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Turkey and the Politics of National Identity
Social, Economic and Cultural Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
In the first decade of the twenty-first century Turkey experienced an extraordinary set of transformations. In 2001, in the midst of financial difficulties, the country was under IMF stewardship, yet it has recently emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world. And on the international...
Islamism and Intelligence in South Asia
Militancy, Politics and Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
State sponsorship of terrorism is a complex and important topic in today's international affairs - and especially pertinent in the regional politics of the Middle East and South Asia, where Pakistan has long been a flashpoint of Islamist politics and terrorism. In Islamism and Intelligence in South...
The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden
Beautiful Objects and Agreeable Retreats
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Georgian landscape gardens are among the most visited and enjoyed of the UK's historical treasures The Georgian garden has also been hailed as the greatest British contribution to European Art, seen as a beautiful composition created from grass, trees and water – a landscape for contemplation. But...
by Reza Shah-Kazemi
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
When asked which religion was most loved by God, the Prophet of Islam refrained from naming a specific religion, and instead referred to a quality which should infuse the faith of all believers: 'The primordial, generously tolerant faith'. Through compelling historical illustration and careful theological...
Islam under the Palestine Mandate
Colonialism and the Supreme Muslim Council
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Concerns about the place of Islam in Palestinian politics are familiar to those studying the history of the modern Middle East. A vital part of this history is the rise of Islamic opposition to the British in Mandate Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s. Colonial officials had wrestled with the question...
The Eternal Revolution
Hardliners and Conservatives in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
More than three decades have passed since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979. In that time, theories of modern revolution would suggest a retreat from ideological goals, heralding a phase of institutional development. However, Hamad Albloshi argues that Iran is unique: the current...
Remapping the Ottoman Middle East
Modernity, Imperial Bureaucracy and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
As a result of the formation of the modern Turkish state, nationalist narratives of the Ottoman Empire's collapse are commonplace. Remapping the Ottoman Middle East, on the other hand, examines alternative and disparate routes to modernity during the nineteenth century. Pursuing a comparison of different...
by Mohammed Abed Al-Jabri
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Throughout the Middle East, and in the west as well, there has been much discussion concerning the notion of Islamic rule and the application of shari'ah by the state. Central to these debates are the three key themes that Mohammad Abed al-Jabri looks at in this book: democracy, human rights and law....
Arctic Governance: Volume 2
Energy, Living Marine Resources and Shipping
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
The Polar North is known to be home to large gas and oil reserves and its position holds significant trading and military advantages, yet the maritime boundaries of the region remain ill-defined. In the twenty-first century the Arctic is undergoing profound change. As the sea ice melts, a result of...
The Georgian Menagerie
Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century London
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
In the eighteenth century, it would not have been impossible for a visitor to London to encounter an elephant or a kangaroo making its way down the Strand, heading towards the menagerie of Mr Pidcock at the Exeter Change. Pidcock's was just one of a number of commercial menagerists who plied their...
Women and Borders
Refugees, Migrants and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Borders - whether settled or contested, violent or calm, closed or open - may have a direct, and often acute, human impact. Those affected may be people living nearby, those attempting to cross them and even those who succeed in doing so. At the border, vulnerable refugee and migrant communities,...
Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World
Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
From the political dissolution of the Abbasid Caliphate in the mid-ninth century to the beginning of the thirteenth century, the Persianate dynasties of Islamic Central Asia constituted the political and military stronghold of Sunni Islam. It was in this region, historically known as Khurasan and...
by Christoph Baumer
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
For more than a hundred years, Central Asia was the heartland of the mightiest military power on the planet. But after the fragmentation of the all-conquering Mongol polity, the region began a steep decline which rendered this former domain of horse lords peripheral to world affairs. The process of...
The History of Central Asia
The Age of Islam and the Mongols
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half of the thirteenth century it was also the pre-eminent centre of power in the largest land-based empire the world has ever seen. This third volume...