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Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History

  1. Protestant Missionaries in the Levant

    Ungodly Puritans, 1820-1860

    By Samir Khalaf

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History

    Through focusing on the unintended by-products of New England Puritanism as a cultural transplant in the Levant, this book explores the socio-historical forces which account for the failure of early envoys’ attempts to convert the ‘native,’ population. Early failure in conversion led to later...

    Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge

  2. Ending Empire in the Middle East

    Britain, the United States and Post-war Decolonization, 1945-1973

    By Simon C. Smith

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History

    This book is a major and wide-ranging re-assessment of Anglo-American relations in the Middle Eastern context. It analyses the process of ending of empire in the Middle East from 1945 to the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Based on original research into both British and American archival sources, it...

    Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge

  3. The Origins of Syrian Nationhood

    Histories, Pioneers and Identity

    Edited by Adel Beshara

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History

    The ‘Syria idea’ emerged in the nineteenth century as a concept of national awakening superseding both Arab nationalism and separatist currents. Looking at nationalist movements, ideas and individuals, this book traces the origin and development of the idea of Syrian nationhood from the perspective...

    Published June 26th 2011 by Routledge

  4. The Origins of the Libyan Nation

    Colonial Legacy, Exile and the Emergence of a New Nation-State

    By Anna Baldinetti

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History

    Libya is a typical example of a colonial or external creation. This book addresses the emergence and construction of nation and nationalism, particularly among Libyan exiles in the Mediterranean region. It charts the rise of nationalism from the colonial era and shows how it developed through an...

    Published November 30th 2009 by Routledge

  5. The Ghazi Sultans and the Frontiers of Islam

    A comparative study of the late medieval and early modern periods

    By Ali Anooshahr

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History

    The Ghazi Sultans were frontier holy-warrior kings of late medieval and early modern Islamic history. This book is a comparative study of three particular Ghazis in the Muslim world at that time, demonstrating the extent to which these men were influenced by the actions and writings of their...

    Published November 3rd 2008 by Routledge

  6. Russia and Iran in the Great Game

    Travelogues and Orientalism

    By Elena Andreeva

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History

    This book examines the Russian explorers and officials in the nineteenth and early twentieth century who came into contact with Iran as a part of the Great Game. It demonstrates the development of Russia's own form of Orientalism, a phenomenon that has previously been thought to be exclusive to the...

    Published June 6th 2007 by Routledge

  7. The Pasha's Bedouin

    Tribes and State in the Egypt of Mehemet Ali, 1805-1848

    By Reuven Aharoni

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History

    Egypt’s history is interwoven with conflicts of Bedouin, governments and peasants, competing over same cultivated lands and of migrations of nomads from the deserts to the Nile Valley. Mehemet Ali’s era represented the initial ending of the traditional tribalism, and the beginning of emergence of a...

    Published February 20th 2007 by Routledge

  8. Afghanistan

    Political Frailty and External Interference

    By Nabi Misdaq

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History

    Afghan society is analyzed from a fresh standpoint in this book which discusses the country’s two and a half centuries of socio-political disquiet and outside interference. The author explores the continuous struggle between the central government and the cornerstone of the present state, the...

    Published March 14th 2006 by Routledge

  9. Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey

    Who is a Turk?

    By Soner Cagaptay

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History

    It is commonly believed that during the interwar period, Kemalist secularism successfully eliminated religion from the public sphere in Turkey, leaving Turkish national identity devoid of religious content. However, through its examination of the impact of the Ottoman millet system on Turkish and...

    Published December 14th 2005 by Routledge

  10. Mamluks and Ottomans

    Studies in Honour of Michael Winter

    Edited by David J Wasserstein, Ami Ayalon

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History

    Focusing on Near Eastern history in Mamluk and Ottoman times, this book, dedicated to Michael Winter, stresses elements of variety and continuity in the history of the Near East, an area of study which has traditionally attracted little attention from Islamists. Ranging over the period from...

    Published November 6th 2005 by Routledge

  11. The Survey of Palestine Under the British Mandate, 1920-1948

    By Dov Gavish

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History

    This book is a historical study of the survey and mapping system of Palestine under the British Mandate. It traces the background and the reasoning behind the establishment of the survey programme, examines the foundations upon which the system was based, and strives to understand the motivation of...

    Published January 26th 2005 by Routledge