M I D D L E E A S T S T U D I E S - Islamic Studies / Iran
The Huthi Movement in Yemen
Partition’s First Generation
Edited by Abdullah Hamidaddin, al-Mesbar Studies and Research Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Amber H. Abbas, Saint Joseph's University, USA
Ideology, Ambition and Security in the Arab Gulf
The Houthi rebels in Yemen are a resistance movement going back decades. But what has motivated their social movement to fundamentally re-shape Yemen, and what are the group’s local and regional ambitions? This book provides the first comprehensive critical analysis dedicated to the Houthis. Across four parts and 17 chapters, the book examines how the movement is challenging traditional religious authority, reshaping tribal values and roles in Yemen, constructing new collective memories and identities, and infusing Yemen’s mediascape with their ideological creed. Contributors focus on the movement’s specific beliefs and how these affect Yemen and security in the Arab Gulf. UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 320 pages PB 9780755644285 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9780755644254 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9780755644278 • £19.79 / $26.05 ePdf 9780755644261 • £19.79 / $26.05 Series: King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies Series • I.B. Tauris World All Languages (except Arabic)
Patterns of Wisdom in Safavid Iran
The Philosophical School of Isfahan and the Gnostic of Shiraz Janis Esots, Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK The intellectual richness of seventeenth-century Safavid Iran is epitomised by the philosophical school of Isfahan. However, the identification of a 'philosophical school of Isfahan' was only proposed in 1956, by the celebrated French Iranologist Henry Corbin, who noted the unifying Islamic Neoplatonist character of some 20 thinkers and spiritual figures; this grouping remained unchallenged for some fifty years. In this highly original work, Janis Esots investigates the legitimacy of the term 'school', delving into the complex philosophies of its three most important figures - Mir Damad, Mulla Sadra and Rajab 'Ali Tabrizi and highlighting the differences between their thought. UK November 2021 • US December 2021 • 280 pages PB 9780755644919 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9780755644902 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9780755644933 • £22.49 / $29.96 ePdf 9780755644926 • £22.49 / $29.96 Series: Shi'i Heritage Series • I.B. Tauris World English
Patriotism, Religion and Power in the Literatures of Iran From the Shanameh to the Present Minoo Derayeh, York University, Canada Through the interpretation of literary sources, this book examines the ways religions and patriotism have often converged to bring about cultural, religious and social and political change in Iran. Derayeh examines Iranian political and social relations via two core themes throughout its history; the relationship between the ruler and the ruled, and the role of justice and injustice. The book explores the stories of Kings, Gods, religions, cultures, political systems and sacred aspects of these in Iranian mythology. Derayeh analyses a multiplicity of literary works from the poetry of Ferdowsi, Parvaz and Hafez, to the sacred Zoroastrian Avestas, to the memoirs of Mohammad Mosaddeq, Aytaollah Abulqasem and Hossein Makki and the works of modern female Iranian writers, to provide a new perspective on what she argues is a recurrent theme in Iranian political and cultural history. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 224 pages HB 9780755641710 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780755641697 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780755641703 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris
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Space, Place, and Identity in Muslim South Asia Muslim voices have been only faintly discernible in partition scholarship that focuses overwhelmingly on Hindus displaced from Pakistan areas. Partition’s First Generation traces the paths of Aligarh Muslim University graduates who came of age during the anticolonial struggle in India and settled throughout the subcontinent after Partition. A new archive of oral history narratives from former students, the book showcases the histories of Partition as yet unheard. In contrast to existing studies, these stories lead across the boundaries of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and reframe Partition to draw attention to the ways individuals experienced ongoing changes associated with 'partitioning'. UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 256 pages PB 9780755635412 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350142664 ePub 9781350142671 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350142688 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Library of Islamic South Asia • I.B. Tauris
Orientalism and IranianAmerican Memoirs
Representing Post-Revolutionary Iran Hossein Nazari This book offers an analysis of the processes of production, promotion, and reception of memoirs of diasporic Iranian-American authors. It provides new perspectives on famous examples of the genre such as Betty Mahmoody’s Not Without My Daughter, Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Hossein Nazari places these texts in their social and political contexts, tracing their origins within the trope of the America captivity narrative as well as teasing out and critiquing neo-Orientalist tendencies within. The book analyses the structural means by which stereotypes about Islam and women in the Islamic Republic in these narratives are privileged by news media and the creative industries, while also charting a growing number of 'counterhegemonic' memoirs which challenge these narratives by representing more nuanced accounts of life in Iran after 1979. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages HB 9780755617364 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780755617388 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780755617371 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris
The Fall of Reza Shah
The Abdication, Exile, and Death of Modern Iran’s Founder Shaul Bakhash, George Mason University, USA Shaul Bakhash here recounts the little-known details of Reza Shah's forced abdication from the Iranian throne and, drawing on previously unutilized material from the British archives, reveals for the first time that the British considered reinstalling on the throne a little-regretted previous dynasty. The book charts Reza Shah’s final journey through Iran and into his unhappy exile; his life in exile, his reminiscences; his testy relationship with the British in Mauritius and Johannesburg; and the circumstances of his death. Additionally, it covers the immense fortune Reza Shah amassed during his years in power, his finances in exile, and the drawn-out dispute over the settlement of his estate after his death. UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 184 pages PB 9780755638093 • £19.99 / $26.95 Previously published in HB 9780755634408 ePub 9780755634422 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780755634415 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris
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