Middle East History Books

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31. Egypt's Economic Potential (RLE Egypt)

    By Roberto Aliboni

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Egypt

    Over the last ten years the Egyptian economy has undergone a major transformation which has led to greater decentralisation and international competition. This transformation, along with changing circumstances in the surrounding Arab areas and the end of hostilities with Israel, has given a boost...

    Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
32. Ibrahim of Egypt (RLE Egypt)

    By Pierre Crabitès

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Egypt

    The name and fame of Muhammad Ali, the Founder of Modern Egypt, are well known. His vivid personality has appealed to many writers, who have concentrated the limelight on him. Some of them have allowed Muhammad Ali’s son, Ibrahim, to appear on the stage, but they have assigned him a more or less...

    Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
33. Religious Strife in Egypt (RLE Egypt)

    Crisis and Ideological Conflict in the Seventies

    By Nadia Farah

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Egypt

    This critical analysis investigates the causes that brought about one of the most tumultuous periods in modern Egyptian history – the clashes between the Muslims and Copts during the 1970s. A unique retrospective, it features probing interviews with Egyptian intellectuals, writers, political and...

    Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
34. The Copts in Egyptian Politics (RLE Egypt)

    By B.L. Carter

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Egypt

    This book explores the political relationship between the Muslim majority and Coptic minority in Egypt between 1918 and 1952. Many Egyptians hoped to see the collaboration of the 1919 revolution spur the creation of both a new collective Egyptian identity and a state without religious bias....

    Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
35. Sons of Ishmael (RLE Egypt)

    A Study of the Egyptian Bedouin

    By G.W. Murray

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Egypt

    Merely to inhabit a desert demands much skill, craft, experience and travel. For the numerous nomadic tribes of Africa and the Middle East, living ancestors of the Egyptians, Jews and Arabs, Egypt is their meeting ground. The author, with twenty-five years of accumulated knowledge, here sets out to...

    Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
36. The Transformation of Egypt (RLE Egypt)

    By Mark Cooper

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Egypt

    The assassination of Sadat brings to an end another era in Egyptian history. This book examines the crucial issues in the transformation of Egypt in the period between the death of Nasser and the murder of Sadat. Focusing on the upheavals in the Egyptian political and economic structure over the...

    Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
37. Egypt, Old and New (RLE Egypt)

    A popular account. With many engravings, nearly 50 coloured plates and a map

    By Percy Martin

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Egypt

    A work of history, culture, politics, economics, packed with period photographs and period insights....

    Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
38. The Making of the Arab Intellectual

    Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood

    Edited by Dyala Hamzah

    Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

    In the wake of the Ottoman Empire’s nineteenth-century reforms, as guilds waned and new professions emerged, the scholarly ‘estate’ underwent social differentiation. Some found employment in the state’s new institutions as translators, teachers and editors, whilst others resisted civil servant...

    Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
39. State-Nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey

    Orthodox and Muslims, 1830-1945

    Edited by Benjamin C. Fortna, Stefanos Katsikas, Dimitris Kamouzis, Paraskevas Konortas

    Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

    Tracing the emergence of minorities and their institutions from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the Second World War, this book provides a comparative study of government policies and ideologies of two states towards minority populations living within their borders. Making extensive use...

    Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
40. Egyptian Religion (Routledge Revivals)

    Egyptian Ideas of The Future Life

    By E.A. Budge

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum’s department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement in 1924. Carrying out many missions to Egypt in search of ancient objects, Budge was hugely successful in collecting papyri, statues and other artefacts for the...

    Published November 6th 2012 by Routledge