Bernard Lewis, Penguin Random House Publishing Group, 2000 This book is a delight, a treasury of stories drawn from letters, diaries and histories, but also from unpublished archives and previously untranslated accounts. Diplomats and interpreters, slaves, soldiers, pilgrims and missionaries,…
Ronald L. Nettler, Routledge / Taylor & Francis Group, 1998 This book brings together contributions which examine various Islamic and selected Jewish writings of this kind, analyzing their ideas, methods, sources and meanings, relating them to the new historical and…
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…