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Young Turk Modernizer and Muslim Nationalist

York Norman, Buffalo State, The State University of New York, USA In the first monograph in English on Celal Nuri, York Norman outlines and analyses his ideas and policies, from Nuri’s position on minorities, to women and family and Islamic reform. Based on a broad range of primary and secondary sources, Norman reveals the prophetic qualities of and renewed interest in Nuri’s ideas after the rise of Islamist political movements in Turkey in the 1990s.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 216 pages PB 9780755643578 • £28�99 / $39�95 Previously published in HB 9780755617203 ePub 9780755617227 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9780755617210 • £76�50 / $105�78 I�B� Tauris

Contemporary Rationalist Islam in Turkey

The Religious Opposition to Sunni Revival

Gokhan Bacik, Palacky University, Czech Republic. This book showcases the modern Turkish theologians who challenge mainstream Sunni interpretations of Islam. Labelling these theologians as ‘rationalist’ rather than ‘reformist’, the author reveals that their theology is inherently anti-establishment and thus a religiously-oriented challenge to the hegemony of the state-sanctioned Islam. It examines the scope, methodology and argumentation of the scholars’ theology, identifying a new ‘rationalist’ school of Turkish theology and outlining its different manifestations. The book reveals an understudied dimension of Turkey and Turkish Islam beyond the AKP and the Gulenists.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 248 pages PB 9780755636785 • £28�99 / $39�95 Previously published in HB 9780755636747 ePub 9780755636761 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9780755636754 • £76�50 / $105�78 I�B� Tauris

New Order in the Gulf

The Rise of the UAE

Dina Esfandiary, Harvard University, USA This book asesses the UAE’s increasing power and the future challenges to security it poses. Dina Esfandiary argues that the UAE has become more assertive in the pursuit of its own interests in the region and beyond - even when this puts it at odds with its regional allies. The book examines the regional causes of the UAE’s growing assertiveness - especially the 2011 Arab Uprisings – as well as the international context such as the impact of the USannounced ‘Pivot to Asia’, the perceptions of waning US power in the Middle East, and the 2015 nuclear deal.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 224 pages PB 9780755645787 • £24�99 / $34�95 • HB 9780755645794 • £75�00 / $100�00 ePub 9780755645817 • £22�49 / $31�59 ePdf 9780755645800 • £22�49 / $31�59 I�B� Tauris

Imagined Communities in Greece and Turkey

Trauma and the Population Exchanges under Ataturk

Emine Yesim Bedlek

In 1923 the Turkish government, under Kemal Ataturk, signed a renegotiated Balkan Wars treaty with the major powers of the day and Greece. This treaty provided for the forced exchange of 1.3 million Christians from Anatolia to Greece, in return for 30,000 Greek Muslims. The mass migration that ensued was a humanitarian catastrophe. Both the Greek and Turkish leadership saw this exchange as crucial to the state-strengthening projects both powers were engaged in after the First World War. In this book Emine Bedlek approaches this enormous shift in national thinking through literary texts - addressing the themes of loss, identity, memory and trauma which both populations experienced. The result is a new understanding of the tensions between religious and ethnic identity in modern Turkey.

UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 224 pages PB 9780755649068 • £28�99 / $39�95 Previously published in HB 9781784531270 ePub 9780857729972 • £99�00 / $137�39 ePdf 9780857728005 • £99�00 / $137�39 I�B� Tauris

The Economic Statecraft of the Gulf Arab States

Deploying Aid, Investment and Development Across the MENA

Karen Young For much of the post-World War II era, the U.S believed that its model of investment and development represented the sole model of building aspirational democratic capitalism, unfettered by serious competition. That is no longer true. This book examines the new state-led prescriptions for growth, powered by petro-dollars, sovereign wealth funds and ambitious new actors in the Global South. Karen Young shows how the Gulf Arab states are emblematic of state-led growth and a SouthSouth trend that challenges existing institutions and practices of development finance, as well as global capital markets.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 208 pages PB 9780755646661 • £19�99 / $26�95 • HB 9780755646654 • £65�00 / $90�00 ePub 9780755646685 • £17�99 / $24�72 ePdf 9780755646678 • £17�99 / $24�72 Series: Middle East Institute Policy Series • I�B� Tauris

Russia and the GCC

The Case of Tatarstan’s Paradiplomacy

Diana Galeeva, University of Oxford, UK This book examines the relations between the Gulf States and Russia from the Soviet era to the present day. Using the Republic of Tatarstan, one of Russia’s autonomous Muslim polities as a case study, Galeeva demonstrates the emergence of relations between modern Tatarstan and the GCC States. Having conducted fieldwork in the Muslim Republics of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan and Dagestan, the book includes interviews with high-ranking political figures, heads of religious organisations and academics. Moving beyond solely economic and geopolitical considerations, the research in this book sheds light on the increasingly important role, culture and shared Islamic identity play in paradiplomacy efforts.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 240 pages HB 9780755646159 • £85�00 / $115�00 ePub 9780755646173 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9780755646166 • £76�50 / $105�78 I�B� Tauris