Middle Eastern Studies

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Refounding the Kingdom: Saudi Arabia from Islamism and Wahhabism to ‘Moderate’ Islam4
The Yemeni Civil War: The Arab Spring, State formation and internal instability4
Internal colonization, political geography and security in the Ottoman Eastern Provinces (1895–1899)3
Education and a sense of security under conditions of sociopolitical uncertainty: the case of the Golan Druze3
The Palestinian youth of East Jerusalem – between Palestinian and Israeli identity3
Refugees and migrants in Iran: the Iran-Iraq war (1980–88) and the Intifada (1991)3
An ‘Islamist’ intellectual in the late Ottoman Empire: Ali Suavi3
Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity,3
Schoolgirls- cum -carpet weavers: the role of the market in public girls’ schools in the late Ottoman Empire3
The Palestine Labor League: the history of a Palestinian labor union3
An evaluation of the catalog of Ottoman newspapers prepared by an Ottoman Jew Abraham Galante2
The sterilization and disinfection machines: sanitation and public health in the late Ottoman Empire2
Between the sacred and the profane: conflicts between football and sharia in Iran2
‘An Oriental Gentlewoman’: Princess Nazlı Fazıl’s interview in The Gentlewoman in 18992
Corporatism without party: the state, war, and industrial labor in the Islamic Republic of Iran2
The Greek population of Ottoman Pontus in the early twentieth century: a comparative demographic analysis2
The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood2
Hezbollah and Hamas’s main platforms for recruiting and handling of human sources after 20062
Benefitting from the ambiguity: the issue of the ‘Turkishness’ of the Jewish minority in the first decade of the Turkish Republic2
‘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 era2
Turkey’s energy dilemmas: changes and challenges1
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 Addison1
Revolutionizing the past: representations of the Mamluks in Egyptian school textbooks, 1954–19701
The Politics of Melodrama: The Cultural and Political Lives of Ihsan Abdul Koudous and Gamal Abdel Nasser1
Understanding Turkey’s attitude towards the dispute in Palestine from late 1947 to early 19491
Iranian communists and the Palestine question (1947–1956)1
Re-examining the Foundations of US–Gulf relations1
A reply by David Tal1
Alcohol consumption, economic resource and League of Nations pressures in French Syria and Lebanon (1923–1946)1
Beyond the usual suspects – bringing in Kuwait’s Shiʿi Islamists1
The concept of the individual in early republican intellectual discourse: an analysis of Hayat journal (1926–1929)1
Fig trader Aram Hamparzum and his role in the global fig market1
Asad’s autocratic dynasty in Syria: civil war and the role of regional and global powers1
Bureaucrats into merchants: tea, capitalism and the making of the Republican bourgeois1
Dissenting from the Inevitable? Understanding Omani Approaches to Israel and the Abraham Accords1
Cultural nationalism and the spread of a ‘national language’ among Arabophone, Turcophone and Kurdophone Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1840 to c. 18601
Sylvia Kedourie 1925–20161
Journey in the Grand Sahara of Africa1
Limited trust and its roots: the attitude of French military and political officials toward North African soldiers during the Great War (1914–1918)1
Al-malik al-salih – Islam and the monarchy in 1930s Egypt1
Leftism at an Islamic school: indoctrinating the youth at Saida’s Makassed Islamic Secondary1
Mollā Nasreddin: the making of a modern trickster (1906-1911)1
Cultural Imperialism and the American scramble for antiquities in Mandate Syria: 1920–19391
Beşir Fuad’s Voltaire: liberating the individual1
The future of petroleum in Lebanon: energy, politics and economic growth1
States of drunkenness: bar-life in Istanbul between empire, occupation, and republic, 1918–19231
Israel and the Gulf monarchies: a new Regional Security Complex or just complex regional security?1
The League of Nations and Turkish political refugees in Greece in the early 1930s1
Syria 2011–2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem1
Making of the Unionist bureaucracy: purging the Hamidian cadres, rule of law, and the limits of the Unionist power (1908–1910)1
On Shaky Ground: Iran between Israel and Pan-Arabism, 1930s–1970s1
The Gulf Cooperation Council and counter-terror cooperation in the post-9/11 era: a regional organization in comparative perspective1
Israel’s 2005 Disengagement from Gaza: a multilateral move under unilateral façade1
Israeli foreign policy: a people shall not dwell alone1
Cyprus’s relations with Egypt and Israel during the Makarios era: influence of regional disputes, economy, socio-cultural interactions and UN debates1
The Bedouins in Palestine during the Egyptian occupation 1831–18401
Are cinema, TV and football recommended for Muslims? The Millî Görüş movement’s view on popular culture1
Reassessing the regional political system: the changing role of Israel and Palestine in the strategic narratives of Gulf states expressed in the UN Security Council (2020–2024)1
Prize announcement1
Nuclear topsy turvy: the security-economics nexus in Turkish-American relations1
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, Territorial1
From listing religions to tabulating nationalities: Ottoman identity policies and enumeration practices1
UAE book review1
Gendering the Muslim Brotherhood: the social network of the Muslim Sisters in twentieth-century Egypt1
Nomads in the Middle East1
Anatolian Livestock Trade in the Late Ottoman Empire1
Winemaking between the claims of the local and the international in late Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine (1860s–1948)1
An analytical study of ethnic identity components in the works of contemporary Kurdish painters in Iranian Kurdistan from 1981–20191
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)1
The making of an alliance: The origins and development of the US–Israeli relationship0
Socio-musical convergence and interaction in Direklerarası: commercialization of music in late Ottoman Istanbul0
Persian Gulf coups misrepresented0
In search of a common enemy: Russo-Turkish cooperation and its discontents (1908–1923)0
Crime, poverty and survival in the Middle East and North Africa: the ‘dangerous classes’ since 18000
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
The rise of the Hebronite alliance: Hebronite regionalism between Palestine and Jordan, 1940–19670
Salafism in Lebanon: the significance of Fathi Yakan and Al-Jamaʿa Al-Islamiyya0
Limits of economic modernization: smuggling versus monopolies in modern Turkey0
Midhat Cemal Kuntay – a man of many parts0
A Russian stooge or a Greek puppet? Joachim III’s struggle for autonomy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (1864-1912)0
A tribal confederation at the intersection of the Ottoman, Russian and Qajar empires: the Zilan Confederation and the empires (1810–1860)0
Rethinking the Turkish socialist left’s perceptions of the US and USSR after the Second World War: an analysis of leftist publications0
Stella vs. Sadat or how beer helps explain post-1970 Egypt0
Visualizing Palestine in Arab postage stamps: 1948-19670
Debates on the legitimacy of family foundations in the shadow of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman centralization policies0
Czechoslovak diplomatic dilemmas in regards to the Adolf Eichmann trial0
Identity disputes in occupied Istanbul: was Istanbul to become a Turkish city or remain a Turkish city?0
Afterlives of revolution: everyday counter histories in Southern Oman0
An unknown crossroads: Israel, the Palestinians and the Christians in Lebanon (1968–1970)0
Red Star Over the Black Sea: Nâzım Hikmet and His Generation0
The separatist Alawi petition to the French Prime Minister Léon Blum (1936): reliability, background and aftermath0
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
Successful failure: American naval engineers at the Imperial Arsenal in Constantinople 1831–18420
The Decline of Empires in South Asia0
An Islamist disadvantage? Revisiting electoral outcomes for Islamists in the Middle East0
From ‘brothers in religion’ to ‘bandits’: Chechens in Mardin in the late Ottoman period0
Discourses on outdated but still valid currencies in Israel, from the Egyptian withdrawal in 1841 to 20230
A persistent opponent in the late Ottoman period: Abdurrezzak Effendi from Baghdad and the Intikad newspaper0
The Tudeh Party of Iran and the land reform initiatives of the Pahlavi state, 1958–19640
Mapping the role of intellectuals in Iranian modern and contemporary history0
Change of the built environment in Jerusalem during the late Ottoman period (1840–1917)0
Industrial Policy in Turkey: rise, Retreat and Return0
'Close but no Cigar’: Hamas’s psychological warfare against Israel between 2014 and 20230
Rethinking Syrian nationalism: national identity and state in Syria, from the ‘struggle for Syria’ to the Syrian civil war0
