Turkey & the Ottoman Empire

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& the ottoman empirenew and recent titles 2013sherbet and spice

The Complete Story of Turkish Sweets and Desserts

Mary Isin

The stories behind Turkey’s huge variety of sweets and puddings are as fascinating as their multiplicity of flavours. This riveting exploration of their history and role in Turkish culture is a voyage of adventure, taking us from the sultan’s palace to the homes of ordinary people in Turkey’s villages and towns, and beyond to Central Asia, Persia, Arabia, Egypt and the Levant. This is the land of Turkish delight perfumed with rosewater and musk, rose jam, baklava filled with nuts, clotted cream or cheese, milk puddings and helvas, strings of nuts dipped in grape syrup, and model gardens built of sugar carried in wedding processions. The first study of Turkish confectionery ever to be published, Sherbet and Spice offers a rare look at the evolution of sweets from the non-European angle, based on many Turkish sources little known outside Turkey that lend a new dimension to the subject.

‘A fascinating and informative exploration of the role of sweetness in Turkish culture over the centuries.’– Laura Mason, food historian and author of Sugar-plums and Sherbet

304 PageS 228 x 155mm IlluSTraTeD NOVemBer 20129781848858985 HarDBaCk £20.00

tastes of byzantiumThe Cuisine of a legendary empire

Andrew Dalby272 PageS 198 x 126mm 20109781848851658 PaPerBaCk £14.99

classic turkish cookingGhillie Basan and Jonathan Basan224 PageS 236 x 236mm 20119781848859845 PaPerBaCk £18.99

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south from ephesusTravels through aegean Turkey

Brian Sewell

Weary of what he called the ‘tyranny’ of western art, Brian Sewell first visited Turkey in 1975. He thought that there, anything he found would have no relevance to European and that he could therefore enjoy the art for its own sake. But Turkey surprised him and he delighted in the unexpected wealth of Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic cultures there, returning three of four times a year until 1990. The main bulk of this book focuses on his journey from Ephesus to Side one winter. With typically acerbic commentary, Sewell describes (not always favourably) the archaeological and historical sites he comes across, the landscapes that so clearly thrilled him, and the encounters he has along the way. South from Ephesus is an incomparable portrait of Turkey and its artistic heritage – a book that could only have been written by Sewell and which has become a quirky classic of travel literature.

‘Startlingly original’ – Times Literary Supplement

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the lycian shorea Turkish Odyssey

Freya Stark240 PageS 198 x 126mm IlluSTraTeD 20119781848853126 PaPerBaCk £9.99TaurIS Parke PaPerBaCkS

across the hellesponta literary guide to Turkey

Richard StonemanExeter University264 PageS 198 x 126mm NOVemBer 20109781848854222 PaPerBaCk £11.99

imperial istanbula Traveller’s guide: Includes Iznik, Bursa and edirne

Jane Taylor352 PageS 198 x 126mm 20079781860642494 PaPerBaCk £12.99

ioniaa Quest

Freya Stark376 PageS 198 x 126mm IlluSTraTeD 20109781848851917 PaPerBaCk £11.99

strolling through istanbulThe Classic guide to the City

Hilary Sumner-Boyd and John Freely512 PageS 198 x 126mm IlluSTraTeD 20099781848851542 PaPerBaCk £12.99

the western shores of turkeyDiscovering the aegean and mediterranean Coasts

John Freely424 PageS 198 x 126mm IlluSTraTeD 20049781850436188 PaPerBaCk £12.99

a byzantine JourneyJohn Ash352 PageS 198 x 126mm 20069781845113070 PaPerBaCk £12.99TaurIS Parke PaPerBaCkS

rome on the euphratesThe Story of a Frontier

Freya Stark496 PageS 198 x 126mm may 20129781848853140 PaPerBaCk £12.99TaurIS Parke PaPerBaCkS

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Turkey & the Ottoman Empire2013

At the height of its power, the Ottoman Empire held sway over much of southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. With Constantinople its capital, the empire was a fusion of cultures, languages and influences from east and west. Following the demise of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey became a Republic in 1923 – and is now a thriving economy and an increasingly influential force in the modern world.

We are delighted to present our new 2013 publications on Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. As a world leader in Turkey & Ottoman Studies, we seek to represent the richness of the empire’s history along with the most topical debates. Covering the history, politics and cultures of the region from ancient times through the Byzantine and Ottoman eras to the Republic and the present day, the list comprises academic monographs, which showcase the latest scholarly research, along with general books for the interested reader, such as travel writing classics and illustrated cookery titles.

‘In the last generation, there has been a transformation in Ottoman Studies – I.B.Tauris has been a major agent in presenting the new research to the world.’

