SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

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11. Court Cultures in the Muslim World

    Seventh to Nineteenth Centuries

    Edited by Albrecht Fuess, Jan-Peter Hartung

    Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

    Courts and the complex phenomenon of the courtly society have received intensified interest in academic research over recent decades, however, the field of Islamic court culture has so far been overlooked. This book provides a comparative perspective on the history of courtly culture in Muslim...

    Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge
12. The City in the Ottoman Empire

    Migration and the making of urban modernity

    Edited by Ulrike Freitag, Malte Fuhrmann, Nora Lafi, Florian Riedler

    Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

    The nexus of urban governance and human migration was a crucial feature in the modernisation of cities in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century. This book connects these two concepts to examine the Ottoman city as a destination of human migration, throwing new light on the question of...

    Published November 22nd 2010 by Routledge
13. Untold Histories of the Middle East

    Recovering Voices from the 19th and 20th Centuries

    Edited by Amy Singer, Christoph Neumann, Selcuk Aksin Somel

    Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

    Much traditional historiography consciously and unconsciously glosses over certain discourses, narratives, and practices. This book examines silences or omissions in Middle Eastern history at the turn of the twenty-first century, to give a fuller account of the society, culture and politics. With a...

    Published July 15th 2010 by Routledge
14. State-Society Relations in Ba'thist Iraq

    Facing Dictatorship

    By Achim Rohde

    Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

    Scholarship on Iraq under the Ba’th regime has traditionally focused on the rule of Saddam Hussein and his narrow inner circle. The centrality of the former president in Iraqi politics until spring 2003 and the tyranny of his regime were evident, and available sources concerning developments inside...

    Published March 21st 2010 by Routledge
15. Nationalism and Liberal Thought in the Arab East

    Ideology and Practice

    Edited by Christoph Schumann

    Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

    This book explores the complex relationship between nationalism and liberal thought in the Arab East during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining this formative period through reformist Islam, Arab secularism and Arab literature, the book situates major shifts in the political...

    Published February 11th 2010 by Routledge
16. Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic World

    The Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society

    Edited by Amira K. Bennison, Alison L. Gascoigne

    Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

    This volume is an inter-disciplinary endeavour which brings together recent research on aspects of urban life and structure by architectural and textual historians and archaeologists, engendering exciting new perspectives on urban life in the pre-modern Islamic world. Its objective is to move...

    Published July 23rd 2009 by Routledge
17. Iraqi Arab Nationalism

    Authoritarian, Totalitarian and Pro-Fascist Inclinations, 1932–1941

    By Peter Wien

    Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

    Peter Wien presents a provocative discussion on the history of Iraq and the growth of nationalism during the 1930s and early 1940s. He deconstructs the established view that a large proportion of the nationalist movement in Iraq during this period was heavily influenced by Nazi Germany, arguing...

    Published December 4th 2007 by Routledge
18. Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia

    The Umma Below the Winds

    By Michael Francis Laffan

    Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

    Drawing on previously unavailable archival material, this book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage. The award winning author Laffan contrasts the latter experience with life in Cairo, where some Southeast Asians...

    Published May 17th 2007 by Routledge
19. Russian-Muslim Confrontation in the Caucasus

    Alternative Visions of the Conflict between Imam Shamil and the Russians, 1830-1859

    By Gary Hamburg, Thomas Sanders, Ernest Tucker

    Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

    This book presents two extraordinary texts - The Shining of Swords by Al-Qarakhi and a new translation for a contemporary readership of Leo Tolstoy's Hadji Murat - illuminating the mountain war between the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus and the imperial Russian army from 1830 to 1859. The authors...

    Published May 26th 2004 by Routledge
20. Approaches to the Qur'an

    Edited by G. R. Hawting

    Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

    In recent years, the study of the Qur'an and its interpretation has expanded to incorporate insights gained from historical, biblical, literary and critical studies. A variety of approaches to the Qur'an and the Muslim exegetical tradition are currently available. Approaches to the Qur'an consists...

    Published April 7th 1993 by Routledge