History and Society in the Islamic World
About the Book Series
Contemporary events in the Islamic world dominate the headlines and emphasise the crises of the Middle East and North Africa, yet the Islamic World is far larger and more varied than we realise. Current affairs there too mask the underlying trends and values that have, over time, created a fascinating and complex world. This new series is intended to reveal that other Islamic reality by looking at its history and society over the ages, as well as at the contemporary scene. It will also reach far further afield, bringing in Central Asia and the Far East as part of a cultural space sharing common values and beliefs but manifesting a vast diversity of experience and social order.
Geographic Realities in the Middle East and North Africa: State, Oil and Agriculture
1st Edition
Edited
By George Joffé, Richard Schofield
January 09, 2023
Celebrating the work of Keith McLachlan, a well-known and much-admired geographer of the Middle East and North Africa, this book combines three interrelated topics that define the region. The Middle East has been integral to the growth of the global oil industry, an aspect of its evolution since ...
Media and Politics in the Southern Mediterranean: Communicating Power in Transition after 2011
1st Edition
Edited
By Roxane Farmanfarmaian
April 20, 2022
This edited volume presents ground-breaking empirical research on the media in political transition in Tunisia, Turkey and Morocco. Focusing on developments in the wake of the region’s upheavals in 2011, it offers a new theoretical framework for understanding mediascapes in the confessional and ...
Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco
1st Edition
Edited
By Driss Maghraoui
December 08, 2017
Exploring the concept of ‘colonial cultures,’ this book analyses how these cultures both transformed, and were transformed by, their various societies. Challenging both the colonial vulgate, and the nationalist paradigm, Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco, examines the lesser known ...
French Military Rule in Morocco: Colonialism and its Consequences
1st Edition
By Moshe Gershovich
July 08, 2016
This analysis of French colonial ideology and interest in Morocco delineates the manner in which the agents of the protectorate regime sought to conquer the country and control its indigenous inhabitants. Numerous comparative perspectives are offered, placing the French policy towards Morocco in a ...
Islamist Radicalisation in North Africa: Politics and Process
1st Edition
Edited
By George Joffé
March 07, 2014
In the current climate of political extremism and violence, much attention has been directed towards "radicalisation" as the reasons behind such courses of action, along with a conviction that those who are radicalised represent an irrational deviation from the conventionally accepted norms of ...
The Creation of Saudi Arabia: Ibn Saud and British Imperial Policy, 1914-1927
1st Edition
By Askar H. Al-Enazy
February 27, 2013
Overturning previous interpretations that see the territorial expansion of the Saudi state between 1915 and 1926 as the result of an aggressive Wahhabi ideology carried out by a politically ambitious Ibn Saud, this book explores the links between Saudi territorial expansion and British Imperial ...
Lebanon: The Politics of Frustration - The Failed Coup of 1961
1st Edition
By Adel Beshara
December 20, 2011
Lebanon examines the ideological, political and social underpinnings of the attempted coup against General Chihab's government in Lebanon in 1961. The author analyzes the role of the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, the history of the army in Lebanon and it role in Lebanese politics and the...
Civil Society and Political Change in Morocco
1st Edition
By James N. Sater
April 14, 2011
Taking Morocco as its focus, this book looks at the political change in the country since 1990. It places particular emphasis on key topics, such as civil society, human rights and reform, as vital issues for understanding the developments in the contemporary Middle East....
The Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil: A Frenchman between France and North Africa
1st Edition
By William A. Hoisington, Jr.
March 01, 2011
This is a political biography of the French industrialist and political activist Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil (1894-1955), president of the Taxpayers' Federation in the 1930s, entrepreneur in wartime France and Africa, organizer of the 'Group of Five' in Algiers which prepared for the Allied landings ...
The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
1st Edition
By John Wright
August 11, 2010
This compelling text sheds light on the important but under studied trans-Saharan slave trade. The author uncovers and surveys this, the least-noticed of the slave trades out of Africa, which from the seventh to the twentieth centuries quielty delievered almost as many black Africans into ...
Britain and Morocco During the Embassy of John Drummond Hay
1st Edition
By Khalid Ben-Srhir
June 01, 2010
This translation provides fascinating insights into a critical period in Moroccan history and Moroccan-British relations during the nineteenth century. Using the life and work of the British representative in Tangier, John Drummond Hay, an individual who personally experienced the relations ...
Managing Instability in Algeria: Elites and Political Change since 1995
1st Edition
By Isabelle Werenfels
June 29, 2009
This topical new book seeks to understand the relationship between elite dynamics and strategies and the lack of profound political change in Algeria after 1995, when the country’s military rulers returned to electoral processes. Using evidence from extensive fieldwork, Isabelle Werenfels exposes ...