Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

UAEにおける安全保障の脅威とアイデンティティの進化
Reuss, Anna, Evolving Security Threats and Identity in the United Arab Emirates: The Politics of Perceptions. (Contemporary Gulf Studies) 232 pp. 2025:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <751-792>
ISBN 978-981-9660-86-5 hard ¥31,170.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book examines and conceptualises the determinants of threat perceptions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and contributes to a better understanding of how a nation's self-conception shapes its perceptions of (in)security and emphasises the relevance of these dynamics for policymaking. It combines the societal approach of the English School of IR with securitization theory to offer a novel framework for analyzing threat perceptions. This book is relevant to students of Middle Eastern studies, gulf studies, international relations, and scholars who are interested in theoretical perspectives.

Akhiate, Brahim, The Amazigh Revival: A Memoir of its Birth and Progression. (Amazigh Studies) 360 pp. 2025:12 (Georgetown U. Pr., US) <751-848>
ISBN 978-1-64712-651-3 hard ¥21,818.- (税込) US$ 104.95
ISBN 978-1-64712-652-0 paper ¥7,265.- (税込) US$ 34.95

A memoir of how the Amazigh people successfully fought for their recognition in MoroccoFor decades after Moroccan independence in 1956, the struggle of the Amazigh people for their indigenous rights and cultural preservation took center stage. They fought against their erasure under an exclusivist Arab nationalist regime. Ultimately, they were successful, yet the history of the Amazigh Cultural Movement and its profound impact on North African society have remained largely inaccessible to English speakers, leaving a gap in our understanding of postcolonial resistance, indigenous rights, and cultural preservation efforts.The Amazigh Revival is the memoir of Brahim Akhiate, an Amazigh academic, writer, and organizer who was a leader of the Amazigh movement. Translated into English for the first time, it offers unprecedented insight into the Amazighs' fight for recognition and a place in Moroccan society through the first-hand account of a key figure who guided it, starting in the 1960s. Akhiate describes the personal sacrifices, ideological tensions, intellectual debates, and eventual triumphs that led to the constitutional recognition of the Amazigh language and a more inclusive identity.This memoir, the first work in the Amazigh Studies series, offers English speakers crucial access to previously unavailable perspectives on one of North Africa's most significant cultural movements. Scholars and students across multiple disciplines-including the Middle East and North Africa (Tamazgha), postcolonial history, global indigenous studies, Arabic literature, and Amazigh studies-will benefit from Akhiate's detailed recounting of this important political and cultural moment in Moroccan history whose impact has been felt across North Africa.

Al Azmeh, Zeina, Syrian Intellectuals in Exile: The Dilemmas of Revolution and the Cost of Leaving. (The Global Middle East) 288 pp. 2025:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <751-849>
ISBN 978-1-009-68786-7 hard ¥25,740.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

In the wake of the 2011 uprising in Syria, a number of Syrian intellectuals were forced into exile. Many of these intellectuals played a crucial role in mobilising people in the early days of the movement, but once in exile an irreconcilable tension emerged between their revolutionary narratives and the violent reality on the ground. Zeina Al Azmeh explores this tension, shedding light on whether and how exile influenced narratives, strategies, and political agency. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and interviews in Paris and Berlin, Al Azmeh examines how writers and artists work to reconcile revolutionary ideals with the realities of war and displacement. Bringing together insights from cultural sociology, postcolonial thought, and migration studies, Syrian Intellectuals in Exile provides new analytical tools for understanding the intersection of intellectual work and social movements. This study blends empirical research with personal narratives, offering a timely reflection on exile, memory, and the limits of intellectual activism.

Berriah, Mehdi / Zouache, Abbes (eds.), The Medieval Jihad: Texts, Theories, and Practices. (Recherches d'archeologie, de philologie et d'histoire / Pouvoirs et territoires) viii, 224 p. 2025:4 (Institut francais d'archeologie orientale, FR) <751-851>
ISBN 978-2-7247-1101-1 paper ¥4,076.- (税込) EUR 17.00

Bieberstein, Alice von, Temptations in Ruin: Sovereign Accumulation and the Making of Post-Genocide Turkey. (The Ethnography of Political Violence) 277 pp. 2025:10 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <751-852>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2840-5 hard ¥11,423.- (税込) US$ 54.95

An ethnographic account of the political-economic afterlife of the Armenian genocide in present-day Turkey Temptations in Ruin examines the political-economic afterlife of the Armenian genocide in present-day Turkey, focusing on the region of Mus (Moush). Anthropologist Alice von Bieberstein explores how the 1915 genocide and dispossession of Armenians shaped property regimes, citizenship, and economic logics that continue to reverberate today. By combining ethnography with historical context and diverse perspectives, Temptations in Ruin generates new insights into how past violence shapes contemporary economic practices and social relations. To tell this history, von Bieberstein introduces the concept of "sovereign accumulation" to describe the ways in which the state and other actors mobilize histories of sovereign violence for present-day economic benefit. This framework illuminates the legacy of violence and resource extraction present in such practices as urban renewal projects, treasure hunting for "Armenian gold," and heritage tourism and identifies these practices' very existence as manifestations of the economic aftermath of the genocide. Temptations in Ruin uncovers the ways in which the genocide gave rise to a racialized property regime and a recursive movement of sovereign accumulation that builds on and re-animates the Armenian genocide as generative of wealth in the present. And it demonstrates the complex interplay between genocide denial, destruction, and valorization in post-genocide contexts. Highlighting the enduring resonance of genocide, von Bieberstein enhances our understanding of political violence's long-term impacts on society and on the economy.

Bozarslan, Hamit (dir.), Histoire des Kurdes: des origines a nos jours. 613 p. 2025:4 (Cerf, FR) <751-853>
ISBN 978-2-204-17075-8 paper ¥6,954.- (税込) EUR 29.00

Bozcali, Firat, Smuggling Law: Unsettled Sovereignties in Turkey's Kurdish Borderlands. 277 pp. 2025:11 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <751-854>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4411-3 hard ¥24,948.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4449-6 paper ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00

The Kurdish-populated Wan/Van Province is a major smuggling hub between Turkey and Iran. Kurdish smugglers cross this 180-mile-long land border, transporting everyday consumer goods-fuel, tobacco, sugar, and tea-as well as more illicit goods, and the province supports the financial, technical, and labor capacities that sustain these smuggling economies. As the Turkish state has enacted increasingly punitive anti-smuggling laws, smuggling has also become a site of contentious politics. This book explores anti-smuggling law enforcement and criminal prosecutions to reveal a key site-the criminal court-where borders and claims of sovereignty are simultaneously remade and disrupted. Taking readers from border villages, mountain passes, and road checkpoints to courtrooms, law offices, and forensic laboratories, Firat Bozcali examines how Kurdish smugglers, with the help of their lawyers, legally disrupt state sovereignty in criminal courts. Kurdish smugglers and lawyers adopt and rework procedures, rules, and reasonings in ways that interrupt the courts' capacity to coopt, discipline, and oppress. Bozcali theorizes this evasive engagement with the legal system as a strategy of techno-legal politics among marginalized and persecuted groups, one that extends beyond the Kurdish case. Smuggling Law holds profound relevance in today's world, where ever-expanding regimes of surveillance, oppression, and dispossession unfold in the broader contexts of the global war on terror and data-driven capitalism.

Can, Basak, Forensic Fantasies: Doctors, Documents, and the Limits of Truth in Turkey. 277 pp. 2025:9 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <751-855>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2776-7 hard ¥24,948.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-5128-2777-4 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

How progressive doctors, medical institutions, and state forces in Turkey use forensic methods to detect, erase, and reveal evidence of state violence Forensic Fantasies explores the role of medical documentation and evidence in uncovering human rights violations. Anthropologist Basak Can examines how progressive doctors, medical institutions, and state forces in Turkey use forensic methods to detect, erase, reveal, and transform violence exerted against populations deemed to be enemies of the state. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork with doctors engaged in forensic documentation of torture, Can shows how the shared belief in the power of medical witnessing to establish truth and justice brings political activists and medical experts into community with each other; at the same time, this belief, or "forensic fantasy," as Can terms it, can actually further entrench state power through its reliance on legal and administrative recognition of the violence it is seeking to document. Unpacking the epistemological frameworks, political histories, institutional and legal structures, professional networks, and daily practices that give rise to and sustain these forensic fantasies, Can exposes the possibilities and limits of radical documentation as a political project. Shedding new light on the tensions of our contemporary post-truth moment, Can demonstrates how forensic fantasies are vital for forming communities of experts who oppose regimes of denial and ignorance, but at the same time, have limited political efficacy in bringing about change and countering state violence.

Grehan, James, Empire of Manners: Ottoman Sociability and War-Making in the Long Eighteenth Century. (Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge) 277 pp. 2025:9 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <751-858>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4338-3 hard ¥29,106.- (税込) US$ 140.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4372-7 paper ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

It is easy to believe that manners are empty gestures, little more than social artifice or practiced etiquette whose sole purpose is to project civility and facilitate social interaction. But if we look more closely, they can tell us much more than we might first suppose, revealing what conventional accounts of state, economy, and religion often ignore. With this book, James Grehan offers a panoramic view of manners and sociability across the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire, from the Balkans to the Middle East to North Africa. Studying chronicles, biographical dictionaries, and travel accounts, he throws new light on the inner dynamics of Ottoman society during a transitional period in Ottoman history which has too often been misunderstood. Empire of Manners proposes a new way of thinking about the history of manners, arguing that violence and war-making, as much as civility and etiquette, have a central role in shaping them. The eighteenth century proved to be a turning point in this paradoxical relationship between violence and manners as war-making turned into a substantially more complex and costly enterprise, leaving a deeper and wider social footprint. The interplay between violence and manners, an unlikely couple, unexpectedly narrates the Ottoman path to the modern age.

Griffiths, Mark, Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine. 250 pp. 2025:9 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <751-859>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1983-2 hard ¥22,453.- (税込) US$ 108.00
ISBN 978-1-5179-1984-9 paper ¥5,613.- (税込) US$ 27.00

Tracing how a notorious checkpoint shapes power, resistance, and lives in Palestine Checkpoint 300, the highly securitized border facility between occupied Bethlehem and Jerusalem, is a central feature of Israeli control of Palestinian land and life. An apparatus of turnstiles, overcrowded corridors, and invasive inspections, the checkpoint regulates the movement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, granting access to some while excluding most. Offering a nuanced exploration of space, Mark Griffiths reveals Checkpoint 300 as a stark symbol of Israeli colonialism that embodies larger systems of control and violence. Griffiths's sensitive and timely work highlights the myriad ways Palestinians are affected by Israel's spatial control-whether they travel through the checkpoint or not-demonstrating how colonial infrastructures of inequity extend far beyond their physical boundaries to shape daily life. Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, Griffiths examines how colonial power infiltrates family dynamics, enforces gendered mobility restrictions, shapes local economies, and extends into the global exchange of capital and security technologies. He also underscores how Palestinians endure and resist under oppressive conditions and how indigenous forms of life and living are sustained, illuminating how colonial space is contested and countered, unmade and remade. Blending meticulous research with vivid human stories to show the lived realities of borders, power, and resistance in the West Bank, Checkpoint 300 portrays the checkpoint as an entry into the ways that colonial space is formed through security infrastructure that is both the product and producer of wider geographies of oppression, complicity, and control. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

Idels, Ofer, Embodying the Revolution: The Hebrew Experience and the Globalization of Modern Sports in Interwar Palestine. 168 pp. 2025:10 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <751-862>
ISBN 978-1-9788-4446-9 hard ¥24,948.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-9788-4445-2 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

This original and thought-provoking study offers a fresh perspective on Zionism by exploring Hebrew culture's ambivalent attitude toward modern sports. Drawing on extensive archival sources and contemporary literary theories, it focuses on Zionism's surprising anxiety toward sports during the interwar heyday of "muscular Judaism," revealing an unusual society in which athletes failed to attain national pride and distinction. Addressing themes such as the body, language, space, immigration, internationalism, amateurism, gender, and militarization, Embodying the Revolution presents an innovative reading of Jewish life in Mandate Palestine, linking the marginalization of sports to the meaning and experience of the Zionist Revolution. Idels' compelling interpretation of the appeal of sports, selfhood, and the compromises inherent in radical aspirations-narrated from the periphery of the interwar global rise of sports-challenges contemporary assumptions that dismiss ideology as an elitist myth.

Ipek, Yasemin, Crisiswork: Activist Lifeworlds and Bounded Futures in Lebanon. 277 pp. 2025:10 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <751-863>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4386-4 hard ¥27,027.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4431-1 paper ¥6,652.- (税込) US$ 32.00

The world's attention has often turned to Lebanon in moments of crisis, including, recently, during the Beirut Port Explosion in 2020 and the 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Less told is the story of how such major events, and other predicaments from Lebanon's long history, have mobilized a thriving network of activists whose lived experiences of multiple crises have shaped their politics, belonging, and vision of Lebanon's future. Crisiswork presents a story of Lebanon through the lens of activist lifeworlds, showing how, amid crisis, both political structures and everyday life become a terrain of generative possibility. Through an ethnographic investigation into the relationship between crisis and political imagination, Yasemin Ipek examines activism as an open-ended process, looking at the diversity of experiences that leads to ambivalent political engagements. She follows a range of self-identified activists-including unemployed NGO volunteers, middle-class consultants, and leftist entrepreneurs-as their crisiswork, and response to contradictory pressures, leads them to new ways of being and acting. Crisiswork demonstrates how class-based and other inequalities on local and global scales affect the lived realities and political imaginations of activists. It provides an innovative analytical framework for understanding the complex political and social struggles against crises in the global South.

Jacobs, Martin, Empire from the Margins: Early Modern Jewish Historians on the Spanish and Ottoman Expansion. (Jewish Culture and Contexts) 320 pp. 2025:7 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <751-864>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2769-9 hard ¥13,502.- (税込) US$ 64.95

The writings of three early modern Jewish historians highlight the divided allegiances of a Jewish diaspora living in and between the Spanish and Ottoman empires In 1492, the year that marked the start of Spain's transatlantic expansion, the Spanish monarchs expelled their Jewish subjects and triggered a mass Jewish migration to the lands of the Ottoman empire. But while the rise of these rival empires had tremendous impact on the Jewish population's geography, the historical accounts of contemporary Jews have remained peripheral to the study of early modern imperialism. In Empire from the Margins, Martin Jacobs seeks to understand how the history of empires appears through the lens of marginalized communities and to explore how Jews responded to Spanish and Ottoman imperial expansion. He approaches this history through the Hebrew chronicles of three sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Jewish authors. Elijah Capsali of Crete, Joseph ha-Kohen of Genoa, and Joseph Sambari of Cairo all lived in early modern hubs with global connections, and-in unusual detail for premodern Jewish historians-they described how the Spanish and Ottoman empires redrew the political, cultural, and religious map of the Mediterranean region while simultaneously transforming the transatlantic world. As Jews, these writers belonged to an ethno-religious minority within the Mediterranean basin where the Spanish and Ottoman empires were centered, and from here they expressed marginalized views on the Spanish and Ottoman regimes. At the same time, these Jewish authors belonged to Jewish networks that transcended imperial boundaries, and they voiced conflicting loyalties between different authorities and cultures. And Jacobs shows that, in writing about the Spanish and Ottoman expansion, these authors also grappled with the Jews' precarious position in their host societies and their own multilayered identities. Their shifting positionalities illuminate the divided allegiances of a Jewish diaspora living in and between competing empires.

Kadhum, Oula, Diasporic State-Building: Transnational Networks and the Making of Post-2003 Iraq. (The Global Middle East) 256 pp. 2025:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <751-866>
ISBN 978-1-009-63914-9 hard ¥25,740.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

The Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 brought exiles of Hussein's tyrannical reign flooding back to their native land, bringing with them the flavours and customs from adopted homes and with it sweeping, transnational power. 'Handing over power to the Iraqis' meant handing over power to the country's most elite transplants. Meanwhile, transnational diasporic activism and networks have simultaneously challenged state policies, buttressing the state apparatus through welfare provision and solidarity networks. How did the Iraqi diaspora achieve such a powerful position and shape the Iraqi state in 2003? What kind of state did they build? And what lessons can be learnt from the Iraqi diaspora for understanding Iraqi nationhood and statehood today? This study explores these questions, drawing on interviews with a wide range of actors to offer a pertinent insight into the critical role of diaspora in shaping the evolution of homeland states under modern processes of globalisation.

Kohlbry, Paul, Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine. (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures) 277 pp. 2026:2 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <751-868>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4510-3 hard ¥22,869.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4511-0 paper ¥5,821.- (税込) US$ 28.00

The emancipatory potential and limits of land justice, when land is at once home, property, territory, and homeland. Peasant farming was once an integral part of Palestine's agrarian fabric. But after military occupation of the West Bank in 1967, Israeli land confiscations and economic policies pushed rural cultivators into wage labor. In recent decades, Palestinian land titling and private developers have driven the slow transformation of agricultural land into real estate. In Plots and Deeds, Paul Kohlbry argues that we should see these changes as part of a larger process of agrarian annihilation, one in which state violence and market coercion together devastate the social, ecological, and economic relationships that make agrarian livelihoods possible. Kohlbry tells the story of those who, refusing annihilation, struggle both for the return of land, and for their return to it. Through long-term engagements in the central highlands of the West Bank, Kohlbry shows how peasant practices and ethics matter for those fighting to rebuild collective attachments to rural places, and the surprising ways that property ownership has become a means of both land dispossession and defense. Going beyond accounts that treat the peasant as a tragic figure or a heroic national symbol, Kohlbry foregrounds the complexity of agrarian life to reveal the relationships between agrarian regeneration and political liberation-ultimately connecting Palestine within a global struggle for land justice.

Kocyigit, Oemer, Challenging the Caliphate: Wahhabism and Mahdism in the Late Ottoman Empire. (The Global Middle East) 292 pp. 2025:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <751-869>
ISBN 978-1-009-66349-6 hard ¥25,740.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

How did steam transportation and print culture reshape the Ottoman Empire's centre-periphery relations in the nineteenth century? Challenging the Caliphate offers a fresh perspective on modernization in the Muslim world, exploring how these developments in infrastructure, technology, and communications impacted ideas of the Caliphate, Wahhabism, and Mahdism. Through rich archival research and microhistorical examples, OEmer Kocyigit demonstrates how new technologies influenced political authority, religious movements, and the spread of ideas. Kocyigit further explores how the Ottoman Empire dealt with the rise of the Wahhabi movement in the Najd and the Mahdi movement in Sudan. This study situates the Ottoman experience within global transformations, offering a deeper understanding of state, resistance, and connectivity while highlighting how emerging technologies shaped the modern Muslim world.

Liebel, Manfred (Hrsg.), Deplatziert: Arabisch-juedische Kindheit und Jugend in Israel. 220 S. 2025:10 (Unrast-Vlg., GW) <751-870>
ISBN 978-3-89771-547-9 paper ¥3,836.- (税込) EUR 16.00

Musallam, Fuad, A Break in the Future: Feeling Like an Activist After the Arab Uprisings. 277 pp. 2025:7 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <751-872>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2806-1 hard ¥12,463.- (税込) US$ 59.95

Investigates how Lebanese activists work through failure to keep the possibility of political change alive A Break in the Future considers how activists keep hope alive and work toward future change when social movements fall apart and protests fail. Anthropologist Fuad Musallam investigates the endurance of political possibility in Beirut, Lebanon, between the Arab uprisings of 2010-11 and the Lebanese uprising of October 2019. Despite a regional collapse of political hope and a local inability to effect change in the context of political stasis, postponed elections, and the degradation of civil infrastructure, between every protest cycle a sizable number of people remained engaged and built toward future political opportunities. Through an analysis of activist strategies, Musallam explores the ways in which we grasp different phases of political (dis)engagement together. The book is motivated by a desire to better understand how to keep political possibility alive. To make sense of how possibility endures, this book looks at the ebb and flow of political engagement together, that is, not only at the peaks of recent mobilizations but also at the times in between when, at first glance, little seems to be happening on the ground. Musallam explores how activists cultivated and maintained their political subjectivity-the active and engaged sense of self that motivates political action-across the decade's high and low points. He finds this political subjectivity to be the product of heartbreak and defeat as much as victory, as it underlies several movements at any one time and can sustain activists through multiple setbacks. Musallam discovers that when political change seems most unlikely, a moment of rupture-or a "break in the future"-becomes central to Lebanese activists' belief that their actions can and will transform their world. A Break in the Future ultimately argues that the experience of moments of rupture radically transforms what seems possible, and that the cultivation of these experiences keeps movements going even when things appear to fall apart.

Pabst, Martin, Der Maghreb: Europas suedlicher Nachbar: Algerien, Libyen, Marokko, Tunesien, Westsahara. (Laendergeschichten) 275 S. 2025:12 (Kohlhammer, GW) <751-873>
ISBN 978-3-17-043454-7 paper ¥8,153.- (税込) EUR 34.00

Seit Jahrtausenden ist der Nordwesten Afrikas, der Maghreb, eng mit Europa verbunden. Ab dem 2. Jahrhundert v. Chr. umfasste das Roemische Reich das gesamte Mittelmeer. Auch seither teilen die Laender der Region gemeinsame Entwicklungslinien, etwa durch arabisch-islamische und europaeisch-koloniale Einfluesse, sind im Detail jedoch erstaunlich facettenreich. Seit ihrer Unabhaengigkeit stehen sie vor aehnlichen politischen Herausforderungen: soziokulturelle Spannungen, Autoritarismus, Abhaengigkeit von Rohstoffexporten, Jugendarbeitslosigkeit. Der "Arabische Fruehling", der 2010 in Tunesien ausbrach, hat Reformprozesse angestossen, die ganz unterschiedliche Folgen zeitigten. Zuletzt rueckte der Maghreb durch den Buergerkrieg in Libyen und Migrationsbewegungen in den Fokus Europas. Martin Pabst beschreibt Geschichte und Kultur des Maghreb, arbeitet seine wirtschaftliche und geostrategische Bedeutung fuer Europa heraus und schildert aktuelle Entwicklungen und Herausforderungen.

