varied than we realise. Current affairs there too mask the underlying trends and values that have, over time, created a fascinating and complex world. This new series is intended to reveal that other Islamic reality by looking at its history and society over the ages, as well as at the contemporary scene. It will also reach far further afield, bringing in Central Asia and the Far East as part of a cultural space sharing common values and beliefs but manifesting a vast diversity of experience and social order.

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Geographic Realities in the Middle East and North Africa State, Oil and Agriculture

Geographic Realities in the Middle East and North Africa: State, Oil and Agriculture

1st Edition

Edited By George Joffé, Richard Schofield
January 09, 2023

Celebrating the work of Keith McLachlan, a well-known and much-admired geographer of the Middle East and North Africa, this book combines three interrelated topics that define the region. The Middle East has been integral to the growth of the global oil industry, an aspect of its evolution since ...

Media and Politics in the Southern Mediterranean Communicating Power in Transition after 2011

Media and Politics in the Southern Mediterranean: Communicating Power in Transition after 2011

1st Edition

Edited By Roxane Farmanfarmaian
April 20, 2022

This edited volume presents ground-breaking empirical research on the media in political transition in Tunisia, Turkey and Morocco. Focusing on developments in the wake of the region’s upheavals in 2011, it offers a new theoretical framework for understanding mediascapes in the confessional and ...

Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco

Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco

1st Edition

Edited By Driss Maghraoui
December 08, 2017

Exploring the concept of ‘colonial cultures,’ this book analyses how these cultures both transformed, and were transformed by, their various societies. Challenging both the colonial vulgate, and the nationalist paradigm, Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco, examines the lesser known ...

French Military Rule in Morocco Colonialism and its Consequences

French Military Rule in Morocco: Colonialism and its Consequences

1st Edition

By Moshe Gershovich
July 08, 2016

This analysis of French colonial ideology and interest in Morocco delineates the manner in which the agents of the protectorate regime sought to conquer the country and control its indigenous inhabitants. Numerous comparative perspectives are offered, placing the French policy towards Morocco in a ...

Tribe and Society in Rural Morocco

Tribe and Society in Rural Morocco

1st Edition

By David M. Hart
September 29, 2000

An anthropological study of Berber society and particularly the Rifian tribes of Morocoo, a Muslim society. This book deals with the background of these tribes, their settlement in various areas and contemporary issues....

Islamist Radicalisation in North Africa Politics and Process

Islamist Radicalisation in North Africa: Politics and Process

1st Edition

Edited By George Joffe
March 07, 2014

In the current climate of political extremism and violence, much attention has been directed towards "radicalisation" as the reasons behind such courses of action, along with a conviction that those who are radicalised represent an irrational deviation from the conventionally accepted norms of ...

North Africa, Islam and the Mediterranean World From the Almoravids to the Algerian War

North Africa, Islam and the Mediterranean World: From the Almoravids to the Algerian War

1st Edition

Edited By Julia Clancy-Smith
September 01, 2001

Long regarded as the preserve of French scholars and Francophone audiences due to its significance to France's colonial empire, North Africa is increasingly recognized for its own singular importance as a crossover region. Situated where Islamic, Mediterranean, African, and European histories ...

The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History The Living Medina in the Maghrib

The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History: The Living Medina in the Maghrib

1st Edition

Edited By Susan Slyomovics
September 01, 2001

This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the medina, the traditional walled Arab city of North Africa. The medina becomes a concrete case study for comparative explorations of general questions about the social use of urban space by opening up fields of research at the intersection of ...

The Creation of Saudi Arabia Ibn Saud and British Imperial Policy, 1914-1927

The Creation of Saudi Arabia: Ibn Saud and British Imperial Policy, 1914-1927

1st Edition

By Askar H. Al-Enazy
February 27, 2013

Overturning previous interpretations that see the territorial expansion of the Saudi state between 1915 and 1926 as the result of an aggressive Wahhabi ideology carried out by a politically ambitious Ibn Saud, this book explores the links between Saudi territorial expansion and British Imperial ...

Lebanon The Politics of Frustration - The Failed Coup of 1961

Lebanon: The Politics of Frustration - The Failed Coup of 1961

1st Edition

By Adel Beshara
December 20, 2011

Lebanon examines the ideological, political and social underpinnings of the attempted coup against General Chihab's government in Lebanon in 1961. The author analyzes the role of the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, the history of the army in Lebanon and it role in Lebanese politics and the...

Civil Society and Political Change in Morocco

Civil Society and Political Change in Morocco

1st Edition

By James N. Sater
April 14, 2011

Taking Morocco as its focus, this book looks at the political change in the country since 1990. It places particular emphasis on key topics, such as civil society, human rights and reform, as vital issues for understanding the developments in the contemporary Middle East....

The Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil A Frenchman between France and North Africa

The Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil: A Frenchman between France and North Africa

1st Edition

By William A. Hoisington, Jr.
March 01, 2011

This is a political biography of the French industrialist and political activist Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil (1894-1955), president of the Taxpayers' Federation in the 1930s, entrepreneur in wartime France and Africa, organizer of the 'Group of Five' in Algiers which prepared for the Allied landings ...

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