Middle East Studies Paperbacks

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41. Iran's Struggle for Economic Independence

    Reform and Counter-Reform in the Post-Revolutionary Era

    By Evaleila Pesaran

    Series: Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa

    It is often assumed that Iran must necessarily submit to the forces of globalization and liberalize its economy, but the country’s ruling elites have continued throughout the post-revolutionary era to resist these pressures for neo-liberal economic reform, seeking to survive in the battlefield of...

    Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
42. Holy Places in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    Confrontation and Co-existence

    Edited by Marshall J. Breger, Yitzhak Reiter, Leonard Hammer

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics

    This book addresses the major generators of conflict and toleration at shared holy places in Palestine and Israel. Examining the religious, political and legal issues, the authors show how the holy sites have been a focus of both conflict and cooperation between different communities. Bringing...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
43. The Creation of Saudi Arabia

    Ibn Saud and British Imperial Policy, 1914-1927

    By Askar H. Al-Enazy

    Series: History and Society in the Islamic World

    Overturning previous interpretations that see the territorial expansion of the Saudi state between 1915 and 1926 as the result of an aggressive Wahhabi ideology carried out by a politically ambitious Ibn Saud, this book explores the links between Saudi territorial expansion and British Imperial...

    Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
44. 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 February 26th 2013 by Routledge
45. Jewish Blood

    Reality and metaphor in history, religion and culture

    Edited by Mitchell Hart

    Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

    This book deals with the Jewish engagement with blood: animal and human, real and metaphorical. Concentrating on the meaning or significance of blood in Judaism, the book moves this highly controversial subject away from its traditional focus, exploring how Jews themselves engage with blood and its...

    Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
46. The Jewish-Arab City

    Spatio-politics in a mixed community

    By Haim Yacobi

    Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

    Mixed city is a term widely used in Israel to describe areas occupied by both Jewish and Arab communities. In a critical examination of such cities, the author shows how a clear spatial and mental division exists between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and how the occurrence of such communities is both...

    Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
47. Iranian Media

    The Paradox of Modernity

    By Gholam Khiabany

    Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

    The post-revolutionary state in Iran has tried to amalgamate ‘Sharia with electricity’ and modernity with what it considers as ‘Islam’. While sympathetic to private capital, through quasi anti-capitalist politics, the state began to restrict market-relations, confiscate major assets of sections of...

    Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
48. Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel

    White Jews, Black Jews

    By Sami Shalom Chetrit

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics

    This is the first book in English to examine the Mizrahi Jews (Jews from the Muslim world) in Israel, focussing in particular on social and political movements such as the Black Panthers and SHAS. The book analyses the ongoing cultural encounter between Zionism and Israel on one side and Mizrahi...

    Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
49. Islam in the Nordic and Baltic Countries

    Edited by Göran Larsson

    Series: Islamic Studies Series

    Although Muslims are now an important presence in Europe, little is known about the Muslim communities that exist in the Nordic and Baltic regions of Europe. This is the first comprehensive and detailed study of the history, context and development of Islamic institutions and Muslim groups in...

    Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
50. Iran Under the Ayatollahs (Routledge Revivals)

    By Dilip Hiro

    First published in 1985, this is a comprehensive study off the Middle East's most strategic country, set against the background of the Islamic heritage of Iran and the rise and fall of the Pahlavi dynasty. The author describes the various phases through which the Islamic revolution has passed,...

    Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge