El-Husseini (Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, City U. of New York) analyzes the evolution of Lebanese politics in the years following the Ta'if Agreement of 1989, years dominated by Syr
Concentrating on the societal aspects of the reform process, Yilmaz (history, Southern Illinois U., Carbondale) examines the nationalization and modernization reforms (known as the Kemalist reforms) i
Using examples ranging from Iran to Morocco, the author discusses how the meeting of two incompatible worlds leads to a profound distortion not only in how the Muslim world sees the West, but in how i
In 1905, the year preceding the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, Iranian women and girls were sold by peasants to pay their taxes, and taken as booty in a raid by Turkoman tribesmen against a villag
Now retired (The American U.), in the early 1960s Mardin set out to fill in some of the processes of the 19th-century reform movement in Turkey that he found missing from the work of Turkish historian
While former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak has fallen from power following the 2011 uprising, the long-running persistence of his authoritarian power and its interactions with equally persistent pol
Ringer (history and Asian languages and civilizations, Amherst College) explores how Western definitions of modernity and modern religion were variously interpreted, accepted, rejected, and modified b
Hoffman (religion and South Asian and Middle Eastern studies, U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) examines a distinct sect of Islam that is neither Sunni nor Shi'ite and remains largely a mystery both to
As Syria’s anti-authoritarian uprising and subsequent civil war have left the country in ruins, the need for understanding the nation’s complex political and cultural realities remains urgent. The sec
Maintaining that the standard western theories of modernization do not fully explain the global resurgence of fundamental religion, offers a new analysis of freedom that integrates western and non-wes
Eleven chapters, presented by Kamrava (director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown U.'s School of Foreign Service in Qatar), explore the reasons for changing internatio
Presented by Boroujerdi (political science, Syracuse U.), 13 chapters explore the concepts and canons of Islamic thought in Arab, Persian, South Asian, and Turkish traditions, demonstrating the divers
Vahdat (comparative religion, Tufts U.), in this revised version of his dissertation (in sociology at Brandeis U.), applies a carefully defined theory of modernity to his discussion of Iran from the m
In October 1875, two months after the takeover of the Somali coastal town of Zeila, an Egyptian force numbering 1,200 soldiers departed from the city to occupy Harar, a prominent Muslim hub i
