| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction : alternative frameworks: accounting for the overlooked / Katlyn Quenzer and Maria Syed -- Emerging trends and debates in Gulf studies / Matthew Gray -- Impending decline? a reassessment of Saudi power / Maria Syed -- Iranian nationalism from its (Afghan) margins / Elisabeth Yarbakhsh -- Between (ethno-)nationalism and political Islam : the Kurdish movement as a "third way" in Turkey / William Gourlay -- State formation and social conflict in Syria : causalities, unintended consequences, and analytical trajectories / Harout Akdedian -- Seen from a distance : political contexts for Middle Eastern contemporary art / Sam Bowker -- The Afghan threat to the security of the central Asian nations : myth or reality? / Azam Isabaev -- When East looks West to the Middle East / Ian Nelson |
| Summary |
In this book scholars specializing in the Middle East and Central Asia provide fresh analysis and cutting-edge critique of phenomena and events across the region. Authors draw on multiple disciplinary traditions and cover a broad geography, in order to challenge understandings and propose new forms of scholarly engagement |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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Education
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| SUBJECT |
Middle East -- Study and teaching. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090514
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Asia, Central -- Study and teaching
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| Subject |
Central Asia
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Middle East
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Quenzer, Katlyn, 1988- editor.
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Syed, Maria, 1982- editor.
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Yarbakhsh, Elisabeth, 1981- editor.
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| LC no. |
2018031952 |
| ISBN |
9781498558433 |
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1498558437 |
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