2014 Middle East Studies Catalog

Middle East studies
New & Forthcoming
20% discount on all titles
Sta n fo r d Un i v e r s i t y
Pre ss
2014
Political Belonging and the Demands of History in Turkey

Kabir Tambar
The Reckoning of Pluralism
Second Edition
Refugees of the Revolution
The Turkish Republic was founded simultaneously on the ideal of universal citizenship and on acts of extraordinary exclusionary violence. Today, nearly a century later, the claims of minority communities and the politics of pluralism continue to ignite explosive debate. The Reckoning of Pluralism centers on the case of Turkeys Alevi community to offer a critical appraisal of the tensions of democratic pluralism. Alevis have seen their loyalties questioned and experienced sectarian hostility, and yet their community is also championed as bearers of the nations folkloric heritage. Tambar focuses on these forms of social inequality that pluralism perpetuates and on the political vulnerabilities to which minority communities are thereby exposed. A detailed and close analysis of the paradoxes of contemporary pluralism. Tambar explores in concrete terms the ways in which state authorized narratives of political belonging at once enable inclusion and perpetuate the subordination of difference. The ethnographic detail is illuminating; the argument subtle and nuanced.
Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study
Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa
Edited by Joel Beinin and Frdric Vairel
Experiences of Palestinian Exile

Diana Allan
Before the 2011 uprisings, the Middle East and North Africa were frequently seen as a uniquely undemocratic region with little civic activism. The first edition of this volume, published at the start of the Arab Spring, challenged these views by revealing a region rich with social and political mobilizations. This fully revised second edition extends the earlier explorations of Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, and adds new case studies on the uprisings in Tunisia, Syria, and Yemen. The volume offers a nuanced understanding of contexts, culturally conditioned rationality, the strengths and weaknesses of local networks, and innovation in contentious action to give the reader a substantive understanding of events in the Arab world both before and since 2011.
Praise for the first edition
Refugees of the Revolution is an evocative and provocative examination of everyday life in Shatila, a refugee camp in Beirut. Diana Allan provides an immersive account of camp experience, of communal and economic life as well as inner lives, tracking how residents relate across generations, cope with poverty and marginalization, and planpragmatically and speculativelyfor the future. Rethinking the relationship between home and homeland, Allan reveals how refugees are themselves pushing back against identities rooted in a purely nationalist discourse. This groundbreaking book offers a richly nuanced account of Palestinian exile, and presents new possibilities for the future of the community. With analytical subtlety, empathy, and political courage, Diana Allan raises questions around the way that activists and researchers working in Palestinian refugee camps focus on the national past. Her careful attention to the words and lives of Shatila people has produced a study that makes us think again.
Rosemary Sayigh
An altogether welcome addition to both the social movement literature and the growing body of work on contention in the Middle East and North Africa.
Doug McAdam, Stanford University
312 pp., 2013 9780804774925 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale 9780804774918 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale
240 pp., 2014 9780804790932 Paper $24.95 $19.96 Sale 9780804786300 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 Sale
STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURES
Most SUP titles are available as e-books via our website or your favorite e-reading platform. Visit www.sup.org/ebooks for a complete list of offerings, as well as e-book rental and bundle options.
Citizen Strangers
Palestinians and the Birth of Israels Liberal Settler State

Shira Robinson
The One-State Condition
Table of Contents
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures........... 2-6 History......................................... 6-10 Politics and Law...................... 11-13 Culture and Religion............ 13-15 Exam Copy Policy........................ 11 Ordering Information................15
Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine
Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir
Following the 1948 war and the creation of the state of Israel, Palestinian Arabs comprised just fifteen percent of the population but held a much larger portion of its territory. Offered immediate suffrage rights and, in time, citizenship status, they nonetheless found their movement, employment, and civil rights restricted by a draconian military government put in place to facilitate the colonization of their lands. Citizen Strangers traces how Jewish leaders struggled to advance their historic settler project while forced by new international human rights norms to share political power with the very people they sought to uproot. Shira Robinson brilliantly demonstrates that the treatment of Palestinian citizens in Israel is a mirror of Israel itself. Carefully tracing the historical dynamics of the institutions that constructed Palestinian residents as both liberal citizens and colonial subjects, Robinson shows how these institutions also shaped Israeli citizenship, legal order, and society.
Gershon Shafir, University of California, San Diego
Since the start of the occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1967, Israels domination of the Palestinians has deprived an entire population of any political status or protection. But even decades on, most people speak of this ruleboth in everyday political discussion and in legal and academic debatesas temporary, as a state of affairs incidental and external to the Israeli regime. In The One-State Solution, Arialla Azoulay and Adi Ophir directly challenge this belief. Azoulay and Ophir show that acknowledgement of the one-state condition is not only a prerequisite for considering a one- or two-state solution; it is a prerequisite for advancing new ideas to move beyond the trap of this false dilemma. A brilliant, deeply analytical, and thorough study in re-conceptualizing the Israeli occupation and the nature of the Israeli regime. One of the most remarkable books written so far in this field.
Hassan Jabareen, General Director of Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
Cover photo: An activist holds a stencil of the Pearl Monument as he walks past a wall with graffiti calling for the downfall of King Hamad and praising the martyrs of the uprising in Aali village, Bahrain, on November 18, 2011. European Pressphoto Agency/ Mazen Mahdi.
Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nassers Egypt