Shibli Shumayyil, Social Darwinism and Zionism0
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps: Defining Iran’s Military Doctrine0
Was there room for Christian Turks in early Republican Turkey? Debates on the migration and Turkishness of the Gagauz0
Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic intervention on Lebanon0
The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, A Radical Cosmopolitan0
Süreyya Ağaoğlu and the emerging liberal order in early Cold War Turkey0
Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire0
Passwords in the Ottoman military in the nineteenth century: a political and social analysis0
Negotiating empire in the Middle East: Ottomans and Arab Nomads in the modern era, 1840-19140
False Prophets: British leaders’ fateful fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria0
Disputes over pastures in the nineteenth-century Balkans0
Egypt: how and why a heavily indebted country in the 1980s emerged solvent0
Iran’s backwardness from the perspective of nineteenth-century Iranian thinkers0
Cultural reforms and restructuring Iranian national identity: a case study of the Thought Development Organization and its Public Speech Commission0
Juhayman al-Otaibi and the interpretation of the first violent Islamic movement in contemporary Saudi Arabia0
‘A pretty bad reputation’: reflections of ‘the 31 March incident’ on Ottoman Syria, its background, and its immediate consequences0
A propaganda and news backwater: the Foreign Office’s information policy in the Persian Gulf, c. 1948–19600
Lumbering state, restless society: Egypt in the modern era0
National mission or a ‘civilizing mission’? Birthrates, perceptions, and East–West relations in Mandatory Palestine0
Sharqzadegi, or how Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution became Islamic0
The Palestine Commission: the forgotten chapter in United Nations peacemaking and peacekeeping in the Arab-Israeli conflict0
The Ottoman Government crisis of 10–13 February 1909 and the press reaction0
American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 1946–75: From Orientalism to Professionalism0
A typological study in the light of British and Ottoman archival documents: Emanuel Falkeisen0
Zionism and the Hebrew Bible: from religious holiness to national sanctity0
Imagined landscapes for contested politics of land reform, peasant struggles and women in rural Turkey0
Exile practices applied to prostitution in the late Ottoman Empire and the voice of Minoş0
The appointment mechanism of the ulema to the Ilmiye posts0
The search for economic and military aid in the shadow of crises: Turkish-American relations during İnönü governments (1961–1965)0
How political rights are created from Sharia rules in Iran0
Floundering Stability: US Foreign Policy in Egypt0
Making property of a marsh: environment, property, and politics in nineteenth-century Ottoman Ioannina0
Cast thy bread’: Israeli biological warfare during the 1948 War0
The emergence of the ‘sovereign debt crisis’ in 1970s MENA economies0
Periodization of piracy in the Persian Gulf Cultural World from the British colonial perspective, 1873–19490
Utopian imagination in the Zionist movement: the case of ‘Jerusalem Rebuilt’0
Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın – an introduction to his life and works0
Being Hajji and/or Sayyah: an anonymous Persian pilgrim between piety and pleasure of the road0
The 1980s ‘debt crisis’ in the Middle East and North Africa: framing regional dynamics within the international stage at UNCTAD0
Yitzhak Shamir and the unity of contradictions: between the integrity of the whole Land of Israel and integrity of the Jewish People0
Introduction: alcohol production and consumption in the modern Middle East0
Preparation for total war: ‘Military Service Preparation Camps’ in the Turkish education system in the early Republican Era (1926–1946)0
An Ottoman statesman’s early career: the appointment of Mustafa Reşit Bey (Pasha) to the amedi chamber and his role in the Treaty of Kütahya0
Captive wild animals as visual commodities in the Ottoman Empire: a historical review0
Imperial resilience: The Great War’s end, Ottoman longevity, and incidental nations0
The Ottoman Empire and the emergence of its ‘Irish Question’0
Between empire and nation-state: debating and formulating nationality in post-First World War Turkey, 1918–19220
Imperialism after empire? Britain and Qatar in the aftermath of the withdrawal from East of Suez0
The Unionist presence in the Asiatic provinces of the Ottoman Empire, 1908–19120
