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.
The Christian-Muslim Frontier: A Zone of Contact, Conflict or Co-operation
1st Edition
By Mario Apostolov
November 29, 2010
The Christian-Muslim Frontier describes the historical formation of this zone, and its contemporary dimensions: geopolitical, psychological, economic and security. Special attention is given to the concept of state-frontiers, to the effects of the uneven development of nation states and the ...
Turkey's Kurds: A Theoretical Analysis of the PKK and Abdullah Ocalan
1st Edition
By Ali Kemal Özcan
November 29, 2010
The Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) is examined here in this text on Kurdish nationalism. Incorporating recent field-based research results and newly translated material on Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK's long-time leader; it explores the nature and the organizational working of the party, from its ...
The Baha'is of Iran: Socio-Historical Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Seena B. Fazel
September 06, 2010
The Baha’i community of Iran is the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority. This collection of essays presents a comprehensive study of the social and historical development of the Baha’i community, and its role in shaping modern Iran. Central to this study is the pioneering character of ...
Gender and Self in Islam
1st Edition
By Etin Anwar
September 03, 2009
Using philosophical analysis, this book explores the construction of gender in Muslim societies and its implication to the constitution of the self. The root of the existing discourse of the hierarchical principle is examined as is the extent to which the process of human reproduction, especially ...