Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
About the Book Series
This series includes the latest research on a broad range of topics from the social sciences and humanities. It aims to provide a comprehensive forum for cutting edge monographs and edited volumes on this vital region and religion.
Narratives of Dislocation in the Arab World: Rewriting Ghurba
1st Edition
Edited
By Nadeen Dakkak
October 09, 2024
This monograph explores and investigates narratives of physical, psychological, and emotional dislocation that take place within the Arab world, approaching them as manifestations of the Arabic word ghurba, or estrangement, as a feeling and state of being. Distancing itself from the centrality of ...
The Migrant in Arab Literature: Displacement, Self-Discovery and Nostalgia
1st Edition
Edited
By Martina Censi, Maria Elena Paniconi
August 26, 2024
This edited book offers a collection of fresh and critical essays that explore the representation of the migrant subject in modern and contemporary Arabic literature and discuss its role in shaping new forms of transcultural and transnational identities. The selection of essays in this volume ...
Bildungsroman and the Arab Novel: Egyptian Intersections
1st Edition
By Maria Elena Paniconi
May 27, 2024
Through a close-reading of a corpus of novels featuring young protagonists in their path toward adulthood, the book shows how Bildungsroman impacted the formation of the Egyptian narrative. On a larger scale, the book helps the reader to understand the key role played by the coming of age novel in ...
Orientalism, Zionism and Academic Practice: Middle East and Islam Studies in Israeli Universities
1st Edition
By Eyal Clyne
June 30, 2020
Orientalism, Zionism and Academic Practice explores the field of Israeli Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS) sociologically and politically, as a window onto the relationship between Orientalism, Zionism and academia. The book draws special attention to neoliberal discourse and praxis in ...
Palestinian Culture and the Nakba: Bearing Witness
1st Edition
By Hania Nashef
June 30, 2020
The Nakba not only resulted in the loss of the homeland, but also caused the dispersal and ruin of entire Palestinian communities. Even though the term Nakba refers to a singular historic event, the consequence of 1948 has symptomatically become part of Palestinian identity, and the element that ...
Higher Education Revolutions in the Gulf: Globalization and Institutional Viability
1st Edition
By Fatima Badry, John Willoughby
December 12, 2019
Over the past quarter century, the people of the Arabian Peninsula have witnessed a revolutionary transformation in higher education. In 1990, there were fewer than ten public universities that offered their Arabic-language curricula in sex-segregated settings to national citizens only. In 2015, ...
Knowledge Production in the Arab World: The Impossible Promise
1st Edition
By Sari Hanafi, Rigas Arvanitis
December 12, 2019
Over recent decades we have witnessed the globalization of research. However, this has yet to translate into a worldwide scientific network, across which competencies and resources can flow freely. Arab countries have strived to join this globalized world and become a ‘knowledge economy,’ yet ...
Navigating Contemporary Iran: Challenging Economic, Social and Political Perceptions
1st Edition
Edited
By Eric Hooglund, Leif Stenberg
June 16, 2017
This detailed examination of contemporary Iran addresses the most important current social, political, and economic issues facing the nation and the way it is perceived by the outside world. The volume brings together some of the most important scholars and researchers in the field, working in such...
Music, Culture and Identity in the Muslim World: Performance, Politics and Piety
1st Edition
Edited
By Kamal Salhi
June 28, 2016
In contrast to many books on Islam that focus on political rhetoric and activism, this book explores Islam's extraordinarily rich cultural and artistic diversity, showing how sound, music and bodily performance offer a window onto the subtleties and humanity of Islamic religious experience. ...
Dissident Writings of Arab Women: Voices Against Violence
1st Edition
By Brinda J. Mehta
June 03, 2016
Dissident Writings of Arab Women: Voices Against Violence analyzes the links between creative dissidence and inscriptions of violence in the writings of a selected group of postcolonial Arab women. The female authors destabilize essentialist framings of Arab identity through a series of reflective...
Rethinking Israeli Space: Periphery and Identity
1st Edition
By Erez Tzfadia, Haim Yacobi
February 25, 2014
This book sheds light on the production of Israeli space and the politics of Jewish and Arab cities. The authors’ postcolonial approach deals with the notion of periphery and peripherality, covering issues of spatial protest, urban policy and urban planning. Discussing periphery as a political, ...
The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations
1st Edition
By Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand
April 30, 2012
While globalization unifies the world, divisions re-emerge within it in the form of a spectacular separation between Islam and the West. How can it be that Huntington’s contested idea of a clash of civilizations became such a powerful political myth through which so many people look at the world? ...