The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East

Armando Salvatore is the Barbara and Patrick Keenan Chair in Interfaith Studies and Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies at McGill University. He has held professorial and research positions at Humboldt University Berlin, University of Naples 'L'Orientale,' National University of Singapore, Leipzig University, and Australian National University, Canberra. His most recent single-authored book is The Sociology of Islam: Knowledge, Power and Civility (Wiley Blackwell, 2016). Among his other recent publications is the chief editorship of the multi-authored work The Wiley Blackwell History of Islam (Wiley Blackwell, 2018).Sari Hanafi is currently a Professor of Sociology, Director of Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies and Chair of the Islamic Studies program at the American University of Beirut. He is the President of the International Sociological Association. He is as well editor of Idafat: the Arab Journal of Sociology. Among his recent co-authored books is Knowledge Production in the Arab World: The Impossible Promise (with R. Arvanitis, 2015). In 2019, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the National University of San Marcos.Kieko Obuse is a Visiting Researcher at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan and an Affiliate Member of the School of Religious Studies, McGill University. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and was formerly a Lecturer at the College of Religious Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand. Her main research interests are Buddhist-Muslim relations, Islam in Japan, and Thai Buddhism. She is currently working on a monograph titled Buddhist-Muslim Engagement: Doctrinal Negotiations in Southeast Asia and Japan. She is a co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2020-2021 online edition, 2022 print edition) and the book review editor of The Journal of Religion in Japan (Brill).

• Introduction 1. What Went Wrong?: Western Sociology and the Fiction of the Middle EastArmando Salvatore, McGill University, and Kieko Obuse, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies and McGill University Part I: Legacies of Conflicts and Movements of Transformation 2. A Cognitive Arab Uprising?: Paradigm Shifts in Arab Social SciencesSari Hanafi, American University of Beirut 3. Colonialism in the Region: Foundations, Legacies and ContinuitiesMark LeVine, University of California, Irvine 4. The End of the Ottoman Empire and the Emergence of Nation StatesFrederick F. Anscombe, Birkbeck College, University of London 5. The Question of Palestine: From the Balfour Declaration to the Deal of the CenturyHonaida Ghanim, Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies MADAR, Ramallah 6. Political Ideologies in the Middle East and North AfricaMichaelle Browers, Wake Forest University7. The Many Faces of ZionismIlan Pappé, University of Exeter Part II: Inflecting State-Society Relations 8. History and State Coercion in the Arab Spring: Against Presentism and Methodological Nationalism in the Study of the Arab StateAtef Said, University of Illinois at Chicago9. The Social Life of Non-Profit and Third Sector in the Middle EastBenoit Challand, New School of Social Research, New York10. A State of Discord: A Sociohistorical Reflection on Contested Statehood in LibyaSherine El Taraboulsi-McCarthy, ODI11. Key Issues in the Political Economy of the Gulf Cooperation Council StatesAdam Hanieh, SOAS, University of London 12. Labor Migration to the Persian Gulf MonarchiesZahra Babar, Georgetown University in Qatar13. The Politics of Education in the Middle East: Problems and ChallengesNadim Mirshak, The University of Manchester Part III: Beyond the Religio-Civilizational Puzzle: Critical Views of Secularization and Islamization 14. The Place of Islam in the Foundation of Modern Social Theory: Tocqueville, Marx, and WeberLütfi Sunar, Istanbul Medeniyet University 15. Religion in the CityTimur Hammond, Syracuse University 16. The Transformation of Islamic Law in ModernityAndrew March, University of Massachusetts Amherst17. Varieties of SecularityFlorian Zemmin, Leipzig University18. Religion and Politics in TurkeyAtes Altinordu, Sabanci University, Istanbul 19. The Troubled Course of Secularism in the Modern Middle EastPaul Salem, Middle East Institute, Washington DC20. The Sunni Islamic RevivalAaron Rock Singer, University of Wisconsin-Madison21. The Idea of the "Islamic Intellectuals": A Chimera or a Lifeline? Abdelwahab El-Affendi, Doha Institute22. Iran's Islamic Revolution: The Return of the Hunchbacked DwarfFatemeh Sadeghi Givi, University College London23. Al-Nahda's Local Test: Compromise, Institutionalization and Generational DislocationOlfa Lamloum, International Alert24. The Battle for the Soul of IslamJames M. Dorsey, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 25. The New Islamic State: The Rise and Fall of a New Wave of JihadismFarhad Khosrokhavar, CADIS, EHESS-CNRS, Paris Part IV: Problematizing Youth and Gender 26. Excluded Generations in Non-Inclusive Nations: The Demographic Roots of Political Unrest in the Arab WorldPhilippe Fargues, European University Institute, Florence 27. Youth Unemployment and Alienation in the Middle East: A Critical ViewFrançoise De Bel-Air, European University Institute, Florence 28. Shifting Family PatternsBettina Dennerlein, University of Zürich 29. "When Women Change, Everything Changes": MENA Women and Making Health and Sexuality MatterKristin Soraya Batmangelichi, University of Oslo Part V Dissecting Identities and Affirming Rights 30. For a Sociology of Sectarianism: Bridging the Disciplinary Gaps Beyond the "Deeply Divided Societies" ParadigmRima Majed, American University of Beirut 31. Ethnic Identity, Memory and Spaces of ViolenceCraig Larkin, King's College London 32. LGBTQI Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Laws, Discourses, and ChallengesSerena Tolino, Bern University33. Human Rights and Domestic Work in the Contemporary Gulf: A Critical Rights Development ReviewRima Sabban, Zayed University, Dubai 34. No Bread, No Freedom, No Social Justice: How EU-Egyptian Human Rights Discourse Undermines DemocracyAndrea Teti, University of Aberdeen, and Gennaro Gervasio, Università Roma Tre35. A Sociology of Knowledge on Humanitarianism and Displacement: The Case of Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and TurkeyEstella Carpi, University College London, and Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, University College London Part VI: Urban Spaces, Media Technologies, and Creative Disciplines 36. Globalization and Cosmopolitanism in the Middle Eastern CityLeïla Vignal, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France 37. What Satellite Television Has Done to the Public Sphere and to the Public in the Maghreb: Visibility and PluralityRatiba Hadj-Moussa, York University, Toronto38. Social Media and Contentious Politics: Revisiting the Debate a Decade after the Beginning of the Arab UprisingsEnrico De Angelis, independent scholar, and Yazan Badran, Free University, Brussels39. Dismantling the Multitude: Urban Planning and the 'New Republic' in EgyptHeba Raouf Ezzat, Ibn Haldun University40. Music and the Politics of Culture in the Middle EastMark LeVine, University of California, Irvine41. Toward a Poetic Sociology of IranSetrag Manoukian, McGill University Conclusion 42. Middle East or "Middle Earth"? "Re-Orienting" Orientalism and Globalizing Area StudiesKieko Obuse, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies and McGill University, and Armando Salvatore, McGill University