Middle Eastern Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Middle Eastern Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Abyssinian slave trade to Iran and the Rokeby case 187712
The journal İnkılâp and the appeal of antisemitism in interwar Turkey6
Decoding the crisis of the legitimate circle of coalition building in Israel: a critical analysis of the puzzling election trio of 2019–205
Turkey in the UN Security Council during the Cold War: elections, voting motivations and alliance commitments5
Rural or urban? Planning Bedouin settlements4
Israel, Turkey, and the Turkish Jewish community in light of Operation Protective Edge4
Terrorism and migration: on the mass emigration of Iraqi Jews, 1950–19514
From guests of the Imam to unwanted foreigners: the politics of South Asian pilgrimage to Iran in the twentieth century4
The international ‘debt crisis’ of the 1980s in the Middle East and North Africa: a review, an outline3
Missed opportunity? Jordan’s [insufficient] economic dividends from the peace treaty with Israel3
Who are we? and Who are they? The construction of Turkish national identity in textbooks within the context of the Turkish War of Independence3
Kurdish insurgency in Rojhelat: from Rasan to the Oslo negotiations3
25 years of Jordan-Israel peace-making: from ‘warm peace’ to ‘cold peace’?3
The Tudeh Party of Iran and the land reform initiatives of the Pahlavi state, 1958–19643
From jihad to resistance: the evolution of Hamas’s discourse in the framework of mobilization3
‘The school is the link between the Jewish community and the surrounding milieu’: education and the Jews of Iran from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s3
Motivational factors of Turkish foreign terrorist fighters in ISIS2
‘Peaceful civil jihad’ – Saudi Arabia’s Islamic civil rights movement and its concept of jihad2
Social liberation within the Islamic-political movements: the reform project of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its impact on the Ahl-i-Hadith movement in Pakistan2
The 1980s ‘debt crisis’ in the Middle East and North Africa: framing regional dynamics within the international stage at UNCTAD2
Israeli emigration policies in the Gaza Strip: crafting demography and forming control in the aftermath of the 1967 War2
Between citizenship and the millet: the Greek minority in republican Turkey2
The duality of ‘official’ and ‘local’ in modern Iran: historical and intellectual foundations2
A convivial space: the urban khan in Ottoman Istanbul from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries2
External public debt in Jordan: from crisis to reform2
Rethinking narratives on Islam in North Cyprus: a new perspective2
Introduction: alcohol production and consumption in the modern Middle East2
Examining age structure and estimating mortality rates in Ottoman Bursa using mid-nineteenth-century population registers2
‘Son of Arabia, son of Nazareth, and my son’: Herut’s stand on the imposition of the Military Government 1948-19662
A negotiation of power during the age of reforms in the Ottoman Empire: notables, tribes and state in Muş (1820-1840)2
The place of Italy in Turkish foreign policy in the 1930s2
The East India Company in Persia: trade and cultural exchange in the eighteenth century1
Hezbollah and Hamas’s main platforms for recruiting and handling of human sources after 20061
Iran and imperial nationalism in 19191
The separatist Alawi petition to the French Prime Minister Léon Blum (1936): reliability, background and aftermath1
Did as-Saʿidiyya really revolt? An ethnographic investigation1
Projective Psychological Warfare (PPW): an analysis of Hamas Hebrew videoclips as part of its propaganda campaign against Israel (2007–2014)1
Foundations of a geopolitical entity - the Gaza Strip 1947–19501
The Palestine Labor League: the history of a Palestinian labor union1
American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 1946–75: From Orientalism to Professionalism1
The deal of the century? The attempted sale of the Western Wall by Cemal Pasha in 19161
Imperial resilience: The Great War’s end, Ottoman longevity, and incidental nations1
States of drunkenness: bar-life in Istanbul between empire, occupation, and republic, 1918–19231
‘He is living Israeli flag’: The Right and the Presidency in Israel under Chaim Weizmann, 1948–19521
Czechoslovakia and the ‘Cyprus issue’ in the years 1960–1974: secret arms deals, espionage, and the Cold War in the Middle East1
George Franghia (b. 1856): a forgotten farsighted Ottoman engineer’s contribution to the development of the province of Jerusalem during the late Ottoman period1
The Jewish past and the ‘birth’ of the Israeli nation state: the case of Ben-Gurion’s Independence Day speeches1
Zionism and the Hebrew Bible: from religious holiness to national sanctity1
The Israeli Arameans: a people-in-progress1
Romania and the Palestine Liberation Organization, 1972–19741
The emergence of the ‘sovereign debt crisis’ in 1970s MENA economies1
Making property of a marsh: environment, property, and politics in nineteenth-century Ottoman Ioannina1
Introduction1
The rise of Iraqi indebtedness, 1979–20031
Alid loyalty or Shiʿite tendency: a comparative approach to the Alevi Buyruk texts1
Kedourie, nationalism, Islamism, and the umma1
Utopian imagination in the Zionist movement: the case of ‘Jerusalem Rebuilt’1
Kurdish cross-border trade between Syria and Turkey: the socio-political trajectories of Syrian Kurds1
Are cinema, TV and football recommended for Muslims? The Millî Görüş movement’s view on popular culture1
Critically assessing the contours of relations between the AKP and Islamic movements after the July 15 coup attempt: the Furkan Vakfi case1
Public attitudes on peace with Israel in Jordanian politics1
Contextualizing the ideology of the Turkish national resistance movement1
Algeria’s reforming decade (1988–1998): neoliberalism as a tool for survival1
Death Tango: Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, and three fateful days in March1
Czechoslovak diplomatic dilemmas in regards to the Adolf Eichmann trial1
From Iranian Shi’ization to colonization in Syria to establish Shiʿi territorial contiguity1
Negotiating empire in the Middle East: Ottomans and Arab Nomads in the modern era, 1840-19141
The Druze settlement on Mount Carmel: Daliyat al-Karmil as a case study – Archaeological, historical and geographical evidence1
The Gulf Cooperation Council and counter-terror cooperation in the post-9/11 era: a regional organization in comparative perspective1
Coup-proofing and political violence: the case of Iraq1
Cultural nationalism and the spread of a ‘national language’ among Arabophone, Turcophone and Kurdophone Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1840 to c. 18601
Bureaucrats into merchants: tea, capitalism and the making of the Republican bourgeois1
Rethinking Syrian nationalism: national identity and state in Syria, from the ‘struggle for Syria’ to the Syrian civil war1
Turkey’s post-colonial predicament and the perils of its Western-centric foreign policy (1955–1959)1
The sterilization and disinfection machines: sanitation and public health in the late Ottoman Empire1
Corporatism without party: the state, war, and industrial labor in the Islamic Republic of Iran1
Turkey: between democracy and authoritarianism0
Syria 2011–2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem0
The Fall of Reza Shah: The Abdication, Exile, and Death of Modern Iran’s Founder0
An ‘Islamist’ intellectual in the late Ottoman Empire: Ali Suavi0
The Arabian Mission and education in Bahrain: ‘encounter’ and ‘resistance’, 1892–19170
US-Syria relations in the shadow of Cold War and détente0
UNSCOP and the Arab–Israeli conflict: the road to partition0
Understanding Turkey’s attitude towards the dispute in Palestine from late 1947 to early 19490
Egypt: how and why a heavily indebted country in the 1980s emerged solvent0
The Circassian question: liberalism and the pursuit of freedom in the mid-nineteenth century0
A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in Iran’s Age of Cholera,0
Cast thy bread’: Israeli biological warfare during the 1948 War0
Visualizing Palestine in Arab postage stamps: 1948-19670
The League of Nations and Turkish political refugees in Greece in the early 1930s0
Allies or foes: the interplay between al-Azhar and the Muslim Brotherhood following Egypt’s 2011 uprising (2011–2021)0
Juhayman al-Otaibi and the interpretation of the first violent Islamic movement in contemporary Saudi Arabia0
Nationalism or transnationalism?Afghan nationalism and Pan-Islamism in Seraj-ul Akhbar0
Bringing democracy into Iran: a Russian project for the separation of Azerbaijan0
Prize announcement0
Breaking the news: a case study on nineteenth century journalism and Selim Faris0
From an arasta bazaar to a piyasa street: the transformation of Direklerarası in Ottoman Istanbul from the 1720s to the 1920s0
Understanding social change: demographic analyses of musicians in late Ottoman Istanbul0
Egypt: a fragile power0
Chehabism revisited: the consequences of reform in Lebanon0
Benefitting from the ambiguity: the issue of the ‘Turkishness’ of the Jewish minority in the first decade of the Turkish Republic0
