National Elections in Turkey

F Michael Wuthrich

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• What determines voting behaviour in Turkey? While many scholars have argued that elections in Turkey over time can be effectively and simply explained... Lees meer

Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran

David Yaghoubian

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran investigates the ways in which Armenian minorities in Iran encountered Iranian nationa... Lees meer

Mirror for the Muslim Prince

Mehzrad Boroujerdi

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• In this volume, a group of distinguished scholars reinterpret concepts and canons of Islamic thought in Arab, Persian, South Asian, and Turkish tradit... Lees meer

The Essentials of Ibadi Islam

Valerie J Hoffman

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Ibadi Islam is a distinct sect of Islam, neither Sunni nor Shi'ite, that emerged in the early Islamic period and remains active today in small pockets... Lees meer

Emirate, Egyptian, Ethiopian

Avishai Ben-Dror

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• In October 1875, two months after the takeover of the Somali coastal town of Zeila, an Egyptian force numbering 1,200 soldiers departed from the city ... Lees meer

Why Alliances Fail

Matt Buehler

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Since 2011, the Arab world has seen a number of autocrats, including leaders from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, fall from power. Yet, in the wake ... Lees meer

Mirror for the Muslim Prince

Mehrzad Boroujerdi

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• In this volume, a group of distinguished scholars reinterpret concepts and canons of Islamic thought in Arab, Persian, South Asian, and Turkish tradit... Lees meer

Politics as Worship

Sumita Pahwa

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Why do leading Islamist movements like the Egyptian Muslim Brothers embrace electoral politics while insisting that their main goal is "working for Go... Lees meer

Syria from Reform to Revolt

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• When Bashar al-Asad smoothly assumed power in July 2000, just seven days after the death of his father, observers were divided on what this would mean... Lees meer

Story of Daughters of Quchan

Afsaneh Najmabadi

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• In 1905, the year preceding the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, Iranian women and girls were sold by needy peasants to pay their taxes, or taken as... Lees meer

Ottoman Passports

Ilkay Yilmaz

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• In Ottoman Passports , Ilkay Yilmaz reconsiders the history of two political issues, the Armenian and Macedonian questions, approaching both through t... Lees meer

Islam, Revival, and Reform

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Rooted in the world historical methodology of John O. Voll, this collection brings together a diverse group of scholars to investigate the ongoing imp... Lees meer

The Education of Women and the Vices of Men

Hasan Javadi, Willem Floor

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• At the close of the nineteenth century, modern ideas of democracy and equality were slowly beginning to take hold in Iran. Exposed to European ideas a... Lees meer

Iranian Intellecatuals

Mehrzad Boroujerdi

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Regarding the constitution of other-ness, this work examines the pedagogical, political and discursive practice of post-World war II Iranian intellect... Lees meer

International Politics of the Persian Gulf

Mehran Kamrava

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• For much of the contemporary history of the Middle East, the Persian Gulf has stood at the center of the region's strategic significance. At the same ... Lees meer

God and Juggernaut

Farzin Vahdat

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Farzin Vahdat has written a trenchant analysis of the intellectual discourse of modernity in Iran. Although there have been several recent studies abo... Lees meer

The Politics of Public Memory in Turkey

Esra Özyürek

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Turkish society is frequently accused of having amnesia. It has been said that there is no social memory in Turkey before Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founde... Lees meer

Syria from Reform to Revolt

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• As Syria's anti-authoritarian uprising and subsequent civil war have left the country in ruins, the need for understanding the nation's complex politi... Lees meer

Jurji Zaidan and the Foundations of Arab Nationalism

Thomas Philipp

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Jurji Zaidan was one of the leading thinkers of the Arab renaissance. Through his historical novels, his widely read journal, al-Hilal, which is still... Lees meer

Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran

Kamran Talattof

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• In Iran, since the mid-nineteenth century, one issue has been a common concern: how should Iran become modern? More than a century of struggle for or ... Lees meer

Watermelon Democracy

Joshua Stacher

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• In Egypt, something that fails to live up to its advertised expectations is often called a watermelon: a grand promise that later turns out to be empt... Lees meer

Killing Contention

Sammy Zeyad Badran

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Like other countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Moroccans were inspired by the events in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011. Nine days after the oust... Lees meer

Pious Citizens

Monica M Ringer

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• In Pious Citizens, Ringer tells the story of a major intellectual revolution in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century India and Iran, one that radic... Lees meer

Politics as Worship

Sumita Pahwa

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Examines the Muslim Brotherhood’s internal debates on preaching, activism, and social reform from the 1980s to the 2000s. In doing so, Sumita Pahwa ... Lees meer