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Islamic Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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Israel / Palestine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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Culture and Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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Migration and Minority Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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Modern History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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Conflict and Security Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Key to Symbols
AFRICAN & AFRICANA STUDIES Women, Sex and Gender in Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 African History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 African Literature, Film and Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 African Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Conflict and Peace in Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Decolonial and Postcolonial Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 African Religions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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China Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
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Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities . . . . 28
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Modern Southeast Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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The Banquet of the Brethren
An Ismaili Guide to Spiritual Hermeneutics: Part 2 An English translation of Nasir-i Khusraw’s Khwan al-ikhwan Edited by Rahim Gholami, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK The Ismaili missionary and poet, Nasir-i Khusraw (d. after 462), wrote Khwan al-ikhwan (The Banquet of the Brethren) when he was living in his remote mountain refuge of Yumgan in Badakhshan. It is a work of philosophical theology and a reflection of the learning of the age consisting of a sequence of dynamic arguments for divine unicity (tawhid), the authority of the Prophet Muhammad, his legatee, 'Ali b. Abi Talib, and his descendants, the imams from the line of Isma'il b. Ja'far al-Sadiq. Originally written in Persian, Khwan al-ikhwan includes a precis of ideas found in a work by an earlier da'i, Abu Ya'qub alSijistani (d. ca.361), the Kitab al-Yanabi', which Nasir-i Khusraw recast and then extended in 100 chapters. The current publication is an English translation, which is the first translation of Khwan al-Ikhwan in any language outside the Ismaili Texts and Translations UK May 2026 • US May 2026 496 Pages • 1 bw illus HB 9780755654772 • £95.00 / $130.00 PB 9780755654765 • £29.99 / $40.95 ePDF 9780755654796 • £26.99 / $36.85 ePub 9780755654789 • £26.99 / $36.85 I.B. Tauris
Persian milieu. It includes an extensive introduction that discusses Khwan al-ikhwan in the context of both Nasir-i Khusraw’s other works and al-Sijistani’s Kitab al-Yanabi', as well as the role of ta'wil (allegorical or esoteric interpretation) in the Ismaili understanding of the message of the Revelation. This makes the work of Nasir-i Khusraw further available to a wider audience and opens up for the reader the intellectual world of the 5th century in all its sophistication and variety.
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Living Islam
Muslim Expressions of Faith Ali S. Asani The story of Islam is not one story, but many stories involving peoples of different races, ethnicities, and cultures. Every religious tradition is marked by internal diversity, manifested through its various communities of interpretation. Islam likewise is multifaceted, as are Muslim life and faith. Living Islam invites readers to appreciate ways in which Muslims from diverse backgrounds and traditions interpret and experience their faith. Adopting a cultural studies approach, Ali Asani begins by posing questions such as ‘Which Islam?’ and ‘Whose Islam?’, and he considers different conceptions of being Muslim. He then illustrates multidimensional ways in which Muslims relate to the Prophet Muhammad, including as messenger, model, intercessor, and beloved. Drawing on Muslim devotional practices and exploring the Islamic ‘artscape’, he showcases how the beauty of the transcendent can be experienced through sonic, visual and poetic arts. World of Islam UK January 2026 • US January 2026 192 Pages • 30 Colour Images PB 9780755658862 • £8.99 / $11.95 ePDF 9780755658886 • £8.09 / $10.75 ePub 9780755658879 • £8.09 / $10.75 I.B. Tauris
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The City of Balkh
The History, Archaeology and Culture of a Great Islamicate Capital in Afghanistan 7th to 13th century CE Edited by Edmund Herzig, Arezou Azad, Philippe Marquis, Paul Wordsworth & Robert G. Hoyland In the early Islamic age, the city of Balkh was one of the largest and most influential cities in the world. Situated on the northern plains of modern Afghanistan, Balkh flourished from the 7th to the 13th centuries, home to a wide variety of scholars, artists and religious leaders. This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of the history and archaeology of early Islamic Balkh. Archaeological research undertaken throughout the twentieth century has investigated the evolution of the city, but only more recently has the evidence for its medieval development been pieced together. The authors collate and examine the available textual and artefactual material in order to recreate the history of this unique city and assess its critical role in early medieval Eurasia. UK June 2026 • US June 2026 432 Pages • 100 Integrated Colour illus, 79 full page, 43 half page PB 9780755655298 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781784538170 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781786736277 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781786726216 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
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Exploring the Qur'an Context and Impact
Muhammad Abdel Haleem The teachings, style and impact of the Qur'an have always been matters of controversy, among both Muslims and nonMuslims. But in a modern context of intercultural sensitivity, what the Qur'an says and means are perhaps more urgent questions than ever before. This major new book by one of the world's finest Islamic scholars responds to that urgency. Building on his earlier groundbreaking work, the author challenges misinterpretations of particular Qur'anic verses from whatever quarter. He addresses the infamous 'sword' verse, frequently cited as a justification for jihad. He also questions the 'tribute' verse, associated with the Muslim state subjugating Jews and Christians; and the idea of Paradise in the Qur'an, often viewed by the West as emphasising merely physical pleasures, or used by Islamic fighters as their just reward for holy war. The author argues that wrenching the verses out of the context of the whole has led to dangerous ideologies being built UK February 2026 • US March 2026 360 Pages HB 9781780763651 • £46.00 / $61.00 PB 9780755660155 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781786731654 • £19.79 / $26.95 ePub 9781786721655 • £19.79 / $26.95 I.B. Tauris
on isolated phrases which have then assumed afterlives of their own. This nuanced, holistic reading has vital interfaith ramifications.
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Unheard Voices of the Young Egyptian Brothers Pathways of Activism after 2013 Doha Abdelgawad Drawing upon extensive fieldwork, this book unveils the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood intra-dynamics by examining the emerging pathways of political disengagement and radicalization in the aftermath of 2013 Coup. It explores how the 2011 waves of protest and the 2013 military takeover of power – two contradictory phases, in terms of their implications for political Islam – shaped young members’ perceptions towards Egyptian politics, violence and the role of Islamic political groups. This offers a key to understanding the ideological and strategic evolution of Islamists, in alignment with regional changes such as the rise of transnational jihadist groups and the fading of popular protest in the Arab region. The book relies on Social Movement Theory and contentious politics literature to develop a relational approach for analysing the positionalities of the young Brothers. This elucidates change within Islamic groups as a multi-layered, evolving phenomenon Critical Studies on Islamism Series that cannot be attributed solely to either ideological or structural changes, but rather to manifold factors operating at different UK April 2026 • US April 2026 232 Pages HB 9780755650484 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9780755650521 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9780755650491 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9780755650507 • £81.00 / $108.00 I.B. Tauris
levels. It also rejects the prevailing binary classification of moderate versus radical activism when seeking to understand the effects of repression on the trajectories of Islamic movements’ members.
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Between Ideology and Politics
The Foreign Policy of Islamist Political Parties Taghreed Alsabeh This study presents a comparative, case-study approach to analyzing the foreign policies of ruling Islamist parties in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. The book investigates whether democratically elected ruling Islamist parties apply their ideology to foreign policy and how their foreign policy approaches differ to that of non-Islamist parties. Taghreed Alsabeh provides in-depth analysis of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) in Egypt, the Justice and Development Party (PJD) in Morocco, and the Ennahda Party in Tunisia, over a period of twelve years, and compares their foreign policy approaches and outcomes to those of their own internal non-Islamist counterparts. What emerges is a detailed picture of each country’s foreign policy trajectories through successive governments – both Islamist and non-Islamist rule – and clear Critical Studies on Islamism Series sites of commonality as well as divergence. Alsabeh demonstrates that ultimately Islamist parties’ foreign policies have been UK May 2026 • US May 2026 216 Pages HB 9780755653676 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9780755653706 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9780755653669 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9780755653683 • £81.00 / $108.00 I.B. Tauris
ideologically constrained to a large degree by national contexts such as limited time in power, limited control of the government, and their relationships with other domestic political actors.
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Imagine a Nation
Six Persian Poets in Search of a Homeland Hamid Dabashi From Ferdowsi to Rumi and Hafiz, poetry has played a central role in the historical Iranian cultural imagination. How have contemporary poets contributed to this imagining of a nation, in the context of the twentieth century and its momentous events? In this book, Hamid Dabashi interrogates the oeuvre of six major poets: Nima Yushij (1895-1960), Mehdi Akhavan-e Sales (1929-1990), Ahmad Shamlou (1925-2000) Forough Farrokhzad (1934-1967), Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980) and finally Esmail Khoi (1938-2021). Reading their works in the context of Iranian political history, from the Constitutional Revolution to the Iranian Revolution and beyond, he interprets their poetry as exercises in imagining an Iran that was still emerging and UK November 2025 • US November 2025 272 Pages HB 9780755655632 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9780755655625 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9780755655656 • £19.79 / $26.95 ePub 9780755655649 • £19.79 / $26.95 I.B. Tauris
being contested. Providing an original theoretical and critical interpretation of modern Iran’s most well-known poets, based on his own translations from the Persian originals, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of Persian literature and Iranian studies.
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Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinematic and Dramatic Worlds In Dialogue with Time, (1979-2021)
Saeed Talajooy, University of St Andrews, UK Despite strict censorship after the 1979 revolution, Persian literature and Iranian cinema, music, art and theatre found new ways to evolve and flourish. Bahram Beyzaie, whose innovative approaches to cultural production had helped revitalize indigenous Iranian artistic forms for modern purposes before the revolution, continued his work as a leading filmmaker and playwright in the decades following the revolution. This book examines Beyzaie’s unique synthesis of world cinema and performing arts and Iranian literature, folktales, myths and ritual traditions across more than 70 screenplays, plays, films and monographs produced between 1979 and 2021, including key films such as Bashu, the Little Stranger and Killing Mad Dogs. It also engages with UK June 2026 • US June 2026 272 Pages PB 9780755648757 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9780755648719 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9780755648726 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9780755648733 • £76.50 / $103.50 I.B. Tauris
the various aspects of Iranian culture which Beyzaie’s works deal with and examines the semiotic and thematic structures of his creative works, particularly his films, with the view to revealing their dialogue with Iran’s past, present and future.
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David Stronach and British Archaeology in the Middle East Sabrina Maras, University of California, Berkeley Drawn from interviews conducted between 2007 and 2020, this account of the life of renowned archaeologist and former director of the British Institute of Persian Studies, David Brian Stronach, reveals a lost period in international archaeology within Iran, when BIPS was founded and acted as a unique intellectual hub for archaeologists, expats, scholars and foreigners It describes the challenges he faced establishing the Institute and his experiences working with some of the 20th century’s most fascinating personalities in archaeology, such as James Mellaart, Max Mallowan, Seton Lloyd and Agatha Christie. It also provides a new account of the effects of the Iranian revolution of 1979 on Stronach’s own life’s work, on the Institute he built, and on the international world of Iranian archaeology. British Institute of Persian Studies UK June 2026 • US June 2026 320 Pages PB 9780755658992 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9780755658954 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9780755658978 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9780755658961 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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The Kurds of Central Anatolia
The History, Identity and Future of a Forgotten People Edited by Mehmet Gurses, University of Central Florida, US & Haci Cevik From the 16th century up to the last decades of the Ottoman Empire, dozens of Kurdish tribes migrated west and settled in the Central Anatolian plains. Geographically isolated, these Kurds sustained a largely peaceful relationship with their Turkish neighbours and maintained their tribal traditions and distinct ethnolinguistic identity. But more recently they have been exposed to forces of modernization and increasingly confrontational Turkish-Kurdish relations. This book is the first study in the English language on the Kurds of Central Anatolia. Based on extensive fieldwork, the majority of the chapters are written by scholars from within the Central Anatolian community and include perspectives from across history, anthropology, sociology and political science. The book analyses how these Kurds came to be in the plains of Central Anatolia, how they maintained their distinct identity and their evolving relationship with Turkey. It also examines the diaspora communities following their large-scale Kurdish Studies UK January 2026 • US January 2026 272 Pages PB 9780755655816 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9780755655779 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9780755655793 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9780755655809 • £76.50 / $103.50 I.B. Tauris
migration toward major urban centres in Turkey and Western countries. At a time when the Kurds of Central Anatolia are undergoing wide-scale transformations and contact with Kurds from the east, this book is an increasingly urgent examination into their past, their Kurdish identity and their future.
