Middle East Studies Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Understanding the Middle East Peace Process

   Israeli Academia and the Struggle for Identity

   By Asima Ghazi-Bouillon

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

   Tracing the evolution of the Israeli academic debate over history, politics, and collective identity, Understanding the Middle East Peace Process examines the Middle East peace process since Oslo and follows the discursive struggle over Israeli collective identity. Based on interviews with key...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Accidental Tourist, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, and the British Invasion of Egypt in 1882

   By Michael Berdine

   Series: Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law

   This fascinating account highlights the extent the world's major powers will go to as they seek to insure their own interests and agendas, despite the wishes of those whose countries they invade and occupy. The Accidental Tourist profiles Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's involvement in the so-called Arabi...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. Legislating Authority

   Sin and Crime in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey

   By Ruth Miller

   Series: Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law

   Legislation Authority addresses issues of law, state violence, and state authority within the Ottoman and Turkish context....

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. Mulla Sadra and Metaphysics

   Modulation of Being

   By Sajjad H. Rizvi

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   Mulla Sadra is one of the most important Islamic philosophers after Avicenna. In this exploration of his philosophy, Sajjad H. Rizvi examines the central doctrine of the modulation of being, and contextualises his work within the intellectual history of philosophical traditions in the Islamic East....

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
5. Middle Eastern Belongings

   Edited by Diane E. King

   This book features chapters that examine the various ways of belonging in the Middle East. Belonging can mean fitting in, feeling at home, feeling a part; this kind of belonging is profoundly social. Belongings can be possessions, objects closely associated with one’s deepest notions of...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
6. Democracy and Violence

   Global Debates and Local Challenges

   Edited by John Schwarzmantel, Hendrik Kraetzschmar

   Illustrated most dramatically by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent ‘war on terror’, violence represents a challenge to democratic politics and to the establishment of liberal-democratic regimes. Liberal-democracies have themselves not hesitated to use violence and restrict civil liberties as a...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. Iran and Nuclear Weapons

   Protracted Conflict and Proliferation

   By Saira Khan

   Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

   This book investigates what is driving Iran's nuclear weapons programme in a less-hostile regional environment, using a theory of protracted conflicts to explicate proliferation. Iran’s nuclear weapons program has alarmed the international community since the 1990s, but has come to the...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict

   The Conflict in Pakistan

   By Niaz A Shah

   Series: Routledge Research in the Law of Armed Conflicts

   Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict: The Conflict in Pakistan demonstrates how international law can be applied in Muslim states in a way that is compatible with Islamic law. Within this broader framework of compatible application, Niaz A. Shah argues that the Islamic law of qital (i.e. armed...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Human Right to Water and its Application in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

   By Amanda Cahill Ripley

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The Human Right to Water and Its Application in the Occupied Palestinian Territories provides an overview and examination of the human right to water as determined under international human rights law. This is a highly topical issue, with the UN General Assembly having passed a resolution which...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
10. Sufis in Western Society

    Global networking and locality

    Edited by Markus Dressler, Ron Geaves, Gritt Klinkhammer

    Series: Routledge Sufi Series

    In recent years Sufism has undergone something of a revival as a spiritual alternative to other manifestations of Islam. This book investigates the development of Sufism in Western societies, with a regional focus on North America and Europe. Exploring a number of issues relating to the dynamic...

    Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge