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1853 results in Gerlach Press

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On Fundamentalisms
  • Collected Essays on Islam and Politics
  • Sadik J. al-Azm
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    01 October 2025
    Print publication:
    30 November 2014
  • Sadik Al-Azm is one of today's foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offers innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. On Fundamentalisms includes essays on: Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered, Islam and the Science-Religion Debates in Modern Times, The Struggle for the Meaning of Islam, What is Islamism?, and The Takfir Syllogism.

The Holy Land
  • Travels through Galilee to Damascus and Baalbek and the Green Mosque of Bursa
  • Pierre Loti
  • Translated by G. Rex Smith
  • With Jonathan M. G. Smith
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    01 October 2025
    Print publication:
    31 December 2021
  • The first English translation of 'La Galilee', an account of Pierre Loti's travels in the Holy Land from Jerusalem to Beirut, via Damascus and many other interesting places, in 1894.

    Pierre Loti (1850-1923) was born Louis-Marie-Julien Viaud into a Protestant family in Rochefort in Saintonge, South-West France (now Charente Maritime). He was an officer of the French Navy and a prolific author of considerable note in nineteenth to early twentieth-century France, publishing many novels and numerous accounts of his travels around the world. He was a member of the French Academy.

    Apart from his literary talents, Loti was a pioneer photographer and this translation of his journey from Jerusalem to Beirut in 1894 is greatly enhanced by the reproduction of some of the photographs he took at the time.

The GCC in the Global Economy
  • Edited by Richard Youngs
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    01 October 2025
    Print publication:
    30 March 2013
  • Changing geopolitical realities have seen the Gulf region turning to Asia and Africa to build new economic links, while strengthening old ones. This proactive internationalism is visible not just in economics and energy, but also in politics and security where a host of new agreements has been developed. This work provides an overview of the ways in which the GCC states now need to move ahead with reforms that will reflect issues such as raised expectations from a period of high revenues and the region's demographics.The work brings together state-of-the-art analysis by international scholars who participated in a major joint initiative by the EU and the GCC, the al-Jisr Gulf-Europe Research Program.

National Employment, Migration and Education in the GCC
  • Edited by Steffen Hertog
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    01 October 2025
    Print publication:
    30 March 2013
  • This volume provides a cross-cutting analysis of the policy challenges related to GCC labor markets. It analyzes the different dimensions of segmentation of these markets, factors of change influencing labor supply such as trends in education and demography, as well as the impact of potential future reforms in areas such as immigration policy, labor sponsorship, taxation and minimum wages. The work therefore provides an overview of what arguably will be the core socio-economic challenge for the GCC in the coming years. The work brings together state-of-the-art analysis by international scholars who participated in a major joint initiative by the EU and the GCC, the al-Jisr Gulf-Europe Research Program.

Britain's Departure from Aden and South Arabia
  • Without Glory but Without Disaster
  • Edited by Noel Brehony, Clive Jones
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    01 October 2025
    Print publication:
    20 July 2020
  • Britain's hasty departure from Aden and South Arabia after 128 years has often been presented as a humiliation at best and a disaster at worst. London's hopes of handing power and sovereignty over to a friendly federal regime collapsed in the face of a nationalist uprising backed that enjoyed the support of Egypt.

    Five decades after the final British troops left Aden, academic experts and former British officials directly involved in the events that unfolded critically reflect on British withdrawal from South Arabia, the post-colonial problems in South Yemen that still resonate today, and how the United Kingdom learnt from its experience in stabilising Oman while overseeing the formation of the United Arab Emirates.

The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East
  • Problems in the Literary Source Material
  • Edited by Averil Cameron, Lawrence I. Conrad
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    01 October 2025
    Print publication:
    31 January 2021
  • This volume focuses on the problems researchers face when using (Byzantine) Greek, Syriac and Arabic sources together for the reconstruction of Near Eastern history from 400-c.800. Contributions to the volume set the stage for a critical re-reading and revisionist interpretations of selected sources in the various cultural and literary traditions. The volume thus brings together neighbouring disciplines in ways that shed new light on this vitally important time in history.

The Way to Isfahan and Passing through Muscat
  • Pierre Loti
  • Translated by G. Rex Smith
  • With Jonathan M. G. Smith
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    01 October 2025
    Print publication:
    31 May 2021
  • From 17 April, 1900, to 6 June of that year, Pierre Loti travelled in a private capacity from Bushire on the Persian Gulf, northwards through Shiraz, Persepolis, Isfahan and Tehran, before returning via the Caspian Sea to Europe. This is the personal day-by-day account of his journey, the hardships of the mountainous terrain and the empty desert. Loti excels in his descriptions of the world around him: the sky, the mountains, the fertile plains, the deserted desert. His descriptions of the people he meets, their dress and manners are remarkable. Loti had come from India and on his way to the Gulf, he stopped off at Muscat and his account of this brief visit was published as 'En passant à Mascate' (Passing through Muscat). This is the first English translation of both texts.

