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Syria From Reform To Revolt - Volume 2: Culture, Society, And Religion

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 Draws together closely observed, critical and historicized analyses, giving vital insights into Syrian society today. With a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, contributors reveal how Bashar al-Asadâ€™s pivotal first decade of rule engendered changes in power relations and public discourseâ€"dynamics that would feed the 2011 protest movement and civil war.
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The Logic Of Cooperation In Autocracies - Political Opposition In The Third Yemeni Republic

by Jens Heibach

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 Offers a comprehensive analysis of strategic cooperation in authoritarian regimes, specifically focusing on Yemenâ€™s Joint Meeting Parties - an alliance composed of diverse Islamist, Socialist, and Arab nationalist parties. Heibach presents a unique case study that explores the allianceâ€™s remarkable longevity and ultimate success.
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Outcasting Armenians - Tanzimat Of The Provinces

by Talin Suciyan

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 The history of Tanzimat in the Ottoman Empire has largely been narrated as a period of equality, reform, and progress, often framing it as the backdrop to modern Turkey. Inspired by Walter Benjaminâ€™s exhortation to study the oppressed to understand the rule and the ruler, Talin Suciyan reexamines this era from the perspective of the Armenians.
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National Symbols In Modern Iran - Identity, Ethnicity, And Collective Memory

by Menahem Merhavy

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 Taking an innovative approach to the study of Iranian nationalism, Merhavy examines the way symbols from Iran's past have played an important role in the struggles between political, religious, and ideological movements over legitimacy in the last five decades.
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Hakibbutz Ha'Artzi, Mapam, And The Demise Of The Israeli Labor Movement

by Tal Elmaliach

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 Israel's 1977 political election resulted in a dramatic defeat for the ruling Labor movement. The government passed into the hands of the rightwing nationalist movement. Elmaliach chronicles the fascinating story of Israel's political transformation between the 1950s and the 1970s, exploring the roots of the Labor movement's historic collapse.
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Ottoman Rule Of Law And The Modern Political Trial - The Yildiz Case

by Avi Rubin

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 Drawing upon a wide range of narrative and archival sources, Rubin explores the famous yet understudied criminal trial of the alleged murder of the former sultan AbdÃ¼laziz and its representations in contemporary public discourse and subsequent historiography.
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Mirror For The Muslim Prince - Islam And The Theory Of Statecraft

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 Moves beyond the fashionable yet cursory understanding of Muslims' beliefs regarding power and statecraft. By assembling a group of world class scholars, this book challenges a host of exalted assumptions and theories concerning political power in the muslim world.
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Ethnicity, Identity, And The Development Of Nationalism In Iran

by David N. Yaghoubian

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 David Yaghoubians work combines theory with original social biographical research to explore the ways in which Iranian nationalism affected the lives of Armenian minorities in Iran during the twentieth century, and to illustrate how Armenian-Iranians participated in its evolution.
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Jurji Zaidan And The Foundations Of Arab Nationalism

by Thomas Philipp

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 Jurji Zaidan was one of the leading thinkers of the Arab renaissance of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century (Nahdha). He was a historian, promoter of education, a historical novelist and founder of the journal al-Hilal. Divided into three parts and, as an integrated whole, this book traces Zaidans perspectives as a historian and linguist and his views on Arab nationalism.
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Revolt Of The Young - Essays By Tawfiq Al-Hakim

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 Considered a pioneer in many literary forms, including drama, novels, and short stories, Tawfiq al-Hakim has influenced generations of Egyptian writers. The Revolt of the Young is a collection of essays, originally published in 1984, that shows al-Hakim as a public intellectual addressing the ongoing conflict between generations.
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Pious Citizens - Reforming Zoroastrianism In India And Iran

by Monica M. Ringer

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 Pious Citizens explores Zoroastrian religious reform in India and Iran as a window onto the transformation of the nature and function of religion that occurred in the nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries.
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Syria From Reform To Revolt - Volume 1: Political Economy And International Relations

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 When Bashar al-Asad smoothly assumed power in July 2000, just seven days after the death of his father, observers were divided on what this would mean for the country’s foreign and domestic politics. On the one hand, it seemed everything would stay the same: an Asad on top of a political system controlled by secret services and Baathist one-party rule. On the other hand, it looked like everything would be different: a young president with exposure to Western education who, in his inaugural speech, emphasized his determination to modernize Syria. This volume explores the ways in which Asad’s domestic and foreign policy strategies during his first decade in power safeguarded his rule and adapted Syria to the age of globalization. The volume’s contributors examine multiple aspects of Asad’s rule in the 2000s, from power consolidation within the party and control of the opposition to economic reform, co-opting new private charities, and coping with Iraqi refugees. The Syrian regime temporarily succeeded in reproducing its power and legitimacy, in reconstructing its social base, and in managing regional and international challenges. At the same time, contributors clearly detail the shortcomings, inconsistencies, and risks these policies entailed, illustrating why Syria’s tenuous stability came to an abrupt end during the Arab Spring of 2011. This volume presents the work of an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. Based on extensive fieldwork and on intimate knowledge of a country whose dynamics often seem complicated and obscure to outside observers, these scholars’ insightful snapshots of Bashar al-Asad’s decade of authoritarian upgrading provide an indispensable resource for understanding the current crisis and its disastrous consequences.
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National Elections In Turkey - People, Politics, And The Party System

