Watermelon Democracy

Joshua Stacher

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• In Egypt, something that fails to live up to its advertised expectations is often called a watermelon: a grand promise that later turns out to be empt... Lees meer

Shaykh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

Sagi Polka

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• One of the most prominent Sunni clerics in the Muslim world today, Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi influences the discourse around matters central to the Isl... Lees meer

The Autocratic Parliament

Irene Weipert-Fenner

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• When protests erupted in response to the 2010 Egyptian parliament elections that were widely viewed as fraudulent, many wondered. Why now? Voters had ... Lees meer

Algeria and France, 1800-2000

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• The relationship between Algeria and France that formed during the 132 years of colonial rule did not end in 1962 when Algeria gained its independence... Lees meer

Ottoman Rule of Law and the Modern Political Trial

Avi Rubin

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• In 1876, a recently dethroned sultan, Abdülaziz, was found dead in his cham- bers, the veins in his arm slashed. Five years later, a group of Ottoman ... Lees meer

The Politics of Public Memory in Turkey

Esra Özyürek

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Turkish society is frequently accused of having amnesia. It has been said that there is no social memory in Turkey before Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founde... Lees meer

Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran

Kamran Talattof

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• In Iran, since the mid-nineteenth century, one issue has been a common concern: how should Iran become modern? More than a century of struggle for or ... Lees meer

Pax Syriana

Rola El-Husseini

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• The recent political history of Lebanon has been defined by the legacy of war. In addition to repeated external invasions and the ongoing presence of ... Lees meer

Politics as Worship

Sumita Pahwa

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Why do leading Islamist movements like the Egyptian Muslim Brothers embrace electoral politics while insisting that their main goal is "working for Go... Lees meer

Figures That Speak

Matthew Detar

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• If the surface of Turkish politics has changed dramatically over the decades, the vocabulary for sorting these changes remains constant: Europe, Islam... Lees meer

Ottoman Rule of Law and the Modern Political Trial

Avi Rubin

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• In 1876, a recently dethroned sultan, Abdülaziz, was found dead in his cham- bers, the veins in his arm slashed. Five years later, a group of Ottoman ... Lees meer

Globalization and the Muslim World

Birgit Schaebler

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Written by scholars from a range of disciplines concerned with the Middle East and Islam (history, religious studies, anthropology, sociology, politic... Lees meer

Pious Citizens

Monica M Ringer

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• In Pious Citizens, Ringer tells the story of a major intellectual revolution in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century India and Iran, one that radic... Lees meer

Iranian Intellectuals and the West

Mehrzad Boroujerdi

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Mehrzad Boroujerdi challenges the way many Americans perceive present-day Iran as well as how Iranians view the West. He examines the works of thinker... Lees meer

Class and Labor in Iran

Farhad Nomani, Sohrab Behdad

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• In the past twenty-five years Iran has experienced a revolution and a turbulent postrevolutionary period under an Islamic state that declared itself t... Lees meer

Killing Contention

Sammy Zeyad Badran

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Like other countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Moroccans were inspired by the events in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011. Nine days after the oust... Lees meer

The Education of Women and the Vices of Men

Hasan Javadi, Willem Floor

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• At the close of the nineteenth century, modern ideas of democracy and equality were slowly beginning to take hold in Iran. Exposed to European ideas a... Lees meer

Jurji Zaidan and the Foundations of Arab Nationalism

Thomas Philipp

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Jurji Zaidan was one of the leading thinkers of the Arab renaissance. Through his historical novels, his widely read journal, al-Hilal, which is still... Lees meer

International Politics of the Persian Gulf

Mehran Kamrava

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• For much of the contemporary history of the Middle East, the Persian Gulf has stood at the center of the region's strategic significance. At the same ... Lees meer

Shaykh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

Sagi Polka

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• One of the most prominent Sunni clerics in the Muslim world today, Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi influences the discourse around matters central to the Isl... Lees meer

National Symbols in Modern Iran

Menahem Merhavy

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Now more than ever the role of icons and monuments in shaping a national identity is a subject of vital importance to scholars of both nationalism and... Lees meer

Why Alliances Fail

Matt Buehler

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Since 2011, the Arab world has seen a number of autocrats, including leaders from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, fall from power. Yet, in the wake ... Lees meer

Iran's Experiment with Parliamentary Governance

Mangol Bayat

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• For the past several decades, scholars have studied and written about the Iranian constitutional revolution with the 1979 Islamic Revolution as a subt... Lees meer

Labor Against the Regime

Nadine Abdalla

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• How do worker movements emerge and evolve under authoritarian regimes? What enables labor activists to overcome constraints and win concessions, and w... Lees meer