With the assertion of being the first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Christopher Beckwith’s Empires of...

The Borders of Islam gives an insider’s view of the so-called “Islam’s bloody borders” through an examination of the countries that straddle two...

This volume is a welcome contribution to the study of the last centuries of the existence of the Byzantine state, the ‘empire’ that until its...

Turkey, due to its geopolitical position, was subject to political and military pressures by the Great Powers during and immediately after World...

Ottoman architectural history has generally remained within the bounds of empirical scholarship, its monuments being the subject of description,...

Turks in Europe, Culture, Identity, Integration, is a book of collected works comprising 23 articles written by experts from a variety of fields...

The archaeology of religion has generated increased interest among social scientists involved in the scientific study of religion. Sharon Steadman...

Speaking of Jews chronicles how Jews explained themselves to non-Jews in the United States from World War I through the Civil Rights era. The basic...

To study historiography as a prism that elucidates a society’s wider developments has experienced a remarkable upsurge over the last decades and...

Spies in Arabia is a much awaited book on the British in the Middle East during and in the aftermath of the First World War. It avoids focusing on...

This reviewer wonders why Palgrave Macmillan decided to publish this book. Was the point to produce a neo-conservative distillation of anti-Syrian,...

The term “global war on terror” is no longer fashionable. Lip service is now paid to the idea that diplomacy and development are essential...

The European Commission, once asserted that “even before Bulgaria and Romania joined the Union, Turkey and Croatia, had begun joining the EU....

The Broken Olive Branch is a two vol- ume book wherein the author analyses the Cyprus question through the prisms of ethno nationalism. In the...

“Economic Liberalization and Turkey” provides comprehensive information relat- ed to liberalization of trade in agricultural and industrial goods,...

This is an important addition to the mounting literature on the cultural and especially the linguistic mix in the east- ern provinces of the Roman...

Stefan Winter’s recent study is a truly revisionist reading of the history of Leba- nese communities under the Ottoman Em- pire. It is the product...

Drawing on contemporary archival and manuscript sources, Marc Baer unfolds the most fascinating story of Sultan Mehmed IV. Although his reign was...

When Barack Obama became president of the United States in January 2009, expectations were unprecedented. Although Obama had proven his ability to...

Andrew March, starting from John Rawls’s concept of overlapping consensus, examines whether or not Islamic political ethics provides a legitimate...

This volume is the first monographsized publication on the most important initiative towards interfaith dialogue between the Abrahamic religions in...

Ursula Wokoeck’s book is a dissertation written at the School of History, Tel Aviv University. Known by her articles on Ibn Khaldun, Theodor...

In this book, the author focuses on Muslim people’s social and legal situation and their legal attitudes from various points of view. The book has...

This slim volume examines a relationship that is pivotal for the stability of the Gulf and the wider Arab world and has major implications for...