Middle East Research

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

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

Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Empire

A Study of Communal Relations in Anatolia

By Ayse Ozil

Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

Orthodox Christians, as well as other non-Muslims of the Ottoman Empire, have long been treated as insular and homogenous entities, distinctly different and separate from the rest of the Ottoman world. Despite this view prevailing in mainstream historiography, some scholars have suggested recently...

Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge

Islam and the Politics of Secularism

The Caliphate and Middle Eastern Modernization in the Early 20th Century

By Nurullah Ardic

Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

This book examines the process of secularization in the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th century through an analysis of the transformation and abolition of Islamic Caliphate. Focusing on debates in both the center of the Caliphate and its periphery, the author argues that the...

Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge

Opposition and Legitimacy in the Ottoman Empire

Conspiracies and Political Cultures

By Florian Riedler

Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

This book looks at opposition to the Ottoman government in the second half of the nineteenth century, examining a number of key political conspiracies and how these relate to an existing political culture. In his detailed analysis of these conspiracies, the author offers a new perspective on an...

Published December 19th 2010 by Routledge

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

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

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

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

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

Nazism in Syria and Lebanon

The Ambivalence of the German Option, 1933–1945

By Götz Nordbruch

Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

The increasingly vibrant political culture emerging in Lebanon and Syria in the 1930s and early 1940s is key to the understanding of local approaches towards the Nazi German regime. For many contemporary observers in Beirut and Damascus, Nazism not only posed a risk to Europe, but threatened to...

Published December 15th 2008 by Routledge

Subalterns and Social Protest

History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa

Edited by Stephanie Cronin

Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives. The collection is unique in its historical depth - ranging from the medieval period to the present - and its...

Published September 10th 2007 by Routledge

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 25th 2007 by Routledge

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

The Ottoman Administration of Iraq, 1890-1908

By Gökhan Çetinsaya

Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

This is a study of the nature of Ottoman administration under Sultan Abdulhamid and the effects of this on the three provinces that were to form the modern state of Iraq. The author provides a general commentary on the late Ottoman provincial administration and a comprehensive picture of the nature...

Published July 3rd 2006 by Routledge

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 April 12th 2006 by Routledge

Medieval Arabic Historiography

Authors as Actors

By Konrad Hirschler

Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

Medieval Arabic Historiography is concerned with social contexts and narrative structures of pre-modern Islamic historiography written in Arabic in seventh and thirteenth-century Syria and Eygpt. Taking up recent theoretical reflections on historical writing in the European Middle Ages, this...

Published April 12th 2006 by Routledge