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  • Studying Islam in the Arab World

    The Rupture Between Religion and the Social Sciences

    by Sari Hanafi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy
    Addressing the rupture between religious and social sciences in Arab universities, this book provides a critical assessment of the curricula of Shariah and Islamic Studies departments across the Arab World, arguing for increased interdisciplinary dialogue.Based on over 250 interviews with university students and teachers, this study is the sum of five years of field research observing the ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East

    Series series OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES
    The sociology of the Middle East has been an expanding field of inquiry since the aftermath of World War II when the Middle East became central in key sociological debates on modernization theory and their critical responses. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East connects this historical trajectory with the emergence of the sociology of Islam, inspired by Max Weber. It explores ... Read more

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  • Sociologies in Dialogue

    Edited by Sari Hanafi, Chin-Chun Yi ...
    Series series SAGE Studies in International Sociology
    Sociologies in Dialogue brings together expert contributions from international scholars, who reflect on the importance of collaboration between diverse sociological perspectives to enhance our understanding of the role of sociology as an academic discipline, and as a vehicle for social change.By exploring the distinctive practices and research of a range of sociologists, the book shows how an ... Read more

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  • Spatial Social Thought: Local Knowledge in Global Science Encounters

    Global, local, glocal – reflecting on the area of world social science seems to be above all a matter of space. In these spatial dichotomies the global has no location and locations seem beyond this world. Discourses about world social science thought not only distinguish social thought along spaces where they are created. Space has become an attribute of thinking when social scientists reflect on ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees

    From Relief and Works to Human Development

    Series series Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
    Exploring the evolution of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), this book fills a lacuna in literature on the agency.UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees employs recent fieldwork in order to analyse challenges in programmes and service delivery, protection, camp governance, community participation, and camp improvement and reconstruction. The ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Palestinian Refugees

    Identity, Space and Place in the Levant

    Edited by Are Knudsen, Sari Hanafi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
    More than four million Palestinian refugees live in protracted exile across the Middle East. Taking a regional approach to Palestinian refugee exile and alienation across the Levant, this book proposes a new understanding of the spatial and political dimensions of refugee camps across the Middle East.Combining critical scholarship with ethnographic insight, the essays uncover host states’ ... Read more

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  • Knowledge Production in the Arab World

    The Impossible Promise

    Series series Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
    Over recent decades we have witnessed the globalization of research. However, this has yet to translate into a worldwide scientific network, across which competencies and resources can flow freely. Arab countries have strived to join this globalized world and become a ‘knowledge economy,’ yet little time has been invested in the region’s fragmented scientific institutions; institutions that should ... Read more

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    An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance

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    In The Making of a Human Bomb, Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian anthropologist, explains the cultural logic underlying Palestinian martyrdom operations (suicide attacks) launched against Israel during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2000–06). In so doing, he sheds much-needed light on how Palestinians have experienced and perceived the broader conflict. During the Intifada, many of the martyrdom operations ... Read more

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  • The Arab Spring

    The End of Postcolonialism

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
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  • Saving Iraq

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  • Feminist Edges of the Qur'an

    Aysha Hidayatullah presents the first comprehensive analysis of contemporary feminist interpretations of the Qur'an. Synthesizing prominent feminist readings of the Qur'an in the United States since the late twentieth century, she provides an essential introduction to this nascent field of Qur'anic scholarship and engages in a deep investigation-as well as a radical critique-of its methods and ... Read more

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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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