Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History
About the Book Series
The region's history from the earliest times to the present is catered for by this series made up of the very latest research. Books include political, social, cultural, religious and economic history.
Entangled Histories in Palestine/Israel: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Dafna Hirsch
August 29, 2025
This edited volume offers a new critical approach to the study of Zionist history and Israeli-Palestinian relations, based on the encounter between history and anthropology. Informed by the anthropological method of setting large questions to intimate settings, the book examines processes of ...
Saudi Arabia in the Anglo-American Press: Covering the Kingdom during the 20th Century
1st Edition
By Abdullah F. Alrebh
January 30, 2025
This book provides an in-depth analysis of authority structures in Saudi Arabia during the twentieth century, as presented in two leading Western newspapers, The London Times and The New York Times. Beginning with a history of Saudi Arabia – from the building of the Kingdom in 1901, when Ibn Saud ...
Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause: The Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods
1st Edition
Edited
By Erik Freas
December 23, 2024
This book provides an historical overview of Palestine’s Christian communities and their role in the Palestinian nationalist movement during the late Ottoman and British mandatory periods. More than being a history of Palestine’s Christian Arabs, the book focuses on Palestine’s Christians during ...
The Changing Landscape of Israeli Archaeology: Between Hegemony and Marginalization
1st Edition
By Hayah Katz
November 28, 2024
Focused on the connections between archaeology and Israeli society, this book examines the development of Israeli archaeological research, taking historical, sociological, and political contexts into account. Adopting a Foucauldian framework of power and knowledge, the author begins by focusing on ...
Reconstructions in Middle East Economic History: Essays in Honor of Roger Owen
1st Edition
Edited
By Don Babai
October 24, 2024
This volume explores major theoretical and empirical themes in the study of the economic history of the Middle East. Despite the relative neglect of economic history in Middle Eastern studies, this book makes a case for its importance as a discipline of study. On the one hand, it shows promise in ...
America's Arab Nationalists: From the Ottoman Revolution to the Rise of Hitler
1st Edition
By Aaron Berman
May 27, 2024
America’s Arab Nationalists focuses in on the relationship between Arab nationalists and Americans in the struggle for independence in an era when idealistic Americans could see the Arab nationalist struggle as an expression of their own values. In the first three decades of the twentieth century (...
Protestant Missionaries in the Levant: Ungodly Puritans, 1820-1860
1st Edition
By Samir Khalaf
May 24, 2017
Through focusing on the unintended by-products of New England Puritanism as a cultural transplant in the Levant, this book explores the socio-historical forces which account for the failure of early envoys’ attempts to convert the ‘native,’ population. Early failure in conversion led to later ...
War and State Formation in Syria: Cemal Pasha's Governorate During World War I, 1914-1917
1st Edition
By M. Talha Çiçek
December 08, 2016
During the First World War, Cemal Pasha attempted to establish direct control over Syrian and thereby reaffirm Ottoman authority there through various policies of control, including the abolishment of local intermediaries. Elaborating on these Ottoman policies of control, this book assesses Cemal ...
The Secret Anglo-French War in the Middle East: Intelligence and Decolonization, 1940-1948
1st Edition
By Meir Zamir
November 10, 2016
The role of intelligence in colonialism and decolonization is a rapidly expanding field of study. The premise of The Secret Anglo-French War in the Middle East is that intelligence statecraft is the "missing dimension" in the established historiography of the Middle East during and after World War ...
The Ghazi Sultans and the Frontiers of Islam: A comparative study of the late medieval and early modern periods
1st Edition
By Ali Anooshahr
March 27, 2014
The Ghazi Sultans were frontier holy-warrior kings of late medieval and early modern Islamic history. This book is a comparative study of three particular Ghazis in the Muslim world at that time, demonstrating the extent to which these men were influenced by the actions and writings of their ...
The Origins of Syrian Nationhood: Histories, Pioneers and Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Adel Beshara
March 07, 2014
The ‘Syria idea’ emerged in the nineteenth century as a concept of national awakening superseding both Arab nationalism and separatist currents. Looking at nationalist movements, ideas and individuals, this book traces the origin and development of the idea of Syrian nationhood from the perspective...
Ending Empire in the Middle East: Britain, the United States and Post-war Decolonization, 1945-1973
1st Edition
By Simon C. Smith
November 07, 2013
This book is a major and wide-ranging re-assessment of Anglo-American relations in the Middle Eastern context. It analyses the process of ending of empire in the Middle East from 1945 to the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Based on original research into both British and American archival sources, it ...