Minorities and the Modern Arab World: New Perspectives (Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815634528 ISBN 13: 9780815634522

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2016

Synopsis

In the wake of recent upheavals across the Arab world, a simplistic media portrayal of the region as essentially homogenous has given way to a new though equally shallow portrayal, casting it as deeply divided along ethnic, linguistic, and religious lines. The essays gathered in Minorities and the Modern Arab World seek to challenge this representation with a nuanced exploration of the ways in which ethnic, religious, and linguistic commitments have intersected to create “minority” communities in the modern era.
Bringing together the fields of history, political science, anthropology, sociology, and linguistics, contributors provide fresh analyses of the construction and evolution of minority identities around the region. They examine how the category of “minority” became meaningful only with the rise of the modern nation-state and find that Middle Eastern minority nationalisms owe much of their modern self-definition to developments within diaspora populations and other transnational frameworks.
The first volume to upend the conceptual frame of reference for studying Middle Eastern minority communities in nearly two decades, Minorities and the Modern Arab World represents a major intervention in modern Middle East studies.

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Book Description:

The first volume to upend the conceptual frame of reference for studying Middle Eastern minority communities in nearly two decades, Minorities and the Modern Arab World represents a major intervention in modern Middle East studies.

About the Author:

Laura Robson is associate professor of history at Portland State University. She is the author of Colonialism and Christianity in Mandate Palestine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0815634528
• ISBN 13: 9780815634522
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Robson Laura