– Peter Clark, Asian Affairs, November 2011

To view the full range of our publishing on the Ottoman Empire go to:

www.ibtauris.com/ottomans

CONTENTS

ANCIENT AND ByzANTINE TuRkEy 2-3OTTOMAN TuRkEy 3-11MODERN TuRkEy 12-17TRAvEl 18COOkERy 19

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the sacred architecture of byzantiumart, liturgy and Symbolism in early Christian Churches

Nicholas N. PatriciosUniversity of Miami

The churches of the Byzantine era were built to represent heaven on earth: architecture, art and liturgy were intertwined in them to a degree that has never been replicated elsewhere. Nicholas N. Patricios here offers a comprehensive survey, from the age of Constantine to the fall of Constan-tinople, of the nexus between buildings, worship and art. His identification of seven distinct Byzantine church types, based on a close analysis of 370 church building plans, will have considerable appeal to Byzantinists. Beyond categorising and describing the churches themselves, which are richly illustrated with photographs, plans and diagrams, the author interprets the sacred liturgy that took place within these holy buildings. Focusing on buildings in twenty-two different locations, this sumptuous book is an essential guide to individual features and the wider significance of Byzantine art and architecture.384 PageS 246 x 189mm IlluSTraTeD may 20139781780762913 HarDBaCk £45.00lIBrary OF ClaSSICal STuDIeS


a short history of the byzantine empireDionysios StathakopoulosKing’s College, University of London

The Byzantine Empire was one of the most impressive imperial adventures in history. Dionysios Stathakopoulos here tells a compelling story of military conquest, alliance and reversal, including the terrifying secret weapon of ‘Greek fire’. His new short history is above all a narrative of individuals: of powerful rulers like Justinian I, who recovered Italy from the Vandals and oversaw construction of Hagia Sofia (completed in 537); of his notorious queen Theodora, a courtesan who rose improbably to the highest office of imperial first lady; of the charismatic but cuckolded general Belisarius; and of the religious leaders Arius and Athanasius, whose conflicting ideas about Christ and doctrine shook the Empire to its core.192 PageS 216 x 134mm SePTemBer 20139781780761930 HarDBaCk £47.509781780761947 PaPerBaCk £12.99


diplomacy in the early islamic worlda Tenth-century Treatise on arab-Byzantine relations

Maria vaiouSabanci University, Istanbul

Arab messengers played a vital role in the medieval Islamic world and its diplomatic relations with foreign powers. An innovative treatise from the 10th Century (Rusul al-Muluk, Messengers of Kings) is perhaps the most important account of the diplomacy of the period, and it is here translated into English for the first time. Rusul al-Muluk draws on examples from the Qur’an and other sources which extend from the period of al- jahiliyya to the time of the ‘Abbasid caliph al-Mu‘tasim (218-227/833-842). In the only medieval Arabic work which exists on the conduct of messengers and their qualifications, the author Ibn al-Farra rejects jihadist policies in favour of quiet diplomacy and a pragmatic outlook of constructive realpolitik.

‘Dr Vaiou succinctly characterizes the text’s nature and purpose... The text will be of very great interest to historians of Islam, both cultural and political historians, and also to Byzantinists and medievalists in general.’– Dr Jonathan Shepherd, Oxford University

288 PageS 216 x 134mm marCH 20139781845116521 HarDBaCk £56.50lIBrary OF mIDDle eaST HISTOry, VOl. 17


ancient and byzantine turkey

the selJuks of anatoliaCourt and Society in the medieval middle east

A.C.S. Peacock and Sara Nur yıldız (Eds)University of St Andrews

Under Seljuk rule (c. 1081-1308) the formerly Christian Byzantine territories of Anatolia were transformed by the development of Muslim culture, society and politics, and it was then – well before the arrival of the Ottomans – that a Turkish population became firmly established in these lands. But these developments are little understood, and the Seljuk dynasty remains little studied. Yet the Seljuks of Anatolia were one of the most influential dynasties of the thirteenth-century Middle East, controlling some of the major trade routes of the period, playing a crucial role in linking East and West of the medieval world. This volume examines Seljuk culture and history by looking at developments both at court and in society at large, and sheds new light on Seljuk political culture and dynastic ideology, the engagement of politics with religion, and Christian-Muslim interaction.

‘This impressive scholarly volume opens up several new lines of research into the turbulent and little-known history of Seljuk Anatolia.’– Professor Charles Melville, University of Cambridge

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the eu and turkeya glittering Prize or a millstone?

Edited by Michael lake180 PageS 228x148mm 20059781903403617 PaPerBaCk £16.999781903403754 HarDBaCk £47.50

fragments of cultureThe everyday of modern Turkey

Deniz kandiyoti & Ayse Saktanber (eds)360 PageS 234 x 156mm 20019781860644276 PaPerBaCk £18.99

spatial conceptions of the nationmodernizing geographies in greece and Turkey

Nikiforos Diamandouros, Thalia Dragonas and Çaglar keyder (Eds)

320 PageS 216 x 134mm 20109781848851313 HarDBaCk £62.50

the state and the subalternmodernization, Society and the State in Turkey and Iran

Touraj Atabaki (Ed)272 PageS 234 x 156mm 20079781845113391 HarDBaCk £65.50lIBrary OF mODerN mIDDle eaST STuDIeS, VOl. 66

turkeya modern History

Erik J. zürcher432 PageS 216 x 134mm 20059781860649585 PaPerBaCk £16.99

turkey, islamists and democracyTransition and globalization in a muslim State

yildiz Atasoy240 PageS 234 x 156mm 20059781850437581 HarDBaCk £59.00

turkish democracy today elections, Protest and Stability in an Islamic Society

Ali Carkoglu & Ersin kalaycioglu256 PageS 234 x 156mm 20069781845111854 HarDBaCk £62.50INTerNaTIONal lIBrary OF POlITICal STuDIeS, VOl. 15

the unwelcome neighbourTurkey’s kurdish Policy

Asa lundgren168 PageS 234 x 156mm 20079781850436829 HarDBaCk £59.00CulTure aND SOCIeTy IN WeSTerN & CeNTral aSIa, VOl. 3

ways to modernity in greece and turkeyencounters with europe, 1850-1950

Anna Frangoudaki and Caglar keyder (Eds)272 PageS 234 x 156mm 20079781845112899 HarDBaCk £68.50lIBrary OF eurOPeaN STuDIeS, VOl. 1

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allies with the infidelThe Ottoman and French alliance in the Sixteenth Century

Christine Isom-verhaarenBenedictine University, Illinois

In 1543, the Ottoman fleet appeared off the coast of France to bombard and lay siege to the city of Nice. The operation came in response to a request from François I of France for assistance from Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent in France’s struggle against Charles V, the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. This military alliance between mutual ‘infidels’, the Christian French King and the Muslim Sultan, aroused intense condemnation on religious grounds from the Habsburgs and their supporters as an aberration from accepted diplomacy. Allies with the Infidel places the events of 1543 and the subsequent wintering of the Ottoman fleet in Toulon in the context of the power politics of the sixteenth century. Relying on contemporary Ottoman and French sources, it presents the realpolitik of diplomacy with ‘infidels’ in the early modern era. 288 PageS 216 x 134mm FeBruary 20139781848857285 HarDBaCk £55.009781780764979 PaPerBaCk £17.99


lost capital of byzantiumThe History of mistra and the Peloponnese

Steven Runciman, New Foreword by John Freely152 PageS 216 x 134mm 20099781845118952 PaPerBaCk £9.99

storm on horsebackThe Seljuk Warriors of Turkey

John Freely240 PageS 234 x 156mm 20089781845117030 HarDBaCk £19.99

kingdoms of ruinThe art and architectural Splendours of ancient Turkey

Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch, Foreword by John Freely256 PageS 270 x 228mm 20109781845117993 HarDBaCk £31.50

artisans and travel in the ottoman empireeconomic migration and Commerce in the early modern Period

Suraiya FaroqhiIstanbul Bilgi University

It has often been assumed that the subjects of the Ottoman sultans were unable to travel beyond their localities – since peasants needed the permission of their local administrators before they could legally leave their villages. According to this view, only soldiers and members of the governing elite would have been free to travel. However Suraiya Faroqhi’s extensive archival research shows that this was not the case. Pious men from all walks of life went on pilgrimage to Mecca, slaves escaped from their masters and craftspeople travelled in order to look for work. Faroqhi shows that even those craftsmen who did not travel extensively had some level of mobility and that the Ottoman sultans and viziers, who spent so much effort in attempting to control the movements of their subjects, could do so only within often very narrow limits. Challenging existing historiography and providing an important new perspective, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of Ottoman history.320 PageS 234 x 156mm july 20139781780764818 HarDBaCk £59.50


children of achillesThe greeks in asia minor since the Days of Troy

John Freely288 PageS 234 x 156mm IlluSTraTeD 20099781845119416 HarDBaCk £22.50

the rhetoric of power in late antiquityreligion and Politics in Byzantium, europe and the early Islamic World

Elizabeth DePalma Digeser, University of California, Santa Barbara, Robert M. Frakes, Clarion University & Justin Stephens, Metropolitan

State College of Denver320 PageS 216 x 134mm 20109781848854093 HarDBaCk £68.50lIBrary OF ClaSSICal STuDIeS, VOl. 2

