Middle East Studies

Considers how Arab and Islamic culinary culture may be represented in literary forms...

This study of political relations in the Middle East analyzes the reasons behind the instability of the region...

First Published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

To a large extent the history of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has been shaped by the interaction between Jordan and Palestine. This book, first published in 1994, discusses this relationship during one of its most critical phases, through the prism of the biography of one of the main actors in th..

One Hundred Years of Kibbutz Life..

Updated in the light of the Israel/PLO peace negotiations, this undergraduate text on the conflict over Palestine takes the aftermath of the Gulf War as its starting point and places subsequent events in the context of the region's history...

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This book, based on twenty-five months of anthropological fieldwork, examines activists and activism in Palestinian non-governmental organizations in Israel. It concentrates on the ways organizations enable certain processes of self-identification based on activists' constructions of modernity...

This book examines the literary politics of Orhan Pamuk’s novels within the framework of contestations over “Turkishness,” Islam, and secularization. Moving beyond a traditional study of literature, this book turns to literature to ask larger questions about Turkish history, identity, collective mem..

This book examines the literary politics of Orhan Pamuk’s novels within the framework of contestations over “Turkishness,” Islam, and secularization. Moving beyond a traditional study of literature, this book turns to literature to ask larger questions about Turkish history, identity, collective mem..

Original Islam investigates the primacy of Madinan Islam and the madhhab (school of law) of its main exponent, Malik ibn Anas. It contains an annotated translation of Intisar al-faqir al-salik li-tarjih madhhab al-Imam al-kabir Malik, which was written by Al-Ra'i, a fifteenth century Andalusian scho..