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Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia

Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia

Relations between Europe and Russia in the post-Cold War era constitute a fascinating area of study, as it involves many interlinked socioeconomic...

Picknick mit den Paschas Aleppo und die levantinische Handelsfirma Fratelli

Picknick mit den Paschas: Aleppo und die levantinische Handelsfirma Fratelli Poche

Studies on the Europeans who lived in the Ottoman Empire have been mostly conducted through the Ottoman and European state archives. Few works on...

The Story of Islamic Philosophy

The Story of Islamic Philosophy

You cannot judge a book by its cover – or even its title. Now and then, a work comes along that forces us to take notice of what the author means...

Principles of Islamic International Criminal Law A Comparative Search

Principles of Islamic International Criminal Law: A Comparative Search

As one of the major components of the Islamic state, Islamic law has drawn considerable attention from different scholars both in the East and...

Orhan Pamuk Secularism and Blasphemy The Politics of the Turkish

Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy: The Politics of the Turkish Novel

In this book, Erdağ Göknar, the award-winning translator of Orhan Pamuk’s novel, My Name Is Red, has set himself the task of explaining why Pamuk’s...

Sovereignty After Empire Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia

Sovereignty After Empire: Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia

The demise of empires left a powerful and perplexing legacy for successor states in the Middle East and Central Asia. Sally Cummings and Raymond...

Fathers and Sons The Rise and Fall of Political Dynasty

Fathers and Sons: The Rise and Fall of Political Dynasty in the Middle East

A decade after 9/11, the Arab revolts gave a second impetus to scholarly interest in the Middle East. A plethora of books and other academic and...

Revolution and Reform in Russia and Iran Modernisation and Politics

Revolution and Reform in Russia and Iran: Modernisation and Politics in Revolutionary States

In her comparative study, Ghoncheh Tazmini investigates the Russian revolution of 1917 and the 1979 Iranian revolution to identify patterns of...

Muslim Minorities and Citizenship Authority Communities and Islamic Law

Muslim Minorities and Citizenship: Authority, Communities and Islamic Law

In her comparative study, Ghoncheh Tazmini investigates the Russian revolution of 1917 and the 1979 Iranian revolution to identify patterns of...

The Everlasting Empire The Political Culture of Ancient China and

The Everlasting Empire: The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy

While dynasties rose and fell in the geographical area now called “China,” in this book Yuri Pines treats the Chinese empire since the Qin dynasty...

Breakout Nations In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles

Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles

In the last decade, the world has witnessed an unprecedented development of many countries. The speed of this process has not only caused surprise...

Secularism and Religion-Making

Secularism and Religion-Making

Recent scholarship in the sociology of religion has produced fresh perspectives on the understanding of religion and its inter-relationships with...

Finding Mecca in America How Islam is Becoming an American

Finding Mecca in America: How Islam is Becoming an American Religion

Near the end of this interesting book, the author characterizes his final chapter as “a series of interpretive judgments about the venture of Islam...

Multiple Modernities and Postsecular Societies

Multiple Modernities and Postsecular Societies

Multiple Modernities and Postsecular Societies brings together the two recently much discussed concepts in its title and explores them through a...

Nationalism and National Identities

Nationalism and National Identities

There is a strong tendency among public commentators and many scholars to view nationalism as a phenomenon of yesteryears. Hence the 19th and...

Towards a Jewish-Muslim-Christian Theology

Towards a Jewish-Muslim-Christian Theology

David Burrell’s Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology explores key theological topics of the three Abrahamic faiths, insightfully depicting...

The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East The Politics

The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East. The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria

Ethnic and religious minorities – and concomitant majorities – do not just exist sui generis. They have to be constructed or invented. It is not...

Thanks for the Buggy Ride Memoirs of an Ottoman Jew

Thanks for the Buggy Ride: Memoirs of an Ottoman Jew

This little memoir, first published in Italian in 1987, is an account of a life well lived. A proud Sephardi Jew, Victor Eskenazi (1906-1987) was...

Beyond Turkey's Borders Long-distance Kemalism State Politics and the Turkish

Beyond Turkey's Borders: Long-distance Kemalism, State Politics and the Turkish Diaspora

Beyond Turkey's Borders is based on Banu Şenay’s PhD dissertation, which is an ethnographic study of Kemalism among migrant Turks in Australia....

Habermas and European Integration Social and Cultural Modernity Beyond the

Habermas and European Integration: Social and Cultural Modernity Beyond the Nation-State

Shivdeep grewal has written this excellent research-turned-into-a book on Jurgen Habermas, one of the most important philosophers of our time. He...

Foreign Policy after Tahrir Revolution Re -Defining the Role of

Foreign Policy after Tahrir Revolution: (Re)-Defining the Role of Egypt in the Middle East

The continuities, changes, ruptures, and transformation of Egyptian foreign policy have been analyzed from different angles. The changes in...

Jews The Making of a Diaspora People

Jews: The Making of a Diaspora People

The subtitle of this one-volume overview of Jewish history presents its main focus as the notion of diaspora, but its twenty-eight chapters are...

Writing Muslim Identity

Writing Muslim Identity

THE CONTINUED and growing presence of Islam and Muslims in the West has produced a plethora of conflicting literature and debates around...

Church State and the Crisis in American Secularism

Church, State, and the Crisis in American Secularism

The United States supposedly is premised on “separation of church and state,” which means the American government should be neutral regarding...

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