One may argue three law-like generalizations in political science: “no bourgeois, no democracy,” “democracies do not go to war with each other,”...

One of Toor’s central theses is that within and outside the context of Pakistan’s history and politics, Islam is far from being a monolith. For...

One might be forgiven for presuming that a new book called The Contradictions of Israeli Citizenship would present innovative insights about the...

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict remains one of the most intractable, globally sensitive and over-studied of national disputes. The past few...

There are few regions more unknown and caricatured than Central Asia, and within it perhaps no country is less understood than Turkmenistan....

The Arab world has been making a new history since January 2011 when the uprisings against President Ben Ali resulted in his fleeing from Tunisia....

In recent years, not only have the changes in Turkish foreign policy been discussed but also the key factors and actors behind the change. This...

This work by M. Şükrü Hanioğlu somewhat represents a departure from previous work on the subject in that it seeks to distance Atatürk from the...

Women have been both the subjects and objects of Turkish modernization for a long time. They have always been at the forefront of burning questions...

Is Europe converging in terms of policy development? How has the global financial crisis affected this and policy development in Europe more...

This book presents the results of the collaborative research project “Muslims in Europe and their Societies of Origin in Asia and Africa” which was...

In Mustafa Akyol’s book Islam With- out Extremes, the author takes up the challenge to confront the many misconceptions and false portrayals of...

Fergana Valley: The Heart of Central Asia is a remarkable volume that offers a very comprehensive and interesting study on the political and social...

Stable Outside, Fragile Inside? Post- Soviet Statehood in Central Asia brings together a team of authors who address the complex issues of building...

With this book, Shireen Hunter offers an exhaustive manual of the Islamic Republic’s foreign policy. However, the excessive engagement in...

This volume is a compilation of essays on various aspects of Salafism, written by leading scholars and experts, mostly European based, on this...

In the ever-increasing stream of academic studies of Turkey’s foreign policy, no aspect is better covered than Turkey’s relations with the European...

Controversies over the realities of life in the harem have long been in need of a treatment that challenges the stereotypically narrow perception...

In the recent decade, the number of think thanks in Turkey skyrocketed. Those numbers should not cause overexcitement since along with the serious...

In this little book Talat Halman continues his lifelong campaign to acquaint the English-speaking public with Turkish literature. This introduction...

Reproducing Class is a neatly focused examination of the transformative work of globalization in Istanbul through a focus on the family. With an...

Notwithstanding its somewhat misleading title, this book focuses exclusively on the representations of Turkey in the French debate about Turkey’s...

Georg Schmid’s The Narrative of the Occident was published by Peter Lang in 2009. The book consists of nine chapters; in the first four chapters...

No matter how many attempts there have been to clarify the significance of the Islamic veil it remains a hotly contested issue. In Western...