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Iranian Kurdistan Under the Islamic Republic Change, Revolution, and Resistance
Marouf Cabi, University of St Andrews, UK This book presents a social, political, cultural, and socioeconomic history of Iranian Kurdistan since the 1979 Revolution. In this study, Marouf Cabi shines a spotlight on the modern history of Iranian Kurdistan – an area of Greater Kurdistan understudied in comparison to its regions in Syria and Iraq. The book provides a historical narrative and analysis of Kurdistan since the Revolution. It addresses key changes and events in detail, such as the participation of the Kurds in the Revolution, the reinvigoration of the Kurdish movements and the emergence of the women's movement, the armed struggle of the 1980s, socioeconomic and political change of the 1990s, and the emergence of civil society since 2000. Cabi draws on extensive primary sources, including oral history, various newspapers, journals, and books published during the period.
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A Victorian Holocaust
Iran in the Great Famine of 1869–1873 Mohammad Gholi Majd While the famines that ravaged China and India during 1876 to 1902 have received some recent scrutiny, the precursor of these cataclysmic famines, the Great Famine of 1869–1873 in Iran, has remained practically unknown. This famine in Iran killed on a scale similar to the 1876–79 famine in China, which has been called the worst to afflict the human species. This study is based on British diplomatic reports and semi-official sources, European travel accounts, Persian documents and writings, British and American newspapers, and the reports by American missionaries who witnessed the famine. The population statistics and data on famine losses in indicate that during the nearly five years of famine, two-thirds of the population had perished. Not until 1910 did Iran come close to recovering its 1869 population. Soon after, Iran was plunged UK February 2029 • US February 2090 144 Pages PB 9798216275671 • £14.99 / $19.99 ePDF 9798216275695 • £13.49 / $17.99 ePub 9798216275688 • £13.49 / $17.99 Hamilton Books
into the Great Famine of 1917–19, which claimed another 8–10 million, and again the 1942–43 famine and typhus epidemic that carried off an additional 4 million persons. In the seventy-five year span of 1869–1944, Iran had suffered three famines that had taken 25 million lives. It is difficult to find another country in which a century of population growth had been wiped out by famine. Having previously described and quantified the 1917–19 and 1942–43 famines, Majd does the same for the 1869–73 famine. This book is the third of a trilogy on famines in Iran during the last 150 years.
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Zoroastrianism in India and Iran
Persians, Parsis and the Flowering of Political Identity Alexandra Buhler, formerly of SOAS, University of London, UK This book examines the Zoroastrian community in the late Qajar and early Pahlavi period beyond the borders of Iran to trace this Parsi-Persian relationship. A major theme is the increase in philanthropy directed to the Zoroastrians of Iran by the Parsis and the involvement of the British in encouraging Parsi feelings of patriotism towards Iran. The book shows that not only were Parsis affected by events taking place in Iran, they also contributed to the broader change in attitudes towards Zoroastrians in that country. Using a variety of original sources from Britain, India and Iran, Alexandra Buhler looks at the political, legal, and social position of Zoroastrians in Iran and how different events impacted their attitudes as well as the attitudes of Parsis towards UK April 2026 • US April 2026 312 Pages HB 9780755601608 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9780755655854 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9780755601622 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9780755601639 • £81.00 / $108.00 I.B. Tauris
their ancestral homeland. Of particular significance, this book shows, are the seminal years of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1906-11) and the rise in the glorification of the pre-Islamic past, which culminated in the state nationalism expounded by Reza Shah. These political moments had a profound impact on how Zoroastrians in India felt about their future in the country and reveal a complex web of relations between the Parsis, the Zoroastrians of Iran, and the British.
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Towards the Great Civilization Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Edited by Robert Steele, University of California, Los Angeles, USA The first English-language translation of former Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s penultimate book, published in Persian on the eve of the revolution that brought the downfall of the monarchy. In the late 1970s, on the eve of the Islamic Revolution, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran published his third book. In it, he gave his assessment of the progress of Iran in the 15 years since the launching of his White Revolution in 1963 and his vision for his country for the proceeding years and decades – the march towards, what he termed, Iran’s Great Civilization. An indispensable source for understanding state ideology and domestic and foreign policy in the late Pahlavi period, as well as the shah’s personal philosophy and political thought, this new edition of Towards the Great Civilization is based on the original unpublished English-language translation commissioned by the Pahlavi Library, edited by Robert Steele, with an UK June 2026 • US June 2026 248 Pages HB 9780755654178 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9780755654185 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9780755654208 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9780755654192 • £76.50 / $103.50 I.B. Tauris
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Trends in Iranian Cinema
Local and Global Perspectives Edited by Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, University of Tehran, Iran & Mohammad Rahmati The cinema of Iran is celebrated both locally and internationally, yet elements of this diverse field remain comparatively understudied. This book brings together a diverse range of scholars to explore contemporary Iranian cinema in its local and international contexts from a range of perspectives including aesthetic, socio-political comparative approaches. Its chapters analyse the work of well-known filmmakers on the international film circuit such as Abbas Kiarostami, Mohammad Reza Aslani and Jaffar Panahi, as well as internationally lesser-known domestic films such as those of Kamal Tabrizi and the ‘Sacred Defence’ films of the Iran-Iraq war. The book further widens its scope with chapters which also examine the material practices of the Iranian film industry itself, including chapters on the process by which Iranian films become ‘accessible’ to international audience. Finally, it considers, too, representations of Iranians in foreign cinemas, and how these have in turn UK May 2026 • US May 2026 224 Pages HB 9780755647088 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9780755647040 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9780755647071 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9780755647064 • £76.50 / $103.50 I.B. Tauris
affected Iranian films.
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Looking Back
Armenian Emigrants, Nationalism, and Modern Turkey Yesim Bayar Looking Back is a compelling account of how Armenians, as migrants in Canada, remember their past lives in Turkey and make sense of their experiences in two very different landscapes. Anchored in the workings of the Turkish nation, theirs are stories about loss, denial, trauma, and discrimination on the one hand, resilience, survival, and community on the other. Bayar’s in-depth examination tackles questions about memory, citizenship, and being a minority inside a nationalist landscape while revealing rich and multilayered accounts of everyday encounters with institutions, friends, and strangers. Looking Back is a timely study about the costs of nation-building and the ways minorities navigate an exclusionary landscape. Contemporary Turkey UK February 2026 • US February 2026 176 Pages PB 9780755654673 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9780755654666 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9780755654697 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9780755654680 • £76.50 / $103.50 I.B. Tauris
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Islamist Political Thought In Turkey Michelangelo Guida, Mayis University, Turkey Islamism is a powerful political force in contemporary Turkey. But what are the roots of this ideology? This book provides an intellectual history of Islamism in Turkey, tracing the thought of key figures from the late Ottoman Empire to the contemporary period. Examining the works of Namik Kemal, Said Halim Pasa, Said Nursi, Ali Bulaç and others, the book puts these figures and their works in historical context, showing the origins of their ideas and how they changed as Turkey moved from a constitutional to an authoritarian and then more democratic political system, with democratic backsliding and rising authoritarianism today. Covering also the rise of Islamism as a political movement in the late 20th century, it provides important insight into the intellectual background of Islamism in contemporary Turkey under the rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP. Contemporary Turkey UK June 2026 • US June 2026 248 Pages • 2 B&W Images PB 9780755656523 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9780755656486 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9780755656509 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9780755656516 • £76.50 / $103.50 I.B. Tauris
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Armenians and Young Turks
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire, 1895-1908 Garabet K. Moumdjian What was the nature of the relationship between the Young Turks, whose members would go on to form and lead the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) which would carry out the Armenian Genocide beginning in 1915, and the Armenian revolutionaries of the late Ottoman Empire? Based on rich Armenian, Ottoman, British and other archival documents and periodicals, this book reveals the complex dynamics and relations that Armenian organizations, most importantly the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), maintained with the Young Turks between 1895-1908, when relations were transformed from mutual suspicion to closer collaboration. Put in the context of the worsening conditions for Ottoman-Armenians in the eastern provinces of the empire, Armenians in the Modern and Early the book reveals the internal debates of the ARF about collaboration with Young Turk cadres in an effort to improve Modern World conditions for their people, as well as the role that Armenian revolutionaries played in CUP calculations and aims for toppling
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the regime of Sultan Abdulhamid. The book thus reveals the complex and gradual development of relations between the groups before the outright anti-Armenian policies of the CUP would culminate in the Armenian Genocide. It also reveals the ARF’s commitment to the constitutional project and the difficult choices it faced in pursuing those aims.
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Commemorating the Armenian Genocide Harutyun Marutyan Commemorated annually on 24 April, Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day is an important part of national identity in both Armenia and the diaspora. This book is a historical and anthropological account of how the genocide is commemorated by Armenians and its evolving significance over time. Beginning with the first demonstrations by survivors in Allied-occupied Constantinople in 1919, to the Stalinist ban on commemoration and the Khrushchev thaw and beyond, the book charts how the politics of the genocide and its official and popular memory fluctuated in Soviet Armenia and the diaspora. The book also provides a detailed account of the rituals involved in the annual march to the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan and other memory sites, analysing the ways that the collective memory of this foundational event is embodied and continues to reflect and shape Armenian identity today. Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World UK November 2025 • US November 2025 296 Pages PB 9780755657209 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9780755657216 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9780755657230 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9780755657223 • £76.50 / $103.50 I.B. Tauris
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Forms of Belonging
Armenian Architects, Vernacular Style and Architectural Placemaking in the Ottoman East Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan Contrary to the historical record, which views the architecture of the eastern Ottoman cities as unchanging remnants of a medieval and proto-Turkish golden age, this richly illustrated book highlights the wide-ranging transformations that Mardin, Diyarbakir, Urfa, Antep, Bitlis and Erzurum, saw at the hands of Armenian architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Case studies reflect the agency of Armenian architects in constructing these buildings- whether churches, mansions, government offices, schools, or commercial structures. Each chapter looks to one of these cities and the participation of Armenians in shaping these places, not just through architecture but through city institutions, patronage, and benevolence. It Armenians in the Modern and Early argues that Armenians used the urban environment, and a uniquely Armenian reinvention of vernacular architecture, which Modern World reflected their religious, educational, intellectual, and political networks, to partake in the revival of these cities in an era
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marked by reforms to the Ottoman polity, political culture, and local governance. This was a show of popular belonging, and pride in local traditions, but it was also, merged with symbols of Ottoman authority, a reflection of the formation of Ottoman local elites, which included these Armenians - thus representing complex localization and Ottomanization processes at work. This book shows that there was not ‘one’ Armenian culture or identity, but many competing visions across Ottoman cities.
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The Hizmet Movement in Exile Refugees of Turkey's Purge Sophia Pandya This ethnographic work sheds light on the stories of those exiled as a result of Turkey’s purge against followers of the Hizmet (Gulen) Movement - a purge which began after the failed coup against Erdogan in 2016. In this book, Sophia Pandya gives voice to the experiences of these political refugees while analyzing the forces behind their displacement and highlighting the powerful process of experience narration and the creation of meaning after trauma. The study is informed by the author’s longstanding contact with figures in the Hizmet/Gulen Movement over the past 26 years. UK February 2026 • US February 2026 264 Pages PB 9780755655007 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9780755654963 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9780755654987 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9780755654970 • £76.50 / $103.50 I.B. Tauris
The book features 71 interviews with exiles, collected during fieldwork in Greece between 2018 and 2021. These narratives serve as a historical record of the individual human rights violations in Turkey since the failed coup but also provide a framework for understanding the human cost of this authoritarian crackdown. By integrating fieldwork, personal narratives, and academic theoretical grounding, this book offers a multifaceted view of the refugee experience.
