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  • Shi'i Clerical Authority in Iraq

    The Neo-Traditional Marji'yya and the Transformation of Political Order

    by Harith Hasan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government
    Sh’i Clerical Authority in Iraq: The Neo-Traditional Marji’yya and the Transformation of Political Order provides the first comprehensive analysis of the evolving relationship between Shi'i religious authority and the state in Iraq through a distinctive historical sociology framework that illuminates structural and contextual transformations.Spanning decades of complex interaction, it examines the ... Read more

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  • Striking From The Margins

    State, Religion and Devolution of Authority in the Middle East

    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Arab world has undergone a series of radical transformations. One of the most significant is the resurgence of activist and puritanical forms of religion presenting as viable alternatives to existing social, cultural and political practices. The rise in sectarianism and violence in the name of religion has left scholars searching for adequate conceptual ... Read more

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    Domestic Origins and Early Trajectory

    Series series Routledge/ St. Andrews Syrian Studies Series
    Most observers did not expect the Arab spring to spread to Syria, for a number of seemingly good reasons. Yet, with amazing rapidity, massive and unprecedented anti-regime mobilization took place, which put the regime very much on the defensive; what began as the Syrian Uprising in March 2011 has evolved into one of the world’s most damaging and protracted conflicts. Despite over six years having ... Read more

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  • The Islamist Phoenix

    The Islamic State (ISIS) and the Redrawing of the Middle East

    An updated edition of The Islamist Phoenix is now available as ISIS: The Terror Nation (978-1-60980-725-2)From its birth in the late 1990s as the jihadist dream of terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the Islamic State (known by a variety of names, including ISIS, ISIL, and al Qaeda in Iraq) has grown into a massive enterprise, redrawing national borders across the Middle East and subjecting an ... Read more

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  • Islamic Exceptionalism

    How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World

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    In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, "exceptional" in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the future of the Middle East. Divides among citizens aren't just about power but are products of fundamental disagreements over the very nature and ... Read more

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  • Turkey and the Arab Spring: Leadership in the Middle East

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  • Contemporary Politics in the Middle East

    The fourth edition of this dynamic and popular text provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary politics in the Middle East. Fully revised and updated throughout, it features a new chapter on the Arab Spring and its aftermath, plus a wide range of vibrant case studies, data, questions for class discussion and suggestions for further reading.Purposefully employing a clear thematic ... Read more

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  • Islam and the Arab Awakening

    by Tariq Ramadan ...
    One of the most important developments in the modern history of the Middle East, the so-called Arab Spring began in Tunisia in December 2010, bringing down dictators, sparking a civil war in Libya, and igniting a bloody uprising in Syria. Its long-term repercussions in Egypt and elsewhere remain unclear. Now one of the world's leading Islamic thinkers examines and explains it, in this searching, ... Read more

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  • Paradise Beneath Her Feet

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  • Revolution without Revolutionaries

    Making Sense of the Arab Spring

    by Asef Bayat ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    The revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and between countries with extraordinary speed. Several years on, however, it has caused limited shifts in structures of power, leaving much of the old political and social order intact. In this book, noted author Asef Bayat—whose Life as Politics anticipated the Arab Spring—uncovers ... Read more

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  • Temptations of Power

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    In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "end of history." The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy--the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms, and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere have such considerations become more relevant than ... Read more

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