Straddling the domains of cultural and political nationalism, this title examines the Arab past; the clash between Arab and Turkish cultural nationalism in the 19th and early 20th century; and readings of canonical treatises on the topic of Arab cultural nationalism, the major ideological trends linking language to territorial nationalism.
Report by the Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on Middle East Tr
This is a report on trade and investment strategies in the Middle East. The authors argue that to combat economic stagnation and generate sustained growth the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries will have to do a lot more than lower tariffs and reduce intraregional trade barriers.
An examination of the origins and growth of the Middle East movement to abolish the secularizing reforms of the 20th century by creating a political order guided by Shariah law. Contributors explain the Islamic rejection of secularism as a failed Western Christian ideal.
An examination of the origins and growth of the Middle East movement to abolish the secularizing reforms of the 20th century by creating a political order guided by Shariah law. Contributors explain the Islamic rejection of secularism as a failed Western Christian ideal.
With over 250 illustrations, including sixty-four color plates, this book describes what the authors of Genesis saw, and what events and ideas moved them to write the story of their people's origins. It includes fourteen maps and charts, a selected chronology, and a list of gods of the Middle East.
For many centuries, the mountainous Caucasus region was a strategic backwater, inhabited by insular peoples and tribes, where the raw edges of Christian and Muslim empires rubbed abrasively together. Most of the Caucasus was absorbed into the Russian empire in the 10th century; its 112 recognized nationalities were thus all eventually smothered by ......
Although Jewish communities have thrived in Iraq, Tunisia and Morocco, as well as in south-west Asia and North Africa, knowledge of these cultures is limited. This book presents an anthology of work describing the lives and culture of Jews in the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Imagine a traditional Jewish community on the eve of the 19th century, and you will most likely picture the Eastern European shtetl. This prevailing European-oriented view obscures the fact that Jewry is a coat of many colors, with many diverse yet traditional manifestations, including the numerous Jewish communities of North Africa and Southwest ......
Falasha in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century
The origin, condition and future of the Black Jews of Ethiopia has been a source of debate. This study of the history of this community aims to demythologise the history of the Falasha and to consider them in the wider context of Ethiopian history and culture.