Yitzhak Shamir and the unity of contradictions: between the integrity of the whole Land of Israel and integrity of the Jewish People0
Stella vs. Sadat or how beer helps explain post-1970 Egypt0
New money in old Tripoli0
False Prophets: British leaders’ fateful fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria0
Away from chaos: the Middle East and the challenge to the West0
Representing the Coptic community: the Communal Council and the road to the 1911 Coptic Congress0
Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire0
Muhammad Surur and his work Wa jaʾa dawr al-Majus0
Outskirts of empire: studies in British power projection0
Turkey and the Soviet Union during World War II: Diplomacy, discord and international relations; Turkey’s changing transatlantic relations; Turkey between the United States and Russia: Surfing on the 0
Between the sacred and the profane: conflicts between football and sharia in Iran0
'Close but no Cigar’: Hamas’s psychological warfare against Israel between 2014 and 20230
Nigâr Hanim – an Ottoman Turkish poetess0
Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment: a global and historical comparison0
To break the feudal bonds: the Soviets, Reza Khan, and the Iranian left, 1921-250
Israeli foreign policy: a people shall not dwell alone0
Süreyya Ağaoğlu and the emerging liberal order in early Cold War Turkey0
Imagined landscapes for contested politics of land reform, peasant struggles and women in rural Turkey0
Captive wild animals as visual commodities in the Ottoman Empire: a historical review0
Limited trust and its roots: the attitude of French military and political officials toward North African soldiers during the Great War (1914–1918)0
Factors influencing the location of the early Zionist settlements in Ottoman Palestine: 1880–19150
Ottoman Rums and the Venizelos – Constantine conflict after the Armistice of Mudros: the election of Meletios Metaxakis as patriarch0
An alternative approach to total economy of the late Ottoman Empire0
Power and light, profit and loss: the establishment and operation of the Damascus Electricity and Tramway Company, 1903-19140
Imperialism after decolonization? British relations with Bahrain from the withdrawal East of Suez to the Iranian Revolution0
A war waiting to happen: How Menachem Begin and his administrations paved the way to the 1982 Lebanon war0
Refugees and migrants in Iran: the Iran-Iraq war (1980–88) and the Intifada (1991)0
Resilient locusts, ignorant people, modern state and scientific knowledge: a late Ottoman human-animal-state history0
Making of the Unionist bureaucracy: purging the Hamidian cadres, rule of law, and the limits of the Unionist power (1908–1910)0
Preparation for total war: ‘Military Service Preparation Camps’ in the Turkish education system in the early Republican Era (1926–1946)0
The end of the pax Britannica in the Persian Gulf, 1968-19710
‘An Oriental Gentlewoman’: Princess Nazlı Fazıl’s interview in The Gentlewoman in 18990
Red Star Over the Black Sea: Nâzım Hikmet and His Generation0
Same reasons, different outcomes: Qatar’s policy on Israel up to 19960
Pragmatic coexistence: local responses to the state intrusion in Dersim during the early Republican period of Turkey (1938–1950)0
Between parliamentary control and fiscal discipline: the General Budget Act for 1303/1924-25 (1925) on the eve of Pahlavi rule0
Exodus too: the story of an ordinary Egyptian Jewish family in extraordinary times0
UAE book review0
Lumbering state, restless society: Egypt in the modern era0
The Greek population of Ottoman Pontus in the early twentieth century: a comparative demographic analysis0
Bibliography of Sylvia G. Haim0
Playing with ‘the Great Satan’: the football diplomacy behind the 1998 and 2000 Iran–USA matches0
Young woman, daughter, mother: female soldiers killed in battle during Israel’s War of Independence (1947–1949)0
Stephen Pericles Ladas and the 1923 Greco-Turkish Exchange of Populations: the making and unmaking of a narrative0
The appointment mechanism of the ulema to the Ilmiye posts0
Was there room for Christian Turks in early Republican Turkey? Debates on the migration and Turkishness of the Gagauz0
Asad’s autocratic dynasty in Syria: civil war and the role of regional and global powers0
Ending slavery in imperial peripheries: Ottoman abolitionist policy in Trablusgarp and Benghazi provinces (1857–1911)0
The evolution of the armed forces of the United Arab Emirates by Athol Yates (Warwick: Helion & Company Limited, 2020). pp. xv + 380. £35 (hardback). ISBN 9781912866007.0
‘A tent has fallen from the sky’: the convoluted story of a balloon accident in Ottoman Bosnia in 18030
The making of a mixed municipality in Israel: the case of Acre0
Turkey’s energy dilemmas: changes and challenges0
Nomads in the Middle East0
The Org. Gehlen/BND and German military and civilian experts in the Middle East in the 1950s and 1960s0
Justice and vilayat in post-revolutionary Iranian Shiʿism0
An Islamist disadvantage? Revisiting electoral outcomes for Islamists in the Middle East0
Kuwait and Al-Sabah: Tribal politics and power in an oil state0
Between empire and nation-state: debating and formulating nationality in post-First World War Turkey, 1918–19220
The Palestinian youth of East Jerusalem – between Palestinian and Israeli identity0
From listing religions to tabulating nationalities: Ottoman identity policies and enumeration practices0
An evaluation of the catalog of Ottoman newspapers prepared by an Ottoman Jew Abraham Galante0
In search of a common enemy: Russo-Turkish cooperation and its discontents (1908–1923)0
Iran’s experiment with parliamentary governance: the second majles, 1909-19110
Diplomacy under the nuclear shadow: Kennedy, Nasser, and Dimona0
Supporters and opponents: a history of the Muslim Brotherhood’s second prison ordeal, 1954–19640
How the powerful maintained their power: land, violence and identity in fin de siècle Palu0
Disputes over pastures in the nineteenth-century Balkans0
The changing identity of Muslim/Jewish holy places in the State of Israel, 1948–20180
The Decline of Empires in South Asia0
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and MI6’s Covert Action Against France in North Africa, 1945–19480
Education and a sense of security under conditions of sociopolitical uncertainty: the case of the Golan Druze0
The Alawi legacy of heroes: from medieval history to the Syrian Civil War0
Limits of economic modernization: smuggling versus monopolies in modern Turkey0
Stereotypes and demonization in contemporary Palestinian literature in Jordan: Israel and the Israelis in the works of Samia ʿAtʿut0
The future of petroleum in Lebanon: energy, politics and economic growth0
Internal colonization, political geography and security in the Ottoman Eastern Provinces (1895–1899)0
Ottoman death registers (Vefeyât Defterleri) and recording deaths in Istanbul, 1838–18390
Cold War dilemmas and regional interests: the acknowledgment of Egypt’s King, Farouk I, as ‘King of Egypt and Sudan’ by Greece (October 1951–August 1952)0
Iranian literature after the Islamic revolution: production and circulation in Iran and the world, by Laetitia Nanquette (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021), 301 + xiii pp., £80.00 (hardback0
Winemaking between the claims of the local and the international in late Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine (1860s–1948)0
The colonial swamp in Mandatory Palestine: the Na’amien wetlands between local and global British interests in Palestine0
Salafism in Lebanon: the significance of Fathi Yakan and Al-Jamaʿa Al-Islamiyya0
‘A pretty bad reputation’: reflections of ‘the 31 March incident’ on Ottoman Syria, its background, and its immediate consequences0
Alcohol consumption, economic resource and League of Nations pressures in French Syria and Lebanon (1923–1946)0
Life after the harem: Female palace slaves, patronage, and the imperial ottoman court0
A subject of dispute between the Ottoman Empire and the American Bible Society in the early 1900s: the Bible colportage0
Peace with Israel; Jordan’s profit and loss account0
Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic intervention on Lebanon0
Ottoman diplomacy in Greece: the case of Syros, 1830–19000
Imperialism after empire? Britain and Qatar in the aftermath of the withdrawal from East of Suez0
From reconciliation to confrontation: Menachem Begin and the Kibbutz Movement 1968–19810
A Russian stooge or a Greek puppet? Joachim III’s struggle for autonomy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (1864-1912)0
The Life and World of Francis Rodd, Lord Rennell (1895-1978): Geography, Money and War0
United States relations with China and Iran toward the Asian century0
From pearls to oil: how the oil industry came to the United Arab Emirates Oil Men, Territorial Ambitions and Political Agents: from pearls to oil in the Trucial States of the Gulf Oil Men, Territorial0
Unwritten treaty: the historical background to Jordanian–Israeli relations, 1921–19510
‘The eye of the beholder’: Öcalan’s reading of Turkish political history0
Oman book review0
Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State0
The formation of the UAE: state-building and Arab nationalism in the Middle East0
