Minorities and State-Building in the Middle East

This book offers fresh insights to enhance and diversify our understanding of the modern history of the state and societies in today's Jordan, while also providing examples of why and how scholars can challenge the static and discursively government-minded approaches to minorities and minoritisation especially the traditional emphasis on demographic balances. Despite its small size and initial appearance of homogeneity, Jordan provides an excellent case of a dynamic, relational, historically contingent and fluid approach to ethnic, political and religious minorities in the context of the imposition of a modern state system on complex and varied traditional societies. The editors and contributors present dynamic and relational perspectives on the status of and historical processes involved in the creation and absorption of minority groups within Jordan.

Allows readers to gain a broader understanding of minority within Jordan, discussing the process of minoritization: ethnic, religious, and political Explores various types of minorities within specific historic frameworks to analyze the role of each minority in relation to the rest of the population in Jordan Discusses the minority-state relationship and how majority and minority are institutionalized and conceptualized

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Paolo Maggiolini is a Research Fellow at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy.

Idir Ouahes is a researcher of the colonial Middle East and North Africa based at Marbella International University Centre (MIUC), Spain.

Inhalt
Part I. Introduction.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Minorities, Minoritisation and (Trans-)Jordan.- Part II. Religious, Ethno-Linguistic, Cultural Groups.- Chapter 2. Christians of the Emirate: the Citizenship Process, Confessionalisation and Minoritisation.- Chapter 3. Minoritisation and the State-Societal Balance of Forces in Transjordan (1920-46): British, Bedouin, Hashemite and Circassian Relations.- Chapter 4. Transnational Identity and Circassians in Contemporary Jordan (1991-2018).- Part III. A Liminal Minority: Palestinians in Jordan.- Chapter 5. The Invisible Citizens of Jordan.- Chapter 6. Stateless as Minority in Jordan.- Chapter 7. The deep play: ethnicity, the Hashemite Monarchy and the Arab Spring in Jordan.- Part IV. Political Minorities.- Chapter 8. Foreign policy as Protection: The Muslim Brotherhood as a Political Minority during the Cold War.- Chapter 9. The Making of a Minority: Subalternity and Minoritisation of Jordanian Salafism.- Chapter 10. Gender Inclusivity and Class Struggle Narratives in the Resistance of Al-irk Al-Shabb Al-Urdun (The Jordanian Youth Movement).- Chapter 11. A Village that Harbours the Oppressed? Amman and the Jordanian Novel (1980-2000).- Chapter 12. Conclusion. The Field and Process of Minoritisation in Jordan.