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.
Turkish-Israeli Relations: Democratization, Asymmetry and Regional Crises, 1960-1971
1st Edition
By Remi Daniel
August 03, 2026
Turkish-Israeli Relations: Democratization, Asymmetry and Regional Crises, 1960–1971 offers a timely reappraisal of a pivotal decade in Turkish-Israeli diplomacy, marked by domestic political change and regional upheaval. Set against the backdrop of Turkey’s 1960 military coup and ongoing ...
A History of Turkish Scholarship: Modernization, Nationalism and the State
1st Edition
By Dogan Gurpinar
July 27, 2026
A History of Turkish Scholarship: Modernization, Nationalism and the State traces the evolution of Turkey’s academic institutions from their late Ottoman roots to the present, revealing how universities became key arenas in the struggle over national identity, progress, and state power. Focusing on...
Reconstructions in Middle East Economic History: Essays in Honor of Roger Owen
1st Edition
Edited
By Don Babai
January 30, 2026
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 ...
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 ...
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 (...
The British Mandate in Palestine: A Centenary Volume, 1920–2020
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael J Cohen
September 30, 2021
The British Mandate over Palestine began just 100 years ago, in July 1920, when Sir Herbert Samuel, the first British High Commissioner to Palestine, took his seat at Government House, Jerusalem. The chapters here analyse a wide cross-section of the conflicting issues --social, political and ...
Britain and the Arab Gulf after Empire: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, 1971-1981
1st Edition
By Simon C. Smith
December 18, 2020
Although Britain’s formal imperial role in the smaller, oil-rich Sheikhdoms of the Arab Gulf – Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates – ended in 1971, Britain continued to have a strong interest and continuing presence in the region. This book explores the nature of Britain’s role ...
Hebrew Popular Journalism: Birth and Development in Ottoman Palestine
1st Edition
By Ouzi Elyada
December 18, 2020
The book examines the birth, development, and mode of operation of the Hebrew popular press that progressed in Ottoman Palestine between 1884 and the eruption of World War I in 1914. The inquiry yields a profile of the printers, editors, and journalists, and examines the editors’ working patterns, ...
The Empress Nurbanu and Ottoman Politics in the Sixteenth Century: Building the Atik Valide
1st Edition
By Pinar Kayaalp
August 14, 2020
Nurbanu (1525–1583) is one of the most prominent yet least studied royal women of the Ottoman dynasty. Her political and administrative career began when she was chosen as the favorite concubine of the crown prince Selim. Nurbanu’s authority increased when her son Murad was singled out as ...