Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
Syracuse University Press's interdisciplinary series is dedicated to the dissemination of theoretically informed scholarship dealing with important trends and episodes in the Middle East and North Africa since the eighteenth century. The aim of the series is to transcend conventional accounts, interpretations and explanations, and to integrate Middle Eastern studies into the mainstream of conceptual controversies in the social sciences. Particular attention will be devoted to viewpoints and perspectives that originate in the region itself or that reflect regional attitudes and sensibilities. To this end, we encourage the translation of academic and intellectual treatises written in the languages of the Middle East and North Africa.
The series invites manuscripts that fall within the following broadly defined topics: critical historiography of the Middle East and North Africa; Middle Eastern encounters with modernity; legacies of imperialism, colonialism and globalization; regional international relations and foreign policy; dynamics of state formation and national identity creation; contentious politics and popular mobilization; genesis and evolution of political parties and civic organizations; modern Islamic philosophical and political discourse; biographies of prominent intellectual and political figures.
Iran's Experiment with Parliamentary GovernanceThe Second Majles, 1909-1911
Mangol Bayat
The Autocratic ParliamentPower and Legitimacy in Egypt, 1866-2011
Watermelon DemocracyEgypt's Turbulent Transition
Joshua Stacher
Hakibbutz Ha'artzi, Mapam, and the Demise of the Israeli Labor Movement
Tal Elmaliach
National Symbols in Modern IranIdentity, Ethnicity, and Collective Memory
Menahem Merhavy
Shaykh Yusuf al-QaradawiSpiritual Mentor of Wasati Salafism
Sagi Polka
Why Alliances FailIslamist and Leftist Coalitions in North Africa
Matt Buehler
Ottoman Rule of Law and the Modern Political TrialThe Yildiz Case
Avi Rubin
Emirate, Egyptian, EthiopianColonial Experiences in Late Nineteenth-Century Harar
Avishai Ben-Dror
Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran
Edited by Mark J. Gasiorowski, Malcolm Byrne
Fred H. Lawson
Department of Government
lawson@mills.edu
Mehrzad Boroujerdi
Peggy Solic
masolice@syr.edu