Minorities and State-Building in the Middle East

Reviews / Votes

"Maggiolini and Ouahes have brought together an innovative group of scholars to examine Jordan's other minorities and challenge official views of a unified and harmonious 'Hashemite family.' The book will be a standard reference on Jordan, providing a welcome antidote to a conventional wisdom that views Jordan as a fractured polity divided between 'tribal' East Bankers and a homogeneous block of Palestinian refugees." (Tariq Tell, American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

"This volume presents cutting-edge research on the ethnic, religious and ideological diversity in Jordan, covering a century of Hashemite state-minority relations. At the same time, it is much more than a study of Jordan. With its focus on minoritisation, rather than fixed minority categories, it provides broader lessons for debates in Anthropology, History, Literary Studies, Political Science as well as Citizenship and Migration Studies." (André Bank, GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies, Hamburg, Germany)

"This book explores in great detail state-making in (Trans)Jordan through a theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded approach, outlining the way in which the state both excludes and incorporates religious, ethnic and political minorities. It is a must-read for anyone interested in minority studies in the region." (Francesco Cavatorta, Laval University, Québec, Canada)