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1. Muslim Travellers

   Pilgrimage, Migration and the Religious Imagination

   Edited by Dale F. Eickelman, James Piscatori

   Pilgrimage, travel for learning, visits to shrines, exile, and labour migration shape the religious imagination and in turn are shaped by it. Some travel, such as pilgrimage, explicitly intended for religious purposes, has equally important economic and political consequences. Other travel, not...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
2. American Democracy Promotion in the Changing Middle East

   From Bush to Obama

   Edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh, James Piscatori, Benjamin MacQueen, Amin Saikal

   Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

   The recent "Arab spring", with its popular uprisings in many Arab countries, has exposed the ambiguity at the heart of American promotion of democracy in the Middle East. The US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were packaged as democracy promotion, as heralding the beginning of a new phase in the...

   Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge