Kate Van Orden, I Tatti, 2021 Seachanges brings together original essays examining human and cultural mobility from a musical perspective. Employing interpretive strategies from musicology, ethnomusicology, historical performance practice, sociolinguistics, and cultural history, the contributors intentionally complicate national and regional…
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…
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.
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…