Middle East Literature Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies

   Edited by Michael Kemper, Stephan Conermann

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   This book examines the Russian/Soviet intellectual tradition of Oriental and Islamic studies, which comprised a rich body of knowledge especially on Central Asia and the Caucasus. The Soviet Oriental tradition was deeply linked to politics – probably even more than other European ‘Orientalisms’. It...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt

   Literature, culture, and empire

   By Deborah Starr

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

   Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt examines the link between cosmopolitanism in Egypt, from the nineteenth century through to the mid-twentieth century, and colonialism. While it has been widely noted that such a relationship exists, the nature and impact of this dynamic is often overlooked. Taking a...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
3. Early Mystics in Turkish Literature

   By Mehmed Fuad Koprulu

   Series: Routledge Sufi Series

   This book is a translation of one of the most important Turkish scholarly works of the twentieth century. It was the masterpiece of M.F. Koprulu, one of Turkey’s leading, and most prolific, intellectuals and scholars. Using a wide variety of Arabic, and especially Turkish and Persian sources,...

   Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. Beyond the Arab Disease

   New Perspectives in Politics and Culture

   By Riad Nourallah

   Series: Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies

   Presenting bold and original insights, this book examines the policies and diplomacies pursued by Arab and Western governments, while discussing both the political and cultural roles played by the modern Arab World. It explores the various facets of the malaise affecting the Arab world, stressing...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
5. 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 5th 2011 by Routledge
6. Sadeq Hedayat

   His Work and his Wondrous World

   Edited by Homa Katouzian

   Series: Iranian Studies

   Featuring contributions from leading scholars of Iranian studies and / or comparative literature, this edited comprehensive and critical edited collection provides detailed scholarly analysis of Hedayat's life and work using a variety of methodological and conceptual approaches. Hedayat...

   Published March 14th 2011 by Routledge
7. Egypt's Culture Wars

   Politics and Practice

   By Samia Mehrez

   Series: Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies

   This ground-breaking work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty first century. It deconstructs the boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture drawing on conceptual tools in cultural studies, translation studies and gender studies to analyze...

   Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge
8. Of Dishes and Discourse

   Classical Arabic Literary Representations of Food

   By Geert Jan van Gelder

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

   Considers how Arab and Islamic culinary culture may be represented in literary forms. Scholars of the medieval Islamic period are keenly aware of the importance of food and wine as themes in literature. Van Gelder's witty and subtle approach teases the most out of texts as well as enabling the...

   Published February 21st 2011 by Routledge
9. Structure and Meaning in Medieval Arabic and Persian Lyric Poetry

   Orient Pearls

   By Julie Meisami

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   This is the first comprehensive and comparative study of compositional and stylistic techniques in medieval Arabic and Persian lyric poetry. Ranging over some seven countries, it deals with works by over thirty poets in the Islamic world from Spain to present-day Afghanistan, and examines how this...

   Published February 21st 2011 by Routledge
10. Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures

    Edited by Glenda Abramson, Hilary Kilpatrick

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

    This collection brings together discussions of the way in which Muslim and Jewish beliefs and practices are represented in modern literary texts of poetry, fiction and drama. The chapters collected here consider elements of the expression of Judaism and Islam in modern literature. Key topics...

    Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge