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2 STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES AND CULTURES

The Reckoning of PluralismPolitical Belonging and the Demands of History in TurkeyKabir taMbar

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 Turkey’s 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 nation’s 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

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Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africaedited by Joel beinin and Frédéric Vairel

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 under-standing of events in the Arab world both before and since 2011.

Praise For the First edition

“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

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Refugees of the RevolutionExperiences of Palestinian Exilediana allan

Refugees of the Revolution is an evoca-tive and provocative examination of everyday life in Shatila, a refugee camp in Beirut. Diana Allan provides an immersive account of camp experi-ence, of communal and economic life as well as inner lives, tracking how residents relate across generations, cope with poverty and marginalization, and plan—pragmatically and specu-latively—for 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


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Citizen StrangersPalestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler Stateshira robinson

Following the 1948 war and the creation of the state of Israel, Palestin-ian 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 coloniza-tion 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 citi-zens in Israel is a mirror of Israel itself. Carefully tracing the historical dynam-ics of the institutions that constructed Palestinian residents as both liberal citizens and colonial subjects, Robin-son shows how these institutions also shaped Israeli citizenship, legal order, and society.”

—gershon Shafir, University of california, San diego


The One-State ConditionOccupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestineariella azoulay and adi oPhir

Since the start of the occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1967, Israel’s domination of the Palestinians has deprived an entire population of any political status or protection. But even decades on, most people speak of this rule—both in everyday political discussion and in legal and academic debates—as temporary, as a state of affairs incidental and external to the Israeli regime. In The One-State Solu-tion, Arialla Azoulay and Adi Ophir directly challenge this belief. Azoulay and Ophir show that acknowledge-ment 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 thor-ough study in re-conceptualizing the Israeli occupation and the nature of the Israeli regime. One of the most remark-able books written so far in this field.”

—hassan Jabareen, general director of adalah, the Legal center for arab

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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

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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.

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The Autumn of DictatorshipFiscal Crisis and Political Change in Egypt under MubaraksaMer soliMan

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 state—deteriorating public services, low levels of law enforcement, poor opportunities for employment and economic development—while simultaneously inflated the security machine that had sustained the author-itarian 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 state’s patterns of extraction and allocation, [Soliman] helps us to understand not only the workings of that state, but its conse-quences for economic growth, including the possible fostering of capitalism.”

—robert Springborg, naval Postgraduate School


Revolutionary WomanhoodFeminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser’s Egyptlaura bier

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 enlight-ened motherhood, as well as veiling, work, and other means of claiming public space created opportunities to reconsider the relationship between modernity, state feminism, and post-colonial 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 gen-dered politics proved central to Nasserist attempts to modernize, this book broad-ens our understanding of state feminism, secularism, and the postcolonial period.”—Beth Baron, the graduate center, cUny


Adaptable AutocratsRegime Power in Egypt and SyriaJoshua stacher

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 entirely—even following successful revolutions—so 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 East’s most important political moment in decades.

“This is one of the best explorations of developments in Egyptian and Syrian politics. Stacher provides an original look at the inner workings and dynam-ics of two vitally important regimes and lays out the implications for the future of the significant differences between these two political systems.”—Samer Shehata, georgetown University


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The Lebanese ConnectionCorruption, Civil War, and the International Drug TrafficJonathan V. Marshall

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 world’s greatest single transit port in the international traffic in narcotics. Using previously secret government records, The Lebanese Connection uncovers the story of how Lebanon’s economy and political system were corrupted by drug profits—and how, by financing its many ruthless militia, Lebanon’s drug trade contributed to the country’s 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 investi-gative journalism that is cinematic in scope, The Lebanese Connection has troubling implications that should stim-ulate lively debate and future research.”

—max weiss, Princeton University

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business Networks in SyriaThe Political Economy of Authoritarian ResiliencebassaM haddad

Collusion between business communi-ties 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 er-ratic economy. With unique access to private businessmen and select state officials during a critical period of transition, this book examines Syria’s political economy from 1970 to 2005 to explain the nation’s 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 Syria’s crony capitalist net-works in the process of partial privatiza-tion after 1986. Revealed for the first time are the key relationships which define Syria’s 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


Middle East AuthoritarianismsGovernance, Contestation, and Regime Resilience in Syria and Iranedited by steVen heydeMann and reinoud leenders

The contributors to this volume consider the Syrian and Iranian regimes—what they share in com-mon and what distinguishes them. Too frequently, authoritarianism has been assumed to be a generic descrip-tor 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 in-sight into how the Syrian and Iranian regimes use economic, social welfare, judicial, and cultural policies to main-tain their rule.”

—vickie Langohr, college of the holy cross

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bazaar PoliticsPower and Pottery in an Afghan Market Townnoah coburn

Offering the first long-term on-the-ground 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 Afghanistan’s 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


Days of RevolutionPolitical Unrest in an Iranian VillageMary elaine hegland

Outside of Shiraz in the Fars Province of southwestern Iran lies

“Aliabad.” Mary Hegland arrived in this then-small agricultural village of several thousand people in the summer of 1978, unaware of the momentous changes that would sweep this town and this country in the months ahead. Days of Revolu-tion offers an insider’s view of how regular people were drawn into, experienced, and influenced the 1979 Revolution and—as Hegland returns to the region thirty years later—its aftermath. Sharing stories of conflict and revolution alongside in-depth interviews, the book sheds new light on this critical historical moment. Hegland shows how the revolutionary moment was not fueled by religious ideology but by much more pragmatic concerns: growing inequality, lack of development and employment opportunities, and government corruption.

“There are a great number of books on the Islamic Revolution, but none have accomplished what Mary Hegland has. This is an exceptional study of modern Iran, offering a detailed account of village life before, during, and after the Islamic Revolution. A brilliant book that deserves to be widely read.”

—Janet afary, University of california, Santa Barbara


Memories of AbsenceHow Muslims Remember Jews in MoroccoaoMar bouM

Memories of Absence investigates how four successive generations in Morocco remember the lost Jewish community. Moroccan attitudes toward the Jewish population have changed over the decades, and a new debate has emerged at the center of the Moroccan nation: Where does the Jew fit in the context of an Arab and Islamic monarchy? Can Jews simultane-ously be Moroccans and Zionists? Drawing on oral testimony and stories, on rumor and humor, Aomar Boum examines the strong shift in opinion and attitude over the generations and increasingly anti-Semitic beliefs in younger people, whose only exposure to Jews has been through interna-tional media and national memory.

“Nothing short of extraordinary, Memories of Absence is theoreti-cally sophisticated, empirically rich, and infinitely sensitive to its subjects. A necessary and wonderful work for all invested in Muslim-Jewish rela-tions, the cultures of North Africa, and the shaping of trans-genera-tional memory in the contemporary world.”

—Sarah abrevaya Stein, University of california, Los angeles

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Ordinary EgyptiansCreating the Modern Nation through Popular Cultureziad FahMy

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


The Orphan ScandalChristian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhoodbeth baron

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 beating—and 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 Egypt’s children, Islamic activists created a network of social welfare institutions and a template for social action across the country—the effects of which, we now know, would only gain power and influence across the country in the decades to come.

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Tell This in My MemoryStories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman EmpireeVe M. troutt Powell

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 confronted—or 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 condi-tions of enslavement as well as the chal-lenging processes through which those conditions become known is nothing short of brilliant.”

—michael gomez, new york University


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The business of IdentityJews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval EgyptPhilliP i. acKerMan-lieberMan

The Cairo Geniza is the largest and richest store of documentary evi-dence 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 prac-tices. Highly influenced by Jewish law, these commercial practices served to manifest their Jewish identity in the medieval Islamic context. In light of this distinctiveness, Ackerman-Lieberman proposes an alternative model for using the Geniza docu-ments as a tool for understanding daily life in the medieval Islamic world as a whole.

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A City ConsumedUrban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egyptnancy y. reynolds

Though now remembered as an act of anti-colonial protest leading to the Egyptian military coup of 1952, the Cairo Fire that burned through down-town 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 nation-hood 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 Egypt’s 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 com-merce 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 mid-twentieth century.”

—elizabeth f. thompson, University of virginia

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Juridical HumanityA Colonial HistorysaMera esMeir

In colonial Egypt, the state intro-duced 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 under-scores the centrality of the “human” to Egyptian legal and colonial history and argues that the production of

“juridical humanity” was a constitu-tive force of colonial rule and sub-jugation. 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 theo-rization and superb historical scholar-ship, 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


9HISTORY

Current FlowThe Electrification of Palestineronen shaMir

Current Flow examines the history of electrification of British-ruled Palestine in the 1920s as it marked, affirmed, and produced social, politi-cal, 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 Pal-estine 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 of-ficials, 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 ethno-national divides, anticipating more thor-oughgoing separations to follow?”

—Jean comaroff, harvard University

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New babyloniansA History of Jews in Modern Iraqorit bashKin

Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community—which had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 years—was 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 Bashkin’s 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 ex-ample 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


Old Texts, New PracticesIslamic Reform in Modern Moroccoetty tereM

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 nine-teenth and early twentieth centuries. In considering al-Wazzani’s work, Etty Terem challenges conventional scholar-ship 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 en-gaging book, Etty Terem provides rare insight into how one man’s struggle with this issue produced a body of work that has great currency for the issues now confronting all those who will be im-pacted by the Arab Spring.”

—Lawrence rosen, Princeton University

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The barber of DamascusNouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levantdana saJdi

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 authors—people outside the learned establishment—and a new phenom-enon: 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 Da-mascus in the eighteenth century.”

—Leslie Peirce, new york University

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Sephardi LivesA Documentary History,1700–1950edited by Julia PhilliPs cohen and sarah stein

Jewish studies and Middle East studies have seen an unprecedented diversifica-tion 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 docu-mentary 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 Judeo-Spanish culture and in its diaspora. The approximately 150 sources in this edition—originally composed in fifteen languages—have been selected spe-cifically 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 multi-ethnic, multi-religious, and transna-tional world of the Mediterranean that the Sephardic Jews inhabited. It will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of modern Jewish, Middle East-ern, and Mediterranean history.”

—daniel J. Schroeter, University of minnesota


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Ottoman Ulema, Turkish RepublicAgents of Change and Guardians of TraditionaMit bein

“By underscoring the impact of political contingencies and the agency of his-torical figures, Bein’s meticulous study complicates our understanding of the debates that swirled around Islam’s proper place and authority in Ottoman and Turkish modernity. The book’s deft retrieval of the shadow histories of forgotten ulema and their successors is especially compelling.”

—david commins, dickinson college

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The Margins of EmpireKurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal ZoneJanet Klein

“Klein sheds light on some of the most important and complicated relations and negotiations the Ottoman officials were engaged in as their empire crum-bled 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

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SECOND EDITION

Life as PoliticsHow Ordinary People Change the Middle EastaseF bayat

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 Iran’s 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


Sectarian GulfBahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn’ttoby Matthiesen

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 consequences—for the social fabric of the Gulf States, for the rise of transna-tional 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 read-ers put into context developments across the region, and understand the true sig-nificance of the resurgence of an alarm-ing new form of sectarian politics.”

—marc Lynch, george washington University

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back StoriesU.S. News Production and Palestinian PoliticsaMahl a. bishara

Amahl Bishara demonstrates how Palestinians play integral roles in producing U.S. news and how U.S. journalism in turn shapes Palestin-ian politics. U.S. objectivity is in Palestinian journalist’s 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-Israeli-American dynamics of control, protest, and resistance. Her keen insights into the second intifada help us better un-derstand two critical issues: what is happening on the ground in Palestine and how these events are being reported by the American media.”

—rami Khouri


The Rise and Fall of Human RightsCynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestinelori allen

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 profes-sionalized 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 estab-lish an accountable Palestinian govern-ment, 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 inter-ventionism. The book’s broad appeal lies in illuminating the successes and failures of Palestinians’ varied engage-ments 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

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Time in the ShadowsConfinement in Counterinsurgencieslaleh Khalili

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, Guantánamo Bay, CIA black sites, the Khiam Prison, and Gaza, among others, and links them to a history of colonial counterinsurgen-cies 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 pacifica-tion of Indochina and Algeria.