‘A man on a watchtower’: Malleson and the British military mission to Turkistan, 1918–200
The British Council, English Language Teaching and Britain’s struggle for educational influence in Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, 1955–690
Of hovels and homes: consumption, class, and domestic space in early republican Turkey0
Discourses on outdated but still valid currencies in Israel, from the Egyptian withdrawal in 1841 to 20230
Correction0
‘We have the right to work’: the rise of the ‘national economy’ and reformulating the demands of the women’s movement in the pages of Kadınlar Dünyası in the post Balkan Wars era0
Prize announcement0
The National Pact project predicting the security of Anatolia from a Turkish perspective and the intensifying Turkish-British rivalry in Northern Iraq (1920–1926)0
Sylvia Kedourie 1925–20160
The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, A Radical Cosmopolitan0
International politics in Turkish Islamism during the Cold War, 1947–19640
The ideal Muslim woman in the Saudi novel: idealism, counter-idealism, realism0
Lebanese Phalangism and fascism: history of a symbolic appropriation0
Changing patterns of inclusion into old age protection in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey (1865–2020)0
Gifting books, bribing elites, reaching the masses: Italian fascist propaganda in Turkey, 1923–380
Al-malik al-salih – Islam and the monarchy in 1930s Egypt0
A tribal confederation at the intersection of the Ottoman, Russian and Qajar empires: the Zilan Confederation and the empires (1810–1860)0
Mollā Nasreddin: the making of a modern trickster (1906-1911)0
The rise of the Hebronite alliance: Hebronite regionalism between Palestine and Jordan, 1940–19670
Spring 1923: Turkey’s failed constitutional moment0
New Military Strategies in the Gulf: The Mirage of Autonomy in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar0
An analytical study of ethnic identity components in the works of contemporary Kurdish painters in Iranian Kurdistan from 1981–20190
The language policy of the Caliphate State0
The Ottoman Empire and the emergence of its ‘Irish Question’0
The making of an alliance: The origins and development of the US–Israeli relationship0
The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood0
Acknowledging loss, materializing language: translation and hermeneutics of gaps in nineteenth century Baghdad0
İbnülemin Mahmud Kemal İnal – the epitome of late Ottoman culture0
Anthropologists, Topographers, Diplomats, and Spies: Royal Air Force Intelligence Officers in South Arabia 1954–19590
Raiders of the Hidden Ark: The Story of the Parker Expedition to Jerusalem Raiders of the Hidden Ark: The Story of the Parker Expedition to Jerusalem , by Graham Addison0
Periodization of piracy in the Persian Gulf Cultural World from the British colonial perspective, 1873–19490
Successful failure: American naval engineers at the Imperial Arsenal in Constantinople 1831–18420
Cultural reforms and restructuring Iranian national identity: a case study of the Thought Development Organization and its Public Speech Commission0
Sharqzadegi, or how Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution became Islamic0
The 1858 tax reform and the ‘other nomads’ in Ottoman Asia0
Turkish Intelligence and the Cold War: the Turkish Secret Service, the US and the UK0
The search for economic and military aid in the shadow of crises: Turkish-American relations during İnönü governments (1961–1965)0
Extension, renewal or resurgence? The anti-constitutional argument of a cleric in 1920s Iran0
Fraternal enemies: Israel and the Gulf monarchies0
Schoolgirls- cum -carpet weavers: the role of the market in public girls’ schools in the late Ottoman Empire0
Midhat Cemal Kuntay – a man of many parts0
Freemasonry’s political and diplomatic entanglements in the last phase of Ottoman history: the peculiar case of the Committee of Union and Progress0
Radical virtues: practices of the body among Iranian revolutionaries of the 1960s and 1970s0
Qutb’s hakimiyyah through the lens of Arendtian authority0
The Unionist presence in the Asiatic provinces of the Ottoman Empire, 1908–19120
Jerusalem 1948–1952 as a ‘no man’s land’: the Israeli policy in Jerusalem as an arena of the Cold War0
Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, The Arabs, and the Region 1948-20220
Kadriye Hüseyin: a forgotten female intellectual and a representation of Ottoman consciousness in early twentieth century Egypt0
Beşir Fuad’s Voltaire: liberating the individual0
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