Saleh, Zainab, Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq. 277 pp. 2025:12 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <751-876>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4383-3 hard ¥22,869.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4464-9 paper ¥5,821.- (税込) US$ 28.00

Political Undesirables considers the legal making and unmaking of citizenship in Iraq, focusing on the mass denaturalization and deportation of Iraqi Jews in 1950-51 and Iraqis of Iranian origin in the early 1980s. Since the formation of the modern state of Iraq under British rule in 1921, practices of denaturalization and expulsion of citizens have been mobilized by ruling elites to curb political opposition. Iraqi politicians, under both monarchical and republican rule, routinely employed the rhetoric of threats to national security, treason, and foreignness to uproot citizens they deemed politically undesirable. Using archival documents, ethnographic research, and literary and autobiographical works, Zainab Saleh shows how citizenship laws can serve as a mechanism to discipline the population. As she argues, these laws enforce commitment to the state's political order and normative values, and eliminate dissenting citizens through charges of betrayal of the homeland. Citizenship in Iraq, thus, has functioned as a privilege closely linked to loyalty to the state, rather than as a right enjoyed unconditionally. With the rise of nativism, right-wing nationalism, and authoritarianism all over the world, this book offers a timely examination of how citizenship can become a tool to silence opposition and produce precarity through denaturalization.

Salhi, Salima, Reconstruction et gouvernance des territoires au Maroc. (Histoire et perspectives mediterraneennes) 225 p. 2025:4 (L'Harmattan, FR) <751-877>
ISBN 978-2-336-48118-0 paper ¥5,995.- (税込) EUR 25.00

Santana de Andrade, Glenda, Suis-je un refugie?: les strategies de survie de Syriens dans les espaces urbains en Turquie et en Jordanie. (Mediterranee(s). Sciences humaines et sociales) 379 p. 2025:4 (Presses de l'Inalco, FR) <751-878>
ISBN 978-2-85831-463-8 paper ¥4,796.- (税込) EUR 20.00

Stahl, Dale J., Two Rivers Entangled: An Ecological History of the Tigris and Euphrates in the Twentieth Century. 277 pp. 2026:1 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <751-881>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4017-7 hard ¥22,869.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4473-1 paper ¥5,821.- (税込) US$ 28.00

During the twentieth century, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers underwent a profound physical transformation, one that mirrored the region's political shift from imperial rule to nation-state. Here, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey took shape in the wake of the Ottoman Empire, and the two rivers became sites of economic development planning and large-scale environmental engineering. It is a modern conceit that industrial, technological societies transcend ecological change, that technology and ecology operate separately. With this book, Dale J. Stahl instead centers riverine ecologies within the context of social and political projects and shows how natural processes encounter human intentions to manage, control, or modernize. Weaving imperial and national histories with ecological ones, Two Rivers Entangled undermines familiar accounts of the invention of states, the advance of nations, and the triumphs of technical expertise. Stahl entangles a wide range of human and nonhuman actors-knitting together the movement of engineers and bureaucrats with that of salt particles, linking the disappointment of revolutionaries to the dissolution of unreliable rock, and following the flow of water over embankments and into poetry. Ultimately, this book offers an alternative account of twentieth-century Middle Eastern history, one subject as much to ecological change as to human visions and intentions.

Stephenson, Lindsey R., Belonging on Both Shores: Mobility, Migration, and the Bordering of the Persian Gulf. 277 pp. 2026:1 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <751-882>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4425-0 hard ¥14,553.- (税込) US$ 70.00

For most of their history, the people around the Persian Gulf littoral were socially intertwined and economically interdependent. But the twentieth century ushered in nationalization projects, British imperial intervention, and border regulations, all of which posed challenges to everyday mobility in this oceanic world. Those crossing the water became the primary foil for bordering spaces, restricting and regulating movement, and defining difference more generally. Belonging on Both Shores tells the story of people's struggles to move freely between Iran and the Arab shores of the Gulf as the unregulated mobility that had characterized everyday life in the nineteenth century was increasingly policed in the twentieth. Using a wide range of Arabic, Persian, and English sources, Lindsey Stephenson demonstrates how state officials refined notions of territorial belonging against the movement of Iranians, the most visible mobile "group" in the Persian Gulf arena. Engaging migrant voices, Stephenson narrates how Iranians challenged a perceived requirement to belong to a single place and highlights the techniques these migrants employed to remain connected to both shores. Tracing the movement of Iranians across and around the Persian Gulf and investigating how the technologies of state and mobility transformed fluidity and people's understanding of movement, this book tells a new story of how the modern Gulf was formed.

アメリカのイラン政策の形成
Kaye, Dalia Dassa, Enduring Hostility: The Making of America's Iran Policy. 277 pp. 2025:12 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <751-723>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4390-1 hard ¥19,750.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4459-5 paper ¥4,989.- (税込) US$ 24.00

American policy toward Iran has remained remarkably consistent since the earliest years of the Reagan administration. US-Iran hostility has endured for longer than the Cold War. Momentous geopolitical shifts, changing leaderships, and evolving domestic priorities have not fundamentally altered this antagonistic relationship. Standard explanations pin the blame for this enduring hostility on Iran and its leaders' revolutionary ideology and policies at odds with the United States and the West. While Iran bears significant blame for a deeply adversarial relationship-the country often engages in dangerous and repressive activities-this book demonstrates that "it's them, not us" accounts cannot alone explain America's posture toward this complicated but critically important country. Drawing on original interviews with former government officials, oral histories, memoirs, congressional hearings, archival material, and the author's own participation in dozens of Iran-related track two meetings, Dalia Dassa Kaye deftly explores how America's Iran policy is made, the people who make it, and the underlying ideas and perceptions that inform it. Dassa Kaye looks back at US policy toward Iran over the past four decades to help us look ahead, offering wider lessons for understanding American foreign policymaking.

緊張した同盟－G.H.W.ブッシュ、Y.シャミル、アメリカとイスラエルの特別な関係
Tal, David, The Strained Alliance: George H. W. Bush, Yitzhak Shamir, and the US-Israel Special Relationship. 314 pp. 2025:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <751-731>
ISBN 978-1-009-68781-2 hard ¥28,600.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00
ISBN 978-1-009-68777-5 paper ¥9,152.- (税込) GB￡ 32.00

When George H. W. Bush ascended to the American presidency in 1989, one of the more urgent relationships that he was faced with building was that with Israel's Yitzhak Shamir. Drawing on newly declassified materials, from American and Israeli state and non-state archives, this book reveals the complexities of a relationship defined by both deep cooperation and sharp tensions. From the peace process to loan guarantees, from military aid to emotional diplomacy, The Strained Alliance uncovers the debates, conflicts, and strategic decisions that shaped this critical period between 1989-1992. In doing so, David Tal challenges the traditional perception that US-Israel relations were dominated by policy disagreements, highlighting instead the broader foundation of collaboration that endured behind the scenes. Tal provides fresh insights into the intricate dynamics of diplomacy, ideology, and leadership, offering a balanced perspective on one of the most pivotal chapters in US-Israel history.

Guer, Guel M, Minority Memory, Identity, and Reconciliation: The Turkish Muslim Minority of Greece and the Greek Orthodox Minority of Tuerkiye. (Ethnic Conflict: Studies in Nationality, Race, and Culture) 276 pp. 2025:7 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <751-743>
ISBN 978-0-472-07745-8 hard ¥15,592.- (税込) US$ 75.00
ISBN 978-0-472-05745-0 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Migration and minority rights are increasingly at the forefront of global discourse. Minority Memory, Identity, and Reconciliation explores the lives of two often overlooked minority communities: the Greek Orthodox minority in Istanbul, Tuerkiye, and the Turkish Muslim minority in Western Thrace, Greece. As empires dissolved, the leaders and political elites of new, smaller nations that emerged embarked on population exchanges to increase the ethnic and religious homogeneity of their nation-states. Although these two minority communities differ in religious, ethnic, and socioeconomic terms, they both offer unique perspectives on what happens to people who live on what is perceived as the wrong side of an arbitrarily drawn border. Drawing from the personal stories of members of these two minority communities regarding their struggle with displacement, discrimination, and cultural assimilation, as well as comprehensive historical analysis, this book examines how historical traumas, national policies, and sociopolitical dynamics have influenced contemporary minority memory and identity formation. By incorporating interviews with community leaders, civil society representatives, and state officials, this book offers a rich, multifaceted perspective on the processes of memory and identity formation that underscores the broader implications of these processes for international relations in the region and minority rights. Guel M. Guer pulls together theories of nationalism, collective memory, and narrative practice to highlight the unique process of minority memory work and its role in sustaining minority identity and their advocacy efforts.

ウクライナとガザにおける戦争と平和－比較分析
Luckham, Robin, War and Peace in Ukraine and in Gaza: A Comparative Analysis. 138 pp. 2025:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <751-745>
ISBN 978-3-031-92150-6 hard ¥9,588.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book interrogates the wars in Ukraine and in Gaza and asks whether meaningful distinctions can be made between just and unjust wars. The author analyses the global roots of both wars, including unresolved clashes of contending imperialisms, rooted in different variants of capitalism. Luckham also examines how the wars have impacted on the global south and how the latter has responded and asks whether active nonalignment could be a way to contain and resolve such conflicts. He also argues that the two wars mark another stage in the evisceration of the post-Cold War peace dividend and its replacement by a warmakers dividend, in which security trumps all else. The author also examines how the burdens of war fall upon those least able to bear them, as well as making the obvious yet neglected point that both conflicts, like all wars, have their beneficiaries. Finally the author considers the contradictory relationships between peace and power: how can nations and peoples trapped in war situations, as in Ukraine and Gaza, navigate towards just and sustainable peace, when the odds are heavily stacked against them?

Rousseau, Romain, L'affaire de Tunis: commerce et politique en Ifriqiya almohade (596-598, 1200-1202). (Histoire et perspectives mediterraneennes) 246 p. 2025:4 (L'Harmattan, FR) <751-333>
ISBN 978-2-336-45560-0 paper ¥6,234.- (税込) EUR 26.00

Weller, Oscar, 'Memory Also Gives a Right': Norman Bentwich and the Implementation of the British Mandate for Palestine. (Beitraege zur Rechtsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts) 160 S. 2025:7 (Mohr, GW) <751-462>
ISBN 978-3-16-164469-6 paper ¥14,388.- (税込) EUR 60.00

Following World War I, the world powers established the Mandate System. The allotment of the former Ottoman province of Palestine to Great Britain required the British administrators to fulfil two conflicting tasks. One was to safeguard the rights of all inhabitants of Palestine, as stipulated in the Covenant of the League of Nations, the other was to promote a Jewish National Home in the territory, which had been the official British policy since the Balfour Declaration. The first Attorney General in British Mandate Palestine, Norman Bentwich, embodied this conflict. Bentwich, born in 1883, was an ardent supporter of the Zionist case for a Jewish homeland in Palestine during his decade in charge of the legal implementation of the mandate. Oscar Weller looks at the intriguing life of this multi-faceted individual in the context of a torn region.

Dagtas, Secil, Under the Same Sky: Everyday Politics of Religious Difference in Southern Turkey. 277 pp. 2025:7 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <751-151>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2771-2 hard ¥13,502.- (税込) US$ 64.95

An ethnographic study of the everyday lives of religious minorities near Turkey's border with Syria How do people coexist in a world shaped by longstanding differences, political instability, and recurrent displacement? In Under the Same Sky, Secil Da?ta? addresses this question by exploring the everyday politics of religious difference among minority communities in Turkey's southern borderlands. In a region often portrayed through the lens of conflict and division, this ethnography brings to life the subtle, often overlooked negotiations occurring in social spaces such as bustling city bazaars, shared worship sites, interfaith unions, home gatherings, and a multireligious choir. Set against the backdrop of major political upheavals in Turkey and Syria before the 2023 earthquakes devastated the region, the book demonstrates how Arab 'Alawis, Christians, and Jews, alongside their Sunni Muslim neighbors, use familiar social idioms-kinship, hospitality, love, and companionship-to reproduce religious differences. Da?ta? argues that religious difference is more than an identity marker for these communities, as it is often treated in studies focused on statecraft or political movements. It is a dynamic aspect of social relations which is constantly redefined by race, class, citizenship, and gender, and unsettled by overlapping practices and multireligious belonging. Under the Same Sky focuses on religious difference as lived and reworked in daily encounters-within the larger context of a majoritarian Turkish Sunni state-inviting readers to reconsider secularism, religious plurality, and the nature of political life.

Herman, Marc, After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World. (Jewish Culture and Contexts) 288 pp. 2025:8 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <751-162>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2778-1 hard ¥13,502.- (税込) US$ 64.95

Reveals how medieval Jews developed religious law through contact with their Muslim neighbors After Revelation offers a dynamic new perspective on medieval Jewish legal thought and its integration in the wider Islamic world. Here, Marc D. Herman demonstrates that Jews were fully conversant in their contemporaries' ideas about revelation, law, and legal interpretation. Bookended by the two luminaries of medieval Judaism-Saadia Gaon and Moses Maimonides-After Revelation analyzes the legal theory that medieval Jews produced in Islamic lands, mostly in Arabic, and reveals previously unrecognized commonalities between Jewish and Islamic constructions of religious law. Herman tackles one of the central doctrines of post-biblical Judaism: that God had supplemented the written Hebrew Bible with an Oral Torah. Tracing this idea from Baghdad to Cordoba to Cairo, he shows that the Oral Torah took many new forms in the medieval Islamic world. After Revelation makes plain that medieval Judaism took the shapes that it did largely because of contact with Islam.

イスラームとイスラーム国
Jacoby, Tim, Islam and the Islamic State. 320 pp. 2025:12 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <751-167>
ISBN 978-0-19-782947-9 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00

At its zenith, the Islamic State was one of the most developed and powerful of the various militant organisations that have emerged within the Middle East in recent decades. Not limiting its objectives to organising mass casualty attacks, it constructed a complex system of administration, including an outreach department, which produced a large body of film, social media and literature. Of these, its flagship publication, Dabiq (later renamed Rumiyah), has been its most significant English-language output, and has the potential to tell us a great deal its ideas and those of other non-state armed actors that claim to maintain some kind of relationship with Islam. Islam and the Islamic State begins by tracing out the emergence of the Islamic State. It locates its separatist appeal within the aftermath of the Iraqi invasion and the early years of the occupation--particularly the Coalition's successful efforts to prevent the formation of a unified national resistance movement. It then goes on to position the West's efforts to reveal its "true nature" within established narratives on the relationship between Islam and violence. This campaign of "ideological delegitimisation" lay at the heart of the military campaign to denude the so-called Caliphate and was, Tim Jacoby argues, central to a global attempt to downplay its quintessentially political motives. Within this context in mind, this book seeks to understand what the Islamic State says about itself. Attempting to get beyond the moral opprobrium that characterises many other studies, it looks in detail at Dabiq/Rumiyah. The objective here is to analyse how this vital corpus of literature engages with Islamic exegeses--in terms of references to the Qur'an, classical scholarship and contemporary Muslims intellectuals. This reveals a complex and highly instrumental approach to the faith that was fundamentally driven by a determined claim to statehood.

Sheibani, Mariam, An Islamic Legal Philosophy: Ibn 'Abd al-Salam and the Ethical Turn in Islamic Law. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) 315 pp. 2025:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <751-196>
ISBN 978-1-009-58846-1 hard ¥25,740.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

While many studies of Islamic law have centred on the development of legal theory and substantive law, especially in their formative period of development, Mariam Sheibani instead argues that the rich legal history of the postformative period and the Islamic legal philosophy that developed in it have been comparatively neglected. This innovative study traces the ethical turn in medieval Islamic legal philosophy through the pioneering work of the prominent jurist and legal philosopher Ibn ?Abd al-Salam (d. 660/1262). Sheibani demonstrates how Ibn ?Abd al-Salam advanced a comprehensive analysis of the law's purposive and coherent rationality, articulated in a distinctive genre, with direct bearing on legal doctrine and social praxis. Ibn ?Abd al-Salam expanded on previous theological and legal reasoning, furthering two ideas developed by Khurasani Shafi?is: ma?la?a (human benefit) and qawa?id (legal maxims). He also sought to embody and deploy its teachings for socioreligious reform in Ayyubid Damascus and Cairo, breaking with the dominant formalism of legal practice. The new forms of legal reasoning and writing that Ibn ?Abd al-Salam developed would influence subsequent jurists from diverse legal schools and across regional traditions until the present day.

Sargent, Christine, Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan. (Medical Anthropology) 178 pp. 2026:1 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <751-321>
ISBN 978-1-9788-4102-4 hard ¥27,027.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-9788-4101-7 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan draws on ethnographic research conducted primarily in Jordan's capital city of Amman to explore how the label and identity of Down syndrome is gaining increasing cohesiveness. Focused on the experiences of mothers, who serve as an entry point for understanding broader family dynamics and choices, the book argues that practices and ideologies of care play a central role in making Down syndrome's embodied and political realities. They do so through the momentum of kinship futures, or futures imagined through the prism of kinship roles and relations, which shape how families organize and distribute care between and beyond kinship networks and under conditions of economic and political uncertainty. By approaching everyday life in Jordan through the lends of disability, Making Down Syndrome offers new insights into how people navigate structures of family, gender, power, inequality, and precarity, all while trying to maintain hope for and cultivate better futures.

Cheta, Omar Youssef, How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt. 277 pp. 2025:9 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <751-329>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4339-0 hard ¥14,553.- (税込) US$ 70.00

When Egypt's markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws and institutions emerged. Egypt became the site of profound legal experimentation, and the resulting commercial sphere reflected the political contestations among the governors of Egypt, European consulates, Ottoman rulers, and a growing number of private entrepreneurs, both foreign and local. How Commerce Became Legal explores the legal and business practices that resulted from this fusion of Ottoman, French, and Islamic legal concepts and governed commerce in Egypt. Focusing on the decades between the formalization of Cairo's practical autonomy within the Ottoman Empire in the 1840s and its incorporation into the British Empire in the 1880s, Omar Cheta considers how modern laws redefined the commercial sphere, shaping a mode of market governance that would persist for decades to come. He highlights the demarcation of a new law-defined commercial realm separate from the land regime and from civil or family-centered exchanges, and reconstructs these changes through both legal codes and state orders, as well as individual merchant voices preserved in court documents. As this book documents both individual experiences and structural explanations, it offers a rare perspective on the scope and reach of market governance over the mid nineteenth century, revealing changes simultaneously from within and without state institutions.

2011年以後のエジプトにおける感情、若者、イスラーム
Amin, Nareman, Is God for Revolution?: Affect, Youth, and Islam in Post-2011 Egypt. 256 pp. 2026:1 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <751-142>
ISBN 978-0-19-780472-8 hard ¥31,185.- (税込) US$ 150.00
ISBN 978-0-19-780473-5 paper ¥6,234.- (税込) US$ 29.99

Based on interviews with upper-middle-class Egyptian Muslims, Is God for Revolution? explores the ways in which political participation in the 2011 Egyptian revolution--and the emotions that came with it--changed the landscape of religious discourse and practice. Before the revolution, the interviewees found themselves in structures of culturally agreed-upon forms of religiosity. They were raised during what scholars call the "Islamic Awakening" of the late twentieth century and heeded the advice of religious figures that circulated freely in mass media. Visible markers of piety, such as the veil for women and beards for men, became commonplace. This all changed in one charged moment. In the wake of the uprising, Nareman Amin shows, revolutionary feelings--notably hope, disappointment, doubt, shock and anger-transformed their understandings of what it means to identify as pious Muslims. Is God for Revolution? is a book about social change in a time of political upheaval and uncertainty, specifically the relationship between affect, politics and Islam. It is a story about postrevolutionary agency, the emotional toll that this democratic experiment had on those who believed in the revolution and its ideals, and the transformative power of autonomy and emotion on young revolutionaries' attitudes toward religious authorities and religious beliefs and practices.

中東と北アフリカ　2026年版
The Middle East and North Africa 2026. 72nd ed. (Europa Regional Surveys of the World) 1276 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <750-916>
ISBN 978-1-041-05877-9 hard ¥386,100.- (税込) GB￡ 1,350.00

Now in its seventy-first edition, this title continues to provide the most up-to-date geopolitical and economic information for this important world area.Key Features:- covers the Middle East and North Africa from Algeria to Yemen- includes topical contributions from acknowledged experts on regional affairs- accurately and impartially records the latest political and economic developments- provides comprehensive data on all major organizations active in the countries of the region.General Survey- introductory essays cover a wide range of topics relating to the region as a whole.Country SurveysIndividual chapters on each country incorporating:- essays on the physical and social geography, recent history and economy- an extensive statistical survey of economic and social indicators, which include area and population, health and welfare, agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, industry, finance, trade, transport, tourism, communications media and education- a full directory with names, addresses and contact details covering the constitution, government, legislature, political organizations, election commissions, diplomatic representation, judiciary, religious groups, the media, finance, trade and industry (including petroleum and natural gas), tourism, defence and education- a country-specific bibliography, providing suggestions for further research.Regional Information- includes all major international organizations active in the Middle East and North Africa; research institutes specializing in the region; and select bibliographies of books and periodicals.

Badarin, Emile, Recognition Politics in Settler Colonial States: Normalizing Dispossession and Elimination in Palestine. (Unsettling Colonialism in our Times) 266 pp. 2025:6 (I. B. Tauris, UK) <750-919>
ISBN 978-0-7556-5622-6 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Using Palestine as a case study, Recognition Politics in Settler Colonial States shows how recognition politics operate to legitimize long-standing colonial power structures.In existing scholarship, recognition has been seen as an asset coveted by indigenous communities. This book forwards a new, theoretically ground-breaking perspective. Emile Badarin shows that in colonial contexts, settlers use recognition to legitimize and normalize the dispossession and elimination of Indigenous people. More than this, settler-colonial states themselves actively pursue recognition, employing it as a means to further the elimination of the indigenous societies they seek to replace. In making the case, the book critically examines the Euromodern categories of race, racism and racial hierarchies and draws new conclusions about the interplay between colonialism, racism and Zionism. Central to this analysis is how anti-Zionism has been strategically equated with anti-Semitism, and effectively used as a tool for the advancement of both settler-colonialism in Palestine and Israel's recognition on the international stage. The book delves into indigenous normative resistance against colonial recognition politics through the lens of the Palestinian practice of ?umud (steadfastness), extracting its philosophy of liberation as a pathway towards a decolonial future for all in Palestine and beyond.

Bilotto, Gregory / Daftary, Farhad / Jiwa, Shainool (eds.), Fatimid Cosmopolitanism: History, Material Culture, Politics and Religion. 496 pp. 2025:7 (I. B. Tauris, UK) <750-920>
ISBN 978-0-7556-5779-7 hard ¥27,170.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-7556-5778-0 paper ¥8,576.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99 *

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies.The Fatimid caliphs (297-567/909-1171), who were also the Ismaili Imams, reigned over a vast state stretching from North Africa (including Egypt) to Sicily, Syria and the Hijaz. Under Fatimid patronage, the arts and sciences flourished alongside Ismaili thought and literature. An extensive trade network was centred on their capital, Cairo, facilitating cosmopolitan exchange across their caliphate, the Mediterranean and other lands. This led to innovation in the production of decorative arts, monumental building programmes, international commerce and significant intellectual exchange.The original research of 22 scholars is here organised into four sections on aspects of Fatimid cosmopolitanism, covering religion and statecraft, the Fatimid legacy reconsidered, ceremony and symbolism and art and archaeology.Contributors to this volume include Ali Asgar Hussamuddin Alibhai, Khalil Andani, Dina Ishak Bakhoum, Daniel Beben, Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Gregory Bilotto, Anna Contadini, Delia Cortese, Farhad Daftary, Valerie Gonzalez, Shainool Jiwa, Hasan al-Khoee, Juan de Lara, Ayala Lester, Bernard O'Kane, Marcus Pilz, Stephane Pradines, Jennifer A. Pruitt, Yossef Rapoport, Paula Sanders, Avinoam Shalem, Yasser Tabbaa, Jamel A. Velji and Paul E. Walker.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 Islamic Publications Ltd.

Boys Smith, Stephen, Two Months on the Nile: Thomas Sandwith's Nineteenth-Century Egyptian Journey. 216 pp. 2025:6 (I. B. Tauris, UK) <750-921>
ISBN 978-0-7556-5606-6 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

British Consul with a long-standing interest in archaeology Thomas Sandwith's account of his two months travelling in Egypt provides a valuable new primary source on a dynamic period in Egyptian history. In January 1893 he began a diary in which he recorded his journey on the Nile aboard a dahabiya. Possessing a keen interest in antiquities and experience in acquiring them during his consular career, he recounts visiting newly discovered archaeological sites and meetings with Egyptologists, providing a unique snapshot of the 'golden age' of Egyptology. His astute descriptions of his journey from Cairo to Aswan and back give a vivid new perspective on the growth of European tourism in British-occupied Egypt and early Egyptian industry. Sandwith's decades-long interest in archaeology and familiarity with the Levant mean this diary - until now on the long-hand pages as he wrote them on the boat - is thus unique among contemporary travel accounts. It is a valuable primary source for scholars interested in the history of the British in the Middle East, the history of travel in the Middle East and the history of archaeology and Egyptology.

ポストコロニアリティと国家性－エジプトの事例
Chandra, Priyanka, Postcoloniality and Statehood: The Case of Egypt. 200 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-922>
ISBN 978-1-041-08225-5 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-041-09098-4 paper ¥11,436.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book traces the evolution of the postcolonial state and the social contract in Egypt. It problematises two of the most ubiquitous and contentious terms: democratisation and development, within the context of Egypt and the larger Global South. It also subverts western-centric ideas of global politics to examine why certain aspects of Egypt's history and policies have received more attention than others.This volume presents a study of state-society relations, the shift to Infitah, the impact of neoliberalisation from 1970 to 2011, and social responses to it. It argues that the Arab Uprisings of 2011 were not isolated events, but a result of a longue duree political- economic history. Through the prism of postcoloniality, it shows how citizenship is constantly renegotiated in view of the ongoing neoliberalisation, and the impact of such social transformations on the nature of the postcolonial state. It juxtaposes the role of the state and society against global political and economic landscapes to address the larger question: what is the nature of the postcolonial state? This book will be of interest to a wide array of scholars and researchers from politics and international relations, sociology and social anthropology, social theory, postcolonialism and Global South studies.

Ehsan Ali, Adam / Hussain, Umer (eds.), Arab and Middle Eastern Sport: Critical Muslim Perspectives. (Research in the Sociology of Sport 27) 296 pp. 2025:10 (Emerald, UK) <750-923>
ISBN 978-1-83549-263-5 hard ¥27,442.- (税込) US$ 132.00

There is a scarcity of sociological literature on the role and place of sport within the Arab World and the Middle East that centralizes a critical Muslim perspective. This is significant given both their immense geographical scope and the continued and emerging social and political issues within the Muslim world, in which sport and physical cultures play an important role. This timely edited collection responds to an ongoing need for a critical Muslim studies approach to sport and physical cultures in the Arab World, the Middle East, and North Africa. In the tradition of a critical Muslim studies approach and bringing together a diverse community of scholars, both established and emerging, the chapters utilize sport and physical cultures as its entry point to interrogate and critique Orientalist, Eurocentric, and positivist understandings of Arab and Middle Eastern cultures and communities, engage with intersectional, postcolonial, and decolonial epistemologies to advance this mission, and illuminate and legitimize the sporting knowledge and experiences of those from physical cultures in these regions. Prioritizing sociological analyses from sport scholars from regions which tend to be omitted within Western sport scholarship, Arab and Middle Eastern Sport situates both the scholars and communities discussed in the sociology of sport literature. Boasting a wide range of analyses, it is appealing to sport scholars from diverse interdisciplinary and methodological backgrounds.

岐路に立つ政治的イスラーム－現代の中東における弾力性と適応
Erdogan, Ayfer / Magued, Shaimaa (eds.), Political Islam at the Crossroads: Resilience and Adaptation in the Contemporary Middle East. 272 pp. 2025:8 (I. B. Tauris, UK) <750-924>
ISBN 978-0-7556-5239-6 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

A comparative analysis of Islamist groups' ideological positioning toward nation-state, secularism, and democracy across different countries in the MENA region. Authoritarian reassertion following the Arab uprisings in the Middle East has restrained Islamists' political participation and challenged their survival as both opposition groups and rulers. In light of national sociopolitical variations across the region, this book explores Islamists' means of adaptation and resilience in the face of this political exclusion, unpacking Islamists' sociopolitical persistence and ideological sustainability. In doing so this book sheds light on the following questions: How did Islamists adapt to contextual restrictions in terms of repression and stigmatization? How did the Arab uprisings impact their internal debates, ideological revisions, and reconsideration of tools of action? Individual chapters explore similarities and divergences among Islamist groups and parties in terms of ideological affiliations, means of survival and political participation strategies, drawing on comparative cases from across the MENA region. Examples include the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Al-Nahda in Tunisia, the AKP (Justice and Development Party) in Turkey, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Palestine, and the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. These studies engage critically with conceptual debates related to Islamism, post-Islamism, Jihadist Islam, and the Islamic nation/community (ummah) to determine the trajectory of political Islam in the MENA.

Gross, Jo-Ann / Beben, Daniel (eds.), Genealogical History in the Persianate World. (British Institute of Persian Studies) 320 pp. 2025:7 (I. B. Tauris, UK) <750-926>
ISBN 978-0-7556-4979-2 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

Scholarship on the Muslim world has recently begun to pay increased attention to non-literary genres of documentation as sources for historical research. Genealogical writings are one form of such documentation that has demonstrated significant potential for addressing a wide range of research concerns, particularly for topics that receive little attention in historical chronicles and other state-centered narrative sources. However, while genealogical documentation has received some attention in scholarship on the Arab world, it remains mostly unstudied in scholarship on Persianate societies. The chapters in this book offer reflections on theoretical and methodological issues concerning the study of genealogical documentation, combined with case studies based primarily on previously unpublished, unstudied source materials. The topics explored span the full breadth of the Persianate world, from Anatolia to the Ferghana Valley in Central Asia to the Gujarat region of India, utilizing sources dating from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. The book will be of significant interest to scholars and students of Islamic history and the Persianate ecumene as well as readers in other fields interested in comparative research demonstrating the use of genealogical documentation as historical sources.

Haller, Niklas A., Drawing Boundaries: Oil, Empire, and the Making of the Emirati State. (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East) 277 pp. 2025:10 (Syracuse U. Pr., US) <750-927>
ISBN 978-0-8156-1191-2 hard ¥15,581.- (税込) US$ 74.95

The boundaries between the seven constituent emirates of the United Arab Emirates form one of the most complex territorial landscapes in the Middle East that is marked simultaneously by striking fragmentation on the map and inconspicuousness on the ground. Niklas A. Haller traces how such boundaries were shaped, dismantled, disregarded, and reappeared throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He analyzes how the forces of oil and empire combined in progressively transforming the native system to the benefit of a select number of coastal rulers, ultimately bestowing upon them a maze of territorial possessions and a plethora of territorial disputes. When the seven Trucial Rulers came together in 1971 to form the UAE, the new federation only slowly succeeded in decreasing the visibility and importance of the inter-emirate boundaries as it asserted itself under Abu Dhabi's aegis. Drawing Boundaries opens a previously unexplored lens on Emirati history that allows a more nuanced understanding of many of its key aspects: the impact and legacy of the imperial period, the formation of the UAE, and political trajectories during the federation's early years.

イスラーム主義者とアラブの革命
Hroub, Khaled / Baabood, Abdullah (eds.), Islamists and the Arab Revolutions: Bitter Experiences. (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government) 292 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <750-929>
ISBN 978-1-041-05118-3 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This monograph offers the most comprehensive and regionally grounded analysis to date of how Islamist movements across the Middle East responded to - and were transformed by - the 2010-2011 Arab uprisings.Far from a monolithic force, Islamist actors across Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Morocco, Libya, Jordan, Syria, Sudan and the Gulf reacted in divergent and contradictory ways to the revolutionary wave. This volume brings together scholars from within the region who not only document the evolving role of Islamist parties in their respective contexts but also critically examine how their ideologies, internal structures, and political strategies were challenged, revised, or in some cases, further radicalized. Drawing on case studies of both participation and repression, electoral victories and authoritarian backlash, the chapters offer a panoramic view of Islamists navigating revolution, governance, exile, and counter-revolution. From the Muslim Brotherhood's dramatic rise and fall in Egypt to Ennahda's contested governance in Tunisia, and the fragmented Islamist scene in post-Qaddafi Libya, the book reveals how the Arab uprisings served as a turning point-exposing both the potential and the limits of political Islam.Essential reading for scholars and students of Middle East politics, Islamist movements, revolutionary studies, and democratization, this book provides crucial insights into the turbulent interplay between ideology, power, and social transformation in the contemporary Arab world.

Hudson, Leila, Lines of Flight, Assemblages of Home: Syrian Women Displaced. (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East) 277 pp. 2025:10 (Syracuse U. Pr., US) <750-930>
ISBN 978-0-8156-1195-0 hard ¥14,542.- (税込) US$ 69.95

While humanitarian organizations and media outlets often reduce Syrian refugees to statistics or brief anecdotes, the real story of displacement unfolds in the intimate spaces of family life. Through the interwoven narratives of five middle-aged sisters from Damascus, Lines of Flight, Assemblages of Home reveals how Syrian women navigate war, exile, and the profound transformation of their families and identities. Drawing on extensive interviews conducted between 2015 and 2017, this book follows an extended Sunni Muslim family as they flee their homes in Damascus's Eastern Ghouta suburbs and scatter across Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, and eventually Europe. As these women move through an increasingly hostile landscape of border controls, refugee camps, and human trafficking networks, they must reinvent themselves-from stable middle-class mothers to resourceful survivors, from guardians of tradition to architects of change. Their journeys challenge conventional assumptions about refugee experiences, revealing how displacement reconfigures family networks, religious practices, and gender roles. Leila Hudson's intimate portrait of Syrian displacement offers vital insights for researchers and practitioners working in humanitarian assistance, refugee resettlement, and forced migration. It provides essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how ordinary families navigate extraordinary circumstances, and how women in particular bear both the burdens and opportunities of displacement.

Khaizran, Yusri Hazran / Khalaily, Muhammad, Palestinians in Israel after the Arab Spring: The Political Impact of Regional Protest and Fragmentation. (SOAS Palestine Studies) 270 pp. 2025:5 (I. B. Tauris, UK) <750-931>
ISBN 978-0-7556-5441-3 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

The Arab Spring initially ignited excitement for Arab society in Israel. But following the outbreak of the uprising in Syria, Israeli-Arab attitudes shifted. This book demonstrates why the Arab Spring, and especially the war in Syria, provoked such deep fragmentation for Palestinians in Israel. Based on governmental and public surveys, the book shows that many more Arab-Palestinian citizens became supportive of instrumental integration with Israeli politics following the Arab Spring. But the momentous events convinced other Arab citizens to abandon the connection between finding a solution for the Palestinian problem if it involved integration with the state. At the same time, this book reveals that the younger generations wanted to search for alternatives to replace the existing political frameworks completely and were inspired to form a new model of political activism. This is the first study to explore how the Arab Spring affected Arab society in Israel in terms of identity, political discourse and behaviour. In doing so it covers the new policy adopted by the central government in Israel, formed after 2011 to strengthen civic discourse amongst Arab citizens. It has been neither Israelization nor Zionization; but Instrumental integration which meets the conditional citizenship offered by the state.

Koru, Selim, New Turkey and the Far Right: How Reactionary Nationalism Remade a Country. 264 pp. 2025:2 (I. B. Tauris, UK) <750-932>
ISBN 978-0-7556-5643-1 hard ¥21,450.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-0-7556-5644-8 paper ¥7,146.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99

Turkey is among a league of revisionist powers who are challenging the world order. Erdogan and his Islamist movement have aimed to create the "New Turkey", preparing for a future that is less dependent on Western treaty allies.This book is about the political ideas driving Turkey's regime change and foreign policy . It de-exceptionalizes Turkish politics, arguing that the "New Turkey" is part of a forerunner in the a global trend of far-right nationalist movements like that of Donald Trump in the United States or Narendra Modi in India. In particular, the book reveals how far-right nationalist strands in Turkey have been nurtured by an existential resentment of the West, similar to those we are seeing in Russia. In tracing this resentment and its historical roots, the book invites policymakers and experts to better understand the new relationships Turkey is building with fellow revisionists including China and Russia, as well as Turkey's involvement in the wars in Syria and Ukraine and Erdogan's grand strategy for expansion.