When Britain was more permeated by Christianity than it is today, well-meaning vicars would run youth clubs offering table tennis along with church...

THE NAQSHBANDIYYA is perhaps one of the widest-spread Islamic religious brotherhoods due to its active involvement in political affairs. Its...

THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU) faced a stalemate of institutional reform between the signing of the Treaty of Nice in 2001 and the Treaty of Lisbon in...

In Istanbul, architectural ideas on how to transform Taksim Square can get you killed. A case in point would be the recent police violence over...

TURKEY’S EUROPEAN FUTURE tackles the question of how the United States (US) has influenced relations between the European Union (EU) and Turkey,...

Interest in Turkey and its foreign and security policies has grown significantly in the political and scholarly circles in the world, especially...

ALTHOUGH written from a variety of perspectives at different points in history, all three books reviewed here offer penetrating insights into...

After the passing of such researchers in Seljuq history as Osman Turan, İbrahim Kafesoğlu, Mehmet Altay Köymen, Faruk Sümer, Sergei G. Agajanov,...

Starting from 1980s different religions “went public” all around the world and reclaimed their agency in the public sphere. However, while in this...

Paul Mojzes is a well-informed and eminent historian of religion with a profound interest in the study of ethno-religion as the rationale for...

This book is an easy to read textbook that is structured to present readers with an historical overview of some of the prominent Islamic movements...

Within Fawaz Gerges’ text, The End of America’s Moment?-Obama and the Middle East, the author endeavors to examine President Obama’s implementation...

Studies on late Ottoman society continue to be inviting for historians in many aspects. This period is not only important for historical research...

The concept of humanitarian intervention and international practice in the nineteenth and early twentieth century is the subject of Against...

Almost eight years on from the start of accession negotiations, the view of Turkey-European Union (EU) relations is somber. The Union is too busy...

This is a path-breaking book that contributes to the literature on ethnicity and nationalism from various aspects. Conceptually, it develops a...

The subject of American decline and the new global order has been on the agenda of political scientists and international observers for more than...

“The Rushdie Affair” that began in 1989 with the publication of Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses, the “Book Burning in Bradford” that came...

Yugoslavia was established after World War I as the Serbian-Croatian-Slovenian Kingdom. Although the name of the newly-founded state bore the names...

This book originated from the second annual conference held by the Centre for Research, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism at the University of Surrey....

Americans are in the middle of an election season, and even though American democracy is imperfect, there is little doubt about the importance...

Kalin’s book is a result of a growing interest in the later developments in Islamic philosophy and it is a culmination of scholarship in this area....

American military bases, long identified with US interests, have always been a controversial subject among scholars. A significant increase in the...

Ali Balcı’s Militarist State Discourse in Turkey is an adaption of the second chapter of his PhD thesis that surveyed the period between 1960 and...