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Millennial Dreams In Oil Economies - Job Seeking And The Global Political Economy Of Labour In Oman

by Crystal A. (Leiden University) Ennis

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 Millennial Dreams retells Oman's development story from the perspective of labour, moving beyond traditional discussions of the economics of oil. Focusing on the experiences of workers, the unemployed, and the governance of labour markets, to explain the Gulf's global labour markets and position in global capitalism.
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Iranian Non-Muslim Communities - Negotiating Social Space During The Constitutional Revolution, 1891-1911

by Saghar (Willamette University, Oregon) Sadeghian

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 In the years surrounding the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, major non-Muslim communities of Zoroastrians, Christians, Jews, and Baha'is negotiated identities, rights, and power structures. Using primary documents from Iranian, British, and French archives, Saghar Sadeghian examines an underexplored aspect of Iranian and Middle Eastern history.
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Iranian Non-Muslim Communities - Negotiating Social Space During The Constitutional Revolution, 1891-1911

by Saghar (Willamette University, Oregon) Sadeghian

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 In the years surrounding the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, major non-Muslim communities of Zoroastrians, Christians, Jews, and Baha'is negotiated identities, rights, and power structures. Using primary documents from Iranian, British, and French archives, Saghar Sadeghian examines an underexplored aspect of Iranian and Middle Eastern history.
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State Matters - Theorizing State Fragmentation And Consolidation From Iraq

by Nida (University Of Edinburgh) Alahmad

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 Moving between intellectual traditions, this study offers a historically grounded social theoretical account of state consolidation from Iraq. Nida Alahmad analyses key episodes of state consolidation (and fragmentation) during the past century, examining the nature of the state, its power, and its importance in the lives of its citizens.
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Constructing The Achievement State - Cultural Administration In Postrevolutionary Egypt

by Chihab (University Of Oxford) El Khachab

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 After the 1952 revolution, the Egyptian state became an ideological project promoted by national cultural and media institutions. Using official written and visual sources produced by governmental departments, Chihab El Khachab shows how low- and mid-ranking bureaucrats represented and embodied the Egyptian state through a praxis of 'achievement'.
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Constructing The Achievement State - Cultural Administration In Postrevolutionary Egypt

by Chihab (University Of Oxford) El Khachab

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 After the 1952 revolution, the Egyptian state became an ideological project promoted by national cultural and media institutions. Using official written and visual sources produced by governmental departments, Chihab El Khachab shows how low- and mid-ranking bureaucrats represented and embodied the Egyptian state through a praxis of 'achievement'.
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State Matters - Theorizing State Fragmentation And Consolidation From Iraq

by Nida (University Of Edinburgh) Alahmad

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 Moving between intellectual traditions, this study offers a historically grounded social theoretical account of state consolidation from Iraq. Nida Alahmad analyses key episodes of state consolidation (and fragmentation) during the past century, examining the nature of the state, its power, and its importance in the lives of its citizens.
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European Shi?Ism - Peripheral Engagement And Religious Retention

by Matthijs (Birkbeck College, University Of London) Van Den Bos

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 Exploring the encounters of Twelver Shi?ite Muslims with the European West, this study examines local and transnational religious organization. Building on a range of language sources and fieldwork in Iran, Britain, the Netherlands, and Germany, Matthijs van den Bos defines European Shi?ism through peripheral engagement and religious retention.
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European Shi?Ism - Peripheral Engagement And Religious Retention

by Matthijs (Birkbeck College, University Of London) Van Den Bos

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 Exploring the encounters of Twelver Shi?ite Muslims with the European West, this study examines local and transnational religious organization. Building on a range of language sources and fieldwork in Iran, Britain, the Netherlands, and Germany, Matthijs van den Bos defines European Shi?ism through peripheral engagement and religious retention.
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Monarchies Of Extraction - The Gulf States In The Global Food System

by Christian (Universiteit Leiden) Henderson

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 In a region known for its export of oil, this study explores how the Gulf states are also defined by the importation of food. Christian Henderson examines how the Gulf is reshaping the global food system, demonstrating how states such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia represent 'inverted farms' which have developed their own agribusiness sectors.
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Monarchies Of Extraction - The Gulf States In The Global Food System

by Christian (Universiteit Leiden) Henderson

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 In a region known for its export of oil, this study explores how the Gulf states are also defined by the importation of food. Christian Henderson examines how the Gulf is reshaping the global food system, demonstrating how states such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia represent 'inverted farms' which have developed their own agribusiness sectors.
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Leaping Decolonization - North Africa In The Global 1960s And 1970s

by Idriss (Trinity College, Dublin) Jebari

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 In the wake of independence from French colonialism, a generation of North African thinkers and leaders reimagined their futures through essays, periodicals, and publishing networks. Idriss Jebari examines how these traces reveal powerful debates which challenged colonial legacies, redefined progress, and reappropriated tradition.
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Syrian Intellectuals In Exile - The Dilemmas Of Revolution And The Cost Of Leaving

by Zeina (University Of Cambridge) Al Azmeh

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 In the wake of the 2011 uprising in Syria, a number of Syrian intellectuals were forced into exile. This study explores how these intellectuals shaped revolutionary discourse, offering fresh insights into cultural trauma, the dilemmas of political engagement from afar, and the broader role of intellectuals in contested political movements.
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Challenging The Caliphate - Wahhabism And Mahdism In The Late Ottoman Empire

by Omer (Marmara University) Kocyigit

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 Examining the role of steam transportation and print culture in shaping Ottoman centre-periphery relations, this study offers fresh insights into the modern Muslim word. Through rich archival research, Ã-mer KoÃ§yigit examines the circulation of ideas of the Caliphate, Wahhabism and Mahdism in a global context.
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Civic Death In Contemporary Turkey - Mass Surveillance And The Authoritarian State

by Seckin (University Of Turku, Finland) Sertdemir

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 This study analyses the aftermath of the 2016 Turkish coup attempt, wherein the AKP government introduced new methods of authoritarian securitisation which saw 152,000 people dismissed from their positions and banned from public service. SeÃ§kin Sertdemir considers the processes by which these citizens were rendered 'dead' in civic terms.
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Mandatory Madness - Colonial Psychiatry And Mental Illness In British Mandate Palestine

by Chris (University Of Exeter) Sandal-Wilson

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 Bringing together Middle East studies, histories of empire, and the medical humanities,Â Mandatory MadnessÂ offers an innovative and deeply researched new social and cultural history of Palestine before 1948, and a rethinking of the history and archives of psychiatry from a non-Western context under British colonial rule.
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Schooling The Nation - Education And Everyday Politics In Egypt

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 Drawing on rare first-hand accounts from Egyptian schools, Hania Sobhy explores how citizenship was lived, imagined, and contested before and after the 2011 uprising. She uses education as a lens to offer novel insights on everyday governance, legitimation and belonging. Available Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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The Cultural Politics Of Art In Iran - Modernism, Exhibitions, And Art Production

by Katrin (Universitat Graz, Austria) Nahidi

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 In a key contribution to postcolonial art history, Katrin Nahidi offers a comprehensive study of Iranian modernist art since the 1950s. Using extensive fieldwork, interviews, and archival research, Nahidi contextualizes these artworks and shows their crucial role in shaping ideas around national identity and anti-colonialism.
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A Social History Of Modern Tehran - Space, Power, And The City

by Ashkan (University Of Tehran, Iran) Rezvani Naraghi

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 Telling the history of Tehran from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi demonstrates how the city was transformed by developing discourses around spatial knowledge. Using an array of archival sources, Rezvani Naraghi stresses the agency of everyday inhabitants in the process of urban change.
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The Making Of Persianate Modernity - Language And Literary History Between Iran And India

by Alexander (University Of Minnesota) Jabbari

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 Tracing the emergence of literary history, Alexander Jabbari shows how Iranians and South Asians drew from their shared literary heritage to produce a 'Persianate modernity' in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using both Urdu and Persian-language sources, Jabbari examines how intellectual exchange across the region made national cultures.
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The Intellectual Thought Of Al-Ghazali

by Ali (New York University) Mirsepassi e Tadd Graham (University Of Tours) Fernee

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 This study investigates the intellectual legacy of Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (1058â€"1111), an influential thinker of the classical Islamic period. Ali Mirsepassi and Tadd Graham FernÃ©e study Ghazali's major Persian-language text Kimiya-e sa?adat (The Alchemy of Happiness) presenting a new understanding of Ghazali as a reformer of his own time.
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Millennial Dreams In Oil Economies - Job Seeking And The Global Political Economy Of Labour In Oman

by Crystal A. (Leiden University) Ennis

~~135,19€~~ 121,67€ 10% OFF

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 Millennial Dreams retells Oman's development story from the perspective of labour, moving beyond traditional discussions of the economics of oil. Focusing on the experiences of workers, the unemployed, and the governance of labour markets, to explain the Gulf's global labour markets and position in global capitalism.
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Art And The Arab Spring - Aesthetics Of Revolution And Resistance In Tunisia And Beyond

by Siobhan (University Of Bristol) Shilton

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 Examining a diverse body of art by over twenty-five artists including photography, sculpture, graffiti, performance, video and installation, in galleries, online and in the street, this book reveals a new way of understanding the Arab Uprisings, their profound cultural impact, and of the meaning of the term 'revolution' itself.
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Polluted Politics - The Development Of An Israeli-Palestinian E-Waste Economy

by John-Michael (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts) Davis e Yaakov (Ben-Gurion University Of The Negev, Israel) Garb

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 Polluted Politics examines the global conundrum of e-waste recycling through the remarkable case of the Palestinian-Israeli context, showing how the emergence, impacts and possible futures of the Palestinian informal hub that has recycled most of Israel's e-waste for two decades illuminates dynamics and dilemmas of similar places worldwide.
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