2012 Asian and Middle East Studies Catalogue

Islam and Religious Diversity

Edited by Lloyd Ridgeon

Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

This is a new four-volume collection from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies series. It brings together in one ‘mini library’ the canonical and the best cutting-scholarship to explore the complex relationship between Islam and religious diversity. The collection is supplemented with a...

Published August 23rd 2011 by Routledge

Sino-Japanese Relations

History, Politics, Economy, Security

Edited by Caroline Rose

Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

Academic and popular interest in China and Japan, the two major powers in East Asia, has risen dramatically in the last decade. While on the one hand their relationship has benefited from high levels of two-way trade and investment underscoring their growing economic interdependence, political...

Published June 7th 2011 by Routledge

Ethnic Minorities in Modern China

Edited by Colin Mackerras

Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

China is the world’s most populous country with fifty-five state-recognized ethnic minorities: approximately 123 million people, taking up over 60 per cent of China’s territory. And, while China’s dizzying growth has made it a major world force, both economically and strategically, one of the chief...

Published March 10th 2011 by Routledge

Imperial Japan and the World, 1931-1945

Edited by Antony Best

Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

The transformation of Japan in the years between 1931 and 1945 into an expansionist and potentially hegemonic power that threatened the stability of the international order in East Asia is a topic that is central to any understanding of the region’s history in the twentieth century. This new...

Published November 15th 2010 by Routledge

Islamic Law

Edited by Gavin Picken

Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

Islamic law is a legal tradition entrenched within a religious context; it is one of the most intriguing and fascinating areas of Islamic Studies. Many practitioners of Islam believe that their lives should be governed by a divinely revealed and sanctioned form of law that affects every aspect of...

Published October 20th 2010 by Routledge

Islam in the West

Edited by David Westerlund, Ingvar Svanberg

Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

In recent decades, the number of Muslims in the West has increased rapidly, and interesting transformations of Islam have taken place—to some extent with repercussions in Islamic or predominantly Muslim countries in Asia and Africa. This new four-volume Major Work collection from Routledge helps to...

Published September 7th 2010 by Routledge

Islamic Medical and Scientific Tradition

Edited by Peter Pormann

Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

Islam developed over the course of its history one of the world’s most innovative and interesting scientific and medical traditions. In this context, the term Islam should not simply be understood as referring to the religion of the prophet Muhammad, but rather to a civilization which was once...

Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge

Confucian Studies

Edited by Xinzhong Yao, Tu Weiming

Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Philosophy

It is difficult, if not totally impossible, to define what we call ‘Confucianism’ in terms of any of the disciplines we are used to in the West, and contemporary scholars tend to see it as a historical and yet living tradition containing elements of philosophy, religion, politics, morality, and...

Published August 3rd 2010 by Routledge

Islam in South Asia

Edited by David Taylor

Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

There are more Muslims – over 400 million – in South Asia than in any other region in the world. Many of the most important political, intellectual and spiritual developments within Islam have had their origins, or have flourished, in the area, and Muslims from the region have played important...

Published July 15th 2010 by Routledge

Jihad and Martyrdom

Edited by David Cook

Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

Jihad (or ‘struggle’) and martyrdom in Islam have an ever-greater relevance in today’s world, but there remains a great deal of ignorance about these critical concepts. This new four-volume collection from Routledge brings together a broad range of scholarly opinion to provide a work of reference...

Published November 29th 2009 by Routledge

The Hadith

Articulating the Beliefs and Constructs of Classical Islam

Edited by Mustafa Shah

Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

The Prophetic traditions of Islam, which are commonly referred to as the hadiths (literally: ‘reports’), preserve the sum and substance of the utterances, deeds, directives, and descriptive anecdotes connected with the life of the Prophet Muhammad and his Companions. Together with the Qur’an, the...

Published October 28th 2009 by Routledge

Islam in Southeast Asia

Edited by Joseph Liow, Nadirsyah Hosen

Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

The Islamic community in Southeast Asia is widely regarded as one of the most moderate and tolerant in the Muslim world. While most of the region’s Muslims are Sunni and fairly orthodox, the Islamic faith as practised in the region has historically been a syncretic blend of Islam, Hinduism,...

Published September 23rd 2009 by Routledge

Modern Indian Culture and Society

Edited by Knut A. Jacobsen

Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

Research on Indian culture and society has been conducted from a dizzying range of perspectives. However, in recent decades it has been particularly characterized by a change in focus from the past to the present; from the worldview of the élites to that of the subalterns; from philosophy to...

Published June 7th 2009 by Routledge

Women in Asia

Edited by Louise Edwards, Mina Roces

Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

The academic study of women in Asia developed in the 1970s as a result of the convergence of the then emerging disciplines of Asian Studies and Women’s Studies. Initially, work on women in Asia grew from traditional branches of learning such as history, anthropology, politics, and literary studies....

