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…
Anna Contadini, Routledge, 2013 This volume brings together some of the latest research on the cultural, intellectual, and commercial interactions during the Renaissance between Western Europe and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Ottoman Empire. Recent scholarship has…
Patrick Balfour & 3rd Baron Kinross, William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1977 The Ottoman Empire began in 1300 under the almost legendary Osman I, reached its apogee in the sixteenth century under Suleiman the Magnificent, whose forces threatened the gates…
Ibn Khaldûn, Princeton University Press, 2015 The Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work established the…
Stanford J. Shaw, NYU Press, 1991 During the emergence of the Ottoman Empire in Southeastern Europe and the Middle East (13th to the 19th century), the Ottoman Turks provided a principal source of refuge and prosperity for Jews fleeing from…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…