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  • Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah

    The Pahlavi State, New Bourgeoisie and the Creation of a Modern Society in Iran

    Edited by Bianca Devos, Christoph Werner ...
    Series series Iranian Studies
    Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah presents a collection of innovative research on the interaction of culture and politics accompanying the vigorous modernization programme of the first Pahlavi ruler. Examining a broad spectrum of this multifaceted interaction it makes an important contribution to the cultural history of the 1920s and 1930s in Iran, when, under the rule of Reza Shah ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else"

    A History of the Armenian Genocide

    by Ronald Grigor Suny ...
    Series series Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
    A definitive history of the 20th century's first major genocide on its 100th anniversaryStarting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by 90 percent—more than a million people. A ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Dönme

    Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks

    by Marc David Baer ...
    This book tells the story of the Dönme, the descendents of Jews who resided in the Ottoman Empire and converted to Islam along with their messiah, Rabbi Shabbatai Tzevi, in the seventeenth century. For two centuries following their conversion, the Dönme were accepted as Muslims, and by the end of the nineteenth century rose to the top of Salonikan society. The Dönme helped transform Salonika into ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Forgotten Voices

    Power and Agency in Colonial and Postcolonial Libya

    by Ali Abdullatif Ahmida ...
    In Forgotten Voices, Ali Abdullatif Ahmida employs archival research, oral interviews and comparative analysis to rethink the history of colonial and nationalist categories and analyses of modern Libya. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Making of Modern Turkey

    Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950

    by Ugur Ümit Üngör ...
    The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a multi-ethnic region where Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and Arabs lived together in the same villages and cities. The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and rise of the nation state violently altered this situation. Nationalist elites intervened in heterogeneous populations they identified as objects of knowledge, management, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East

    by Heather J. Sharkey ...
    Series Book 6 - The Contemporary Middle East
    Across centuries, the Islamic Middle East hosted large populations of Christians and Jews in addition to Muslims. Today, this diversity is mostly absent. In this book, Heather J. Sharkey examines the history that Muslims, Christians, and Jews once shared against the shifting backdrop of state policies. Focusing on the Ottoman Middle East before World War I, Sharkey offers a vivid and lively ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Bazaar in the Islamic City

    Design, Culture, and History

    Edited by Mohammad Gharipour ...
    The Middle Eastern bazaar is much more than a context for commerce: the studies in this book illustrate that markets, regardless of their location, scale, and permanency, have also played important cultural roles within their societies, reflecting historical evolution, industrial development, social and political conditions, urban morphology, and architectural functions. This interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature

    by David Tresilian ...
    Modern Arabic literature remains little known and poorly understood despite growing curiosity among European readers. This brief introduction offers a unique overview, focusing on developments over the last fifty years. It provides a guide to the literary landscape, indicating the major landmarks in the shape of authors, ideas and debates. The picture that emerges shows that the literature of the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ottoman Empire and Islam: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Eric Dursteler ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • From the Abode of Islam to the Turkish Vatan: The Making of a National Homeland in Turkey

    by Behlul (Behlul) Ozkan (Ozkan) ...
    How does a people move from tribal and religiously based understandings of society to a concept of the modern nation-state? This book examines the complex and pivotal case of Turkey. Tracing the shifting valences of vatan (Arabic for “birthplace” or “homeland”) from the Ottoman period—when it signified a certain territorial integrity and imperial ideology—through its acquisition of religious ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Colonial Effects

    The Making of National Identity in Jordan

    by Joseph Massad ...
    Colonial Effects analyzes the creation and definition of modern Jordanian identity. Massad studies two key institutions-- the law and the military--and uses them to create an original and precise analysis of the development of Jordanian national identity in the postcolonial period.Joseph A. Massad engages recent scholarly debates on nationalism and richly fulfills the analytical promise of Michel ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Ottoman Brothers

    Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine

    by Michelle Campos ...
    In its last decade, the Ottoman Empire underwent a period of dynamic reform, and the 1908 revolution transformed the empire's 20 million subjects into citizens overnight. Questions quickly emerged about what it meant to be Ottoman, what bound the empire together, what role religion and ethnicity would play in politics, and what liberty, reform, and enfranchisement would look like.Ottoman Brothers ... Read more

    $22.99 USD