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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810715203321

Titolo

Emerging scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia : moving from the periphery / / edited by Katlyn Quenzer, Maria Syed, Elisabeth Yarbakhsh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-4985-5843-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 pages)

Disciplina

956.0072

Soggetti

Study skills

Middle East Study and teaching

Asia, Central Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : alternative frameworks: accounting for the overlooked / Katlyn Quenzer and Maria Syed -- Emerging trends and debates in Gulf studies / Matthew Gray -- Impending decline? a reassessment of Saudi power / Maria Syed -- Iranian nationalism from its (Afghan) margins / Elisabeth Yarbakhsh -- Between (ethno-)nationalism and political Islam : the Kurdish movement as a "third way" in Turkey / William Gourlay -- State formation and social conflict in Syria : causalities, unintended consequences, and analytical trajectories / Harout Akdedian -- Seen from a distance : political contexts for Middle Eastern contemporary art / Sam Bowker -- The Afghan threat to the security of the central Asian nations : myth or reality? / Azam Isabaev -- When East looks West to the Middle East / Ian Nelson.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book scholars specializing in the Middle East and Central Asia provide fresh analysis and cutting-edge critique of phenomena and events across the region. Authors draw on multiple disciplinary traditions and cover a broad geography, in order to challenge understandings and propose new forms of scholarly engagement.