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.
Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Empire: A Study of Communal Relations in Anatolia
1st Edition
By Ayse Ozil
May 31, 2017
Orthodox Christians, as well as other non-Muslims of the Ottoman Empire, have long been treated as insular and homogenous entities, distinctly different and separate from the rest of the Ottoman world. Despite this view prevailing in mainstream historiography, some scholars have suggested recently ...
State-Nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey: Orthodox and Muslims, 1830-1945
1st Edition
Edited
By Benjamin C. Fortna, Stefanos Katsikas, Dimitris Kamouzis, Paraskevas Konortas
May 31, 2017
Tracing the emergence of minorities and their institutions from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the Second World War, this book provides a comparative study of government policies and ideologies of two states towards minority populations living within their borders. Making extensive use ...
Dismantling the Ottoman Empire: Britain, America and the Armenian question
1st Edition
By Nevzat Uyanık
May 25, 2017
Prior to World War I, American involvement in Armenian affairs was limited to missionary and educational interests. This was contrary to Britain, which had played a key role in the diplomatic arena since the Treaty of Berlin in 1878, when the Armenian question had become a subject of great power ...
The Making of the Arab Intellectual: Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood
1st Edition
Edited
By Dyala Hamzah
May 24, 2017
In the wake of the Ottoman Empire’s nineteenth-century reforms, as guilds waned and new professions emerged, the scholarly ‘estate’ underwent social differentiation. Some found employment in the state’s new institutions as translators, teachers and editors, whilst others resisted civil servant ...
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 ...
Egypt Under Mubarak
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Owen, Charles Tripp
November 10, 2014
Egypt is one of the major powers in the Middle East. The vigour of its cultural life and the extent of its influence make it a force which cannot be ignored in the Arab world. Yet, despite the comparative confidence with which its rulers handle power, the country has a politically contradictory ...
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 ...