Dr Sabrina Mervin, Prof. Robert Gleave and Dr Géraldine Chatelard

Najaf: Portrait of a Holy City fills a serious knowledge gap about this most important spiritual and learning centre for the global Shi‘i community – a subject of renewed interest among academics and the general public.  It is the only edited academic volume available on the subject in English.

Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Mahjoob Zweiri

Relations between Sunnis and Shi is, the two main sects of Islam, have been tense for generations. Yet it is only recently that they have become confrontational, at times displaying worrying signs of deep hostility.

Jamal Wakim

In this book, Dr. Jamal Wakim argues that the success or failure of Syria’s policies is directly linked to the degree to which these policies accord with those of Iraq, Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and that it has been subject throughout its history to competition between the forces occupying the geostrategic spheres that surround it.

Minou Reeves

Europe’s Debt to Persia from Ancient to Modern Times provides a fresh scholarly perspective on how over the centuries Persian kings and noblemen protected and sponsored the religious and intellectual heritage of both Judea and Greece alongside that of Persia itself.

Abbas Halabi

The Druze, a much misunderstood Muslim sect primarily inhabiting the Levant, have endured centuries of persecution by orthodox elements hostile to Islam s rich sectarian diversity on account of their esoteric divergence from mainstream Islam.

Tugrul Keskin

The Sociology of Islam examines the connection between the economic system and its social and political consequences within Muslim societies by focusing on the role of Islam within Muslim societies in the context of ongoing and increasingly powerful neoliberal economic processes in a globalized world.

Anoushirvan Ehteshami

The oil rich monarchies of the Arabian Peninsula are frequently dismissed as having no democratic systems compared to most other regions of the world. Indeed, the United States justified its action in Iraq by proclaiming that democracy and freedom must be adopted both in Iraq and throughout the wider Middle East, in order to counter the conditions which breed international terrorism.

Mahjoob Zweiri, Emma C. Murphy

The New Arab Media: Technology, Image and Perception; provides a valuable introduction and analysis of some of the most important issues surrounding the new media revolution in the Middle East, in particular examining its role in reflecting developments within the region as well as its function in projecting the Arab world outside of the Middle East.

Vania Carvalho Pinto

The extensive changes to Emirati women’s traditional rights and roles have been one of the most visible transformations taking place in the United Arab Emirates throughout its forty years of modern history. This book offers an interpretation of why and how these modifications came about.