Emerging scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia :
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[Book]
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moving from the periphery /
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edited by Katlyn Quenzer, Maria Syed, and Elisabeth Yarbakhsh.
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Lanham, Maryland :
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Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2018]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xvii, 205 pages ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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Emerging scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia