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Jurji Zaidan was one of the leading thinkers of the Arab renaissance of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century (Nahdha). He was a historian, promoter of education, a historical novelist and founder of the journal al-Hilal. Divided into three parts and, as an integrated whole, this book traces Zaidans perspectives as a historian and linguist and his views on Arab nationalism.

Explains the nature of the Kurdish north transformation, once an isolated outpost for the Iraqi army and local militia, now an internationally recognized autonomous region, and how it has influenced the relationship between the Kurdistan region and Iraq's

Ibadi Islam is a distinct sect of Islam, neither Sunni nor Shi'ite, that emerged in the early Islamic period and remains active today in small pockets of North Africa and as the dominant sect of Oman. Despite its antiquity, it has often been misunderstood and remains little known. Seeking to redress this gap and to introduce this influential Islamic school to the non-Arabic-speaking world, Hoffman offers the first book-length overview of Ibadi theology published in English.

This history examines the complex origins of religious dissent in 19th-century Qajar Iran (known to Westerners as Persia), and how it provided a mood and attitude which led to far-reaching political dissent, culminating in the establishment of a new government in 1906.

Draws together closely observed, critical and historicized analyses, giving vital insights into Syrian society today. With a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, contributors reveal how Bashar al-Asad's pivotal first decade of rule engendered changes in power relations and public discourse-dynamics that would feed the 2011 protest movement and civil war.

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 May 1951 and promptly nationalized its British-controlled oil industry, initiating a bitter confrontation between Iraq and Britain that increasingly undermined Mossaddeq's position. He was finally overthrown in August 1953 in a coup d'etat that was organized and led by the United States Central Intelligence Agency. This coup initiated a twenty-five-year period of dictatorship in Iran, leaving many Iranians resentful of the U.S. legacies that still haunt relations between the two countries today. Contents include: "Mosaddeq's Government in Iranian History: Arbitrary Rule, Democracy, and the 1953 Coup" - Homa Katouzian; "Unseating Mosaddeq: The Configuration and Role of Domestic Forces" - Fakhreddin Azimi; "The 1953 Coup in Iran and the Legacy of the Tudeh" - Maziar Behrooz; "Great Britain and the Intervention in Iran, 1953" - Wm. Roger Louis; "The International Boycott of Iranian Oil and the Anti-Mossaddeq Coup of 1953" - Mary Ann Heiss; "The Road to Intervention: Factors Influencing U.S. Policy Toward Iran, 1945-1953" - Malcolm Byrne; "The 1953 Coup d'etat Against Mosaddeq" - Mark J. Gasiorowski

Explores the ways in which Bashar al-Asad's domestic and foreign policy strategies during his first decade in power safeguarded his rule and adapted Syria to the age of globalization. The volume's contributors examine multiple aspects of Asad's rule in the 2000s, from power consolidation within the party and control of the opposition to economic reform, co-opting new private charities, and coping with Iraqi refugees.

This study of the relationship between Muslim culture and Western modernity, portrays a society bound to its own glorified history - yet facing an external reality from the West. The meeting of these two worlds leads to a profound distortion, especially in how the Muslim world sees itself.

This book provides an informed analysis of the ideological content of Kemalism - the name given to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's party's political thought and practice - and the persistently official and semi-official, hegemonic ideology of the Turkish Republic, formally founded in 1923.

This study analyses Iran's post-revolutionary politics.

Of the many Islamist groups that have emerged within the Muslim world over the last two decades, perhaps none has had so great an impact on Middle Eastern and International affairs as Hizbullah, the Party of God. This book serves as a pathway for understanding Hizbullah and other Islamist.

Extensively documented and updated since its first publication in 1962, this volume provides a detailed study of the men and events that have shaped Turkey's modern political ideologies.

Offering a historical and cultural analysis of the late Ottoman period and Republican Turkey, this book collects Serif Mardin's seminal essays written throughout the span of his prolific career. These essays deal with the historical background, political travails, and socioeconomic metamorphosis of Turkey during a century of modernization.

In 1905 Iranian women had been sold to pay taxes or taken as booty in a raid by tribesmen from a village. The narration of this event took all Iran by storm and shortly after the opening of the new parliament in 1906 relatives of these women demanded that parliament punish those responsible. Najmabadi investigates why this incident was so powerful.

Mohammad Mosaddeq is regarded as the leading champion of secular democracy and resistance to foreign domination in Iran's modern history. The book examines the turbulent political climate that prevailed in Iran during Mosaddeq's time the struggle between Iran and Britain for control over oil and the details of the coup itself.

Presents a collection of essays that brings together scholarship on the subject of memory and identity in the France-Algeria colonial and postcolonial relationship. This book explores topics from history and photography to culture and religion. It includes such topics as migration, displacement, settler colonialism, racism, sexuality, and more.

Contributions by: Raymond Hinnebusch, Tina Zintl, Samer Abboud, Aurora Sottimano, Najib Ghadbian, Amanda P. Terc, Paulo Pinto, Rania Maktabi, Myriam Ababsa, Carsten Wieland, Mohammad Kamel Doraei, Martine Zeuthen, Valentina Napolitano.

Considered a pioneer in many literary forms, including drama, novels, and short stories, Tawfiq al-Hakim has influenced generations of Egyptian writers. The Revolt of the Young is a collection of essays, originally published in 1984, that shows al-Hakim as a public intellectual addressing the ongoing conflict between generations.

Provides a contribution to the literature of comparative political thought. Exploring the globalization of ideas of democracy and civil society, this book addresses the question of what occurs when concepts cross the boundaries of cultures or languages. It analyzes the historical concept of democracy in Arab and Islamic political thought.

Turkish society is frequently accused of having amnesia. This volume provides an understanding of contemporary Turkey and how its different representations of the past have become metaphors through which individuals and groups define their cultural identity and political position.

Providing an account of the British involvement and support of the Iranian constitutional and national struggle of 1906-1911, this book examines the role of the Persia Committee, a lobbying group founded in 1908 for the purpose of changing Britain's policy towards Iran. It also covers how Edward Grey's policy towards Iran was shaped.

Regarding the constitution of ""other-ness"", this work examines the pedagogical, political and discursive practice of post-World War II Iranian intellectuals. It shows how clerics, secular and lay religious intellectuals confronted a dual sense of ""other-ness"" which resulted in dissent and nativism.