Laura Bier
Revolutionary Womanhood
Fiscal Crisis and Political Change in Egypt under Mubarak

Samer Soliman
The Autumn of Dictatorship
Regime Power in Egypt and Syria

Joshua Stacher
Adaptable Autocrats
The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local in iteration. Drawing connections between the secular nationalist projects that emerged in the 1950s and the gender politics of Islamism today, Laura Bier reveals how discussions about education, companionate marriage, and enlightened motherhood, as well as veiling, work, and other means of claiming public space created opportunities to reconsider the relationship between modernity, state feminism, and postcolonial state-building. Bier challenges the common assumption that these emerging feminisms were somehow not culturally or religiously authentic, and details their lasting impact on Egyptian womanhood today. Addresses a major void in the historical literature of Egypt. Showing how gendered politics proved central to Nasserist attempts to modernize, this book broadens our understanding of state feminism, secularism, and the postcolonial period.
Beth Baron, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Over the last thirty years, the Egyptian state has increasingly given its citizens less money and fewer social benefits while simultaneously demanding more taxes and resources. This has lead to a weakened statedeteriorating public services, low levels of law enforcement, poor opportunities for employment and economic developmentwhile simultaneously inflated the security machine that had sustained the authoritarian regime. Studying the regime from the point of view of its deeds rather than its discourse, this book tackles the relationship between fiscal crisis and political change in Egypt.
Tracing the authoritarian states patterns of extraction and allocation, [Soliman] This is one of the best explorations of helps us to understand not only the developments in Egyptian and Syrian workings of that state, but its consepolitics. Stacher provides an original quences for economic growth, including look at the inner workings and dynamthe possible fostering of capitalism. ics of two vitally important regimes and Robert Springborg, lays out the implications for the future Naval Postgraduate School of the significant differences between 224 pp., 2011 these two political systems. 9780804778466 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale
9780804760003 Cloth $80.00 $64.00 sale
Samer Shehata, Georgetown University
Underlying both the rapid leadership turnovers in Egypt and the protracted stalemate in Syria, there remains a common outcome: autocratic continuity. Political structures, elite alliances, state institutions, and governing practices are seldom swept away entirelyeven following successful revolutionsso it is vital to examine the various contexts for regime survival. Adaptable Autocrats examines the lead-up to the Egyptian and Syrian uprisings and helps unlock the complexity behind the current protests and transitions. Without this understanding, we lack a roadmap to make sense of the Middle Easts most important political moment in decades.
The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience

Bassam Haddad
Business Networks in Syria
The Lebanese Connection
Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic
Middle East Authoritarianisms
Jonathan V. Marshall
Collusion between business communities and the state can lead to a measure of security for those in power, but this kind of interaction often limits new development. In Syria, state-business involvement through informal networks has contributed to an erratic economy. With unique access to private businessmen and select state officials during a critical period of transition, this book examines Syrias political economy from 1970 to 2005 to explain the nations pattern of state intervention and prolonged economic stagnation. Haddad reveals how the Syrian regime developed certain ties with the business community that maintained the security of the regime, but would ultimately diminish the development potential of the state and the private sector. A courageous and sophisticated account of the role of Syrias crony capitalist networks in the process of partial privatization after 1986. Revealed for the first time are the key relationships which define Syrias economic performance over the last two and a half decades. This book could only have been written by someone with insider knowledge of Syria.
Roger Owen, Harvard University
Long before Mexico, Colombia, and Afghanistan became notorious for their contributions to the global drug traffic, Lebanon was a special target of U.S. drug agents for harboring the worlds greatest single transit port in the international traffic in narcotics. Using previously secret government records, The Lebanese Connection uncovers the story of how Lebanons economy and political system were corrupted by drug profitsand how, by financing its many ruthless militia, Lebanons drug trade contributed to the countrys greatest catastrophe, its fifteen-year civil war from 1975 to 1990. This book sheds new light on the dangerous role of vast criminal enterprises in the collapse of states and the creation of war economies that thrive in the midst of civil conflicts. Hard-hitting and hard-boiled investigative journalism that is cinematic in scope, The Lebanese Connection has troubling implications that should stimulate lively debate and future research.
Max Weiss, Princeton University
Governance, Contestation, and Regime Resilience in Syria and Iran

Edited by Steven Heydemann and Reinoud Leenders
The contributors to this volume consider the Syrian and Iranian regimeswhat they share in common and what distinguishes them. Too frequently, authoritarianism has been assumed to be a generic descriptor of the region, and differences among regimes have been overlooked. But as the political trajectories of Middle Eastern states diverge in years ahead, with some perhaps consolidating democratic gains while others remaining under distinct and resilient forms of authoritarian rule, understanding variations in modes of authoritarian governance and the attributes that promote regime resilience becomes an increasingly urgent priority. This book provides unparalleled insight into how the Syrian and Iranian regimes use economic, social welfare, judicial, and cultural policies to maintain their rule.
Vickie Langohr, College of the Holy Cross
272 pp., 2012 9780804781312 Cloth $35.00 $28.00 sale
312 pp., 2013 9780804783019 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale
Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town