    Pierre Loti (1850-1923) was born Louis-Marie-Julien Viaud into a Protestant family in Rochefort in Saintonge, South-West France (now Charente Maritime). He was an officer of the French Navy and a prolific author of considerable note in nineteenth to early-twentieth-century France, publishing many novels and numerous accounts of his travels around the world. He was a member of the French Academy. Apart from his literary talents, Loti was a pioneer photographer and this translation of his journey to Persia in 1900 is greatly enhanced by the reproduction of some of the photographs he took at the time.

Diplomacy of Quasi-Alliances in the Middle East
  • Degang Sun
  • With Dandan Zhang
  • Foreword by Tim Niblock
  • Translated by Jinan Wang
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    01 October 2025
    Print publication:
    11 May 2020
  • Quasi-alliance refers to the ideation, mechanism and behavior of policy-makers to carry out security cooperation through informal political and security arrangements. As a 'gray zone' between alliance and neutrality, quasi-alliance is a hidden national security statecraft.

    Based on declassified archives and secondary sources, this book probes the theory and practice of quasi-alliances in the Middle East. Four cases are chosen to test the hypotheses of quasi-alliance: Anglo-French-Israeli quasi-alliance during the Suez Canal War of 1956; US-Saudi quasi-alliance during the Johnson administration; Soviet-Egypt quasi-alliance during the Sadat administration; and Iran-Syria quasi-alliance since 1979.

    The research finds that alliance is a hard balancing based on legally binding treaties, while quasi-alliance is a soft balance based on a politically binding agreement. The task-oriented quasi-alliance features diversity of functions, flexibility of cooperative means, intangibility of targeting, and limitation of sovereignty transfer.

Islam - Submission and Disobedience
  • Collected Essays on Islam and Politics
  • Sadik J. al-Azm
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    01 October 2025
    Print publication:
    30 November 2014
  • Sadik Al-Azm is one of today's foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offers innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. Islam - Submission and Disobedience includes essays on: Salman Rushdie, Is the Fatwa a Fatwa?, The Tragedy of Satan, Satanic Verses Post Festum: The Global, the Local, the Literary, and Universalizing from Particulars.

Oil Men, Territorial Ambitions and Political Agents
  • From Pearls to Oil in the Trucial States of the Gulf
  • David Heard
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    25 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 April 2019
  • Oil Men represents a unique resource for the student of the challenges, both physical and political, of oil prospecting in a region with no infrastructure and no formal boundaries between local power bases. The book charts the slow and unexpected transformation of the emirates from poverty to undreamed-of wealth.

    Detailed coverage with extensive access to primary sources describes the frequently tortuous negotiations between oil companies, sheikhs and regional political agents, all of whom sought to protect their different vested interests.

    The author has had full access to company records which are quoted throughout, including progress reports, minutes of meetings, telegrams and other primary sources.

Is Islam Secularizable? Challenging Political and Religious Taboos
  • Collected Essays on Islam and Politics
  • Sadik J. al-Azm
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    25 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 November 2014
  • Sadik Al-Azm is one of today's foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offers innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. Is Islam Secularizable? includes essays on: Civil Society and the Arab Spring, Orientalism and Conspiracy, Ground Zero Revisited, Islam and Secular Humanism, Time out of Joint: Western Dominance, Islamist Terror, and the Arab Imagination, Trends in Arab Thought, Palestinian Zionism, and Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse.

Islamic Finance
  • Performance and Efficiency
  • Edited by Mehmet Asutay, Abdullah Q. Turkistani
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    25 September 2025
    Print publication:
    29 February 2016
  • The growth, stability and resilience of Islamic finance is now a well established fact. However, in order to achieve sustainable growth the Islamic finance industry has to be able to maintain its competitive edge by generating higher efficiency and performance. The studies in this volume aim at providing empirical and comparative perspectives on the performance and efficiency of the Islamic finance industry through a number of econometric models, with a specific focus on the GCC countries supported by comparative cases.

The Arab Gulf's Pivot to Asia
  • From Transactional to Strategic Partnerships
  • Edited by N. Janardhan
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    25 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2020
  • Over the last two decades the relations between the countries of the Gulf and Asia have expanded beyond the economic domain to include political and even security arrangements. While oil and non-oil trade are still the fulcrum of their association, 'strategic' partnerships are fast becoming the norm.

    The contributors of this book argue that, along with economic diversification, the Gulf countries have also diversified their foreign policies, especially with China, India, Japan and South Korea, among others. Together with Russia, this could eventually alter the current US-centric security paradigm.

    This opens up the prospect for a 'collective' security architecture in the Gulf, which is key to regional and global stability.