The engineer rebuilding the empire: the contributions of Mr Ritter to the modernization of the Ottoman Empire (1856–1878)0
The colonial swamp in Mandatory Palestine: the Na’amien wetlands between local and global British interests in Palestine0
From Iranian Shi’ization to colonization in Syria to establish Shiʿi territorial contiguity0
The Ottoman Chamber of Commerce, Manchester0
An alternative approach to total economy of the late Ottoman Empire0
Same reasons, different outcomes: Qatar’s policy on Israel up to 19960
George Franghia (b. 1856): a forgotten farsighted Ottoman engineer’s contribution to the development of the province of Jerusalem during the late Ottoman period0
The Alawi legacy of heroes: from medieval history to the Syrian Civil War0
‘If we take them to the military, where can we deploy them?’ Non-Muslim soldiers during the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1922)0
Kedourie, nationalism, Islamism, and the umma0
Resilient locusts, ignorant people, modern state and scientific knowledge: a late Ottoman human-animal-state history0
The rise of nationalised, religious education in Turkey from the 1950s to the 1970s0
Extension, renewal or resurgence? The anti-constitutional argument of a cleric in 1920s Iran0
Factors influencing the location of the early Zionist settlements in Ottoman Palestine: 1880–19150
Recovering the Ottoman waqf : the reconfiguration of Ottoman-Islamic intellectual culture in twentieth-century Istanbul0
Syria’s debt or the power of the debtor0
The Life and World of Francis Rodd, Lord Rennell (1895-1978): Geography, Money and War0
Political travelers in a polarized country: the Freedom Party experience in Turkish history0
Gifting books, bribing elites, reaching the masses: Italian fascist propaganda in Turkey, 1923–380
Algeria’s reforming decade (1988–1998): neoliberalism as a tool for survival0
The effect of nationalist movements on Turkish and Irish children’s literature: swans and epic heroes: ‘Fly like great birds, who have no voice’0
External public debt in Jordan: from crisis to reform0
Oman book review0
Fields into houses: local actors, society, and the making of a new urban landscape in Tarlabaşı and Tatavla in late Ottoman Istanbul0
A subject of dispute between the Ottoman Empire and the American Bible Society in the early 1900s: the Bible colportage0
Playing with ‘the Great Satan’: the football diplomacy behind the 1998 and 2000 Iran–USA matches0
Critically assessing the contours of relations between the AKP and Islamic movements after the July 15 coup attempt: the Furkan Vakfi case0
The British Council, English Language Teaching and Britain’s struggle for educational influence in Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, 1955–690
Freemasonry’s political and diplomatic entanglements in the last phase of Ottoman history: the peculiar case of the Committee of Union and Progress0
Weaving an empire: the Hereke factory under the banner of Ottomanism (1842–1914)0
Oil, Nationalism and British Policy in Iran: The End of Informal Empire, 1941–19530
Representing the Coptic community: the Communal Council and the road to the 1911 Coptic Congress0
Death Tango: Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, and three fateful days in March0
Governing by partnership: the role of Abdolhossein Nikpour and the Chambers of Commerce in Iran’s national economy0
Selânikli Tevfik – writer, journalist, translator0
A convivial space: the urban khan in Ottoman Istanbul from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries0
Between God and the Party: Fadlallah and the antithetical notion of Hezbollah0
Anti-alcoholism, Turkish and American non-state actors, and their mutual pursuits of national and global sobriety0
The rise of Iraqi indebtedness, 1979–20030
Kadriye Hüseyin: a forgotten female intellectual and a representation of Ottoman consciousness in early twentieth century Egypt0
Bibliography of Sylvia G. Haim0
Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State0
The eternal enemy: trends in coverage of Israel in the Egyptian national press during the first decade of President Hosni Mubarak’s rule0
Acknowledging loss, materializing language: translation and hermeneutics of gaps in nineteenth century Baghdad0
Social histories of Iran: modernism and marginality in the Middle East0
Bringing democracy into Iran: a Russian project for the separation of Azerbaijan0
The Karapapaks and their shifting loyalties on the imperial borderlands during the nineteenth century0
