Christiane Czygan and Hatice Aynur, De Gruyter Brill, 2025 What is love? What is ʿışḳ? As the core theme of Early Modern Ottoman poetry, love inspired a plethora of Turkish research, the most enlightening of which explored questions of terminology,…
Dwight F. Reynolds, Taylor & Francis, 2020 The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted…
Bernard Lewis, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1999 Examining religion, race and language, country, nation, and state, Lewis traces the rapid evolution of the identities of the Middle Eastern peoples, from the collapse of the centuries-old Ottoman Empire in 1918 to…
Anna Contadini, Routledge, 2013 This volume brings together some of the latest research on the cultural, intellectual, and commercial interactions during the Renaissance between Western Europe and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Ottoman Empire. Recent scholarship has…
Orlin Sabev, De Gruyter Brill, 2025 This book provides an overview of the activity and the output of the first Turkish press in the Ottoman Empire. Known as the Müteferrika Press, it was founded in Istanbul and was operated most…
Michael M. Laskier, State University of New York Press, 1983 The Alliance Israélite Universelle—an international organization representing a community of over 240,000 Jews—was founded in Paris in 1860 to work for the “moral progress” of Jews around the world. AIU…
Peter Cole, Princeton University Press, 2007 Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and…
The Quincentennial Papers, Sepher-Hermon Press, Inc, 1996 Studies on Turkish-Jewish History: Political and Social Relations, Literature and Linguistics. The Quincentennial Papers (1996), edited by David Fintz Altabé, Erhan Atay, and Israel J. Katz, is a collection of scholarly papers marking the 500th anniversary of…
Patrick Balfour & 3rd Baron Kinross, William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1977 The Ottoman Empire began in 1300 under the almost legendary Osman I, reached its apogee in the sixteenth century under Suleiman the Magnificent, whose forces threatened the gates…
Ibn Khaldûn, Princeton University Press, 2015 The Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work established the…