Providing a brief history of Islam as a religion and as socio-political ideology, this book presents the historical and political context to explain acts of terror including the September 11th attacks and the bombing of American Embassies in Nairobi and Dar as Salaam and the West's responses.
Presenting a political history and sociology of Moroccan Sufism from colonialism to the modern day, this book studies the Sufi model of Master and Dis..
The deep state ranks among the most critical issues in Turkish politics. This book offers a path dependent explanation of the emergence and trajectory..
This is a book on Arab regionalism and the power relations involved in the making of an Arab region. On an empirical level, this book focuses on the d..
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The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei is the first book to identify and analyze the development and evolution of the theocr..
The implications of the Arab uprisings are important for the world at large; the Arab world’s successes, and failures, at this crucial moment may well..
Much has been written about the 2003 Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and its aftermath, but insufficient attention has been given to the consequences ..
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Political Conflict and Exclusion in Jerusalem offers a detailed description of the structure of the education sector in East Jerus..
Al Jazeera and Democratization analyses the increasing role of the media in political transformations with a special emphasis on the Arab world. Taki..
Although there has not been the equivalent in Lebanon of the uprisings seen in other Arab countries, the fragile state has nevertheless been put under..
This book examines Western foreign policy towards the Middle East, and the extent to which the promotion of democracy has been in conflict with, or su..
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Oil States in the New Middle East brings together leading experts to critically assess the centrality of oil and the relevance of ..
This book explores the understanding and practice of democracy in Turkey since the early 2000s, analyzing its evolution in light of the parliamentary ..