In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed… Primo Levi, The Periodic Table
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…
Institute du Monde Arabe, Gallimard, 2021 Centuries before the beginning of the Christian era, Jews lived around the Mediterranean and along the banks of the Euphrates. From the centuries preceding the advent of Islam to the early dynasties of the…
Edited by Jacques Roumani, Judith Roumani, David Meghnagi, Syracuse University Press, 2018 In June 2017, the Jews of Libya commemorated the jubilee of their complete exodus from this North African land in 1967, which began with a mass migration to…
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Group, 2000 This book is a delight, a treasury of stories drawn from letters, diaries and histories, but also from unpublished archives and previously untranslated accounts.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…
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,…
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…
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…
