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Opposition and Legitimacy in the Ottoman Empire

Opposition and Legitimacy in the Ottoman Empire

The history of rebellions in the Ottoman Empire during the early modern period has received a fair degree of coverage by both Turkish and western...

Exploring Turkish Culture Essays Interviews and Reviews

Exploring Turkish Culture: Essays, Interviews and Reviews

Laurence Raw’s volume, Exploring Turkish Cultures, makes a significant contribution to English language scholarship on cultural life in modern...

Muslim Reformers in Iran and Turkey The Paradox of Moderation

Muslim Reformers in Iran and Turkey, The Paradox of Moderation

In this original and engaging book, Gunes Murat Tezcur, a political scientist trained at the University of Michigan and currently teaching at...

Turkey A Short History

Turkey: A Short History

Turkey’s role in the contemporary world continues to be a subject of intense debate, especially at a time when its economic performance surpasses...

The Biography of Muhammad Nature and Authenticity

The Biography of Muhammad: Nature and Authenticity

Gregor Schoeler’s The Biography of Muhammad: Nature and authenticity was first published in German in 1996, which the author claims was an attempt...

Europe s Promise Why the European Way is the Best

Europe’s Promise, Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age

The key argument behind Steven Hill’s comprehensive analysis of the European way is that Europe is fatally misunderstood by the American public....

Hold on to Your Veil Fatima And Other Snapshots of

Hold on to Your Veil Fatima! And Other Snapshots of Life in Contemporary Egypt

“Hold on to Your Veil Fatima!” takes the reader on a journey into 21st century Egypt. The book provides an overview of the forces on the ground,...

Power Islam and Political Elite in Iran A Study of

Power, Islam, and Political Elite in Iran: A Study of the Iranian Political Elite from Khomeini to Ahmadinejad

The problem with this book is that it does not deliver what the title promises. In a study of any country’s political elite one expects biographic...

Are Muslims Distinctive A Look at the Evidence

Are Muslims Distinctive? A Look at the Evidence

Are Muslims Distinctive? is an exceptionally objective book that examines the highly subjective and controversial issue of Muslim ‘exceptionalism.’...

In the Shadow of Sectarianism Law Shi ism and the

In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi‘ism and the Making of Modern Lebanon

An observer of contemporary Lebanon may be struck by two interrelated aspects of Lebanese politics: 1) the continuing predominance of sectarian...

The Militant Kurds A Dual Strategy for Freedom

The Militant Kurds: A Dual Strategy for Freedom

This is not just another book criticizing Turkey for its well-known Kurdish problem. Rather it is an ably crafted analysis full of useful insights...

The Kurds and US Foreign Policy International Relations in the

The Kurds and US Foreign Policy: International Relations in the Middle East since 1945

Through this thoughtful and carefully researched account of US relations with the Kurds, Marriana Charountaki seeks to place a superpower’s...

The Caucasus Under Soviet Rule

The Caucasus Under Soviet Rule

In The Caucasus Under Soviet Rule, Alex Marshall examines the complexities of internal politics in the Caucasus with its pre and post-Soviet...

Turkish Foreign Policy Islam Nationalism and Globalization

Turkish Foreign Policy, Islam Nationalism and Globalization

Although it is widely accepted that there have been important elements of continuity as well as changes in Turkish foreign policy (henceforth TFP)...

The Cyprus Issue The Four Freedoms in a Member State

The Cyprus Issue: The Four Freedoms in a Member State under Siege

Nikos Skoutaris has written a timely book on the European Union’s (EU) handling of the legal issues, pertaining in particular to the freedom of...

Crime and Punishment in Istanbul 1700-1800

Crime and Punishment in Istanbul, 1700-1800

Revisionist history is “in.” Indeed, there is no other history these days. This is the case for Ottoman history as well. This appears to be the...

he Roots of Balkanization Eastern Europe C E 500-1500

he Roots of Balkanization: Eastern Europe C.E. 500-1500

In his book, Ion Grumeza ambitiously sets about “to fill a gap with authoritative material on how the process of Balkanization came about, to...

Questioning the Veil Open Letters to Muslim Women

Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women

Leaving aside the academic discourse, the “theoretical and methodological shields that usually ensure a semblance of detachment,” (p.ix) Marnia...

Syria and the Doctrine of Arab Neutralism from Independence to

Syria and the Doctrine of Arab Neutralism: from Independence to Dependence

Rami Ginat’s monograph traces the development of Syria’s foreign policy of neutralism during its early years of independence in until the fall of...

Shoah Turkey the US and the UK

Shoah: Turkey, the US, and the UK

T“I was alive only because I had a Turkish passport,” tells Lazar Russo in Arnold Reisman’s Shoah: Turkey, the US and the UK. Lazar Russo was...

Turkey s Entente with Israel and Azerbaijan State Identity and

Turkey’s Entente with Israel and Azerbaijan: State Identity and Security in the Middle East and Caucasus

In this timely book Alexander Murinson explores the forces behind the entente between Turkey, Israel, and Azerbaijan. He juxtaposes these three...

Turkey in the 1960 s and 1970 s Through the

Turkey in the 1960’s and 1970’s Through the Reports of American Diplomats

Rıfat N. Bali has done us a great service by publishing reports of American diplomats about Turkey in the 1960’s and 1970’s. The book consists of...

Headscarf Politics in Turkey A Postcolonial Reading

Headscarf Politics in Turkey, A Postcolonial Reading

The distressing photo on the cover effectively represents the content of this book. The photo depicts a junior high school student amidst male and...

Cinema in Turkey A New Critical History

Cinema in Turkey: A New Critical History

Cinema in Turkey differs from other recent books on the subject – notably Gönül Dönmez-Colin’s Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging...

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