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by Hamid Enayat
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2005
The revival and power of religious feelings among Muslims since the Iranian revolution presents a complicated and often perplexing picture of the politics of the Islamic world in the modern era. What are the ideas which have influenced the direction of these trends? In this book, which since its original...
The Politics and Economics of Decolonization in Africa
The Failed Experiment of the Central African Federation
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The slow collapse of the European colonial empires after 1945 provides one of the great turning points of twentieth century history. With the loss of India however, the British under Harold Macmillan attempted to enforce a 'second' colonial occupation - supporting the efforts of Sir Andrew Cohen of...
The New Orientalists
Postmodern Representations of Islam from Foucault to Baudrillard
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
The west's Orientalism, its construction of an Arabic and Islamic 'Other', has been exposed, examined and expurgated under the critical theory microscope. At the same time postmodern thinkers from Nietzsche onwards have employed the motifs and symbols of the Islamic Orient within an ongoing critique...
The 'Fifth Veda' of Hinduism
Poetry, Philosophy and Devotion in the Bhagavata Purana
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most important, central and popular scriptures of Hinduism. A medieval Sanskrit text, its influence as a religious book has been comparable only to that of the great Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Ithamar Theodor here offers the first analysis for...
My Way
A Muslim Woman's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Polarized debates about 'Islam' and 'the West' are now so ubiquitous that it is easy to forget how damaging they can be. The vast majority of Muslims do not wish to see Islam used as a divisive force within the largely secular societies in which they live. How then can Muslim stereotyping be challenged?...
Diplomacy and Reform in Iran
Foreign Policy under Khatami
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Nuclear power has for the most part dominated Western media and academic analyses concerning Iranian foreign policy in recent years. This focus, however, can be misleading, especially as regards the early presidency of Mohammad Khatami (1997–2005). In a riposte to Samuel Huntington's 'Clash of Civilisations'...
Narrating Conflict in the Middle East
Discourse, Image and Communications Practices in Lebanon and Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
The term conflict has often been used broadly and uncritically to talk about diverse situations ranging from street protests to war, though the many factors that give rise to any conflict and its continuation over a period of time vary greatly.
The starting point of this innovative book is that it...
Women and Peace in the Islamic World
Gender, Agency and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
How realistic is the prospect of peace in the Muslim world? This question is the predominant focus for global analysis today in the contemporary times, but its debate frequently ignores the cultural and social complexity of the Muslim world, reducing it into the region to a system of states and selectmajor...
Kurds and the State in Iran
The Making of Kurdish Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE
In early 1946, Kurds declared an independent republic in north-west Iran. The Mahabad Republic, as it became known, was the first time that the Kurds experienced self-rule in the modern era. Although short-lived, the Republic had a formative...
Revolution and Reform in Russia and Iran
Modernisation and Politics in Revolutionary States
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
The Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979 are two examples of dramatic, sudden and extraordinary political upheaval that significantly altered the nature of the state and society in the modern age. Here, Ghoncheh Tazmini provides an unprecedented comparative look at these...
Modest Fashion
Styling Bodies, Mediating Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Modest dressing, both secular and religious, is a growing trend across the world, yet so far it has been given little serious attention and is rarely seen as fashion. Modest Fashion uniquely studies and addresses both the consumers and the producers of modest clothing. It examines the growing number...
The US-Iran Relationship
The Impact of Political Identity on Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Since the Revolution of 1978/79, which eventually brought to power Ayatollah Khomeini and his circle of conservative, though politically active, clerics, the relationship between Iran and the USA has represented one of the world's most complex and hostile international entanglements. In this book,...
Seeking Asylum in Israel
Refugees and the History of Migration Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
Since 2005, approximately 70,000 asylum-seeking refugees from Sudan and Eritrea have entered Israel. This, along with the highly publicised anti-African immigrant riots in Israel in 2012 and 2014 and the current global refugee crisis, has meant that the issue of African migration has become increasingly...
Occidentalism in Iran
Representations of the West in the Iranian Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Negative portrayals of the West in Iran are often centred around the CIA-engineered coup of 1953, which overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, or the hostage-taking crisis in 1979 following the attack on the US embassy in Tehran. Looking past these iconic events, Ehsan Bakhshandeh explores the...