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…
Stanford J. Shaw, NYU Press, 1991 During the emergence of the Ottoman Empire in Southeastern Europe and the Middle East (13th to the 19th century), the Ottoman Turks provided a principal source of refuge and prosperity for Jews fleeing from…
Institute du Monde Arabe, Gallimard, 2021 Centuries before the beginning of the Christian era, Jews lived around the Mediterranean and along the banks of the Euphrates. From the centuries preceding the advent of Islam to the early dynasties of the…