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Group, 2000 This book is a delight, a treasury of stories drawn from letters, diaries and histories, but also from unpublished archives and previously untranslated accounts.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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Matt Goldish, Princeton University Press, 2008 The book looks at questions asked between 1492–when the Jews were expelled from Spain–and 1750. Originating from all over the Sephardic world, the responsa discuss such diverse topics as the rules of conduct for…
Julia Phillips Cohen, Oxford University Press, 2016 Becoming Ottomans is the first book to tell the story of Jewish political integration into a modern Islamic empire. It begins with the process set in motion by the imperial state reforms known…
Cengiz Sisman, Oxford University Press, 2017 The Burden of Silence is the first comprehensive study on Sabbateanism, an early modern Ottoman-Jewish messianic movement, tracing it from its beginnings during the seventeenth century p to the present day. Initiated by the…