Civil society and education in Turkey: the relations between the Society for the Dissemination of Knowledge and Imam Hatip Schools (1951-1976)0
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
Motivational factors of Turkish foreign terrorist fighters in ISIS0
Local government reform in Turkey and its aftermath: the urban transformation of Istanbul between 1984 and 19890
New Military Strategies in the Gulf: The Mirage of Autonomy in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar0
Political vs intellectual? Russia’s late Imperial archaeology and the Russian Cause0
From an arasta bazaar to a piyasa street: the transformation of Direklerarası in Ottoman Istanbul from the 1720s to the 1920s0
Turkey’s post-colonial predicament and the perils of its Western-centric foreign policy (1955–1959)0
Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, The Arabs, and the Region 1948-20220
Ottoman diplomacy in Greece: the case of Syros, 1830–19000
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and MI6’s Covert Action Against France in North Africa, 1945–19480
Exodus too: the story of an ordinary Egyptian Jewish family in extraordinary times0
Egypt: a fragile power0
Exploring alienation and identity in Iraqi Yazidi literature: a study of Under the Sky of ISIS and The Yazidi Exodus0
Supporters and opponents: a history of the Muslim Brotherhood’s second prison ordeal, 1954–19640
Correction0
Imperialism after decolonization? British relations with Bahrain from the withdrawal East of Suez to the Iranian Revolution0
The Millî Görüş movement’s view on Muslims in the West: Turkish migration to Germany as a case study0
A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in Iran’s Age of Cholera,0
From Sheikhs to Sultanism: Statecraft and Authority in Saudi Arabia and the UAE0
Armistice: ‘varied entertainment, spectacular incesaz , etc.’0
The international ‘debt crisis’ of the 1980s in the Middle East and North Africa: a review, an outline0
Revolutionaries on revolutionaries: how Chinese Xinhai revolutionaries and Young Turks viewed each other0
The battle over the Zionist maritime ethos: ‘Sea Day’ and claims to the Land of Israel’s sea culture0
Nigâr Hanim – an Ottoman Turkish poetess0
Lebanese Phalangism and fascism: history of a symbolic appropriation0
The formation of the UAE: state-building and Arab nationalism in the Middle East0
The dynamics of Détente: Greece’s support for Turkey’s accession to the League of Nations, 1930 − 19320
The 1858 tax reform and the ‘other nomads’ in Ottoman Asia0
Reconstructing the caliphate or bringing liberal democracy to Turkey? Millî Görüş’s view on liberal democracy before reaching power0
The ‘villa in the jungle’ nuclear paradigm: Israel’s nuclear narrative and practice in a changing regional security complex0
The Org. Gehlen/BND and German military and civilian experts in the Middle East in the 1950s and 1960s0
United in opposition, deviating in vision: the diverse response to the Islamic State’s caliphate0
The East India Company in Persia: trade and cultural exchange in the eighteenth century0
Projective Psychological Warfare (PPW): an analysis of Hamas Hebrew videoclips as part of its propaganda campaign against Israel (2007–2014)0
The decline of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of the Turkish Republic: observations of an American Diplomat, 1919-19270
Lorimer: His Gazetteer and Britain’s Pursuit of Knowledge0
Turkish anti-Americanism: between Europe and the Middle East0
Justice and vilayat in post-revolutionary Iranian Shiʿism0
The Israeli Arameans: a people-in-progress0
United States relations with China and Iran toward the Asian century0
Responding to the Arab Revolt: the Circassian Volunteer Cavalry and the defence of Ottoman Transjordan in the First World War0
Muhammad Surur and his work Wa jaʾa dawr al-Majus0
Kuwait’s ʿAjam merchants: a transnational community (1896–1950)0
Rethinking the salons in nineteenth-century Istanbul houses conceptualised in written media0
Between parliamentary control and fiscal discipline: the General Budget Act for 1303/1924-25 (1925) on the eve of Pahlavi rule0
A war waiting to happen: How Menachem Begin and his administrations paved the way to the 1982 Lebanon war0
Regimes of mobility: borders and state formation in the middle East, 1918–19460
Common values, different interests: early Israeli-Swedish cooperation on development aid to Africa0
The changing identity of Muslim/Jewish holy places in the State of Israel, 1948–20180
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