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Empire of Officials
Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Bureaucracy Abdulhamit Kirmizi & Abdulhamit Kirmizi The Ottoman Empire’s vast bureaucracy was not solely the domain of Muslim officials. Empire of Officials uncovers the overlooked role of Christians and Jews in the imperial administration, revealing a world where religious difference coexisted with professional collegiality. Drawing on extensive archival research and prosopographic analysis, the book challenges narratives that portray the Ottoman state as rigidly divided along religious lines. Thousands of non-Muslim officials—from scribes and tax officers to high-ranking administrators and ministers—were indispensable to governance, shaping policies that affected millions. Their presence reveals the complexities of imperial rule, where loyalty, expertise, and pragmatism often outweighed sectarian divisions. Navigating careers within a state undergoing modernization and reform, these officials built networks, wielded UK November 2025 • US November 2025 264 Pages • 20 bw illus PB 9780755657834 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9780755657841 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9780755657865 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9780755657858 • £76.50 / $103.50 I.B. Tauris
influence, and redefined the boundaries of belonging. Focusing on the quantity and qualities of its Armenian, Greek, and Jewish officials, Empire of Officials offers a fresh perspective on Ottoman governance. It complicates conventional understandings of identity and provides a new lens for Ottomanism by showing how the bureaucracy functioned as a multiconfessional space, where professional roles often took precedence over ethnic or religious affiliations. Essential reading for scholars of comparative empires, this book illuminates the intricate intersections of bureaucracy, religion, and state power.
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Sacred Space and Anglo-Turkish Relations
The Politics of British Churches, Cemeteries and War Graves in Turkey, 1825 to 1976 John Fisher, University of the West of England, UK This work investigates how various sacred spaces in Ottoman and Republican Turkey interfaced with British foreign policy. It considers how these spaces impacted upon British prestige in the context of its dealings with Turkey chiefly, as well as other Great Powers. The period covered is from the demise of the Levant Company in 1825, to the deconsecration of the Crimean Memorial Church in Istanbul, in 1976. Other sacred spaces discussed include the British Embassy Chapel, the Crimean War cemeteries, various British churches and cemeteries in Izmir, the Gallipoli cemeteries, connected with the campaign of 1915, and the Phanar, the Ecumenical Patriarch’s home in Istanbul. The book considers how, and to what extent, the Foreign Office in London, and its staff in Turkey, intervened to secure those UK May 2026 • US May 2026 376 Pages • 10 bw illus HB 9780755654611 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9780755654628 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9780755654642 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9780755654635 • £81.00 / $108.00 I.B. Tauris
spaces, and why the politics of the Patriarchate intruded into the Foreign Office’s geo-strategic considerations. It considers the limits of that support, and how dealings over sacred space intermeshed generally with British policy towards Turkey. It further explores the motives, not just of diplomats and consuls, who were instrumental in establishing or safeguarding those spaces, but also the aims of other organisations and of expatriate Britons, who were similarly involved. It also considers instances where such support became attenuated or was withdrawn. The book is unique in illuminating, in a broad fashion, the role of sacred space in the context of Anglo-Turkish relations, and British power projection in the Near East.
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Violence and Crime among the Palestinian Minority in Israel The Shattering of the Indigenous
Asad Ghanem, University of Haifa, Israel & Nohad Ali, Western Galilee College, Israel In the last two decades the rates of crime and violence among the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel have increased dramatically. This book is the first to describe, analyze and understand this phenomenon. The authors identify the Israeli state policies that have dismantled Palestinian society and show how these have undermined or eliminated the authoritative figures and social structures that once supported and controlled this community. The rising violence in Arab society is depicted as a clear example of the success of Israeli efforts to weaken Arab society from within, where the community has lost its social, legal and political structures and its ability to organize itself or act as a collective. But in making this argument, the book also shows how the Palestinian minority can combat and overcome crime and SOAS Palestine Studies
violence in society, namely by resisting the superstructure of ethnic supremacy and finding new or lost points of reference
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that can deal with societal challenges. The book is based on the testimonies of activists who have attempted to combat violence worldwide and opinion polls from Palestinians in Israel to determine how they think the violence should be confronted.
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Stolen Nation
The Right to Reparation of Palestinian Refugees Lena El-Malak & Lena El-Malak While Palestinians continue to face the threat of expulsion from their homes, identifying legal mechanisms that can be used to assert Palestinian’s property rights is needed more than ever. This book provides a legal analysis of the right to reparation of Palestinian refugees under international law for the destruction and expropriation of their property during the Nakba . Discussing the legal landscape related to property ownership prior to the creation of the State of Israel and the legal basis for the right to reparation under international law, Lena El-Malak advocates for a law-based approach to enforce this right and the form it should take. The book demonstrates how the legal rights of Palestinian refugees, specifically as related to their properties, have been SOAS Palestine Studies
marginalized and excluded from the political discourse of the “peace process”. Here, the legal rights of Palestinian refugees
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are demonstrated, challenges for invoking these rights in international and domestic courts are determined, and forms of restitution and compensation outlined. This study offers a timely contribution to provide a comprehensive legal, as opposed to a political, economic or historical analysis, of the right to reparation of Palestinian refugees for their property losses. Additionally, the book seeks to demonstrate the importance of adopting a legal framework in any future negotiation for a peaceful resolution to this long standing struggles for liberation.
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The Ancient Cities and Global Trade of Palestine A 7,000 Year History
Nur Masalha, SOAS, University of London, UK For millennia, and despite its relatively small size, Palestine, located at the intersection of three continents, enjoyed wealth, prosperity and flourishing cities and civilisations. The ancient world’s trade systems and trade routes were fundamental to the emergence of early urban life in ancient Palestine. Despite this, the overwhelming majority of publications on Palestine focus on the modern period and overlook the long history of Palestine and its ancient cities and civilisations. This book addresses the lacuna. It provides a long history of Palestine, uncovering the ancient trading and industrial cities from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and throughout the modern period. Spanning 7,000 years of history, the study reveals the extent to which the global trade and local, indigenous UK August 2026 • US June 2026 384 Pages HB 9780755659708 • £95.00 / $130.00 PB 9780755659692 • £29.99 / $40.95 ePDF 9780755659722 • £26.99 / $36.85 ePub 9780755659715 • £26.99 / $36.85 I.B. Tauris
industries of Palestine have shaped the urban social, economic and cultural life of the country over successive periods. Based on extensive archaeological discoveries and documentary evidence, Nur Masalha brings iconic, famous and forgotten trade brands to life. These include: the Neolithic Age obsidian trade; the Calcolithic Age and Bronze Age copper industry of the Naqab; the ancient cities of frankincense and spices; the Red Sea-Gaza silk route; the textiles of Beisan; Gaza wine; gauze and silk weaving from Asqalan and Gaza; Al-Khalil glassware; Acre and cotton export to Europe; Nablus soap; and Jaffa orange.
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Performance Activism in the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Beyond Joseph Alagha, Haigazian University, Lebanon This book by Joseph Alagha examines social practice manifestations of performance activism among contemporary Islamic movements in the MENA and beyond. Performance Activism in the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Beyond links jurisprudential concepts of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies to Social Theory and International Relations theories, most notably Joseph Nye’s hard, soft, smart, and sharp power. Alagha highlights the social practices of contemporary Islamic movements, as soft power, by discussing changes in religious discourses on art and entertainment, the reception and consumption of pious art productions by different audiences, and the metamorphosis of Islamic ethics into aesthetic forms. This book explores Sunni and Shi‘i discourses on humor, music, political satire, and the performing arts, especially singing, dance, dark comedy, and UK September 2025 • US September 2025 232 Pages PB 9798765189863 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666975383 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798765154694 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781666975390 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
revolutionary theater; Jihad through music among Islamic movements; the Salafi and Wahhabi conceptions of Anashid (“religious and ideological songs”); the “taranas” of the Taliban, and the opinions of the Lebanese resistance movement Hizbullah on performance activism or “Resistance Art.”
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The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Sociology and the Middle East Edited by Fatma Müge Göçek, University of Michigan, USA & Gamze Evcimen, Eastern Michigan University, USA What we understand by the ‘Middle East’ has changed over time and across space. While scholars agree that the geographical ‘core’ of the Middle East is the Arabian Peninsula, the boundaries are less clear. How far back in time should we go to define the Middle East? How far south and east should we move on the African continent? And how do we deal with the minority religions in the region, and those who migrate to the West? Across this handbook’s 52 chapters, the leading sociologists writing on the Middle East share their standpoint on these questions. Taking the featured scholars as constitutive of the field, the handbook reshapes studies on the region by piecing together our knowledge on the Middle East from their path-defining contributions. I B Tauris Handbooks UK December 2025 • US December 2025 520 Pages HB 9780755639427 • £160.00 / $220.00 PB 9780755660162 • £39.99 / $54.95 ePDF 9780755639434 • £35.99 / $49.45 ePub 9780755639441 • £35.99 / $49.45 I.B. Tauris
The global approach and wide-ranging topics represent how sociologists enable us to redefine the boundaries and identities of the Middle East today.
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Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire Orientalist Depictions of Arab Sexuality Feras Alkabani, University of Sussex, UK In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Arabic-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change in attitudes towards sexuality. Notions of ‘respectability’, ‘propriety’ and ‘sexual morality’ were being transformed in literary and cultural discourses, a shift that was related to the gradual rise in anti-Ottoman Arab nationalism. However, contemporary Orientalists such as Sir Richard Burton and T.E. Lawrence were oblivious to certain aspects of this process of cultural reconfiguration. While accounts of male-love poetry (ghazal al-mudhakkar) were being gradually expurgated from the Arab literary heritage, elaborate narratives of Oriental homoerotic desire distinctively characterise the encounters of both Burton and Lawrence with the Arab East. UK April 2026 • US April 2026 296 Pages HB 9781784535698 • £95.00 / $130.00 PB 9780755655823 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781838603656 • £85.50 / $117.00 ePub 9781838603649 • £85.50 / $117.00 I.B. Tauris
By comparing their literary and autobiographical accounts of the Arab Orient with contemporary Arabic literature, Feras Alkabani is able to expose this critical disparity in cross-cultural portrayals of sexual morality and homoerotic desire. Alkabani relates the conflicting agendas of contemporary Orientalists and Arab scholars to the shifts in international imperial power relations and the eventual collapse of the Ottoman Empire. His detailed comparative study reveals the significance of homoerotic desire within Orientalist and Arab literary discourses at a time when the meaning and connotations of poetic male-love were undergoing a critical change in Arab culture and literature. It will prove invaluable for those researching Orientalism, nationalism, imperialism and manifestations of homoerotic desire in the fin-de-siècle Middle East.
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Qatar's Foreign Policy
Geography, Politics and Strategy since 1971 Marwan Kabalan, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Qatar This study offers an analysis of Qatar’s foreign policy since its independence from Britain in 1971. Locked between two vying powers, Iran and Saudi Arabia, and lacking the traditional elements of influence in the regional and international state system such as land, human capital, and advanced industry, Qatar nevertheless wields a disproportionately large amount of regional influence with an assertive foreign policy approach. Here, Marwan Kabalan highlights the strategies pursued by the ruling Qatari elite, especially during the last two decades, and delves into the methods Qatar has used to deal with the structural challenges to its foreign policy. The Arab Series on Politics and Society UK June 2026 • US June 2026 304 Pages HB 9780755655205 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9780755655199 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9780755655229 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9780755655212 • £81.00 / $108.00 I.B. Tauris
These strategies include financially leveraging its access to crucial resources, such as natural gas, and its manipulation of existing regional frictions. The book also addresses Qatar’s soft power influence – positioning itself as an alternative cultural and intellectual hub in the Arab world, enabling it to take a leading role, particularly as a mediator, in the region. By highlighting Qatar’s foreign policy strategies and outcomes, Kabalan illustrates how the Qatari case challenges key assumptions of international relations theory which assumes that wealthy small powers tend to pursue passive foreign policies, and that structural forces minimize the role of ruling elites in foreign policymaking.
