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…
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…
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…
Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025 Occasions for Poetry is a history of how Turkish poetry became the preferred mode for communicating, debating, and shaping political and social experience in the early Ottoman Empire. After the conquest of Constantinople…
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…
Brian Ogren, NYU Press, 2021 Kabbalah and the Founding of America traces the influence of Kabbalah on early Christian Americans. It offers a new picture of Jewish-Christian intellectual exchange in pre-Revolutionary America, and illuminates how Kabbalah helped to shape early…
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…
Görkem Akgöz, BRILL, 2023 In the Shadow of War and Empire offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialization through the lens of a mid-nineteenth-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester,” the name chosen by the Ottomans for the…
Nancy E. Berg, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025 Longing and Belonging investigates the lives of Jews among Muslims in the modern age, both inside and outside the Ottoman Empire and after its demise. Here, modern Jewish protagonists are revealed as…