Noah Coburn
Bazaar Politics
Political Unrest in an Iranian Village

Mary Elaine Hegland
Days of Revolution
How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco

Aomar Boum
Memories of Absence
Offering the first long-term on-theground study since the arrival of allied forces in 2001, Noah Coburn introduces readers to daily life in Afghanistan through portraits of local residents and stories of his own experiences. He reveals the ways in which the international community has misunderstood the forces driving local conflict and the insurgency, misunderstandings that have ultimately contributed to the political unrest rather than resolved it. Though on first blush the potters of Istalif may seem far removed from international affairs, it is only through understanding politics, power, and culture on the local level that we can then shed new light on Afghanistans difficult search for peace. Coburn explores and explains a strange paradox in Afghan politics: that local communities appear to have the means to maintain stability even when the national government does not.
Thomas Barfield, Boston University
Outside of Shiraz in the Fars Memories of Absence investigates Province of southwestern Iran lies how four successive generations in Aliabad. Mary Hegland arrived in Morocco remember the lost Jewish this then-small agricultural village community. Moroccan attitudes of several thousand people in the toward the Jewish population have summer of 1978, unaware of the changed over the decades, and a momentous changes that would new debate has emerged at the sweep this town and this country in center of the Moroccan nation: the months ahead. Days of RevoluWhere does the Jew fit in the tion offers an insiders view of how context of an Arab and Islamic regular people were drawn into, monarchy? Can Jews simultaneexperienced, and influenced the ously be Moroccans and Zionists? 1979 Revolution andas Hegland Drawing on oral testimony and returns to the region thirty years stories, on rumor and humor, laterits aftermath. Sharing stories Aomar Boum examines the strong of conflict and revolution alongside shift in opinion and attitude over in-depth interviews, the book sheds the generations and increasingly new light on this critical historical anti-Semitic beliefs in younger moment. Hegland shows how the people, whose only exposure to revolutionary moment was not fueled Jews has been through internaby religious ideology but by much tional media and national memory. more pragmatic concerns: growing Nothing short of extraordinary, inequality, lack of development and Memories of Absence is theoretiemployment opportunities, and cally sophisticated, empirically rich, government corruption. and infinitely sensitive to its subjects. A necessary and wonderful work for There are a great number of books on all invested in Muslim-Jewish relathe Islamic Revolution, but none have tions, the cultures of North Africa, accomplished what Mary Hegland has. and the shaping of trans-generaThis is an exceptional study of modern tional memory in the contemporary Iran, offering a detailed account of world. village life before, during, and after the Islamic Revolution. A brilliant book Sarah Abrevaya Stein, University of California, Los Angeles that deserves to be widely read.
Janet Afary, University of California, Santa Barbara
240 pp., 2013 9780804786997 Cloth $40.00 $32.00 sale
HISTORY
Ordinary Egyptians
Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture

Ziad Fahmy
Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood

Beth Baron
The Orphan Scandal
Now in Paperback
Tell This in My Memory
Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire

Eve M. Troutt Powell
This book examines how, from the 1870s until the eve of the 1919 revolution, popular media and culture provided ordinary Egyptians with a framework to construct and negotiate a modern national identity. It shifts the typical focus of study away from the intellectual elite to understand the rapid politicization of the growing literate middle classes and brings the semi-literate and illiterate urban masses more fully into the historical narrative. It introduces the concept of media-capitalism, which expands the analysis of nationalism beyond print alone to incorporate audiovisual and performance media. It was through these various media that a collective camaraderie crossing class lines was formed and, as this book uncovers, an Egyptian national identity emerged. Truly an excellent and original book. Fahmy deconstructs commonly held assumptions regarding the formation of nationalism, particularly in its early stages. Its contribution to the field is indispensable.
Israel Gershoni, Tel Aviv University
On a June morning in 1933 a young Muslim orphan girl refused to rise in respect at her Christian missionary school in Port Said. Her intransigence immediately led to a beatingand the resulting scandal ultimately led to the end of most foreign missions in Egypt and contributed to the rise of Islamist organizations. The Port Said orphan scandal offers a starting point to uncover hidden links between Islamic activities and a broad cadre of Protestant evangelicals. Exploring the historical aims of the Christian missions and the early efforts of the Muslim Brotherhood, Beth Baron shows how the Muslim Brotherhood and like-minded Islamist associations developed alongside and in reaction to the influx of missionaries. Mirroring their organization and social welfare projects on the early success of the Christian missions, the Brotherhood launched their own efforts to save children and provide for the orphaned, abandoned, and poor. In battling for Egypts children, Islamic activists created a network of social welfare institutions and a template for social action across the countrythe effects of which, we now know, would only gain power and influence across the country in the decades to come.
264pp., 2014 9780804791380 Paper $24.95 $19.96 Sale 9780804790765 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 Sale
Tell This in My Memory opens a new window in the study of slavery in the modern Middle East, taking up personal narratives of slaves and slave owners to shed light on the anxieties and intimacies of personal experience. The framework of racial identity constructed through these stories proves instrumental in explaining how countries later confrontedor not the legacy of the slave trade. Today, these vocabularies of slavery live on for contemporary refugees whose forced migrations often replicate the journeys and stigmas faced by slaves in the nineteenth century. Troutt Powell weaves a moving and evocative tapestry, employing multiple perspectives of the enslaved as well as slaveholders. Her analysis of the conditions of enslavement as well as the challenging processes through which those conditions become known is nothing short of brilliant.
Michael Gomez, New York University
HISTORY
A Colonial History
Samera Esmeir
Juridical Humanity
The Business of Identity
Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt
In colonial Egypt, the state introduced legal reforms that claimed to liberate Egyptians from the inhumanity of pre-colonial rule. These legal reforms intersected with a new historical consciousness, distinguishing freedom from force and the human from the pre-human. Samera Esmeir offers a historical and theoretical account of the colonizing operations of modern law in Egypt. Investigating the law, both on the books and in practice, she underscores the centrality of the human to Egyptian legal and colonial history and argues that the production of juridical humanity was a constitutive force of colonial rule and subjugation. This original contribution queries long-held assumptions about the entanglement of law, humanity, violence, and nature, and thereby develops a new reading of the history of colonialism. In a work of immensely creative theorization and superb historical scholarship, Esmeir radically rethinks the relationship between modern law, the human, and violence, challenging the ascendancy of narratives in which the human is always chained to the law.
Omnia El Shakry, University of California, Davis
Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman
Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt
Nancy Y. Reynolds
A City Consumed
The Cairo Geniza is the largest and richest store of documentary evidence for the medieval Islamic world. This book seeks to revolutionize the way scholars use that treasure trove. Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman draws on legal documents from the Geniza to reconceive of life in the medieval Islamic marketplace. In place of the shared practices broadly understood by scholars to have transcended confessional boundaries, he reveals how Jewish merchants in Egypt employed distinctive trading practices. Highly influenced by Jewish law, these commercial practices served to manifest their Jewish identity in the medieval Islamic context. In light of this distinctiveness, AckermanLieberman proposes an alternative model for using the Geniza documents as a tool for understanding daily life in the medieval Islamic world as a whole.
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Though now remembered as an act of anti-colonial protest leading to the Egyptian military coup of 1952, the Cairo Fire that burned through downtown stores and businesses appeared to many at the time as an act of urban self-destruction and national suicide. Consumer goods occupied an uneasy place on anti-colonial agendas for decades in Egypt before the great Cairo Fire. Nationalist leaders frequently railed against commerce as a form of colonial captivity, yet simultaneously expanded local production and consumption to anchor a newly independent economy. Close examination of struggles over dress and shopping reveals that nationhood coalesced around the conflicts and collaboration of consumers. Offering a revised history, Nancy Reynolds looks to the decades leading up to the fire to show that the lines between foreign and native in city space and commercial merchandise were never starkly drawn. Sixty years before Egypts Tahrir Square exploded in protest against Hosni Mubarak, Cairo burst into revolution with the great fire of 1952. This book gives a vivid new explanation for how ordinary Egyptians turned shopping and commerce into politics. More broadly, its story opens a fresh perspective on the economic and cultural changes that so profoundly reshaped the Middle East in the midtwentieth century.
Elizabeth F. Thompson, University of Virginia
432 pp., 2013 9780804785471 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale
376 pp., 2012 9780804781268 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale
HISTORY
The Electrification of Palestine