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Contemporary Arabic Literature and Migration New Poetics and Perspectives
Edited by Annamaria Bianco, Baian Rayhanova & Simone Sibilio The volume provides a fresh look at contemporary Arabic literature on the experiences of migration, forced displacement and exile, with a particular focus on the period from the First Gulf War to the present.It traces thematic fusions, genre and stylistic innovations in literary works by and about migrants, refugees and other displaced persons, and covers a wide geographical area, representing not only the Arab world but also various destination countries, including Europe and North America.Questioning the impact of recent waves of forced displacement and migration from Arab countries on the literary field, the volume explores new understandings of identity and generational conflicts embedded in different types of narratives, while highlighting debates regarding displaced subjectivities and the use of the label ‘refugee literature’ in the Arab sphere, where this definition is widely debated.Particular attention is paid to the relationship between literature UK March 2026 • US March 2026 256 Pages PB 9780755652556 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9780755652549 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9780755652570 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9780755652563 • £81.00 / $108.00 I.B. Tauris
produced in countries of origin and countries of asylum, as well as to the representation of the ‘state of exception’ in the context of street and camp life.In addition, the volume explores the contribution of literary productions represented by poetry, prose and drama to discourses and debates on human rights, as well as the linguistic choices and aesthetic concerns within them, including formal experiments and the intersection of genres.
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Arrested Movement in the Middle East
Mobility and Political Dissent in Arab and Palestinian Culture Drew Paul, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA How has cultural production from the Middle East responded to two simultaneous and contradictory trends: growing ease of global mobility brought about by advances in transportation and communication technologies, and increasingly odious restrictions on movement imposed by repressive regimes, civil war, and military occupations in the Arab world? This book draws on conceptions of space, borders, and mobility from fields such as cultural studies, geography, and anthropology to analyze instances in which movement is arrested, interrupted, or detoured in literature and film from Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, and Egypt. Each chapter revolves around a particular type or space of (im)mobility, such as airports, underground tunnels, and cross-border infiltration. In many of these cases, the juxtaposition of the possibility of movement that is available to some but not others, or was once available but now is denied, acts as a catalyst for imagining UK November 2025 • US November 2025 224 Pages • 15 bw illus PB 9780755656769 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9780755656721 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9780755656745 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9780755656738 • £76.50 / $103.50 I.B. Tauris
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forms of dissent and resistance to repression, ways to circumvent and subvert imposed immobility, and speculative visions of the future.
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Refugee Governance in the Arab World
The International Refugee Regime and Global Politics Edited by Tamirace Fakhoury, University in Aalborg in Copenhagen & Dawn Chatty The Arab region has played an oversized role in hosting refugees. Yet a paucity of literature exists on how the region has contributed to shaping the international refugee regime. This open access anthology presents the first comprehensive study of how Arab states interact with the international refugee regime. It offers a multidisciplinary perspective bringing together historical, political, legal, sociological, and anthropological approaches. Through a wide range of case studies, the anthology explores how Arab states have created norms and practices of refugee governance beyond – and not necessarily aligned with – international refugee law. It also analyses how Arab states have negotiated and contested international agreements and processes. In doing so, the book ‘deUK June 2026 • US June 2026 280 Pages HB 9780755650156 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9780755650194 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9780755650163 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9780755650170 • £0.00 / $0.00 I.B. Tauris
exceptionalizes’ the Arab region, positioning states and societies as norm shapers with an impact on global politics beyond the Arab world. The eBook editions of this book are available as open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Sciences Po.
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Occidentalism and the Egyptian Novel Politics, Poetics and Modernity
Lorenzo Casini, University of Messina, Italy This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of ‘the West’, in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists. Beginning with the writings of Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Lorenzo Casini here traces the way that imaginaries and representations of the West became bound up with the notions of modernity and national identity with which Egyptian novelists grappled, from the works of Tawfiq al-Hakim to those of Taha Husayn. The book also explores the trope of the European woman as an embodiment of the free, modern, seductive West as an essential facet of Occidentalism in this formative period. The second part of the book examines the ways in which later novelists —from Latifa al-Zayyat and Yusuf Idris, to Radwa UK June 2026 • US June 2026 176 Pages HB 9780755646272 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9780755646319 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9780755646289 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9780755646296 • £76.50 / $103.50 I.B. Tauris
Ashur and Ahdaf Soueif— subverted dominant Occidentalist themes as a way of re-examining concepts of personal, political, and national identity. The author argues that these later novelists reacted to the changing political circumstances in Egypt, from Nasser’s rule and the slide to authoritarianism to the 2011 Revolution, to envisage different kinds of Egyptian political community with a more complicated and less binary relationship with the imagined West.
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Confronting Fascism in the Arabic Jewish Press Intellectual Debates and Entangled Loyalties, 1933-1948 Lucia Admiraal During the 1930s and 1940s, Jews in the Middle East took part in extensive debates on fascism in the public sphere. How did the rise of fascism impact the ways in which Jews in the region envisioned the past, present and future? This open access book examines Jewish discussions on the positions and identities of Jews in the Middle East within the context of multifocal debates on fascism. Focussing on the Arabic Jewish press in Egypt, Lebanon and Syria, it studies the ideas of its editors and main contributors and their intellectual networks. Putting those debates within the context of social, political and national reorientations following the end of the Ottoman Empire, the book uses an ideas-based and conceptual approach to also connect this history to global debates on fascism centred on the concepts of race, civilization and religion. In doing so, it situates Jewish discussions on fascism in the Middle East not only at the heart of Arab intellectual history, but also as part of UK June 2026 • US June 2026 232 Pages • 7 bw illus HB 9780755652747 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9780755652754 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9780755652778 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9780755652761 • £0.00 / $0.00 I.B. Tauris
a globalizing public sphere during the interwar, war and immediate post-war periods (1933-1948). The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
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The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Authoritarianism in the Arab World Edited by Dana El Kurd, University of Richmond, USA This open access handbook provides an overview of Arab authoritarianism and how it has evolved in the face of a global decade of protest, democratic decline, and surging conflict. The chapters in this volume highlight the specificities of authoritarianism in the Arab world while also placing the region in the context of global trends. Contributions combine fresh theoretical analysis with rich case study information on actors, movements, communities, and dynamics that are often ignored in our understanding of this region. With an emphasis on voices from the region, the contributions in this volume span a wide range of disciplinary approaches and address the following areas: strategies and practices of authoritarianism, international and transnational trends, the political economy of I B Tauris Handbooks UK July 2026 • US June 2026 480 Pages PB 9780755660179 • £39.99 / $54.95 HB 9780755655359 • £140.00 / $190.00 ePDF 9780755655373 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9780755655366 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic
authoritarianism, identity, ideology, and resistance. Addressing these issues not only illuminate the persistence of authoritarianism in the Arab world, but also what Arab authoritarianism teaches us about global politics and trends. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Richmond.
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Realizing Saudi Vision 2030
Governance, Institutions and Human Capital Development Edited by Mark C. Thompson, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia All too often, Saudi Vision 2030 is associated outside the Kingdom solely with mega-projects such as ‘Neom’ and ‘The Line’. But how the Vision is being realized through ‘real life’ situations and issues is frequently overlooked. This open access book is a behind-the-scenes investigation into the current transformations taking place in Saudi Arabia. It comprises contributions from academics, researchers, policymakers and practitioners who have access to the decision-makers and relevant institutions in the country. Based on these authors’ extensive experiences and this unique access, chapters focus on the remodelling of government entities, the creation of institutions, and the new opportunities made available for Saudis through human capital development initiatives, all key issues that are central to the Vision. In assessing the transformations taking place in Saudi Arabia, this book is a much-needed evaluation into how Vision 2030 is being successfully implemented and King Faisal Center for Research and what factors challenge development. Islamic Studies Series UK February 2026 • US February 2026 336 Pages PB 9780755656325 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9780755656288 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9780755656301 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9780755656318 • £0.00 / $0.00 I.B. Tauris
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The Impact of Domestic Actors on Iraq's Foreign Policy Formulation, 1950s to 1980s Fatih Oguzhan Ipek This book presents a theoretical framework for understanding Iraqi foreign policy from the 1950s through the late Cold War, examining how successive regimes navigated complex international and domestic pressures. Fatih Oguzhan Ipek analyzes the interplay between systemic factors—including influences from great and regional powers— and unit-level variables such as the Iraqi foreign policy executive (FPE) and societal elites. By exploring four critical dimensions—the threat environment, the FPE's structural autonomy, foreign policy coalitions, and domestic power balances —the book reveals how Iraqi leaders strategically used foreign policy to address both external threats and internal challenges. Case studies demonstrate how the concern for regime survival in the Hashemite monarchy motivated it to accede to the Baghdad Pact, how the Iraq-Egypt rivalry influenced Qasim’s decision to invade Kuwait, how Nasserism and UK May 2026 • US April 2026 172 Pages • 19 tables PB 9798216392934 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666966596 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216263586 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978760240 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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Arab nationalism compelled President Arif to join the 1967 Arab-Israeli War despite limited autonomy, and how Iraqi leaders responded to rising powers based on their structural position and the domestic political landscape. This analysis moves beyond conventional explanations of Iraqi foreign policy, offering a nuanced understanding of how authoritarian regimes balance external pressures and domestic constraints when formulating strategic decisions.
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Ronald Storrs
Governing British Jerusalem C. Brad Faught, Tyndale University College Called by T.E. Lawrence, ‘the most brilliant Englishman in the Middle East’, Ronald Storrs was a prominent British diplomat and governor who played a leading role in the Anglo-Egyptian government and the Arab Bureau in the years immediately before and during the First World War. In 1917, Storrs became Military Governor of Jerusalem under the British Mandate, in his words, the first such governor ‘since Pontius Pilate’. This book tells the story of Storrs’s life in the Middle East by weaving together international affairs, regional geopolitics, statecraft and biography to reassess his influence on British policy during the early years of the twentieth century. During this period, he witnessed the rise of Arab nationalism, the end of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of Zionism in UK January 2026 • US January 2026 240 Pages PB 9780755653416 • £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9780755653409 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9780755653430 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9780755653423 • £76.50 / $103.50 I.B. Tauris
Palestine. Storrs’s governorship of Jerusalem came at a critical juncture in the city’s post-war history, and C. Brad Faught analyses his attempts to forge a working peace between Arabs and Jews while seeking also to preserve and protect the Holy City’s many sacred spaces. Storrs’s record as a colonial governor is examined, and the sharp divisions within Jerusalem’s body politic – some of which were created or exacerbated by Britain’s own policies – are explored. By probing the life of an important but understudied British diplomat, the book makes an important contribution to deepening our understanding of the complicated history of the modern Middle East.
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ISIS
The March to Dystopia Azmi Bishara, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar How should we understand ISIS today? The most comprehensive study of ISIS to date, this book benefits from Arabic sources previously unavailable to an Englishspeaking audience. Renowned scholar and political philosopher, Azmi Bishara, stresses the need to place ISIS in its historical, social, and political context – shifting the focus from Salafi ideology – to understand its rise and expansion. This includes a discussion of how regional wars, the occupation of Iraq, sectarian politics, the outbreak of civil war in Iraq and Syria, and the decline of the central state contributed to both ISIS’s formation and the unprecedented merger of Jihadism and Salafism. UK December 2025 • US December 2025 312 Pages HB 9780755601646 • £75.00 / $100.00 PB 9780755659005 • £24.99 / $34.95 ePDF 9780755601653 • £22.49 / $31.45 ePub 9780755601660 • £22.49 / $31.45 I.B. Tauris
The book counters a wide misconception in the West that ISIS’s control of Syria and Iraq can be attributed to a Sunni environment, separating the rise of the organization from its exploitation of religious texts. It presents a rebuttal of arguments that hold Islamic civilization responsible for ISIS ideology by reviewing and deconstructing significant jihadi Salafi texts and demonstrating how they depart from Islamic thought and culture. Beyond ISIS, the book offers an original comparative analysis of the ideology of jihadism, as well as matters of governance, recruitment, and radicalisation.
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Al-Qaida after 9/11
The War on Terror and the Decade of Demise Anne Likuski How did the War on Terror impact Al-Qaida in the decade after 9/11? This is the first book to analyse the inner workings of the group through the eyes of its mid-level leaders in Pakistan, who were, in practice, running al-Qaida’s affairs when communications with Osama bin Laden were slow or absent. The book relies on a large collection of little-known Arabic primary sources about al-Qaida, including the “Abbottabad documents” - the group’s own, internal communications between 2002-2011. Al-Qaida’s performance is assessed in three areas: the war in Afghanistan; the war in Iraq; and international terrorism. Chapters explain why the group’s contributions to UK February 2026 • US February 2026 264 Pages HB 9780755648566 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9780755648573 • £19.99 / $26.95 ePDF 9780755648580 • £17.99 / $24.25 ePub 9780755648597 • £17.99 / $24.25 I.B. Tauris
the Afghan war were modest, shows the reasons for Al-Qaida’s inability to influence events in Iraq, and charts its fading ability to organize international terrorist attacks. The Abbottabad documents reveal that Al-Qaida’s demise after 9/11 was not simply the result of effective counterterrorism. Rather, the group’s organizational weaknesses and the fallibilities of individual leaders played a vital role. The book gives us the first glimpse into the instances where bin Laden’s lack of strategy meant al-Qaida’s mid-level leadership had to grapple with the consequences. It also documents the detrimental impact of the relationship between al-Qaida and the Taliban.
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The 44-Day War
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Struggle for Nagorno-Karabakh Edited by Vicken Cheterian, University of Geneva The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020 was a major armed conflict between the two modern, regular armies of Armenia and Azerbaijan. This open access book examines the causes, and consequences of the war Second NagornoKarabakh War. The first part of the book includes chapters discussing why the ceasefire regime failed after long twenty-six years, international mediation and diplomacy, the geopolitical tensions, Armenia’s failure to anticipate the coming war, and emergence of autocratic rule in Azerbaijan. The second part of the book looks at international actors, including the surprising behaviour of Russia, Turkish role and interests, and the lack of American Christian solidarity towards Armenians. The third part of the book looks at the consequences of the war, including the post-war diplomatic initiatives, the dramatic failure of the Russian peacekeeping mission leading to the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh, and a comparative study of NagornoUK February 2026 • US February 2026 304 Pages HB 9780755653454 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9780755653461 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9780755653485 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9780755653478 • £0.00 / $0.00 I.B. Tauris
Karabakh with the Russia-Ukraine wars. Including specialists from various disciplines and from several countries, the book sheds light on the Second Karabakh War, the future of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations and placing it in the broader international context of a new era of inter-state wars. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
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My Struggle for Syria
A Woman in Arab Politics Bassma Kodmani Edited by Hala Kodmani & Emma Playfair This account by Bassma Kodmani details her passionate fight for democratic change in Syria. It is both her personal testimony and a unique historical document. As a westernised Syrian intellectual who, in 2011, became a figure of the Syrian opposition in exile, her candid narrative sheds fresh light on this conflict with its multiple twists and turns drawn from her direct involvement over a decade. Kodmani participated in and initiated meetings and negotiations with diplomats and politicians from around the world. Her testimony covers the exclusive behind-the-scenes revelations about conversations with local and international officials and follows the mutations of the Syrian conflict. The missed opportunities, broken promises and the changing positions of some of the world’s most important leaders revealed in this book illuminate the regional geopolitics of the Syrian conflict that are still unresolved today. An important source for scholars in Syria studies, UK February 2026 • US February 2026 256 Pages HB 9780755658206 • £75.00 / $100.00 PB 9780755658213 • £24.99 / $34.95 ePDF 9780755658237 • £22.49 / $31.45 ePub 9780755658220 • £22.49 / $31.45 I.B. Tauris
Kodmani's personal reflections add a human element to the political analysis.
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Iran and the Bomb
The United States, Iran, and the Nuclear Question Sina Azodi This book is the first to trace the evolution of Iran’s nuclear strategy (program) in the broader context of its relationship with the United States, from the early days of total US support in the 1950s to the staunch opposition that followed the Iranian revolution, and its reconstitution. The account covers the pivotal moments including initial meetings to pursue uranium enrichment in Iran, key internal debates, the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Donald Trump’s controversial withdrawal and the latest efforts to revive the agreement. The book shows that because the strategic logic of the nuclear program transcends the regimes type, dismantling the Iranian nuclear program is not viable policy option for the United States. Instead, the US UK June 2026 • US June 2026 280 Pages HB 9780755659906 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9780755659890 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9780755659920 • £19.79 / $26.95 ePub 9780755659913 • £19.79 / $26.95 I.B. Tauris
must learn to live with a nuclear threshold state and make it a priority to keep Iranian capacity as far away from the bomb as possible. The research is based on American declassified documents and often marginalized Iranian primary sources including political memoirs, diplomatic correspondences, oral histories from Iranian nuclear officials and exclusive one-on-one interviews with Iranian scientists and national security officials.
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Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism African Women, Culture, Power and Democracy Ifi Amadiume, Dartmouth College, USA Ifi Adadiume contrasts the collectivist, humanist culture of traditional African matriarchal heritage with the corrupt and oppressive culture of the imperialism that is the heritage of contemporary elite-led women's organizations. Amadiume examines the activities of such organizations in Nigeria, making comparisons with those in Britain and South Africa as well as in international movements; looking at Beijing International Women‘s Conferences, she explores internationalism as an instrument of class reproduction. Here Amadiume provides a detailed account of the structures and workings of local government in Nigeria and Britain as she raises theoretical and policy issues about civic groups, civil society and the nature of the late twentieth-century state. Finally, she draws lessons from her own experiences working in local government to suggest measures for true gender equity and the democratisation of politics in our increasingly Essential Amadiume
multicultural and multiethnic societies. Bringing Amadiume's groundbreaking insights to a new generation of readers, this
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Essential Amadiume edition asks hard questions of modern feminist movements that are still too-often sidelined in Westerncentric debates.
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Male Daughters, Female Husbands Gender and Sex in an African Society Ifi Amadiume, Dartmouth College, USA Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands to critical acclaim. Here Amadiume boldly argues that the notion of gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of sexual difference. This new Essential Amadiume edition illustrates for a new generation of readers the specifically Western origins of the gender essentialisms to which much current gender theory reacts. In showing how those notions have been projected onto other cultures through colonialism, and in exploring traditional west African practices that conceive of gender otherwise, it re-opens other alternatives to them. Essential Amadiume UK February 2026 • US February 2026 240 Pages HB 9781350507784 • £45.00 / $61.00 PB 9781350507791 • £14.99 / $19.95 ePDF 9781350507814 • £13.49 / $17.95 ePub 9781350507807 • £13.49 / $17.95 Zed Books
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Re-Inventing Africa
Matriarchy, Religion and Culture Ifi Amadiume, Dartmouth College, USA Now in this Essential Amadiume edition designed to bring Amadiume's groundbreaking ideas to a new generation of readers, this extraordinary book issues a clarion call for a new understanding of Africa, one made and written by Africans. Here Amadiume issues a seminal challenge to Western anthropologists to recognize their own complicity in producing a version of Africa that is often little more than a reflection of their own class-based, patriarchal thought. Amadiume explores how imperialism, violence, patriarchy and class-based social structures - originally imposed by colonialism - have become internalized to result in a contemporary Africa cursed with neo-colonial states. She uncovers the hidden matriarchal history of Africa, which continues to empower women in political struggle throughout the continent. She looks at the masculinization of indigenous African religions, effected largely by the imposition of Christianity and Islam. Essential Amadiume UK February 2026 • US February 2026 224 Pages HB 9781350509214 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9781350509207 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781350509238 • £19.79 / $26.95 ePub 9781350509221 • £19.79 / $26.95 Zed Books
Ultimately, she provides a guide to the main Afro-centric social theorists, writing a new social history of their continent. Dedicated to the diasporic African communities in their struggle to construct alternative, anti-racist and anti-imperialist epistemologies of self-representation and self-generated ideals, this is a radical vision of Africa from the powerful voice of an African woman.
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Southern African Queer and Trans Narratives in Digital Landscapes Princess A. Sibanda, University of the Western Cape & Gibson Ncube, Stellenbosch University Focusing on Southern African perspectives, this groundbreaking book explores how digital spaces offer alternative avenues for queer and trans visual cultures in Africa as manifested and shared through popular social media platforms. In its analysis of the dynamic intersection of queerness/transness, African identities, and social media, this book sheds light on the complexities, challenges and transformative potential of these emerging digital platforms and cultures. Through close textual and semiotic readings of content on sites like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X (formerly Twitter), the authors demonstrate how queer and trans content creators harness visuality, performance and algorithmic visibility to Gender and Sexuality in Africa and challenge heteronormative scripts and narratives of gender and sexuality. the Diaspora UK February 2026 • US February 2026 256 Pages PB 9781666961508 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666961485 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9781666961492 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978767102 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Providing an in-depth analysis of how visual cultures function as archives, sites of protest, and spaces of worldmaking for gender and sexual minorities, this book rejects colonial epistemic frameworks to advance a decolonial queer and trans project which foregrounds fluidity, embodiment and diasporic interconnection. The authors explore this important intervention in African queer studies and digital media scholarship, highlighting both the transformative power and precarity of online queer and trans lives in repressive, unaccommodating and unequal contexts.
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Mediating Gender in African Social Media Representation, Commodification, and Sexuality
Edited by Shepherd Mpofu, University of South Africa & Kealeboga Aiseng, University of the Witwatersrand Through African case studies, this book explores how gender and sexuality are articulated on social media. While the representation of gender in mainstream media has been studied for many decades, this book fills a gap by focusing on social media platforms like Facebook, X, Instagram, and Tik Tok, and examining representation, commodification, and sexuality on these platforms. The contributors hold a mirror to society and reflect on the issues in our current world of empowerment, where sexuality and gender preferences are respected, and sexual rights are protected by constitutions in progressive democracies. Through their research, Shepherd Mpofu, Kealeboga Aiseng, and the contributors strive to alter the male gaze, commercial benefits of commodification, and African culture as benefited and influenced by patriarchal societies. Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora UK September 2025 • US September 2025 288 Pages • 2 tables PB 9781666954074 • £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781666954050 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9781978749313 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781666954067 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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History of Black Women Deans, College Alumnae Organizations, and Activism Ashla C. Hill Roseboro, Alabama State University This historical account uncovers the lived experiences and history of pioneering Black women deans. Few scholars have studied the origins of Black deans of women and college graduates who were at the intersection of race and gender. Ashla C. Hill Roseboro’s History of Black Women Deans, College Alumnae Organizations, and Activism fills this gap by sharing the lived experiences of pioneering administrators at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and college alumnae who overcame barriers by forming their own professional circles. She investigates newspaper reports, articles, and artifacts from 1910 to the 1960s to provide insights on how these educated women advocated for higher education standards through the collective work of awarding scholarships to students, strategy meetings, and enrichment programs. This sisterhood emphasized how they took creative approaches to gain members, improve education, and The Africana Experience and Critical Leadership Studies UK July 2025 • US July 2025 200 Pages • 2 tables PB 9781666963663 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666963649 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798765154458 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781666963656 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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promote equality. Past successes and struggles of these trailblazers illuminate how progress was made despite limitations and setbacks. This book points to the path taken by these mentoring leaders who sacrificed for the greater good of their communities. Leaders today can be inspired through these writings to continue being beacons of hope for greater equity towards a just society.
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The Ife-Modakeke Conflict
Historical Legacies, Cultural Divergences, and Sociopolitical Tensions Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi examines the complex interplay of history, culture, and politics that have shaped the longstanding conflict between the Ife and Modakeke communities in Nigeria. This book argues that the roots of this conflict extend beyond immediate sociopolitical grievances and are deeply entwined with historical legacies and cultural divergences that have evolved over centuries. Using archival materials, oral histories, and contemporary narratives, Oyeniyi illustrates how colonial legacies, ethnic identities, and local power dynamics have contributed to ongoing tensions. The analysis reveals how historical grievances are often reframed in contemporary contexts, influencing community relations and political alignments. Ultimately, this book sheds light on the necessity of understanding historical contexts to address current conflicts, offering insights into conflict resolution and peacebuilding strategies that are informed by a nuanced grasp of local UK September 2025 • US September 2025 248 Pages • 1 table and 3 bw illus PB 9781666971170 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666971156 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798765155196 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781666971163 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
histories and cultural identities. This book contributes significantly to the broader discourse on conflict in Nigeria and Africa, emphasizing the importance of historical awareness in contemporary sociopolitical landscapes.
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Kwame Nkrumah's Quest for Restoration Nkrumaism and Pan-Africanism in Exile Tunde Adeleke, Iowa State University Examining Kwame Nkrumah’s time in exile, Tunde Adeleke challenges existing and popular understandings of Nkrumah’s ideas and struggles. In Kwame Nkrumah’s Quest for Restoration: Nkrumaism and Pan-Africanism in Exile Tunde Adeleke examines Kwame Nkrumah’s life and the six years he spent in exile in Conakry, Guinea, exploring the extraordinary efforts and resources he invested on attempts to return and regain political power. Adeleke contends that Nkrumah’s overthrow and exile compelled him to reimagine, revise, and fundamentally alter the essence of Pan-Africanism. This book shows how Nkurmah spearheaded the Pan-Africanist movement for greater continental unification, deviating from some of the essential values and principles of Pan-Africanism. His time in exile exposed a personality in sharp contrast to the consummate Pan-Africanist memorialized in Black Nationalist discourses. Through textual analysis of Nkrumah’s letters UK September 2025 • US September 2025 232 Pages PB 9798765166918 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666972382 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798765166901 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978761001 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
and political writings, Adeleke argues that Nkrumah’s fundamental change and redirection on Pan-Africanism not only shaped the movement’s new purpose but also impacted Ghana.
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Historical Dictionary of North Sudan Robert S. Kramer, St. Norbert College & Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk, Qatar University Sudan split into two countries in 2011, with the secession of South Sudan. This volume covers the history of the region, starting in 5,000 BCE and continuing up to 2025. Historical Dictionary of North Sudan contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section contains cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about North Sudan.
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French in Multilingual Anglophone Africa Language, Literature, and Translation in Nigeria
Edited by Michael Akinpelu, University of Regina & Tunde Ajiboye, University of Ilorin Examining the impact of French language in Nigeria, this book discusses the prospects of French language use for development as well as its connection to literature and translation. Despite its ambiguous and indistinct official status in the country, French remains the preferred foreign language in Nigeria and academia. Michael Akinpelu and Tunde Ajiboye’s, French in Multilingual Anglophone Africa: Language, Literature, and Translation in Nigeria discusses how the French language is not only taught as a foreign language in Nigerian higher education, but is also an important linguistic code for literary creation, translation, and interpretation, blending local and international francophone cultures. Part I explores issues related to bilingualism, language resource management, and comparison between French and local languages. Part II considers the French language’s exploitation in relation to translation and interpretation with particular interests in cultural UK September 2025 • US September 2025 232 Pages • 9 bw illus & 14 tables PB 9781666971415 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666971392 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798765163849 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978771499 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
challenges. Part III provides historical context tracing the evolution of literary engagement of Nigerian writers’ contact with French and evolving perspectives on the language in Nigerian literature from the 1930s to present day. Using case studies, classroom fieldwork, and policy analyses, this book shows how French in multilingual Africa is not just a mode of communication, but a powerful instrument of socio-economic integration and mobility in a globalized world.
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Hausa Cinema of Northern Nigeria Cultural Imperialism and Censorship Abdalla Uba Adamu, Bayero University This historical account of cinema in Nigeria explores the transcultural transfer of media from India to Africa through films. Hausa Cinema of Northern Nigeria examines how the Hindi Cinema of India became the template for storytelling in the Hausa regional cinema of Northern Nigeria and explores the emergence of Indigenous language within cinema in this region. Such emergence created points of divergence with the Islamic public culture leading to censorship both within the entertainment industry and the newly re-introduced Shari’a government of Kano. Throughout this book, Abdalla Uba Adamu explores the tension between Islamic society and the intrusion of transglobal media influences in cinema in Kano. He provides a deeper understanding of global media transnationalism and its impact on Muslim African popular culture. This book also discusses how the Muslim Hausa youth used the agencies of transglobal media technologies to transform the UK June 2025 • US June 2025 Hausa narrative style from a linear and didactic format to a complex configuration. By examining the Hausa film industry’ s 424 Pages • 17 tables, 1 bw illus, and 2 bw history, Adamu challenges the notion of cultural and media imperialism and the dominance of media consumption in photos PB 9781666962468 • £28.99 / $39.95 contemporary African societies. HB 9781666962444 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePDF 9798765154434 • £85.50 / $117.00 ePub 9781666962451 • £85.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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Humor as Social Critique
Widening the African Perspective Edited by Jennalee Donian, Nelson Mandela University & Andrea Hurst, Nelson Mandela University This interdisciplinary collection by Jennalee Donian and Andrea Hurst brings together insights from various humanities disciplines to examine humor’s role in navigating complex political, cultural, and personal landscapes. Humor as Social Critique: Widening the African Perspective explores how humor functions as a powerful tool for social critique in the African context. Part I delves into humor's relationship with political critique, analyzing how comedians, writers, and artists use humor to resist oppressive power structures and foster dialogue. Part II examines humor’s potential for sociocultural critique, exploring how it reflects and shapes cultural norms, identities, and power dynamics. Part III investigates the role of humor in self-critique, highlighting its therapeutic potential and ability to promote humility and self-awareness. By centering African perspectives while engaging with global voices, Humor as Social Critique challenges the notion that humor UK September 2025 • US September 2025 272 Pages • 1 table, 15 bw photos, 1 bw illus PB 9781666969795 • £19.99 / $26.95 HB 9781666969771 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781978749320 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781666969788 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
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is a uniquely localized phenomenon. Instead, it celebrates humor’s ability to transcend geographical and cultural boundaries, enriching the tapestry of human experience. This book offers valuable insights for scholars and readers interested in the intersections of humor, culture, and social justice.
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Musicking and Dancing Politics in Africa Power, Activism, and Elections
Edited by Solomon Gwerevende, University of Music and Performing Arts, Trust Matsilele, Birmingham City University & Wonder Maguraushe, Midlands State University Bringing together interdisciplinary scholars, this book explores how African musical traditions and dance act as political commentary and forms of resistance in Africa. The volume draws on Christopher Small's concept of "musicking" to explore the intersection between music, dance, and politics across the diverse cultural landscapes in Africa, particularly South Africa, Malawi, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe. Chapters cover case studies of how music and dance have been used as tools of political messaging and means of performing, UK February 2026 • US February 2026 296 Pages • 1 b&w illus PB 9781666979183 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666979169 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9781666979176 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978766198 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
visualizing and localizing activism, resistance, propaganda, and power in politics. It is structured into three main parts. The first part examines how music and dance serve as vessels for communal memory and heritage. Part two explores the role of music and dance as a tool to fight for democracy and justice. Part three highlights the role of dance and music in elections.
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Silence and Silencing in Selected African Novels Power Dynamics and Transformative Voices Oumar Chérif Diop, Kennesaw State University Through literary analysis, this book examines how African writers address silence and oppression in novels and poetry. Silence and Silencing in Selected African Novels: Power Dynamics and Transformative Voices by Oumar Chérif Diop explores representations of rhetorical, sociocultural, and gendered silence and silencing within selected African literature. He examines how African writers deconstruct normative discourses and use aesthetic forms and narrative techniques to confront silencing systems. Within these literary works, characters express their thoughts, emotions, fears, anxieties, and protest through their silence. Through textual analysis, Diop explores the spaces where silence and silencing occur and how they highlight power dynamics and enforce oppressive structures. These texts also reveal the transformative potential of silence to illustrate the resilience of marginalized characters and their inspiring struggle against the censoring mechanisms UK September 2025 • US September 2025 168 Pages PB 9781666918489 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666918465 • £75.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798765154878 • £67.50 / $99.00 ePub 9781666918472 • £67.50 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
of repressive institutions. Breaking the silence becomes an act of reclaiming agency and challenging oppressive forces. Diop shows how the importance of voice in the struggle for justice and the potential for individual actions inspires broader movements for change.
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Songs of the South African AIDS Crisis Gavin Robert Walker, Minjiang University Using the concept of musical effervescence, a collective state of synchronized and focused intersubjectivity through music, Gavin Robert Walker reveals how and why songs have become such a ubiquitous and formidable force within the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Drawn from a rich and powerful cultural history, music has been used to inspire HIV/AIDS activism and advocacy, facilitate local psychosocial healing, communicate life-saving health information, motivate communities towards healthy behaviors, and promote acceptance of individuals living with HIV. In this book, Walker introduces musical effervescence, a collective state of synchronized and focused intersubjectivity through music, to reveal how and why songs have become such a ubiquitous and formidable force within the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. He situates music at the core of human experience, unpacking how collective singing embodies a shared sense of humanity. This compelling analysis engages deeply with interpersonal musical encounters, asking: what makes these experiences both UK September 2025 • US September 2025 264 Pages • 1 bw illus PB 9781666928549 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666928525 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798765154915 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781666928532 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
deeply personal and fundamentally social?, how can music be relevant to such a diverse range of outcomes?, and what can musical effervescence contribute to our understanding of the arts and social, emotional, or physical wellness? Challenging conventional assumptions about the universality of music, Walker explores the relational bonds it cultivates through movement, perception, experience, and perspective to reveal music’s role in shaping the South African AIDS crisis.
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Cooking Culture
Women’s Culinary Agency and Everyday Creativity in Rural Mali Stephen Wooten, University of Oregon, USA In this open access book, Stephen Wooten offers a holistic historical ethnography of cooking and female agency in West Africa, and of the broader cultural and historical significance of women’s culinary agency. Drawing on archaeological evidence, historical accounts, and extensive ethnographic research, Stephen Wooten documents and theorizes Malian women’s culinary agency. He finds that their cooking not only transforms raw ingredients into cooked fare, providing essential physical nourishment, but also helps foster fundamental values, facilitate elemental family and community dynamics, and reproduce gender identities and relations. These findings shed light on the cultural productivity of cooking within a specific African context and foster a deeper appreciation for the significance of culinary dynamics more UK April 2026 • US April 2026 200 Pages HB 9781350382459 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350382497 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350382473 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9781350382466 • £0.00 / $0.00 Zed Books
broadly. The study makes important contributions to the fields of African studies, anthropology, and “everyday studies”. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
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Ahmadu Bamba and Decolonization The Power of Faith and Self-Reliance Cheikh M. Ndiaye Like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela, Shaykh Ahmadu Bamba MBacké was a leader of his time, championing non-violence and pioneering decolonization through the Murid project, which was a Sufi religious dimension and a deconstruction of colonial and local (psychic) alienation. Cheikh M. Ndiaye’s, Ahmadu Bamba and Decolonization: The Power of Faith and Self-Reliance, examines Bamba’s legacy as a man of unshakable faith, a humanist, a socio-cultural reformer, and a key agent in the decolonization of minds and spaces. Ndiaye shows how Bamba distinguished himself from the violence around him by choosing nonviolent forms of resistance, such as, founding and marking new villages with original signs, revaluing the local Wolof language, inspiring self-reliance and preaching about khidma (service). Providing historical background on Senegambia and the history of Islam in the area, this book examines UK April 2025 • US April 2025 164 Pages • 2 BW Photos PB 9781666923445 • $39.95 HB 9781666923421 • £81.00 / $105.00 ePDF 9781978783270 • £72.90 / $94.50 ePub 9781666923438 • £72.90 / $94.50 Lexington Books
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Disinformation Campaigns in Africa Actors, Consequences, and Responses
Admire Mare, University of Johannesburg, South Africa & Allen Munoriyarwa, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa Centering disinformation campaigns in Africa, this book examines typologies of false and misleading information and assesses the devastating consequences of disinformation. Admire Mare and Allen Munoriyarwa cover the key actors, consequences of, and responses to combat disinformation campaigns that have been orchestrated by both domestic and foreign forces. This includes the spread of misinformation around elections, public health, migration, climate, and conflicts. This book provides historical analysis, examines the nexus between journalism and disinformation, and foregrounds UK May 2026 • US June 2026 262 Pages • 4 tables and 5 bw illus PB 9781666945348 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666945324 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9781666945331 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978771758 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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conspiracy theories implicated in disinformation campaigns. The authors shed light on how these campaigns have been amplified in the digital age. It unpacks how everyday Africans’ dependence on both analogue and digital media platforms have contributed to the pollution of their communicative and information ecosystems. This book highlights the interconnectedness of offline and online, domestic and foreign, as well as human and non-human typologies of disinformation.
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Crises, Displacement, and Foreign Aid in the Horn of Africa Dolapo Fakuade, University of Derby & Erman Akilli, Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University Analyzing the ongoing regional crises across Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, this book examines crisisinduced displacement and the role of foreign aid and diplomacy in shaping responses to crisis. Delving into the root causes of displacement, including but not limited to, socioeconomic inequalities, governance issues, and environmental degradation, Fakuade and Akilli provide invaluable insights into the systemic crises that define each region. By addressing these often overlooked aspects, the authors provide critical insights into the regional, geopolitical, and humanitarian dynamics of external engagement. Not only does this book highlight the region’s vulnerabilities and complexities, it also presents actionable pathways for fostering resilience, inclusive development, and sustainable peace. By integrating localized expertise with international resources and fostering genuine partnerships, the authors institute a holistic approach focusing Migration, Displacement, and Development
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Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Youth Entrepreneurship Recentering the Voices of Marginalized Communities in Africa Edited by Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, Inocent Moyo & Lethiwe Zondo This open access book analyzes the limitations of top-down intervention programs designed by the state to address the problem of unemployment among marginalized communities in Africa and foregrounds the centrality of IKS in fostering entrepreneurship. Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, Inocent Moyo, and Lethiwe Zondo examine the solutions to these problems within the ongoing debate on decolonization of knowledge and epistemic justice. The contributors argue that when the voices of the marginalized communities are taken into consideration in the design of employment and entrepreneurship policies, such policies would be more effective, affirming the agency and rights within these communities. Using case studies and theoretical research, this book investigates how a better engagement with marginalized communities and indigenous knowledges in the design of entrepreneurship and employment policies could foster more positive outcomes in Africa. This UK September 2025 • US September 2025 248 Pages • 4 BW Illustrations, 3 BW Photos, 10 Tables PB 9798216396307 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666952049 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9781978779044 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9781666952056 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic
book recenters the voices of Indigenous youth within entrepreneurship programs to highlight the interests, priorities, and challenges of these communities. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Mastercard Foundation.
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The Political Economy of Mobile Telephony in South Africa MTN, Vodacom and the State
Odilile Ayodele, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Telecommunications are an essential part of the global political economy, and the private telecommunications sector is driving much of the transformation across Africa. Yet the regulatory frameworks governing the relationships between African governments and these corporations remain hazy. Focusing on South Africa’s flagship mobile network operators (MNOs), MTN and Vodacom, this open access book provides unique insights into this thin boundary between corporatism and many African states’ global relationships. Drawing on rich archival research, company data, and reports from the South African parliament and Department of International Relations and Cooperation, Odilile uncovers how information and communications technology (ICT) companies have taken UK April 2026 • US April 2026 216 Pages HB 9781350411777 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9781350411814 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350411791 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9781350411784 • £0.00 / $0.00 Zed Books
advantage of epoch-shifting periods in South Africa’s history, from the end of the Cold War to the end of Apartheid. In so doing, she sheds new light on the wider issues of the politics of the multinational corporation, of foreign investment, and of state-corporation relations across Africa and beyond. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
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Foreign Intervention and Radicalization in Somalia (2001-2009) How and When Does Conflict Evolve into Violence Halil Ibrahim Alegöz Foreign Intervention and Radicalization in Somalia: How and When Does Conflict Evolve into Violence (2001 -2009) analyzes political violence within a broader political context in which the mobilization of social movements takes place. The central focus of this book is to explain the social mechanisms through which the radicalization processes unfolded on the part of al-Shabaab between 2001 and 2009 in Somalia. H. Ibrahim Alegöz traces the intricate interactions of social mechanisms that gave rise to the steady escalation of more militant forms of conflict from a relational, dynamic, and processoriented perspective. The book offers an alternative approach to the existing models linking violence to ideological preferences, cultural templates, or ethnic and state-centric pathologies. Alegöz argues that historical and contentious political interactions play a crucial role in explaining violence. The author demonstrates how the interests of local, regional, UK February 2026 • US February 2026 and international actors have overlapped within the Global War on Terror framework. The book finds that radicalization 200 Pages • 10 b/w Figures (4 line drawings dynamics have undergone two consecutive episodes of contentious social interactions that, at the onset, were related to the and 6 halftone) PB 9798881893309 • £26.99 / $39.95 formation of the Mogadishu-based warlord alliance and escalated following the Ethiopian military intervention in Somalia. It HB 9781666964851 • £80.00 / $110.00 prompted a power vacuum which allowed al-Shabaab to expand its tactical repertoire of action and modify its target ePDF 9798216201373 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978771352 • £72.00 / $99.00 preferences into a relatively institutionalized, aggressive, and clandestine character. Bloomsbury Academic
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Decolonizing NGO Peacebuilding and Liberal Peace Agenda in Northern Uganda Elias O. Opongo, Hekima University College Critically examining how Western-funded NGO interventions have shaped post-conflict recovery in Northern Uganda, Elias O. Opongo argues that the liberal peace agenda—focused on democracy promotion, market reforms, and human rights—often marginalizes local agency and undermines culturally rooted approaches to peacebuilding. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and grounded theory, Opongo explores how these externally driven models disconnect from the lived realities of conflict-affected communities. He introduces relational constructionism as a framework that emphasizes participatory, context-sensitive, and indigenous approaches—such as the Acholi Mato Oput ritual—that center dialogue, reintegration, and restorative justice. The book also critiques the role of international actors, particularly the International Criminal Court (ICC), whose UK February 2026 • US February 2026 256 Pages • 1 table PB 9781666966077 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666966053 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9781666966060 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978768796 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
interventions can clash with local reconciliation efforts. Opongo’s findings in Northern Uganda offer critical insights for other post-conflict African contexts dominated by donor-driven peacebuilding. He calls for a decolonial shift toward frameworks that restore African agency, reduce dependency, and prioritize community-led solutions for sustainable peace. This book is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers seeking more inclusive, grounded, and transformative peacebuilding models in Africa and beyond.
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Practices of Disciplinary Refusal for New Futures On Critique and Humanism
Edited by P. Khalil Saucier, Bucknell University Breaking from Western disciplinary status quo, this book explores the politics of disciplinary refusal and presents alternative ways of seeing the world. Drawing from the Black radical tradition, P. Khalil Saucier and the contributors challenge normative assertions about power and develop alternate ways of conceptualizing society. The chapters create onto-epistemological grounds for discovery and by extension a domain to experiment with living differently. The authors illustrate how political typologies, often indebted to Enlightenment thought and frequently used to shape discourses of sovereignty, nationalism and globalization, are organized New Critical Humanities UK May 2026 • US June 2026 240 Pages PB 9798765152379 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798765152362 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798765152393 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9798765152386 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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Backtime Religion in the Danish West Indies Africana Heritage Religion Beyond Obeah Gregory Carter, Illinois State University During the era of slavery in the Danish West Indies, a distinct Africana heritage religion was developed by the enslaved population that relied on performative expression, and Gregory Carter traces this heritage. This spiritualty shared many attributes with other African heritage religions throughout the African Atlantic, including belief in spirit powers, the veneration of ancestors, polyrhythmic music, dance, costumed masquerade performance, reliance on herbalism and spirit mediumship. Simultaneously, they also incorporated Evangelical Lutheran/Moravian Christianity and the practice of altaration. Backtime Religion in the Danish West Indies: Africana Heritage Religion Beyond Obeah contends that the altaration of the human body is key to conceptualizing how enslaved Africans and their descendants contended with the terrible conditions inherent to slavery, the dislocation of spiritual connections from Africa, and built a renewed and living spiritual understanding on the Danish islands. To prevent loss of cultural knowledge and spirituality, the Danish West Indian enslaved community adapted to life on the islands with immediate pragmatism and took in every available means to regain The Black Atlantic Cultural Series: Revisioning Artistic, Historical, Literary, Psychological, and Sociological Perspectives
connection to spiritual power available, containing and hiding this spirituality within living human bodies. Through in-depth research, Carter provides insight into how this religious practice, African heritage, and culture continue to impact the present-day Virgin Islands.
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Transnational Cooperation and the Christian Women’s Community in Canton, 1847–1951 Wai-Yin Christina Wong Transnational Cooperation and the Christian Women’s Community in Canton, 1847–1951 is a groundbreaking investigation into the work of missionary women during a transformational period in the history of China. Focused on women’s work in Guangzhou (Canton) this book demonstrates the dynamic intercultural cooperation between Chinese Christian women and western missionaries. Significantly, it affirms that women missionaries and newly empowered Chinese Christian women created a common space that provided educational, social, and medical services in addition to the evangelizing work of the mission. This study demonstrates the multiple agencies within this women’s network as women responded to changing US and Chinese societies.
Studies in Christianity in East Asia UK June 2026 • US June 2026 272 Pages PB 9781611466362 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781611463682 • £100.00 / $135.00 ePDF 9781611465235 • £90.00 / $121.50 ePub 9781611464481 • £90.00 / $121.50 Lehigh University Press
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Survival and Revival of Bourgeois Sentiments under Chinese Socialism Lei Ping This book offers a new critical intervention into the studies of the paradox of Chinese socialism. Centering on the “unremodable” Shanghai bourgeoisie and middle class, the book brilliantly discovers Chinese society’s persistent aspiration to bourgeois lifestyle and remarkable resistance to socialist ideology from the Mao era to the Xi era. Shanghai Mundane offers a new critical intervention into the studies of the paradox of Chinese socialism. Through the lens of contested state-society relations, the book challenges conventional China Studies by repositioning Shanghai as the key to decode the protracted ideological warfare between socialism and capitalism. Based on significant archival, ethnographic, and theoretical evidence unearthed from the distinct cases of Shanghai bourgeoisie and middle class, Lei Ping discovers the city’s persistent aspiration to bourgeois lifestyle and remarkable resistance to socialist ideology throughout the entire history of the People’s Republic of China. Ping argues that despite the socialist remolding of capitalist industry and commerce, the post-1949 Chinese state failed to eradicate bourgeois heritage in the domain of everyday life in the Mao era, Challenges Facing Chinese Political which ironically contributed to its controversial policy reversals in the post-Mao era, from Deng to Xi. What lies at the heart Development UK September 2025 • US September 2025 of the major intellectual conundrum, namely the survival and revival of bourgeois sentiments, is what Ping calls the 336 Pages • 14 b&w photos and 4 tables PB 9781666951400 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666951387 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePDF 9798216201496 • £85.50 / $117.00 ePub 9781978763166 • £85.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
“unremodable Shanghai mundane.” This captivating and provocative account sheds new light on understanding the larger questions as to the crisis-ridden practices of Chinese socialism and the raison d'être of the Chinese Communist Party in the twenty-first century.
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Queer Literature in the Sinosphere Edited by Hongwei Bao, University of Nottingham, UK & Yahia Zhengtang Ma, University of Melbourne, Australia Queer Literature in the Sinosphere is the most up-to-date English-language study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) themed literature and culture in the Chinese-speaking world. From classical homoerotic texts to contemporary boys’ love fan fiction, this book showcases the richness and diversity of queer Chinese literature across the full spectrum of genres, styles, topics and cultural politics. The book features authors and literary works from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and the global Chinese diaspora. Featuring chapters by leading scholars from around the world, this book rewrites literature, history and culture from a queer lens in China and globally.
Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities UK May 2026 • US May 2026 296 Pages HB 9781350415331 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350415379 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350415355 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350415348 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
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Feminist Activism in the Post-2010s Sinosphere
Identifying Issues, Sharing Knowledge, Building Movements Edited by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, University of Stavanger, Norway & Jinyan Zeng, Lund University, Sweden Bringing together scholars and scholar-activists from a wide range of disciplines, this groundbreaking book delves into the diversity and vibrancy of feminist activism in Xi-era China. Feminist Activism in the Post-2010s Sinosphere examines a variety of urgent feminist issues in 21st-century China, including the #MeToo movement, online misogyny, feminism in popular media, and the experiences and rights of queer, trans and ethnic minority groups. The chapters explore shifting dynamics between state feminism, NGO and grassroots movements, the intersection of academia and intellectual discourse, the interplay of art and activism, the increasing reliance on digital media platforms, and the evolving (re)formations of transnational and diasporic alliances, alongside their creative strategic Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities UK June 2026 • US June 2026 208 Pages HB 9781350419704 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350419742 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350419728 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350419711 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
practices. Drawing on timely research and situated knowledges, the contributors offer innovative and provocative perspectives, supported by nuanced conceptual frameworks and rich empirical data. What are the specific characteristics of feminist activism grounded in the Sinosphere and Chinese contexts today? How is violence analyzed through an intersectional lens, and how do feminist engagements respond to precarity in the context of a pandemic and authoritarian governance? This anthology is an insightful and stimulating read for anyone interested in intersectional feminist mobilizations, contemporary Sinophone and Chinese society and politics, and LGBTQ+ studies.
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The Identity and Emergence of K-pop Jimmyn Parc By analyzing the various factors contributing to K-pop’s unprecedented global rise, this book delves into key elements such as cultural hybridity, digital connectivity, and the role of fan engagement, while also interrogating the ways these factors have shaped K-pop's unique position within the global music industry. In addition to exploring K-pop's identity, the book addresses the often overlooked competitive landscape in which it has flourished, including a detailed analysis of K-pop’s strategic innovation and its ability to resonate across diverse cultural contexts. This book provides a thorough and compelling account of the multifaceted forces behind its international success. For readers seeking a deeper understanding of the true drivers behind K-pop’s global phenomenon, this work offers critical insights into its cultural, economic, and artistic dynamics. UK July 2025 • US July 2025 216 Pages • 5 b/w illustrations PB 9781666946154 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666946130 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798765165010 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9798765160053 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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North Korea’s Nuclear Cinema
Simulation and Neoliberal Politics in the Two Koreas Elizabeth Shim North Korea’s Nuclear Cinema examines why and how North Korea has transitioned to an image-based nuclear power in the changing context of a post-Cold War world. What exactly is the North Korean nuclear threat? Why is North Korea engaging in hostilities when its erstwhile adversaries have offered a diplomatic exit ramp? Chapter by chapter, it explains how North Korea’s footage-based nuclear politics is presented as military practice, but ultimately traces its lineage to cinematic propaganda, a tradition that blurs the line between image and reality. By leveraging cinematic resources in place of physical military mobilization, North Korea continues to move international political actors with the mere suggestion of nuclear power. At a moment when North Korea is enhancing media UK May 2026 • US May 2026 192 Pages HB 9781350259485 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350259522 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350259508 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350259492 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
representation, this book dives into a timely exploration of how the regime is projecting state power as South Korean televisual media challenges the North Korean communist spectacle that has held a captive audience for decades.
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Challenges Facing Integration in Southeast Asia Reflections on ASEAN Community Initiatives
Edited by Ravichandran Moorthy, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia The edited volume investigates the 'issues and challenges' of the ASEAN Community initiatives. This initiative is a regional integration project that began in 2015 and involves all ten ASEAN nations. Through this project, ASEAN leaders envision a region that is peaceful, stable, and resilient within a global community of nations. This volume contains a collection of eight papers written by Malaysian and Indonesian scholars working on various aspects of the ASEAN Community initiatives. The various chapters argue that, despite the novelty of these initiatives, there are many challenges facing the implementation of this regional integration project.
Modern Southeast Asia UK May 2026 • US May 2026 256 Pages • 5 b&w illus PB 9798216276135 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798765150085 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798765150108 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9798765150092 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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Emerging Dynamics in Contemporary India–Malaysia Relations Edited by Ravichandran Moorthy, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia & Sarjit S. Gill The primary goal of this book is to capture the many facets of Malaysia-India bilateral relations from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Relations between these countries are significant because they have shared ethnoreligious and sociocultural bonds through trade, conquest, and migration for centuries. Hindu-Buddhist traditions have dominated the Malay world through government structures, ideas and philosophy, religious pursuits, and civilizational influences before the arrival of Islam in the 15th century. In the post-colonial period, India and Malaya (later Malaysia) established diplomatic relations in 1957 against the backdrop of an unstable world characterized by colonial baggage, rampant poverty, and geopolitical instability. Notwithstanding this, relations between the two countries have remained relatively close over the last 65 years, owing to the dynamic people-to-people connections, mutual history, and strong trade ties. Although there were Modern Southeast Asia UK November 2025 • US November 2025 144 Pages • 3 tables; HB 9781666936988 • £70.00 / $95.00 PB 9798216380214 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781978780828 • £26.09 / $35.95 ePub 9781666936995 • £26.09 / $35.95 Lexington Books
several diplomatic spats between India and Malaysia, especially towards the end of Mahathir’s second administration, relations bounced back rather strongly due to strong trade interests. In this edited volume, the authors present and argue the dynamics in bilateral relations from the perspectives of contemporary economy and trade relations, people-to-people connection through tourism, security cooperation, ethnic identities, comparative religiosity, and revisiting the historical links between these countries.
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Ethnomedicinal Practices and Application of Traditional Medicinal Plants in Contemporary Indian Society Edited by Arun Makal & Gour Gopal Satpati Ethnomedicinal Practices and Application of Traditional Medicinal Plants in Contemporary Indian Society provides a significant contribution to the broad academic fields of ethnomedicine, environment, and sustainable development. It presents empirical studies, theoretical understandings of ethnobotanical knowledge, benefits of traditional medicinal plants, and ethnomedicinal values of various Indigenous communities across India in the context of the current healthcare system. This collection presents diverse applications of traditional medicinal plants by different groups of Indians, contributing a complete overview of folk therapeutic practices by selected contemporary Indian Indigenous communities (Onges, Tai, Andamanese, Nicobarese, Rabhas, and Limbu). This book is distinctive in its rich contents from experts who present diverse viewpoints on significant themes related to medicinal plants, concepts of health of Indigenous communities, and Critical Plant Studies
ethnomedicinal values in contemporary Indian society.
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Sport and the American Occupation of the Philippines Bats, Balls, and Bayonets Gerald R. Gems This interdisciplinary case study invokes historical, sociological, and anthropological means to examine the ascendance of the United States to a world power in its first imperial venture. In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War of 1898 the U.S. acquired and occupied the Philippine Islands for nearly a half century in an attempt to install a democratic form of government, a capitalist economy, the Protestant religion, and a particular value system. Sport became a primary means to achieve such goals, fostered initially by the military, and then widely promoted in the schools and the YMCA. Competitive programs, including international athletic spectacles, channeled Filipino nationalism against Asian rivals rather than the American occupiers as guerrilla warfare ensued in the islands. The strategies learned in the Philippines, now known as “soft power” remain prominent factors in current American foreign policy. UK December 2025 • US December 2025 210 Pages HB 9781498536653 • £85.00 / $110.00 PB 9798216396277 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9798216213796 • £26.09 / $35.95 ePub 9781498536660 • £26.09 / $35.95 Lexington Books
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A. H. Nasution and Indonesia's Elites
"People's Resistance" in the War of Independence and Postwar Politics Barry Turner This is an account of the military, political and personal life of Abdul Harus Nasution who was a seminal figure in modern Indonesian history in the years prior to his effective sidelining in the 1960s. He was an important commander during Indonesia’s struggle for independence, who rose to become a key leader of the Indonesian armed forces under the first president, Sukarno. Perhaps more significantly, he developed ideas about guerrilla warfare that developed into a sophisticated and socially conservative doctrine for the mobilising of civilian communities. This, in turn, became the underpinning of the repressive, military-backed New Order regime of Indonesia’s second president, Suharto, who ruled from 1966 until 1998, and which Nasution initially supported. UK December 2025 • US December 2025 294 Pages • 5 BW Photos, 1 Table HB 9781498560115 • £110.00 / $150.00 PB 9798216396284 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9798216294368 • £26.09 / $35.95 ePub 9781498560122 • £26.09 / $35.95 Lexington Books
Understanding Nasution’s thinking about ‘total people’s resistance’ is therefore very important for understanding the broader trajectory of Indonesian political history. That includes both the New Order and the emerging democratic regime that developed after its collapse. As this book shows, Nasution’s legacy still looms large today in Jokowi’s Indonesia. The author’s thorough investigation of Nasution’s relationship with Sunarti and her father offers important new insights into how Nasution’s ideas evolved, as does the translations of important extracts from Nasution’s own voluminous writing included in the text.
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Malay Kingship in Kedah Religion, Trade, and Society Maziar Mozaffari Falarti The book probes and examines traditional sources of royal power and control, as well as indigenous socio-political systems in the Malay world. It is focused on the north-western Malaysian Sultanate of Kedah which is acknowledged as the oldest unbroken independent kingship line in the ‘Malay and Islamic world’ with 1,000 years of history. Little scholarly attention has been paid to its pre-modern history, society, religion, system of government and unique geographic situation, potentially controlling both land and sea lines of communication into the remainder of Southeast Asia. It will thus provide the first comprehensive treatment in English, or other languages, on Kedah’s pre-modern and nineteenth century historiography and can provide a foundation for comparative studies of the various Malay states which is presently lacking. The proposed book also sheds much needed light on a range of important topics in Malay history including: Kedah and the northern Melaka Straits history, colonial expansion and rivalry, Southeast Asian history and politics, interregional migration and the influence of the sea peoples or orang laut, traditional Malay socio-political and economic life, Islamic influences and the course of AsiaWorld UK December 2025 • US December 2025 252 Pages HB 9780739168424 • $128.00 PB 9798216396291 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9798216312079 • £26.09 / $35.95 ePub 9780739168431 • £26.09 / $35.95 Lexington Books
Thai-Malay relations. The book attempts to offer a new understanding, not only of Kedah, but of the political and cultural development of the entire Malay world and of its relationships with the broader forces in both its continental and maritime settings. It argues that Kedah does not seem to follow, and in fact, often seems to contradict what has been commonly been accepted as the “typical model” of the traditional Malay state. Thus it concludes that the ruling dynasty has historically exploited a wide range of unique environmental conditions, local traditions, global spiritual trends and economic forces to preserve and strengthen its political position.
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