The Qur'an Revealed
  • A Critical Analysis of Said Nursi's Epistles of Light
  • Colin Turner
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    25 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2013
  • The Qur'an Revealed is a landmark publication in the history of Islamic studies, providing for the first time a comprehensive critical analysis of Bedizuzzaman Said Nursi's 6000-page work of Quranic exegesis, 'The Epistles of Light'. In discussing a wide range of themes, from Divine unity to causation, from love to spirituality, from prophethood to civilization and politics, Colin Turner invites the reader into Nursi's conceptual universe, presenting the teachings of arguably the Muslim world's most understudied theologian in a language that is accessible to both expert and interested layperson alike.

The United States and the Gulf
  • Shifting Pressures, Strategies and Alignments
  • Edited by Steven W. Hook, Tim Niblock
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    25 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2015
  • The Gulf region's relations with the outside world are changing radically. The Gulf's major trading partners are now no longer predominantly Western. China, in particular, now has a significant stake and highly critical interests in the region. The United States still dominates the security field, yet its Gulf allies have come to doubt the strength of US commitment. Meanwhile the Arab monarchies of the Gulf are struggling to cope with multiple divisions, problems and threats: the radical forces of change unleashed by the Arab Spring, the rising power of ISIS, and the destabilising impact of their unsettled relations with Iran.

    This book examines the range of security issues which this situation has given rise to: the nature and scope of US power, and the likely directions of future policy; the options open to Asian powers with interests in the region; the concerns, strategies and dynamics of the regional states; and the feasibility of European states assuming a security role in the region.

Intellectual Property Rights
  • Development and Enforcement in the Arab States of the Gulf
  • Edited by David Price
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    25 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2016
  • This volume includes a range of topics addressing aspects of the current status of intellectual property (IP) protection regimes in the Gulf Cooperation Council and its individual member states, and aspiring GCC members Jordan and Yemen. It examines the opportunities and challenges facing the GCC in becoming a real union with common, or at least harmonized, IP laws and regulations, while still allowing flexibility for domestic imperatives and interests. IP is a crucial part of commercial and trade activity which the GCC needs to address as a union to maximize outcomes and benefits for the GCC members collectively and individually.

    Contributions represent a broad-based and truly international interest in Gulf IP, with authors from Australia, Bahrain, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

    The volume provides a catalyst for further deliberation and debate on these above issues and other Gulf-related IP issues, as well as a worthy contribution to the expansion of Gulf studies in the broader context.

A New Gulf Security Architecture
  • Prospects and Challenges for an Asian Role
  • Edited by Ranjit Gupta, N. Janardhan
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    25 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 March 2014
  • This book explores how growing economic ties between Asian countries and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) could impact their future relationship. It postulates that the stage is now set for strategic partnerships and highlights how some Asian countries have been explicit about showcasing their power and influence in the Gulf region. While exploring an alternative and broad-based security architecture, it identifies the challenges that any probable Asian cooperative approach could face as the countries of the Arabian Gulf show signs of looking beyond the United States to develop their long-term strategic interests.

The Trucial Coast Diaries
  • On the Way from Pearls to Oil in the Trucial States of the Gulf
  • Edited by David Heard
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    25 September 2025
    Print publication:
    11 March 2020
  • The Trucial Coast Diaries are the secret reports written in Dubai by the Representatives of the London based group of oil companies, the Iraq Petroleum Company, known on the Trucial Coast as Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast), PD(TC).

    These men, the authors, were in a unique position to observe the social, economic and political environment of the people then living in the present day United Arab Emirates, before oil revenues led to a dramatic transformation from intense poverty to the great wealth which now permeates every aspect of this society.

    The diaries, dating from 1948 to 1957, are reproduced here with extensive footnotes added on each page to provide explanation and clarification for readers who may not be familiar with the people, the places and the way of life a long time ago 'on the Coast'.

    This publication benefits from the unique experience by the editor gained after living well over half a century in the Emirates and enjoying the confidence of so many of the people.

State-Society Relations in the Arab Gulf States
  • Edited by Mazhar A. Al-Zoby, Birol Baskan
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    25 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 July 2014
  • This book examines the strategies and dynamics through which state-society relations in the Arab Gulf region have been cultivated, and explores the alternative political, social, economic and popular changes that threaten these relations. The work focuses on understanding how state sovereignty has been shifting to accommodate internal social, cultural, and intellectual forces and how these forces have managed to balance social and political powers in order to function within and co-exist alongside the state. Case-studies give specific examples of how social forces, popular movements, social media and youth culture are actively influencing cultural attitudes and practices as well as political actions.

The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East
  • Elites Old and New
  • Edited by John Haldon, Lawrence I. Conrad
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    25 September 2025
    Print publication:
    31 January 2021
  • A collection of critical analyses of the structure, historical development, and composition of the elite strata of late Roman, Byzantine, and early Islamic societies in the eastern Mediterranean basin. Culture change, economic foundations, political roles and function, social composition, and background and origins of old and new elites are the focus of the contributions by scholars who deal with the fate of the later Roman elite and its successors.

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