By L. King-Irani, Georgetown Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, October 22, 2007

Dissemination of information and analyses within and beyond the scholarly community is a key priority for the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. The Center’s Multimedia, Research and Publications office publishes a prestigious Occasional Paper series featuring works by scholars, journalists, policy makers and field experts three to four times each year. This series now includes nearly 100 works covering a wide variety of subjects and perspectives on the Arab world. In addition, the series also includes transcripts of discussions among key players in the U.S. and the Arab world, such as Uncovered: Arab Journalists Scrutinize Their Profession, which features prominent Arab journalists’ analyses of press freedom and responsibility across the region. Forty of the Center’s Occasional Papers are now online.

The following six Occasional Papers have just been added to the group available in PDF format, two of them, Talal Asad’s The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam, and the late Hanna Batatu’s The Egyptian, Syrian and Iraqi Revolutions: Some Observations on Their Underlying Causes and Social Character, have been among the most popular and requested Occasional Papers over the last two decades.

The Political Orientation of Islamic Philosophy, by Dr. Muhsin S. Mahdi (1982)
The Egyptian, Syrian and Iraqi Revolutions: Some Observations on Their Underlying Causes and Social Character, by Dr. Hanna Batatu (1983) *
Religion and Political Development: Comparative Ideas on Ibn Khaldun and Machiavelli, by Dr. Barbara Freyer Stowasser (1983)
The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam, by Dr. Talal Asad (1986) *
Militant Islamic Movements in Lebanon: Origins, Social Basis, and Ideology, by Dr. Marius Deeb (1986) *
Rethinking Islam, by Dr. Mohammed Arkoun (1987) *

* These titles are now out of print.

A complete list of links to other CCAS Occasional Papers is provided on the website at http://ccas.georgetown.edu/research-features.cfm?id=21