The Middle East from Empire to Sealed Identities

An equally problematic aspect of the book is its mere focus on the 19th century to explore the roots of the present...

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Hamidian Palestine: Politics and Society in the District of Jerusalem

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

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

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

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 Ottoman Origins of Modern Iraq Political Reform, Modernization and Development in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East

Studies on the Ottoman modernization of Arab provinces have received an increasing amount of attention by historians....

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Islamist Thinkers in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic

Late Ottoman intellectual history, especially the nineteenth century, was seen by Bernard Lewis (in his The Emergence of...

Sunday, January 1, 2017