02523nam 2200457 450 991081071520332120180703104945.01-4985-5843-7(CKB)4100000005465653(MiAaPQ)EBC5492311(MiAaPQ)EBC5471024(EXLCZ)99410000000546565320190126d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEmerging scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia moving from the periphery /edited by Katlyn Quenzer, Maria Syed, Elisabeth YarbakhshLanham :Lexington Books,[2018]©20181 online resource (225 pages)1-4985-5842-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Study skillsMiddle EastStudy and teachingAsia, CentralStudy and teachingStudy skills.956.0072Quenzer Katlyn1988-Syed Maria1982-Yarbakhsh Elisabeth1981-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810715203321Emerging scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia4026862UNINA