SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
About the Book Series
This series features the latest disciplinary approaches to Middle Eastern Studies. It covers the Social Sciences and the Humanities in both the pre-modern and modern periods of the region. While primarily interested in publishing single-authored studies, the series is also open to edited volumes on innovative topics, as well as textbooks and reference works.
The Kurds: A Contemporary Overview
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Stefan Sperl
May 07, 2015
The position of the 19 million Kurds is an extremely complex one. Their territory is divided between 5 sovereign states, none of which have a Kurdish majority. They speak widely divergent dialects, and are also divided by religious affiliations and social factors. It has taken the tragic and ...
State-Society Relations in Ba'thist Iraq: Facing Dictatorship
1st Edition
By Achim Rohde
March 27, 2014
Scholarship on Iraq under the Ba’th regime has traditionally focused on the rule of Saddam Hussein and his narrow inner circle. The centrality of the former president in Iraqi politics until spring 2003 and the tyranny of his regime were evident, and available sources concerning developments inside...
The City in the Ottoman Empire: Migration and the making of urban modernity
1st Edition
Edited
By Ulrike Freitag, Malte Fuhrmann, Nora Lafi, Florian Riedler
March 19, 2014
The nexus of urban governance and human migration was a crucial feature in the modernisation of cities in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century. This book connects these two concepts to examine the Ottoman city as a destination of human migration, throwing new light on the question of ...
Court Cultures in the Muslim World: Seventh to Nineteenth Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Albrecht Fuess, Jan-Peter Hartung
February 25, 2014
Courts and the complex phenomenon of the courtly society have received intensified interest in academic research over recent decades, however, the field of Islamic court culture has so far been overlooked. This book provides a comparative perspective on the history of courtly culture in Muslim ...
Nationalism and Liberal Thought in the Arab East: Ideology and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Christoph Schumann
February 25, 2014
This book explores the complex relationship between nationalism and liberal thought in the Arab East during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining this formative period through reformist Islam, Arab secularism and Arab literature, the book situates major shifts in the political ...
Untold Histories of the Middle East: Recovering Voices from the 19th and 20th Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Amy Singer, Christoph Neumann, Selcuk Aksin Somel
February 25, 2014
Much traditional historiography consciously and unconsciously glosses over certain discourses, narratives, and practices. This book examines silences or omissions in Middle Eastern history at the turn of the twenty-first century, to give a fuller account of the society, culture and politics. With a...
Approaches to the Qur'an
1st Edition
Edited
By G. R. Hawting
December 12, 2013
In recent years, the study of the Qur'an and its interpretation has expanded to incorporate insights gained from historical, biblical, literary and critical studies. A variety of approaches to the Qur'an and the Muslim exegetical tradition are currently available. Approaches to the Qur'an consists ...
Nazism in Syria and Lebanon: The Ambivalence of the German Option, 1933–1945
1st Edition
By Götz Nordbruch
May 15, 2012
The increasingly vibrant political culture emerging in Lebanon and Syria in the 1930s and early 1940s is key to the understanding of local approaches towards the Nazi German regime. For many contemporary observers in Beirut and Damascus, Nazism not only posed a risk to Europe, but threatened to ...
Subalterns and Social Protest: History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephanie Cronin
January 30, 2012
The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives. The collection is unique in its historical depth - ranging from the medieval period to the present - and its ...
Medieval Arabic Historiography: Authors as Actors
1st Edition
By Konrad Hirschler
April 14, 2011
Medieval Arabic Historiography is concerned with social contexts and narrative structures of pre-modern Islamic historiography written in Arabic in seventh and thirteenth-century Syria and Eygpt. Taking up recent theoretical reflections on historical writing in the European Middle Ages, this ...
The Ottoman Administration of Iraq, 1890-1908
1st Edition
By Gökhan Çetinsaya
April 04, 2011
This is a study of the nature of Ottoman administration under Sultan Abdulhamid and the effects of this on the three provinces that were to form the modern state of Iraq. The author provides a general commentary on the late Ottoman provincial administration and a comprehensive picture of the nature...
Late Ottoman Society: The Intellectual Legacy
1st Edition
By Elisabeth Özdalga
March 14, 2011
When the Ottomans commenced their modernizing reforms in the 1830s, they still ruled over a vast empire. In addition to today's Turkey, including Anatolia and Thrace, their power reached over Mesopotamia, North Africa, the Levant, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. The Sultanate was at the apex of a ...