Addressing the rupture between religious and social sciences in Arab universities, this book provides a critical assessment of the curricula of Shariah and Islamic Studies departments across the Arab World, arguing for increased interdisciplinary dialogue.Based on over 250 interviews with university students and teachers, this study is the sum of five years of field research observing the curricula and teaching styles of colleges in the Shariah sciences. The author provides critica...

À mi-chemin entre les études macro-économiques de développement et les analyses anthropologiques fines des mutations des sociétés proche-orientales, une sociologie des nouveaux acteurs - tels que les hommes d’affaires -, de leurs déterminations comme de leurs stratégies, nous paraît de nature à éclairer les évolutions sociales et politiques récentes, autant que les problèmes rencontrés par la mise en œuvre des programmes de reconstruction des Territoires palestiniens. C’est ce que nous avo...

The sociology of the Middle East has been an expanding field of inquiry since the aftermath of World War II when the Middle East became central in key sociological debates on modernization theory and their critical responses. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East connects this historical trajectory with the emergence of the sociology of Islam, inspired by Max Weber. It explores how within the global community, the Middle East has become a terrain of heightened co...

Over recent decades we have witnessed the globalization of research. However, this has yet to translate into a worldwide scientific network, across which competencies and resources can flow freely. Arab countries have strived to join this globalized world and become a ‘knowledge economy,’ yet little time has been invested in the region’s fragmented scientific institutions; institutions that should provide opportunities for individuals to step out on the global stage.Knowledge Produ...

Global, local, glocal – reflecting on the area of world social science seems to be above all a matter of space. In these spatial dichotomies the global has no location and locations seem beyond this world. Discourses about world social science thought not only distinguish social thought along spaces where they are created. Space has become an attribute of thinking when social scientists reflect on the world of social thought: Southern, Western and Northern knowledge, the location in which ...

Ce « miroir » propose des regards croisés sur les trajectoires de disciplines et de professions qui font les sciences sociales libanaises. Il interroge leurs formations historiques et les pratiques de leurs acteurs, ancrées dans la société et confrontées à des enjeux d'autonomisation et de reconnaissance. Ses différents chapitres entendent ainsi rendre aux sciences humaines et sociales libanaises leurs hommes et leurs femmes, leurs temps et leurs lieux, leurs pratiques et leurs défis. Ils ...

Sociologies in Dialogue brings together expert contributions from international scholars, who reflect on the importance of collaboration between diverse sociological perspectives to enhance our understanding of the role of sociology as an academic discipline, and as a vehicle for social change.By exploring the distinctive practices and research of a range of sociologists, the book shows how an open dialogue between sociologists is critical to addressing major sociological ...

Le présent ouvrage se veut une introduction à un thème aujourd’hui fondamental : la place, la nature, les rôles et fonctions des associations et des ONG dans les pays arabes. Contribuent-elles à la démocratisation et au développement de ceux-ci ou sont-elles victimes des contraintes que les pouvoirs font peser sur la société ?

Exploring the evolution of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), this book fills a lacuna in literature on the agency.UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees employs recent fieldwork in order to analyse challenges in programmes and service delivery, protection, camp governance, community participation, and camp improvement and reconstruction. The chapters examine the way UNRWA is adapting to a changing social, political and economic cont...

More than four million Palestinian refugees live in protracted exile across the Middle East. Taking a regional approach to Palestinian refugee exile and alienation across the Levant, this book proposes a new understanding of the spatial and political dimensions of refugee camps across the Middle East.Combining critical scholarship with ethnographic insight, the essays uncover host states’ marginalisation of stateless refugees and shed light on new terminology on refugees, migration...