El-Husseini (Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, City U. of New York) analyzes the evolution of Lebanese politics in the years following the Ta'if Agreement of 1989, years dominated by Syr
Concentrating on the societal aspects of the reform process, Yilmaz (history, Southern Illinois U., Carbondale) examines the nationalization and modernization reforms (known as the Kemalist reforms) i
Using examples ranging from Iran to Morocco, the author discusses how the meeting of two incompatible worlds leads to a profound distortion not only in how the Muslim world sees the West, but in how i
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 against modernity has constituted much of the soci
One of the most prominent Sunni clerics in the Muslim world today, Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi influences the discourse around matters central to the Islamic faith and to Islam’s relationship with Wester
Avoiding both an academic and a journalistic approach, Hamzeh (political science, American U. of Beirut) presents an account of Lebanon's Islamist movement that would be intelligible to any literate p
Historians and students of French culture, most from the US and none from France, consider how Franco-Algerian identity was formulated in a number of ways for a variety of ends, how the past is rememb
A critical overview for both introductory and advanced students of Middle-East history is comprised of essays that cover such topics as Islam's ties to urban institutions and the relationship between
In this volume, a group of distinguished scholars reinterpret concepts and canons of Islamic thought in Arab, Persian, South Asian, and Turkish traditions. They demonstrate that there is no unitary "I
The book cites that conflicted Syria--from spring uprising to civil war--has suffered from ill-informed and confusing news coverage and has revealed the dearth of expert writing on the country, making
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.
Drawing on party election manifestos and campaign speeches, election data, and information on patron-client relations, the selection of candidates, media technologies, and local governance records, th
Mohammad Mosaddeq is widely regarded as the leading champion of secular democracy and resistance to foreign domination in Iran's modern history. Mosaddeq became prime minister of Iran in
In October 1875, two months after the takeover of the Somali coastal town of Zeila, an Egyptian force numbering 1,200 soldiers departed from the city to occupy Harar, a prominent Muslim hub i
Becoming Turkish deepens our understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post—Ottoman Turkey through a rare perspective that stresses social and cultural dimensions and everyday negoti
