Drawing on various perspectives and analysis, the Handbook
problematizes Middle East politics through an interdisciplinary
prism, seeking a melioristic account of the field. Thematically
organized, the chapters address political, social, and historical
questions by showcasing both theoretical and empirical insights,
all of which are represented in a style that ease readers into
sophisticated induction in the Middle East. It positions the
didactic at the centre of inquiry. Contributions by forty-four
scholars, both veterans and newcomers, rethink knowledge frames,
conceptual categories, and fieldwork praxis. Substantive themes
include secularity and religion, gender, democracy,
authoritarianism, and new "borderline" politics of the Middle East.
Like any field of knowledge, the Middle East is constituted by
texts, authors, and readers, but also by the cultural, spatial, and
temporal contexts within which diverse intellectual inflections
help construct (write-speak) academic meaning, knowing, and
practice. By denaturalizing notions of singularity of authorship or
scholarship, the Handbook plants a dialogic interplay animated by
multi-vocality, multi-modality, and multi-disciplinarity. Targeting
graduate students and young scholars of political and social
sciences, the Handbook is significant for understanding how the
Middle East is written and re-written, read and re-read
(epistemology, methodology), and for how it comes to exist
(ontology).
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