David Lowenthal, Cambridge University Press, 2015 The past remains essential – and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man’s attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past…
Mostafa Hussein, Princeton University Press, 2025 In the decades before the establishment of a Jewish state in 1948, native and immigrant Jews in Palestine mediated between Jewish and Arab cultures while navigating their evolving identities as settler colonists. Hebrew Orientalism challenges the…
Helen Pfeifer, Princeton University Press, 2022 Historians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth century to the bureaucracy or the sultan’s court. In Empire of Salons, Helen Pfeifer points instead to a critical but overlooked factor: gentlemanly salons. Pfeifer…
Hakan T. Karateke, H. Erdem Çıpa and Helga Anetshofer, Academic Studies Press, 2018 Recent historical studies on the Ottoman Empire have taken for granted that subjects of the Ottoman polity flourished under a so-called “Pax Ottomanica.” This edited volume probes…
Noam Sienna, Indiana University Press, 2025 Jewish Books in North Africa delves into the multifaceted significance of books among North African Jews. From the late Middle Ages to the 19th century, this exploration encompasses the history, manufacture, distribution, and readership…
Christiane Czygan and Hatice Aynur, De Gruyter Brill, 2025 What is love? What is ʿışḳ? As the core theme of Early Modern Ottoman poetry, love inspired a plethora of Turkish research, the most enlightening of which explored questions of terminology,…
Dwight F. Reynolds, Taylor & Francis, 2020 The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted…
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…
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…