Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025 Occasions for Poetry is a history of how Turkish poetry became the preferred mode for communicating, debating, and shaping political and social experience in the early Ottoman Empire. After the conquest of Constantinople…
Tobias P. Graf, Oxford University Press, 2017 The figure of the renegade - a European Christian or Jew who had converted to Islam and was now serving the Ottoman sultan - is omnipresent in all genres produced by those early…
Brian Ogren, NYU Press, 2021 Kabbalah and the Founding of America traces the influence of Kabbalah on early Christian Americans. It offers a new picture of Jewish-Christian intellectual exchange in pre-Revolutionary America, and illuminates how Kabbalah helped to shape early…
Matt Goldish, Princeton University Press, 2008 The book looks at questions asked between 1492--when the Jews were expelled from Spain--and 1750. Originating from all over the Sephardic world, the responsa discuss such diverse topics as the rules of conduct for…
Julia Phillips Cohen, Oxford University Press, 2016 Becoming Ottomans is the first book to tell the story of Jewish political integration into a modern Islamic empire. It begins with the process set in motion by the imperial state reforms known…
Görkem Akgöz, BRILL, 2023 In the Shadow of War and Empire offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialization through the lens of a mid-nineteenth-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester,” the name chosen by the Ottomans for the…
Kate Van Orden, I Tatti, 2021 Seachanges brings together original essays examining human and cultural mobility from a musical perspective. Employing interpretive strategies from musicology, ethnomusicology, historical performance practice, sociolinguistics, and cultural history, the contributors intentionally complicate national and regional…
Cengiz Sisman, Oxford University Press, 2017 The Burden of Silence is the first comprehensive study on Sabbateanism, an early modern Ottoman-Jewish messianic movement, tracing it from its beginnings during the seventeenth century p to the present day. Initiated by the…
Nancy E. Berg, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025 Longing and Belonging investigates the lives of Jews among Muslims in the modern age, both inside and outside the Ottoman Empire and after its demise. Here, modern Jewish protagonists are revealed as…
S.D. Goitein, University of California Press, 2003 S. D. Goitein's magisterial five-volume work on Jewish communities in the medieval Mediterranean world offers an unparalleled view of how people lived, traveled, worshiped, and conducted their economic and social affairs. Living under…