Histories of Jerusalem are usually concerned with the holy places, the various communities living in the city, or the crusader and ancient pasts....

Although very different in terms of subject matter, all three books reviewed here offer fascinating insights into the ways writers over time have...

Introducing his readers to an overview of the history of “the network of roads” (p. 1) that has been called the Silk Road (p. 1), the author...

In the last several years, there has been an increasing interest in non-western international relations (IR) theory and expanding the scope of...

Gül Berna Özcan’s Building States and Markets: Enterprise Development in Central Asia is a welcome addition to the literature as it fills a gap in...

Intellectuals and Civil Society in the Middle East is a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of the social role of intellectuals in the Middle...

This scholarly and well-written book treats the history of late Ottoman Palestine not as a prologue to the present political question as usual, but...

Socrates’ pupil Chaerephon once asked an oracle “who is the wisest of all men?” The oracle responded that Socrates is the wisest of all because of...

What is global history? How does one study it? These are the main questions Dominic Sachsenmaier wants to answer. “It depends” seems to be his...

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...