Hany Rashwan, Liverpool University Press, 2024 This volume challenges the Eurocentric lens through which Arabic, Persian, and Turkic literatures are often read, and advocates for centering the literary theories – often termed balāgha – of these customs when engaging with…
Phillip Lieberman, Cambridge University Press, 2022 Phillip Lieberman revisits one of the foundational narratives of medieval Jewish history—that the rise of Islam led the Jews of Babylonia, the largest Jewish community prior to the rise of Islam, to abandon a…
Norman Roth, Brill 1994 Jews settled in medieval Spain at least by the third century, and under the Christian Visigoths (sixth to eighth centuries) suffered increasing hostility and persecution, from which they were saved by the Muslim invasion. This book…
Diana Darke, Middle East Institute, 2025 A richly illustrated guide to the Ottoman Empire, 100 years since its dissolution, unravelling its complex cultural legacy and profound impact on Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. At its height, the Ottoman…
In Reading Darwin in Arabic, Marwa Elshakry questions current ideas about Islam, science, and secularism by exploring the ways in which Darwin was read in Arabic from the late 1860s to the mid-twentieth century.
Şevket Pamuk, Cambridge University Press, 1987 Originally published in 1987, this book examines the consequences of the nineteenth-century economic penetration of Europe into the Ottoman Empire. Professor Pamuk makes subtle use of a very wide range of sources encompassing the…
Author: Nir Shafir, Stanford University Press, 2024 The seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire was rife with polemical debate, around worshipping at saints' graves, medical procedures, smoking tobacco, and other everyday practices. Fueling these debates was a new form of writing—the pamphlet, a…
Davide Trentacoste, Routlege, 2026 The book uncovers a forgotten century-long conversation between Christian Tuscany and Shiʿi Persia —one that reshaped power, politics, and diplomacy in the early modern world. Moving beyond the familiar story of Europe versus the Ottoman Empire,…
Ismail E. Erünsal, Academic Studies Press, 2022 A History of Ottoman Libraries tells the story of the development and the organization of Ottoman libraries from the fourteenth through the twentieth century. In the first part, the book surveys the phases…
Andrea Pisauro and Gianluca Fantoni, The Conversation An elegantly dressed Italian gets off a train in central London on the evening of April 22 1924. He is on a secret mission to meet representatives of Britain’s ruling Labour party –…