Professor Zilfi, a well-established, leading historian of the Ottoman Empire, has joined the small but constantly growing group of scholars...

As the link between religion and international affairs has come under special scrutiny especially since 9/11, there has been an increase in the...

Although the analysis offered in this book is not very innovative in its details, the overall project is of some originality. Andrew Williams’s...

As a dynasty based in medieval North Africa and southern Spain, the Almohads have received relatively little attention from Anglophone scholars in...

This brilliant, eloquent and insightful book is not, despite its title, a provocative one. It does not claim that in Islam being a wife is like...

The Lebanese economist and historian Corm has written a timely book contributing to our understanding of a Middle East which is marked by...

Recent neoliberal/post-Kemalist shifts in Turkish culture and politics have ushered in, among other things, a rekindled interest in Istanbul’s...

With the assertion of being the first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Christopher Beckwith’s Empires of...

The Borders of Islam gives an insider’s view of the so-called “Islam’s bloody borders” through an examination of the countries that straddle two...

This volume is a welcome contribution to the study of the last centuries of the existence of the Byzantine state, the ‘empire’ that until its...

Turkey, due to its geopolitical position, was subject to political and military pressures by the Great Powers during and immediately after World...

Ottoman architectural history has generally remained within the bounds of empirical scholarship, its monuments being the subject of description,...

Turks in Europe, Culture, Identity, Integration, is a book of collected works comprising 23 articles written by experts from a variety of fields...

The archaeology of religion has generated increased interest among social scientists involved in the scientific study of religion. Sharon Steadman...

Speaking of Jews chronicles how Jews explained themselves to non-Jews in the United States from World War I through the Civil Rights era. The basic...

To study historiography as a prism that elucidates a society’s wider developments has experienced a remarkable upsurge over the last decades and...

Spies in Arabia is a much awaited book on the British in the Middle East during and in the aftermath of the First World War. It avoids focusing on...

This reviewer wonders why Palgrave Macmillan decided to publish this book. Was the point to produce a neo-conservative distillation of anti-Syrian,...

The term “global war on terror” is no longer fashionable. Lip service is now paid to the idea that diplomacy and development are essential...

The European Commission, once asserted that “even before Bulgaria and Romania joined the Union, Turkey and Croatia, had begun joining the EU....

The Broken Olive Branch is a two vol- ume book wherein the author analyses the Cyprus question through the prisms of ethno nationalism. In the...

“Economic Liberalization and Turkey” provides comprehensive information relat- ed to liberalization of trade in agricultural and industrial goods,...

This is an important addition to the mounting literature on the cultural and especially the linguistic mix in the east- ern provinces of the Roman...

Stefan Winter’s recent study is a truly revisionist reading of the history of Leba- nese communities under the Ottoman Em- pire. It is the product...