"A tour-de-force in different fields of knowledge. It takes world-city and world-history literatures to a higher level of depth and understanding. It is difficult to imagine a more pioneering
"A tour-de-force in different fields of knowledge. It takes world-city and world-history literatures to a higher level of depth and understanding. It is difficult to imagine a more pioneering
Adopting a methodology influenced by Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems analysis and Edward Said's notion of a "contrapuntal imagination" in order to challenge essentializing understandings of civil
To understand the Middle East we must also understand how the West produced a temporal narrative of world history in which westerners placed themselves on top and all others below them. In a landmark
From an April 2006 sociology conference in Saint Paul, Minnesota, 12 papers look at Islam and related topic through the lens of world-systems theory. women as the Trojan Horse of Islam and geopolitics
Featuring Immanuel Wallerstein, Joseph Massad, Marnia Lazreg, and other well-known and emerging new authors, this book seeks a more accurate understanding of Islam and Islamic societies' role and rela
