Gateways to the World: Port Cities in the Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf region has become home to some of the world’s fastest growing, most impressive cities, many of them with global aspirations. Gateways to the World presents an in-depth,…
Books
God at the Grassroots 2016
God at the Grassroots 2016 (Rowman & Littlefield 2017), edited by Mark Rozell and Clyde Wilcox gathers a distinguished group of political scientists, many of whom have been studying the…
Gulf Women
This collection of essays, by leading scholars from Arab and international universities, provides a greater understanding of the history of the Gulf and the Arab world. Featuring research never published…
Higher Education Investment in the Arab States of the Gulf: Strategies for Excellence and Diversity
Over the last half-century, the GCC states have invested on a huge scale in higher education, but the stated commitment to internationally recognized excellence has also had to come to…
Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income : a Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No
Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income argues that philosophers have focused too much on scalar freedom and proposes a theory of status freedom as effective control self-ownership: the power to have…
Innovation in Islam: Traditions and contributions
Why has the West developed and modernized, while the Muslim world has lagged behind? Why has democracy not found a hospitable home in much of the Muslim world? Why have…
Inside the Arab State
The 2011 Arab uprisings and their aftermath have thrown into question some of the long-held assumptions about the foundational aspects of the Arab state. While the regional and international consequences…
International Conflict over Water Resources in Himalayan Asia
The authors explore the fresh water crisis of Himalayan Asia. While the region hosts some of the world’s mightiest rivers, it is also home to rapidly modernizing, increasingly affluent, and…
Iran Today : an Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic
Iran dominates the media headlines once again, taking center stage in U.S. and European Union strategy toward the Middle East. A more nuanced understanding of Iranian society is now urgently…
Iran’s Intellectual Revolution
Since its revolution in 1979, Iran has been viewed as the bastion of radical Islam and a sponsor of terrorism. The focus on its volatile internal politics and its foreign…
Is this devastation for me Alone?
Amira El Zein
Islam without Europe
Replete with a cast of giants in Islamic thought and philosophy, Ahmad S. Dallal’s pathbreaking intellectual history of the eighteenth-century Muslim world challenges stale views of this period as one…
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