Ronen Shamir
Current Flow
A History of Jews in Modern Iraq

Orit Bashkin
New Babylonians
Old Texts, New Practices

Etty Terem
Islamic Reform in Modern Morocco
Current Flow examines the history of electrification of British-ruled Palestine in the 1920s as it marked, affirmed, and produced social, political, and economic difference between Arabs and Jews. Considering the interplay of British colonial interests, the Jewish-Zionist leanings of a commissioned electric company, and Arab opposition within the case of the Jaffa Power House, Ronen Shamir reveals how electrification was central in assembling a material infrastructure of ethno-national separation in Palestine long before political partition plans had ever been envisioned. This book sheds new light on the history of Jewish-Arab relations and offers broader sociological insights into what happens when people are transformed from users into elements of networks. In this strikingly original book, Ronen Shamir traces the electrification of 1920s Palestine by way of an expanding grid of wires and poles, technicians and officials, texts and images. How was it that the enterprise designed to connect Arabs and Jews in a single, all-Palestine system, ended up energizing those very ethnonational divides, anticipating more thoroughgoing separations to follow?
Jean Comaroff, Harvard University
Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community which had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 yearswas displaced following the establishment of the state of Israel. New Babylonians chronicles the lives of these Jews, their urban Arab culture, and their hopes for a democratic nation-state. It studies their ideas about Judaism, Islam, secularism, modernity, and reform, focusing on Iraqi Jews who internalized narratives of Arab and Iraqi nationalisms and on those who turned to communism in the 1940s. Orit Bashkins riveting new book is, without doubt, the first attempt at providing a full portrait of the rise and fall of the Baghdadi Jewish community in the course of the eventful twentieth century. Her narrative is a shining example of solid scholarship and, at the same time, a coherent account of the vicissitudes of the modern history of a dynamic Arab-Jewish community the like of which is no more in evidence.
Sasson Somekh
In 1910, al-Mahdi al-Wazzani, a prominent Moroccan Islamic scholar completed his massive compilation of Maliki fatwas. An eleven-volume set, it is the most extensive collection of fatwas written and published in the Arab Middle East during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In considering al-Wazzanis work, Etty Terem challenges conventional scholarship that represents Islamic tradition as inimical to modernity and provides a new framework for conceptualizing modern Islamic reform. Her innovative and insightful reorientation constructs the origins of modern Islam as firmly rooted in the messy complexity of everyday life. Are Islamic law and modern social needs compatible? In this thoughtful and engaging book, Etty Terem provides rare insight into how one mans struggle with this issue produced a body of work that has great currency for the issues now confronting all those who will be impacted by the Arab Spring.
Lawrence Rosen, Princeton University
272 pp., 2014 9780804787079 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale
248 pp., 2013 9780804787062 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale
HISTORY
The Barber of Damascus
Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant

Dana Sajdi
A Documentary History, 17001950

EDITED BY Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Stein
Sephardi Lives
Agents of Change and Guardians of Tradition

Amit Bein
Ottoman Ulema, Turkish Republic
This book is about a barber, Shihab al-Din Ahmad Ibn Budayr, who shaved and coiffed, and probably circumcised and healed, in Damascus in the 18th century. The barber may have been a nobody, but he wrote a history book, a record of the events that took place in his city during his lifetime. Dana Sajdi investigates the significance of this book, and offers the first full-length microhistory of an individual commoner in Ottoman and Islamic history. In examining the life and work of Ibn Budayr, she also uncovers the emergence of a larger trend of history writing by unusual authorspeople outside the learned establishmentand a new phenomenon: nouveau literacy. The Barber of Damascus brings to life a world of unexpected writers of history. Ibn Budayr and his work as barber and historian disrupt our notions of genre and give us a marvelous portrait of Damascus in the eighteenth century.
Leslie Peirce, New York University
Jewish studies and Middle East studies have seen an unprecedented diversification in focus over the course of the last twenty years, yet neither pedagogical materials nor documentary compendia have kept pace with these dramatic changes. This comprehensive documentary fills the void in modern Jewish and Ottoman history, presenting a staggering array of primary sources generated by or about Sephardi Jews in the heartland of modern JudeoSpanish culture and in its diaspora. The approximately 150 sources in this editionoriginally composed in fifteen languageshave been selected specifically for students, researchers, and general readers with strong interests in Jewish studies and Middle East studies, as well as those researching life in the nation-states that emerged after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. This extraordinary collection of texts, eloquently presented and analyzed, opens a window to the Judeo-Spanish communities of the late Ottoman and post-Ottoman world, and the multiethnic, multi-religious, and transnational world of the Mediterranean that the Sephardic Jews inhabited. It will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of modern Jewish, Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean history.
Daniel J. Schroeter, University of Minnesota Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
By underscoring the impact of political contingencies and the agency of historical figures, Beins meticulous study complicates our understanding of the debates that swirled around Islams proper place and authority in Ottoman and Turkish modernity. The books deft retrieval of the shadow histories of forgotten ulema and their successors is especially compelling.
David Commins, Dickinson College
224 pp., 2011 9780804773119 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale
Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone

Janet Klein
The Margins of Empire
312 pp., 2013 9780804785327 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale
Klein sheds light on some of the most important and complicated relations and negotiations the Ottoman officials were engaged in as their empire crumbled around them. She never loses sight of the broader implications of her work in this original, highly valuable look at a significant period in the history of the Middle East.
Resat Kasaba, University of Washington
288 pp., 2011 9780804775700 Cloth $30.00 $24.00 sale
400pp., 2014 9780804791434 Paper $29.95 $23.96 Sale 9780804771650 Cloth $90.00 $72.00 Sale
10
HISTORY
Examination Copy Policy

NOW AVAILABLE: e-COPY
To order a digital examination copy, go to the book's page on www.sup.org and click Request Examination Copy. This service is free and no invoice will accompany your order. If you wish to receive a hard copy of a book, please mail or fax your request on your departments letterhead, specifying the title of your course, your expected enrollment, the semester or quarter in which the course will be offered, the course level (undergraduate or graduate), and the titles of any textbooks that you currently use. We allow instructors 90 days to consider any title for potential course adoption. Your examination copy will be followed by an invoice, offering a 20% academic discount (plus shipping charges) that is payable within 90 days. If an adoption notification is received within that 90 day period, your invoice will be cancelled. Otherwise, you may return the copy to our warehouse, or purchase it for your own use. Mail to Examination Copy Stanford University Press 425 Broadway Redwood City, CA 94063 Fax to: (650) 725-3457
Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasnt

Toby Matthiesen
Sectarian Gulf
Second Edition
How Ordinary People Change the Middle East

Asef Bayat
Life as Politics
In Sectarian Gulf, Toby Matthiesen offers the first assessment of the Arab Spring across the Gulf States. With first-hand accounts from Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, Matthiesen tells the story of the early protests, and illuminates how the regimes quickly suppressed these movements. Pitting citizen against citizen, the regimes have warned of an increasing threat from the Shia population, and the supposed Shia threat has become the catchall justification to refuse demands for democratic reform and accountability. While this strategy has ensured regime survival in the short term, Matthiesen warns of dire consequencesfor the social fabric of the Gulf States, for the rise of transnational Islamist networks, and for the future of the Middle East. Matthiesen offers a personal, gripping, and rigorous account of how political entrepreneurs and governments have worked to produce sectarianism across the Gulf. This short book will help readers put into context developments across the region, and understand the true significance of the resurgence of an alarming new form of sectarian politics.
Marc Lynch, George Washington University Stanford Briefs
First published just months before the Arab Spring swept across the region, this timely and prophetic book sheds light on the ongoing acts of protest, practice, and direct daily action. The second edition includes three new chapters on the Arab Spring and Irans Green Movement and is fully updated to reflect recent events. At its core, the book remains a study of agency in times of constraint. In addition to ongoing protests, millions of people across the Middle East are effecting transformation through the discovery and creation of new social spaces within which they can make their claims heard. This eye-opening book makes an important contribution to global debates over the meaning of social movements and the dynamics of social change.
Praise for the first edition
A brilliant alternative perspective on public life by taking seriously the daily lives and the social agency of ordinary people.
Middle East Book Reads
208 pp., 2013 9780804785730 Paper $12.99 $10.39 sale
Politics and Law
11
U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics

Amahl A. Bishara
Back Stories
The Rise and Fall of Human Rights
Time in the Shadows
Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine

Lori Allen
Confinement in Counterinsurgencies
Laleh Khalili
Amahl Bishara demonstrates how Palestinians play integral roles in producing U.S. news and how U.S. journalism in turn shapes Palestinian politics. U.S. objectivity is in Palestinian journalists hands, and Palestinian self-determination cannot be fully understood without attention to the journalist standing off to the side, quietly taking notes. Back Stories examines new stories big and small to investigate urgent questions about objectivity, violence, the state, and the production of knowledge. This book reaches beyond the headlines into the lives of Palestinians during the second intifada to give readers a new vantage point on both Palestinians and journalism. Amahl Bishara breaks new ground in her exploration of Palestinian-IsraeliAmerican dynamics of control, protest, and resistance. Her keen insights into the second intifada help us better understand two critical issues: what is happening on the ground in Palestine and how these events are being reported by the American media.
Rami Khouri
This book provides a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of the Palestinian human rights world. Though human rights activity began as a means of struggle against the Israeli occupation, it has since been professionalized and politicized, transformed into a public relations tool for political legitimization and state-making. In failing to end the Israeli occupation, protect basic human rights, or establish an accountable Palestinian government, the human rights industry has become the object of cynicism. But far from indicating apathy, such cynicism generates a productive critique of domestic politics and Western interventionism. The books broad appeal lies in illuminating the successes and failures of Palestinians varied engagements with human rights in their quest for independence. This powerfully argued book constitutes a valuable contribution to the study of both the global discourse of human rights, and the worsening situation of the Palestinians.
Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University Stanford Studies in Human Rights
Time in the Shadows investigates the two major liberal counterinsurgencies of our day: Israeli occupation of Palestine and the U.S. War on Terror. In rich detail, the book investigates Abu Ghraib, Guantnamo Bay, CIA black sites, the Khiam Prison, and Gaza, among others, and links them to a history of colonial counterinsurgencies from the Boer War and the U.S. Indian wars, to Vietnam, the British small wars in Malaya, Kenya, Aden and Cyprus, and the French pacification of Indochina and Algeria. Laleh Khalilis Time in the Shadows is the ghostly other of The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. Deft and informative, the book provides a historical excavation of the imperatives of counterinsurgency doctrinesfrom the ideas that drove the European colonial wars in the dying days of those empires to the U.S. and Israeli states of warfare in our own times. A serious book that should be required reading.
Vijay Prashad, Trinity College
12
Politics and Law
The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept

Edited by Michael E. Bonine, Abbas Amanat, and Michael Ezekiel Gasper
Is There a Middle East?
The Headscarf Debates

Anna Korteweg and Gke Yurdakul
Conflicts of National Belonging
Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia

