Middle East Studies

By Raja M. Almarzoqi, Walid Mansour, Noureddine Krichene

Islamic Macroeconomics proposes an Islamic model that offers significant prospects for economic growth and durable macroeconomic stability, and which is immune to the defects of the economic models prevailing both in developed and developing countries. An Islamic model advocates a limited…

Hardback – 2018-03-30 
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Islamic Business and Finance Series

By Scott A Bollens

Creating peace for a city’s intimate enemies is harder than making war. This book is about the trajectories of urban conflict and peace in the politically polarized cities of Jerusalem and Belfast since 1994 – how sometimes there has been hopeful change while at other times debilitating stasis and…

Paperback – 2018-01-09
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Planning, History and Environment Series

Edited by Roberto Tottoli

Islam has long been a part of the West in terms of religion, culture, politics and society. Discussing this interaction from al-Andalus to the present, this Handbook explores the influence Islam has had, and continues to exert; particularly its impact on host societies, culture and politics.…

Paperback – 2018-01-01
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By Meena Sharify-Funk, William Rory Dickson, Merin Shobhana Xavier

What is Sufism? Contemporary views vary tremendously, even among Sufis themselves. Contemporary Sufism: Piety, Politics, and Popular Culture brings to light the religious frameworks that shape the views of Sufism’s friends, adversaries, admirers, and detractors and, in the process, helps readers…

Paperback – 2017-12-15
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By Moshe Gat

The Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1956–1975 contains a collection of articles that examine select issues between the end of the Suez Campaign in November 1956 and the Sinai II, or Interim Agreement, signed by Israel and Egypt in September 1975. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the struggle…

Paperback – 2017-11-20
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Israeli History, Politics and Society

Edited by Tom Najem, Michael J. Molloy, Michael Bell, John Bell

Contested Sites in Jerusalem is the third and final volume in a series of books which collectively present in detail the work of the Jerusalem Old City Initiative, or JOCI, a major Canadian-led Track Two diplomatic effort, undertaken between 2003 and 2014. The aim of the Initiative was to find…

Paperback – 2017-11-13
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UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED) series

By David W. Lesch

Edited by David W. Lesch, Mark L. Haas

The Middle East and the United States brings together scholars and policy experts to provide an empirical and balanced assessment of US policy in the Middle East primarily from the end of World War I to the present. Carefully edited by David W. Lesch and Mark L. Haas, this text provides a broad and…

Paperback – 2018-03-13
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Edited by Suzi Mirgani

State-driven investments in art and cultural production in the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are an important part of the search for longer-term alternatives to the longer-term unsustainability of the hydrocarbon-based economic development model. They also are an element in the…

Hardback – 2018-02-20
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Edited by Raymond Hinnebusch, Omar Imady

Most observers did not expect the Arab spring to spread to Syria, for a number of seemingly good reasons. Yet, with amazing rapidity, massive and unprecedented anti-regime mobilization took place, which put the regime very much on the defensive; what began as the Syrian Uprising in March 2011 has…

Paperback – 2018-02-15
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Routledge/ St. Andrews Syrian Studies Series