Book Series in Middle East Studies
SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
New & Published Titles:
State-Society Relations in Ba'thist Iraq
Facing Dictatorship
Scholarship on Iraq under the Ba’th regime has traditionally focused on the rule of Saddam Hussein and his narrow inner circle. The centrality of the…
read moreMarch 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47551-8 (Routledge)
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Nationalism and Liberal Thought in the Arab East
Ideology and Practice
This book explores the complex relationship between nationalism and liberal thought in the Arab East during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining this…
read moreFebruary 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-55410-7 (Routledge)
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Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic World
The Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society
This volume is an inter-disciplinary endeavour which brings together recent research on aspects of urban life and structure by architectural and textual historians and archaeologists,…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55381-0 (Routledge)
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Nazism in Syria and Lebanon
The Ambivalence of the German Option, 1933–1945
The increasingly vibrant political culture emerging in Lebanon and Syria in the 1930s and early 1940s is key to the understanding of local approaches towards…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45714-9 (Routledge)
Iraqi Arab Nationalism
Authoritarian, Totalitarian and Pro-Fascist Inclinations, 1932–1941
Peter Wien presents a provocative discussion on the history of Iraq and the growth of nationalism during the 1930s and early 1940s. He deconstructs the…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46182-5 (Routledge)
Subalterns and Social Protest
History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa
The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42355-7 (Routledge)
Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia
The Umma Below the Winds
Drawing on previously unavailable archival material, this book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage. The award… read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44435-4 (Routledge)
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The Ottoman Administration of Iraq, 1890-1908
This is a study of the nature of Ottoman administration under Sultan Abdulhamid and the effects of this on the three provinces that were to… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34158-5 (Routledge)
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Medieval Arabic Historiography
Authors as Actors
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.…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38377-6 (Routledge)
Late Ottoman Society
The Intellectual Legacy
When the Ottomans commenced their modernizing reforms in the 1830s, they still ruled over a vast empire. In addition to today's Turkey, including Anatolia and… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34164-6 (Routledge)
Series Details:
This series features the latest disciplinary approaches to Middle Eastern Studies. It covers the social sciences and the humanities in both the pre-modern and modern periods of the region. While primarily interested in publishing single-authored studies, the series is also open to edited volumes on innovative topics, as well as textbooks and reference works.
Forthcoming Titles:
The Making of the Arab Intellectual: Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood
Edited by Dyala Hamzah
To be published January 1st 2011
Opposition and Legitimacy in the Ottoman Empire: Conspiracies and Political Cultures
By Florian Riedler
To be published December 1st 2010
The City in the Ottoman Empire: Migration and the Making of Urban Modernity
Edited by Ulrike Freitag, Malte Fuhrmann, Nora Lafi, Florian Riedler
To be published October 14th 2010
Court Cultures in the Muslim World: Seventh to Nineteenth Centuries
Edited by Albrecht Fuess, Jan-Peter Hartung
To be published October 14th 2010
Untold Histories of the Middle East: Recovering Voices from the 19th and 20th Centuries
Edited by Amy Singer, Christoph Neumann, Selcuk Somel
To be published August 13th 2010