by F. Michael Wuthrich

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 What determines voting behaviour in Turkey? While many scholars have argued that elections in Turkey over time can be effectively and simply explained by static social or cultural cleavages, Wuthrich challenges these assertions with a framework that carefully attends to patterns of strategic vote-getting behaviour in elections by political parties and their leaders.
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Syria From Reform To Revolt - Volume 2: Culture, Society, And Religion

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 Draws together closely observed, critical and historicized analyses, giving vital insights into Syrian society today. With a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, contributors reveal how Bashar al-Asad's pivotal first decade of rule engendered changes in power relations and public discourse-dynamics that would feed the 2011 protest movement and civil war.
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Iranian Constitutional Revolution And The Clerical Leadership Of Khurasani

by Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh

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 The Iranian Constitutional Revolution was the twentieth century’s first such political movement in the Middle East. It represented a landmark in Iranian history because of the unlikely support it received from Shi‘ite clerics who historically viewed Western concepts with suspicion, some claiming constitutionalism to be anti-Islamic. Leading the support was Muhammad Kazim Khurasani, the renowned Shi‘ite jurist who conceived of a supporting role for the clergy in a modern Iranian political system. Drawing on extensive analysis of religious texts, fatwas, and articles written by Khurasani an other pro- and anti-constitutionalists, Farzaneh provides a comprehensive and illuminating interpretation of Khurasani’s religious pragmatism. Despite some opposition from his peers, Khurasani used a form of jurisprudential reasoning when creating shari‘a that was based on human intellect to justify his support of not only the Iranian parliament but also the political powers of clerics. He had a reputation across the Shi‘ite community as a masterful religious scholar, a skillful teacher, and a committed humanitarian who heeded the people’s socioeconomic and political grievances and took action to address them. Khurasani’s push for progressive reforms helped to inaugurate a new era of clerical involvement in constitutionalism in the Middle East.
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Corporatist Ideology In Kemalist Turkey - Progress Or Order?

by Andrew Davison e Taha Parla

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 This book provides an informed analysis of the ideological content of Kemalism - the name given to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's party's political thought and practice - and the persistently official and semi-official, hegemonic ideology of the Turkish Republic, formally founded in 1923.
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In The Path Of Hizbullah

by Ahmad Nizar Hamzeh

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 Of the many Islamist groups that have emerged within the Muslim world over the last two decades, perhaps none has had so great an impact on Middle Eastern and International affairs as Hizbullah, the Party of God. This book serves as a pathway for understanding Hizbullah and other Islamist.
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The Politics Of Public Memory In Turkey

by Esra Ozyurek

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 Turkish society is frequently accused of having amnesia. This volume provides an understanding of contemporary Turkey and how its different representations of the past have become metaphors through which individuals and groups define their cultural identity and political position.
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Globalization And The Muslim World - Culture, Religion, And Modernity

by Birgit Schaebler

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 Scholars from across a range of disciplines consider the impact of globalization on the Islamic world.
The Genesis Of Young Ottoman Thought - A Study In The Modernization Of Turkish Political Ideas

by Serif Mardin

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 Extensively documented and updated since its first publication in 1962, this volume provides a detailed study of the men and events that have shaped Turkey's modern political ideologies.
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Religion, Society, And Modernity In Turkey

by Serif Mardin

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 Offering a historical and cultural analysis of the late Ottoman period and Republican Turkey, this book collects Serif Mardin's seminal essays written throughout the span of his prolific career. These essays deal with the historical background, political travails, and socioeconomic metamorphosis of Turkey during a century of modernization.
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The Story Of The Daughters Of Quchan - Gender And National Memory In Iranian History

by Afsaneh Najmabadi

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 In 1905 Iranian women had been sold to pay taxes or taken as booty in a raid by tribesmen from a village. The narration of this event took all Iran by storm and shortly after the opening of the new parliament in 1906 relatives of these women demanded that parliament punish those responsible. Najmabadi investigates why this incident was so powerful.
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The Essentials Of Ibadi Islam

by Valerie Hoffman

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 The first book-length overview of the theology of the Ibadi Islam, a distinct sect of Islam, neither Sunni nor Shi'ite, that emerged in the early Islamic period and remains today in small pockets of North Africa and as the dominant sect of Oman.
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Class And Labor In Iran - Did The Revolution Matter?

by Farhad Nomani e Sohrab Behdad

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 Provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of change and class configuration in Iranian society. This is an examination of the effects of revolution, Islamic populism, protracted war, and economic crisis on the class nature of the workforce in Iran.
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