History of Arab intellectuals has received a renewed academic attention after the Arab world demonstrated its ability to go through the...

Pedro Amakasu Raposo’s Japan’s Foreign Aid to Africa was published exactly at the right time when this subject is receiving remarkable attention...

Theory, or the principles that help one organise, understand and interpret facts in a better manner, is the central pillar around which any...

Leonidas Karakatsanis’ book looks at the reconciliation efforts between Turkey and Greece which, according to the author, resemble a pendulum that...

Over the past three decades, Ottoman studies continues to be enriched by new topics and methodologies, revising old nationalistic historiography...

This book is structured in terms of a number of issues that are controversial among Muslims or between Muslims and others. It is based on the...

There is a recent growing interest in Ottoman/Turkish music, fostering new research initiatives in the field based on different approaches,...

The three books reviewed here focus on one of the most prevalent forms of discrimination: Gender Injustice. Everywhere in the world women tend to...

Turkey’s relations with the United States have seldom been at such a low point. In late February 2014, 84 former lawmakers, ambassadors and...

The Soviet Union, which has two contradictory definitions (“Prison of Peoples” and “Free Association of Peoples”), is seen as the perpetrator of...

Robert O. Freedman’s edited volume, Israel and the United States: Six Decades of U.S.-Israeli Relations, is a compilation of an interesting...

The relationship between Islam and foreign policy has become the subject of a number of volumes in recent years as scholars seek to understand the...

The use of the concept of agency in relation to Africa’s foreign relations has, up to now, been very limited. This has often related to the actions...

This book is written as part of the series on “Modern Architectures in History.” Yet, it covers much more than architecture and urbanism in modern...

Democracy, Islam and Secularism in Turkey, edited by Ahmet Kuru and Alfred Stepan, decribes the so-called “Turkish model” in detail, while trying...

The discussion of China’s growing prominence in international life has attracted the increasing attention of policy-makers, the public and scholars...

Muslims in Modern Turkey: Kemalism, Modernism and the Revolt of the Islamic Intellectuals presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary Turkish...

The recent book edited by A.C.S. Peacock and Sara Nur Yıldız, The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East, demonstrates...

Recently, there has been a growing body of literature on the multifaceted relationship between religion, politics and security in both national and...

Ali Balcı’s book, Türkiye Dış Politikası: İlkeler, Aktörler, Uygulamalar (Turkish Foreign Policy: Principles, Actors, Practices), contains...

What happened in 1915 is a much debated issue by scholars and researchers as well as politicians. Turkey’s official position labeling other claims...

Sean McMeekin’s book is a critical reading of the history of German involvement in the Middle East during World War I. It is specifically a...

Over the past decade, the social and political history of Ottoman/Turkish medicine has been growing as a new and potent field of study; Yücel...

William Dalrymple, famed British historian and writer, is widely considered as the leading modern scholar on South Asia and, especially, the...