Comparative Historical and Typological Approach to the Middle Eastern State System

Lars Mjøset is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and former Director of the Oslo Summer School for Social Science Studies at the Social Science Faculty, University of Oslo, Norway.Nils Butenschøn is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and former Director of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo, Norway. Kristian Berg Harpviken is Research Professor and former Director of PRIO, the International Peace Research Institute, Norway.

• Chapter 1. A Family of Models for European Comparative History: Paris Lecture December 4th, 1976; Stein Rokkan (translated by Lars Mjøset)Chapter 2. Rokkan and the 'Variable'; Lars MjøsetChapter 3. What is a Country? History and the Creation of the ‘Maghreb’; Knut S. VikørChapter 4. A Conceptual Map for Comparison of State Formation and Nation Building in the Middle East 1870-1918; Lars Mjøset, Nils Butenschøn, Roel Meijer, and Kristian Berg HarpvikenChapter 5. Female Citizenship and Divorce Law Reform in Arab States: The Gradual Expansion of Woman’s Legal Capacity in North Africa; Rania MaktabiChapter 6. External Intervention and Domestic Instrumentalization: A Structured, Focused Comparison of Iran and Saudi Arabia's Role in Yemen; Júlia PalikBOOK SYMPOSIUMChapter 7. The Authoritarian State in the Muslim World: Comparative Insights from Ibn Khaldun and Stein Rokkan; Ahmet T. KuruChapter 8. What has Islam Got to Do with It?; Knut S. VikørChapter 9. Citizenship and the Issue of Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment; Roel MeijerChapter 10. A Rejoinder; Ahmet T. Kuru