Amlie Le Renard
A Society of Young Women
This volume offers a diverse set of voicesfrom political and cultural historians, to social scientists, geographers, and political economiststo debate the possible manifestations and meanings of the Middle East. At a time when geopolitical forces, social currents, and environmental concerns have brought renewed attention to the region, this volume examines the very definition and geographic and cultural boundaries of the Middle East in an unprecedented way. The term the Middle East has evoked anxieties and questions for over a century. This original volume illustrates that it is ultimately more fruitful to consider the effects of this unwieldy and profoundly political category than to debate its definition. A far-reaching book that presents new arguments on the production of the concept and the meanings associated with the Middle East.
Arang Keshavarzian, New York University
All countries promote national narratives that turn historical diversities into imagined commonalities, appealing to shared language, religion, history, or political practice. The Headscarf Debates explores how the headscarf has become a symbol used to reaffirm or transform these stories of belonging. It juxtaposes current cultural and political debates with interviews with social activists in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Turkey to chart how the headscarf can reaffirm old or produce new national identities. The book pays unique attention to how Muslim women speak for themselves, and how their actions and statements reverberate throughout national debates. This on-the-ground approach empowers an understanding of the headscarf s role in the production of the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly with respect to national views on gender, religion, and political value, and it sheds important light on how belonging and nationhood is imagined and reimagined in an increasingly global world.
264 pp., 2014 9780804776851 Paper $24.95 $19.96 Sale 9780804776844 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 Sale
The cities of Saudi Arabia are among the most gender segregated in the world. This book joins young urban women in the workplace, on the female university campus, and at the mall to show how women are transforming Saudi cities from within. As young Saudi women are emerging as an increasingly visible social group, they are shaping new social norms. Their shared urban spaces offer women the opportunity to shed certain constraints and imagine themselves in new roles. But to feel included in this peer group, women must adhere to new constraints: to be sophisticated, fashionable, feminine, and modern. The position of other womenpoor, rural, or non Saudi womenis increasingly marginalized. While young urban women may embody the image of a reformed Saudi nation, the reform project ultimately remains incomplete, drawing new hierarchies and lines of exclusion among women.
240pp., 2014 9780804785440 $24.95 Paper $19.96 Sale 9780804785433 $85.00 Cloth $68.00 Sale
CULTURE and RELIGION
13
Live and Die Like a Man

Farha Ghannam
Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt

Over a period of nearly twenty years, Farha Ghannam lived and conducted research in al-Zawiya, a low-income neighborhood in northern Cairo. Detailing her daily encounters and ongoing interviews, she develops life stories that reveal the everyday practices and struggles of the neighborhood over the years. Against this backdrop of individual experiences, Ghannam develops the concept of masculine trajectories to account for the various paths men can take to embody social norms. In showing how men work to realize a male ideal, she counters the prevalent dehumanizing stereotypes of Middle Eastern men all too frequently reproduced in media reports, and opens new spaces for rethinking patriarchal structures and their constraining effects on both men and women.
Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran

Shahla Talebi
Ghosts of Revolution
Silencing the Sea
Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry

Khaled Furani
This searing memoir of womens visceral pain, principled resilience, and redemptive imagination in Irans brutal political prisons will leave you shaken, forever. Talebis voice is remarkable for its generous empathy, its poetry in evoking the tortured humanity of the women with whom she shared her prison experience, and its brilliance in analyzing the dark horrors inflicted on the men and women condemned to these death-spaces that were, in the 1970s and 1980s, and are even today, so strangely tied to the exercise of power in Iran.
Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University
264 pp., 12 illustrations, 2011 9780804772013 Cloth $24.00 $19.20 sale
With Live and Die Like a Man, Farha Ghannam is far ahead of the academic curve, setting an imposing standard for future scholarship on the Arab Spring and gender across the Middle East and North Africa.
Mark LeVine, University of California, Irvine
Silencing the Sea enlarges our understanding of the way modern pressures and seductions have led to the underAmy Motlagh mining of older sensibilities and the formation of new, and of how this process Motlagh frees Iranian writers from a is reflected in Arabic poetry. This not presumed level of conscious and willful simply a book for literary specialists, but subjectivity which has far too frequently for anyone interested in thinking about made them synonymous with social philosopher and intellectual and illuminates the different dimensions of secular the fascinating interconnections between experience. Talal Asad, legal discourse and modern literary The City University of New York representations of marriage. Masterfully 312 pp., 2012 placed within the currents of Persian 9780804776462 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale literary and cultural studies.
Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran
Burying the Beloved
Silencing the Sea follows Palestinian poets debates about their craft as they traverse multiple and competing realities of secularism and religion, expulsion and occupation, art, politics, immortality, death, fame, and obscurity. Poetry, the traditional repository of Arab history, has become the preeminent medium of Palestinian memory in exile. In probing poets' writings, this work investigates how struggles over poetic form can host larger struggles over authority, knowledge, language, and freedom. It reveals an intimate and venerated world, entwining art, intellect, and politics, narrating previously untold stories of a highly stereotyped people.
Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, Irvine
200 pp., 2011 9780804775892 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale
14
Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey

Kimberly Hart
And Then We Work for God
Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song

Maureen Jackson
Mixing Musics
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam

Muhammad Iqbal, with an Introduction by Javed Majeed
Sunni Islam structures individual lives through ritualsbirth, circumcision, marriage, military service, deathand the expression of these traditions varies between villages. Kimberly Hart delves into the question of why some groups choose to remember and keep alive the past, while others want to face a future unburdened by local cultural practices. Her answer speaks to global transformations in Islam, to the push and pull between those who maintain a link to the past, even when these practices challenge orthodoxy, and those who want a purified global religion. In this poetic and powerfully written ethnography, Kimberly Hart shatters common assumptions about rural Islam in Turkey. And Then We Work for God not only reveals that there is no one traditional Islam, but thoughtfully uncovers how the practice of rural Islam is intimately connected to changing visions of the state and religion in the rest of Turkey and the world.
Esra zyrek, University of California, San Diego
This book traces the mixing of musical forms and practices in Istanbul to illuminate multiethnic music-making and its transformations across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It focuses on the Jewish religious repertoire, the Maftirim, which developed in parallel with secular Ottoman court music. Through memoirs, personal interviews, and new archival sources, the book explores areas often left out of those histories of the region that focus primarily on Jewish communities in isolation, political events and actors, or nationalizing narratives. By treating the private, discrete narratives of individual figures, this innovative book brings to life the nuances of daily existence and social accommodation in the musical culture of modern Turkish Jews. This refreshing approach provides new insights on topics that have been left unsaid by more conventional narratives about this subject.
Edwin Seroussi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Given Iqbals indisputable significance as a modern Muslim thinker, the Stanford edition of his Reconstruction will introduce his thought to a wide audience both in academe and among the general public in the West. It bids fair to become a milestone in the history of Iqbal studies.
Mustansir Mir, Youngstown State University Encountering Traditions
ORDERING
Receive a 20% discount on all titles listed in this catalog. Use the following code to redeem this offer on hardcover and paperback editions: S14MES. Please order by phone or online. Call 800-621-2736 or visit www.sup.org. Phone orders are accepted MondayFriday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm CT. Orders must be prepaid or charged on VISA, MasterCard, Discover Card, or American Express (libraries excepted). Books not yet published or temporarily out of stock will be charged to your credit card when they become available and are in the process of being shipped. Stanford University Press books are distributed by the University of Chicago Press Distribution Center. Shipping & Handling $5.00; outside the United States $9.50; add $1.00 for each additional book.
272 pp., 2013 9780804780155 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale
15
Stan fo rd Un iv e rsi ty
P ress
425 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063
Follow us on Twitter
@stanfordpress
Like us on Facebook
www.sup.org/facebook
Visit our e-bookstore
www.sup.org/ebooks
Read our Press Blog
http://stanfordpress.typepad.com
20% discount on all titles

2014 Middle East Studies Catalog

Transféré par

Informations du document

Copyright

Formats disponibles

Partager ce document

Partager ou intégrer le document

Options de partage

Avez-vous trouvé ce document utile ?

Ce contenu est-il inapproprié ?

Droits d'auteur :

Formats disponibles

2014 Middle East Studies Catalog

Transféré par

Droits d'auteur :

Formats disponibles

Middle East studies

New & Forthcoming

20% discount on all titles

Political Belonging and the Demands of History in Turkey

The Reckoning of Pluralism

Refugees of the Revolution

Experiences of Palestinian Exile

STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURES

Palestinians and the Birth of Israels Liberal Settler State

The One-State Condition

Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine

Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir

STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURES

Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nassers Egypt

Fiscal Crisis and Political Change in Egypt under Mubarak

The Autumn of Dictatorship

Regime Power in Egypt and Syria

STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURES

The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience

Business Networks in Syria

The Lebanese Connection

Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic

Middle East Authoritarianisms

Governance, Contestation, and Regime Resilience in Syria and Iran

272 pp., 2012 9780804781312 Cloth $35.00 $28.00 sale

312 pp., 2013 9780804783019 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale

STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURES

Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town

Political Unrest in an Iranian Village

How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco

240 pp., 2013 9780804786997 Cloth $40.00 $32.00 sale

STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURES

Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture

Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood

The Orphan Scandal

Tell This in My Memory

Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire

The Business of Identity

Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt

432 pp., 2013 9780804785471 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale

376 pp., 2012 9780804781268 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale

The Electrification of Palestine

A History of Jews in Modern Iraq

Old Texts, New Practices

Islamic Reform in Modern Morocco

272 pp., 2014 9780804787079 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

248 pp., 2013 9780804787062 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale

The Barber of Damascus

Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant

A Documentary History, 17001950

Agents of Change and Guardians of Tradition

Ottoman Ulema, Turkish Republic

224 pp., 2011 9780804773119 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale

Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone

The Margins of Empire

312 pp., 2013 9780804785327 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale

288 pp., 2011 9780804775700 Cloth $30.00 $24.00 sale

Examination Copy Policy

Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasnt

How Ordinary People Change the Middle East

208 pp., 2013 9780804785730 Paper $12.99 $10.39 sale

Politics and Law

U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics

The Rise and Fall of Human Rights