Peter Sluglett

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ID537242
NAMEPeter Sluglett
GIVEN NAMESPeter
FAMILY NAMESluglett
SIGNATURESLUGLETT P
AFFILIATIONSDurham University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS52
TOTAL CITATIONS45
AUTHOR COUNT49
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX5

  • Violent Radical Movements in the Arab World: The Ideology and Politics of Non-State Actors

    Peter Sluglett, Victor KattanBOOKViolent Radical Movements in the…2019

    Violent non-state actors have become almost endemic to political movements in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. This book examines why they play such a key role and the different ways in which they have developed. Placing them in the context of the region, separate chapters cover the organizations that are currently active, including: The Muslim Brotherhood, The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra, Hamas, Hizbullah, the PKK, al…

  • Patrick Seale 1930–2014

    Open AccessPeter SluglettARTICLEReview of Middle East Studies2015

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  • Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions

    Asaad Al-Saleh, Peter SluglettBOOKVoices of the Arab Spring2015

    "Narrated by dozens of activists and everyday individuals involved in the Arab Spring, this book documents the unprecedented events that led to the collapse of dictatorial regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. Arab citizens were called to join the revolt during the second half of 2011, while the revolutionary moment was still unfolding. Their stories offer unique access to the message that inspired citizens to act, their experiences during…

  • Asher Kaufman. Contested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Region: Cartography, Sovereignty, and Conflict

    Peter SluglettARTICLEThe American Historical Review2015

    Journal Article Asher Kaufman. Contested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Region: Cartography, Sovereignty, and Conflict. Get access Asher Kaufman. Contested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Region: Cartography, Sovereignty, and Conflict. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2014. Pp. xv, 281. $65.00. Peter Sluglett Peter Sluglett National University of Singapore [email protected] Search for…

  • Islamic law in theory: Studies on jurisprudence in honor of Bernard Weiss

    A Kevin Reinhart, Peter Sluglett et al.BOOKIslamic law in theory2014

    The contributions of Bernard Weiss to the study of the principles of jurisprudence (uṣūl al-fiqh) are recognized in a series of contributions on Islamic legal theory. These thirteen chapters study a range of Islamic texts and employ contemporary legal, religious, and hermeneutical theory to study the methodology of Islamic law. Contributors include: Peter Sluglett, Ahmed El Shamsy, Éric Chaumont, A. Kevin Reinhart, Mohammad Fadel, Jonathan Brocko…

  • Mesa Presidential Address 2013: Of Springs and Revolutions, and Cabbages and Kings

    Open AccessPeter SluglettARTICLEReview of Middle East Studies2014

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  • The Waning of Empires: The British, the Ottomans and the Russians in the Caucasus and North Iran, 1917–1921

    Peter SluglettARTICLEMiddle East Critique2014References: 9

    During the First World War, Iran, although not a belligerent, was occupied at different times by Russian, British, and Ottoman troops. After a century of Anglo-Russian rivalry in Iran, an Entente between the two powers had been signed in August 1907, essentially dividing the country into a Russian sphere of influence in the north, a British sphere in the south, and a neutral sphere in the middle. As well as effectively ‘betraying’ the supporters …

  • An improvement on colonialism? The ‘A’ mandates and their legacy in the Middle East

    Open AccessPeter SluglettARTICLEInternational Affairs2014Cited by: 5

    The mandate system was created as part of the overall machinery of the League of Nations in an attempt to ‘promote world peace’ in the aftermath of the First World War. The ‘A’ mandates, with which this article is concerned, were the former Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire that had been occupied and conquered by France and Britain by the end of the war. Was the mandate system in any sense an improvement on colonialism? To the extent that the …

  • Orit BASHKIN. New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq

    Peter SluglettARTICLEThe American Historical Review2013

  • Writing the Modern History of Iraq: Historiographical and Political Challenges

    Hamit Bozarslan, Jordi Tejel et al.BOOKWriting the Modern History of Iraq2012

  • Writing The Modern History Of Iraq: Historiographical And Political Challenges

    Hamit Bozarslan, Jordi Et Al Tejel et al.BOOKWriting the Modern History of Iraq2012

    The modern history of Iraq is punctuated by a series of successive and radical ruptures (coups d'etat, changes of regime, military adventures and foreign invasions) whose chronological markers are relatively easy to identify. Although researchers cannot ignore these ruptures, they should also be encouraged to establish links between the moments when the breaks occur and the longue duree, in order to gain a better understanding of the period. Comb…

  • War and Diplomacy: The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 and the Treaty of Berlin

    Peter Sluglett, Mehmet Yavuz et al.BOOKWar and Diplomacy2011

    Combining different disciplinary perspectives, War and Diplomacy argues that the key events that portended the beginning of the end of the multiethnic Ottoman Empire were the The Russo-Turkish War of 1877 1878 and the Treaty of Berlin. The essays in this volume analyze how the war and the treaty permanently transformed the political landscape both in the Balkans and in the Caucasus. The treaty marked the end of Ottoman hegemony in the Balkans by …

  • The British, the Sunnis and the Shi'is: Social hierarchies of identity under the British mandate

    Peter SluglettARTICLEInternational Journal of…2010

    This article deals with the beginnings of sectarianism in Iraq. In the course of the eighteenth century, many Shi'i clerics migrated from Iran to the shrine cities of southern Iraq (Karbala', Najaf, Samarra'). By the early nineteenth century the school known as Usulism had become the prevailing orthodoxy of Twelver Shi'ism, and this advocated a significant socio-legal role for the 'ulama at a time when the Qajar monarchy was seeking legitimation …

  • Imperial Myopia: Some Lessons from Two Invasions of Iraq

    Peter SluglettARTICLEThe Middle East Journal2008Cited by: 1

    This article tries to chart some of the parallels between the British Mesopotamia Campaign in the First World War and the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Both campaigns were justified by faulty or contrived intelligence; both were launched with little consideration of the future potential needs of the liberated/occupied territory; and both were characterized by a lack of planning and clear objectives. However, in spite of their obvious paternalism, …

  • Britain in Iraq: Contriving King and Country

    Peter SluglettBOOKBritain in Iraq2007

    As the attention of the world is focused on the increasingly beleaguered U.S. and U.K. occupation of Iraq, Iraq expert and Middle East historian Peter Sluglett revisits Britain’s creation of Iraq in the twentieth century in this thoroughly revised edition of his classic text ‘Britain in Iraq’. Sluglett presents a comprehensive history of British policy towards Iraq from the beginnings of the Mesopotamia campaign in 1914 through the creation of Ir…

  • Une mission sacrée pour qui ? Quelques réflexions sur l’Intégration Nationale et le Mandat britannique en Irak

    Open AccessPeter Sluglett, F GillepsieARTICLERevue des mondes musulmans et de…2007References: 1

    L’idée d’un objectif moral était inhérente à la création des mandats au Proche-Orient au lendemain de la guerre. Il s’agissait en particulier pour les Grandes Puissances de préparer activement à l’indépendance dans un futur qui ne soit pas trop éloigné les pays dont ils avaient la charge. Pratiquement, à l’opposé des idéaux entourant leur création, les nouvelles structures qui émergèrent étaient largement le reflet du désir des grandes puissances…

  • Schumann Christoph, Radikalnationalismus in Syrien und Libanon: Politische Sozialisation und Elitenbildung 1930-1958, Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 2001, 354 p

    Open AccessPeter SluglettARTICLERevue des mondes musulmans et de…2005

    This is a large and original undertaking, involving several different levels of intellectual enquiry. It is an attempt to understand the phenomenon of radical Arab nationalism by writing a prosopography, or collective biography, of some seventeen of its adherents, based primarily on an analysis of their memoirs (the individuals and their works are listed on pp. 319-324). Most of the memoirs were published in the 1980s and 1990s, that is, several …

  • Iraq: A Bibliographical Guide

    Heather Bleaney, Roper Roper et al.BOOKIraq2004

    Well-considered answers to the many questions raised by the situation in Iraq, past and present, are rare. This first comprehensive, thematically organised, bibliography devoted to Iraq is based on the full Index Islamicus database and is drawn from a wide variety of European-language journals and books. Featuring an extensive introduction to the subject and its literature by Peter Sluglett, this bibliography will help readers to find their way t…

  • The British and French Mandates in Comparative Perspectives/Les mandats français et anglais dans une perspective comparative

    Nadine Méouchy, Peter SluglettBOOKBritish and french mandates in…2004Cited by: 7

    This collection represents the first large scale attempt to discuss the Middle Eastern mandates as a totality. It compares the application and effects of this very specific form of late colonialism from a variety of different disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, architecture, archival conservation, economics, history, law and sociology. It contains analyses at both micro and macro levels, including specific instances of revolt or co…

  • Imperial Legacy: Lessons from British Rule in Iraq

    Open AccessPeter SluglettARTICLEHistory Compass2003

    At a time when Iraqis are bracing themselves for another round of ‘reconstruction’ it seems important to stress some matters of fundamental importance which the would‐be ‘reconstructers’ will need to bear in mind

  • The Resilience of a Frontier: Ottoman and Iraqi Claims to Kuwait, 1871–1990

    Peter SluglettARTICLEThe International History Review2002Cited by: 1

    (2002). The Resilience of a Frontier: Ottoman and Iraqi Claims to Kuwait, 1871–1990. The International History Review: Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 783-816

  • Yitzhak Nakash, The Shiʿis of Iraq (Princeton, N.J: (Princeton University Press, 1994). Pp. 331

    Open AccessPeter SluglettARTICLEInternational Journal Middle East…1997

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  • Albert Habib Hourani 1915–1993

    Peter Sluglett, Marion Farouk‐SluglettARTICLEBritish Journal of Middle Eastern…1993

  • A History of the Arab Peoples

    Peter Sluglett, Albert HouraniARTICLEMiddle East Report1992

  • A. Reviews: General

    Hugh Kennedy, Peter Sluglett et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Middle Eastern…1992

    AN EARLY ISLAMIC FAMILY FROM OMAN: AL‐'AWTABI'S ACCOUNT OF THE MUHALLABIDS. By MARTIN HINDS. (Journal of Semitic Studies Monographs, 17.) Manchester, University of Manchester, 1991. vi, 97pp. £25.00. THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN ECONOMIC DOMINANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: MERCANTILISM AND THE ISLAMIC ECONOMY IN ALEPPO, 1600–1750. By BRUCE MASTERS. (New York University Studies in Near Eastern Civilisation, 12.) New York and London, New York University Press,…