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Islam Without Extremes - A Muslim Case for Liberty
Islam Without Extremes - A Muslim Case for Liberty

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

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Harem Histories Envisioning Places and Living Spaces
Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces

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

Sunday, July 1, 2012

The Birth and Death of Islamism
The Birth and Death of Islamism

What happens when an ideological movement whose raison d’être is to challenge the existing political system and government...

Monday, October 1, 2012

On Islamism Its Roots Development and Future
On Islamism: Its Roots, Development and Future

This article examines Islamism in its historical trajectory as well as its current standing and likely evolution. After...

Monday, October 1, 2012

Atatürk An Intellectual Biography
Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography

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

Monday, October 1, 2012

Spatial Conceptions of the Nation Modernizing Geographies in Greece and
Spatial Conceptions of the Nation: Modernizing Geographies in Greece and Turkey

This volume edited by P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, Thalia Dragonas, and Çağlar Keyder is the third of a very interesting...

Monday, April 1, 2013

Against Massacre Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire 1815-1914
Against Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire 1815-1914

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

Monday, July 1, 2013

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...

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

The Berlin-Baghdad Express The Ottoman Empire and Germany s Bid
The Berlin-Baghdad Express The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power

Sean McMeekin’s book is a critical reading of the history of German involvement in the Middle East during World War I. It...

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Biography of an Empire Governing Ottomans in an Age of
Biography of an Empire Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution

Christine M. Philliou’s meticulous study, rooted in a harmony of multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives,...

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

The Making of the Arab Intellectual Empire Public Sphere and
The Making of the Arab Intellectual Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood

History of Arab intellectuals has received a renewed academic attention after the Arab world demonstrated its ability to...

Thursday, January 1, 2015


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