Published March 9th 2009 by Routledge

Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics

Edited by Andrew Kipnis, Luigi Tomba, Jonathan Unger

Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

Chinese society and its political system are predicated on traditions of governing that are deeply alien to most readers from liberal, Western powers. Chinese governance reflects both a long, indigenous tradition of statecraft and the Leninist legacies of the People’s Republic’s ruling Communist...

Published January 27th 2009 by Routledge

World Islam

Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

Edited by Andrew Rippin

Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

Reflecting the diversity of Islam, this collection focuses on the presence of Muslims in countries outside the traditionally conceived heartlands of the Islamic world. The history of the arrival of Islam in such countries and the nature of the way in which Islam is practised in such places is the...

Published June 25th 2008 by Routledge

Sufism

Edited by Lloyd Ridgeon

Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

In recent years, interest in Sufism – often regarded as the mystical dimension of Islam – has blossomed. Taught in European and American universities for many years, Sufism is an increasingly popular area of research in disciplines such as Islamic studies, comparative religion, area studies,...

Published February 11th 2008 by Routledge

Shi'ism

Edited by Colin Turner, Paul Luft

Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

The four volumes of this set bring together key contributions to the study of Shi’ism, giving access to material that has hitherto been scattered and difficult to locate. While the majority of the material stems from the past fifty years, earlier studies are included, providing insight into the...

Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge

Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution

Edited by GREGOR BENTON

Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

Academic interest in Mao Zedong’s role in the Chinese Revolution remains intense, as scholars and commentators continue to analyze his thinking and the history of the movement for clues about the Chinese model and its supposedly unique features. The debate about Mao’s career and influence is now...

Published October 11th 2007 by Routledge

Political Islam

Edited by Barry Rubin

Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

Bringing together canonical and the best cutting-edge scholarship in one useful reference resource, the shortcomings as well as the successes of Islamism are fully examined in this three volume collection of seventy-five key journal articles on all aspects of modern political Islamism. 'Political...

Published December 5th 2006 by Routledge

Islamic Philosophy and Theology

Edited by Ian Richard Netton

Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

Islam, one of the world’s great faiths, was born as a result of the revelation of the Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad (c. 570-632) in Arabia. A proper understanding of the Islamic present depends on an accurate knowledge of the way in which Islamic thought developed from medieval times onwards. For...

Published November 30th 2006 by Routledge

Islam and Globalization

Edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh

Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

Globalization has opened up non-Western societies to forces of economic, political and cultural liberalism for the first time, and this process has had a profound effect upon Islamic societies, causing unease and concern among many Muslims. Moreover, this apprehension has been exacerbated by the...

Published June 29th 2006 by Routledge

The Koran

Edited by Colin Turner

Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

The four volumes of this set bring together some of the most significant modern and pre-modern contributions to the study of the Islamic revelation, giving readers access to material that has hitherto been scattered and often difficult to locate. While the bulk of the material stems from the past...

Published November 24th 2004 by Routledge

Arab Nationalism

Edited by Peter Wien

Series: Critical Concepts in the Politics of the Middle East

Arab nationalism has been one of the leading ideologies in the Middle East and North Africa during the twentieth century. Political figures such as Gamal ‘Abd al-Nasser, political movements such as the Ba‘th party, and events such as the several Arab-Israeli wars still dominate its representation...

To Be Published June 14th 2014 by Routledge

Democracy, Reform, and Authoritarianism in the Arab World

Edited by Gerd Nonneman

Series: Critical Concepts in the Modern Politics of the Middle East

The potential for reform in the pattern of persistent authoritarianism in the Arab world has been the subject of interest for policymakers, the informed general public, and scholars alike, particularly since the end of the Cold War and again after the events of 11 September 2001. It is also one...

To Be Published April 14th 2014 by Routledge

Social Transformation in China

Edited by Jieyu Liu

Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

Since the late 1970s, China has transformed itself from an inefficient centrally-planned backwater to a fast-growing market-orientated economy. Whilst economic reform has enabled average living standards to improve immensely, the benefits have been shared disproportionately depending on demographic...

To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge

Gender and Japanese Society

Edited by Dolores P Martinez

Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

Compiled and introduced by D. P. Martinez, the editor of an acclaimed four-volume anthology on Modern Japanese Culture and Society (Routledge, 2007) (978-0-415-41609-2), this new title from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Asian Studies series, is a collection of classic and the very best...

To Be Published October 22nd 2013 by Routledge

Tafsir

Interpreting the Qur'an

Edited by Mustafa Shah

Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

Within the classical Islamic tradition, the field of Qur'anic exegesis, more commonly referred to as tafsir, occupies a revered place among the traditional Muslim sciences. Although tafsir encompasses various approaches to the explication of the Qur’an and these include legal, theological,...

Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge

Early Islamic History

Edited by Teresa Bernheimer, Tamima Bayhom-Daou

Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

Insight into the origins and early development of Islam has become relevant not only to the specialist, but underlies a thorough understanding of debates relating to Islam and the Middle East in the contemporary period. Over the past decades, the field has seen the publication of some excellent...

To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge