Football in the Middle East
Far and away the most popular sport in the world, football has a special place in Middle Eastern societies, and for Middle Eastern states. With Qatar hosting the 2022 FIFA…
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Routledge Handbook of Sports in the Middle East
This Handbook provides a succinct overview of sport in the Middle East, drawing in scholars from a wide variety of geographical and disciplinary backgrounds (history, politics, sociology, economics and regional studies), with…
Surrendering to the Self
The Indian sage Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950) is perhaps the most widely known Indian spiritual figure of the last century, second only to Gandhi. This new book offers a fresh introduction…
Reading the Arab World
Reading the Arab World (Routledge, 2021) by Yehia Mohamed allows students to learn how the Arabic language works in the real world. The content-based textbook for intermediate to advanced students is…
Black Blocks, White Squares
Offering a unique way to explore key concepts in political science, Black Blocks, White Squares: Crosswords with an Anarchist Edge (AK Press, 2021) by Leonard Williams is a collection of fifty-one…
Darfur Allegory
Darfur Allegory (University of Chicago Press, 2021) by Rogaia Abusharaf is a dispatch from the humanitarian crisis that explains the historical and ethnographic background to competing narratives that have informed…
Research Companion to Language and Country Branding
Research Companion to Language and Country Branding brings together entirely new interdisciplinary research conducted by scholars working on various sociolinguistic, semiotic, anthropological and discursive analytical aspects of country branding all over…
World Literature Decentered
World Literature Decentered: Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal (Routledge 2021) by Ian Almond seeks to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global literature and global history – not just by…
The Prehistory of Private Property
The Prehistory of Private Property debunks three false claims commonly accepted by contemporary political philosophers regarding property systems: that inequality is natural, inevitable, or incompatible with freedom; that capitalism is…
Clefs Metaphysiques De La Sophia Perennis
In the field of comparative religions, the influence of the work of the metaphysician Frithjof Schuon still remains diffuse even if it proved decisive for many. Her writings have been…
Keys to the Beyond
Keys to the Beyond explores the work of the religious philosopher Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) by focusing on the way he develops his own expansive adaptations of traditional religious terms. As…
Foreign Policy of Iran under President Hassan Rouhani's First Term (2013–2017)
Foreign Policy of Iran deals with President Hassan Rouhani’s conceptual approach to foreign policy. It discusses the main pillars of thinking underpinning Rouhani’s administration and the school of thought associated…
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