Jonathan Parry, Princeton University Press, 2022 Charting the development of Britain’s political interest in the Middle East from the Napoleonic Wars to the Crimean War in the 1850s, Jonathan Parry examines the various strategies employed by British and Indian officials,…
Nancy Bisaha, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006 As the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet understudied works. These compositions included Crusade…
Virginia Aksan, Routledge, 2021 Originally conceived as a military history, this second edition completes the story of the Middle Eastern populations that underwent significant transformation in the nineteenth century, finally imploding in communal violence, paramilitary activity, and genocide after the…
Daniel G. König, Oxford University Press, 2015 The Emergence of Latin-Christian Europe provides an insight into how the Arabic-Islamic world perceived medieval Western Europe in an age that is usually associated with the rise and expansion of Islam, the Spanish…
Martin Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025 In Empire from the Margins, Martin Jacobs seeks to understand how the history of empires appears through the lens of marginalized communities and to explore how Jews responded to Spanish and Ottoman imperial expansion…
Esther Juhasz, The Israel Museum, 1990 'Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire: Aspects of Material Culture' is an exhibition based book birthed from Israel Museum; a project from Julie and Leo Forchheimer Department of Jewish Ethnography. This book is concerned…
Michael Molho, Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture, 2006 Traditions and Customs focuses on the rich cultural traditions and heritage of the largest Sephardic Jewish Community in the Balkans. These simple customs, though colorful and patriarchal, were…
Andreas Guidi, University of Toronto Press, 2022 Generations of Empire rethinks modern Mediterranean history through changing generational dynamics and representations of youth. In 1912, Italy occupied Rhodes, an Ottoman town inhabited by Greek Orthodox, Muslims, Jews, and Catholics. Rhodes became…
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…