Examines early Kurdish nationalism within the context of the demise of the Ottoman Empire.

Explains how the Jordanian monarchy has survived economic crisis and regional political instability.

A comparative analysis of the social and cultural dimensions of nationalism in the Middle East.

Uses the Arab experience to explain the appeal of constitutional documents to authoritarian political regimes.

Traces the development of the modern Arabic novel from the 1960s to the present.

Shows how the laws governing civil society are used to regulate Islamic activism in Jordan.

A new and provocative argument about monarchism in the Middle East.

Parens argues that Alfarabi, the tenth-century Muslim philosopher, demonstrated that Plato is not the originator of Western metaphysics, and that what appears to be Plato's metaphysics was intended as a rhetorical defense of his politics.

Examines the influence of American law on Muslim life in the United States, treating such issues as pluralism and religious toleration, immigration and naturalization, civil rights, Black Muslims and the prisoners' rights movement, municipal zoning, and hate-crimes legislation.

This book assesses the contribution of women to the Arabic novel, both in subject matter and form. It begins by tracing the struggle over women's rights in the Arab world, particularly the gradual improvement ...

Studies the development of Muslim jurisprudential and theological thought by analyzing the dispute that raged from the ninth to the nineteenth century over the assessment of acts that took place before the Qur'anic Revelation.

This book provides the first in-depth look at Muslim life and institutions forming in North America. It considers the range of Islamic life in North America with its different racial-ethnic and cultural ...

Explores the history of Muslim women and debates over gender, which have developed since the golden age of Islam.

This book provides a multi-disciplinary understanding of the processes of change in contemporary Syria as well as its historical, social, and cultural underpinnings. A number of distinguished anthropologists, ...

The Ottoman Empire is approahced through analysis of its political economy based on world systems theory. Relations with Europe constituted one of the key factors that shaped the dissolution of the Ottoman ...

This book illustrates that external factors, especially international political processes interacting with large-scale ecological and demographic changes, are the primary cause of problems experienced ...