Postgraduate Module Descriptor


ARAM054: State and Society in the Middle East

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Nazih Ayubi, Over-Stating the Arab State (London: I.B.Tauris, 1995).

Simon Bromley, Rethinking Middle East Politics: State Formation and Development (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Steven Heydemann, ed., War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).

Sami Zubaida, Islam, the State and the People (London: I. B. Tauris, 1991).