“Laleh Khalili’s Time in the Shadows is the ghostly other of The U.S. Army/Ma-rine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. Deft and informative, the book provides a historical excavation of the imperatives of counterinsurgency doctrines—from the ideas that drove the European colonial wars in the dying days of those empires to the U.S. and Is-raeli states of warfare in our own times. A serious book that should be required reading.”

—vijay Prashad, trinity college


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Is There a Middle East?The Evolution of a Geopolitical Conceptedited by Michael e. bonine, abbas aManat, and Michael ezeKiel gasPer

This volume offers a diverse set of voices—from political and cultural historians, to social scientists, geog-raphers, and political economists—to 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 centu-ry. This original volume illustrates that it is ultimately more fruitful to consider the effects of this unwieldy and pro-foundly political category than to debate its definition. A far-reaching book that presents new arguments on the produc-tion of the concept and the meanings associated with the Middle East.”

—arang Keshavarzian, new york University


The Headscarf DebatesConflicts of National Belonginganna Korteweg and göKçe yurdaKul

All countries promote national nar-ratives that turn historical diversities into imagined commonalities, ap-pealing 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 reverber-ate 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 belong-ing and nationhood is imagined and reimagined in an increasingly global world.

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A Society of Young WomenOpportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi ArabiaaMélie le renard

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 wom-en 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” women—poor, rural, or non Saudi women—is 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.

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Live and Die Like a ManGender Dynamics in Urban EgyptFarha ghannaM

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 neigh-borhood 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.

“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


Ghosts of RevolutionRekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iranshahla talebi

“This searing memoir of women’s visceral pain, principled resilience, and redemp-tive imagination in Iran’s brutal political prisons will leave you shaken, forever. Talebi’s voice is remarkable for its gener-ous 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 exer-cise of power in Iran.”

—Lila abu-Lughod, columbia University

264 pp., 12 illustrations, 20119780804772013 Cloth $24.00 $19.20 sale

burying the belovedMarriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern IranaMy Motlagh

“Motlagh frees Iranian writers from a presumed level of conscious and willful subjectivity which has far too frequently made them synonymous with social phi-losopher and intellectual and illuminates the fascinating interconnections between legal discourse and modern literary representations of marriage. Masterfully placed within the currents of Persian literary and cultural studies.”

—nasrin rahimieh, University of california, irvine

200 pp., 20119780804775892 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale

Silencing the SeaSecular Rhythms in Palestinian PoetryKhaled Furani

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, knowl-edge, language, and freedom. It reveals an intimate and venerated world, entwining art, intellect, and politics, narrating previously untold stories of a highly stereotyped people.

“Silencing the Sea enlarges our under-standing of the way modern pressures and seductions have led to the under-mining of older sensibilities and the for-mation of new, and of how this process is reflected in Arabic poetry. This not simply a book for literary specialists, but for anyone interested in thinking about the different dimensions of secular experience.”

—talal asad, the city University of new york

312 pp., 20129780804776462 Cloth $55.00 $44.00 sale

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And Then We Work for GodRural Sunni Islam in Western TurkeyKiMberly hart

Sunni Islam structures individual lives through rituals—birth, circumcision, marriage, military service, death—and 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 vi-sions of the state and religion in the rest of Turkey and the world.”

—esra Özyürek, University of california, San diego


Mixing MusicsTurkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred SongMaureen JacKson

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 reper-toire, 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 com-munities in isolation, political events and actors, or nationalizing narratives.

“By treating the private, discrete narra-tives 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


272 pp., 20139780804780155 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in IslamMuhaMMad iqbal, with an introduction by JaVed MaJeed

“Given Iqbal’s indisputable significance as a modern Muslim thinker, the Stan-ford edition of his Reconstruction will introduce his thought to a wide audi-ence 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

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