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turkey and european security defence policyCompatibility and Security Cultures in a globalised World

Çigdem ÜstünGediz University, Izmir

288 PageS 216 x 134mm auguST 20109781848852679 HarDBaCk £62.50lIBrary OF eurOPeaN STuDIeS, VOl. 12

turkey and the dilemma of eu accessionWhen religion meets Politics

Mirela Bogdani

240 PageS 216 x 134mm SePTemBer 20109781848854581 HarDBaCk £59.009781848854598 PaPerBaCk £14.99lIBrary OF eurOPeaN STuDIeS, VOl. 16

the zaza kurds of turkeya middle eastern minority in a globalised Society

Mehmed S. kayaLillehammer University College

240 PageS 216 x 134mm 20119781845118754 HarDBaCk £59.50lIBrary OF mODerN mIDDle eaST STuDIeS, VOl. 71

kurds of modern turkeymigration, Neoliberalism and exclusion in Turkish Society

Cenk SaraçogluMiddle East Technical University


islam and secularism in turkeykemalism, religion and the Nation State

umut Azak

256 PageS 234 x 156mm IlluSTraTeD 20109781848852631 HarDBaCk £56.00INTerNaTIONal lIBrary OF TWeNTIeTH CeNTury HISTOry, VOl. 27

living islamWomen, religion and the Politicization of Culture in Turkey

Ayse Saktanber304 PageS 216 x 134mm 20029781860641787 HarDBaCk £62.50lIBrary OF mODerN mIDDle eaST STuDIeS, VOl. 20

men of orderauthoritarian modernization under atatürk and reza Shah

Touraj Atabaki and Erik J. zürcher (Eds)296 PageS 216 x 134mm 20049781860644269 HarDBaCk £62.50lIBrary OF mODerN mIDDle eaST STuDIeS, VOl. 21

migrating to americaTransnational Social Networks and regional Identity among Turkish migrants

lisa DiCarlo200 PageS 216 x 134mm 20089781845116460 HarDBaCk £59.00INTerNaTIONal lIBrary OF mIgraTION STuDIeS, VOl. 1

muslims in modern turkeykemalism, modernism and the revolt of the Islamic Intellectuals

Sena karasipahi256 PageS 234 x 156mm 20089781845117832 HarDBaCk £59.00lIBrary OF mODerN mIDDle eaST STuDIeS, VOl. 72

new turkish cinemaBelonging, Identity and memory

Asuman Suner224 PageS 234 x 156mm 20109781845119492 HarDBaCk £59.009781845119508 PaPerBaCk £17.99

britain and turkey in the middle eastPolitics and Influence in the early Cold War era

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ottomaniaThe romantics and the myth of the Islamic Orient

Roderick Cavaliero

‘Romanticism had its roots in fantasy and fed on myth’. So Roderick Cavaliero introduces the nineteenth-century European Romantic obsession with the Orient. Cavaliero brings on a rich cast of leading Romantic writers, artists, musicians and travellers, including Beckford, Byron, Shelley, Walter Scott, Pierre Loti, Thomas Moore, Rossini, Eugene Delacroix, Thackeray and Disraeli, who luxuriated in the exotic sights, sounds, literature and mythology of the Orient. Cavaliero analyses the Romantic vision of the Orient from Ottoman Turkey, through the Middle East, including Egypt and Persia, to the Vale of Kashmir. The book will delight all readers interested in tales of the Orient and the literature of the Romantic movement – a rich treasure-house of poets, novelists and travellers.272 PageS 228x155mm jaNuary 20139781780764825 PaPerBaCk £12.99


the ottomans and the mamluksImperial Diplomacy and Warfare in the Islamic World

Cihan yüksel MusluUniversity of Texas

Beginning on the eve of Oceanic exploration, and the first European forays into the Indian Ocean and the Middle East, The Ottomans and the Mamluks traces the growth of the Ottoman Empire from a tiny Anatolian principality to a world power, and the relative decline of the Mamluks – historic defenders of Mecca and Medina and the rulers of Egypt and Syria. Cihan Yüksel Muslu traces the intertwined stories of these two dominant Sunni Muslim empires of the early modern world, setting out to question the view that Muslim rulers were historically concerned above all with the idea of Jihad against non-Muslim entities. Through analysis of the diplomatic and military engagements around the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, Muslu traces the interactions of these Islamic super-powers and their attitudes towards the wider world. 256 PageS 216 x 134mm DeCemBer 20139781780761497 HarDBaCk £56.00lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 36


the heJaz railway and the ottoman empiremodernity, Industrialisation and Ottoman Decline

Murat ÖzyükselIstanbul University

Railway expansion was symbolic of modernisation in the late nineteenth century, and Britain, Germany and France built railways at enormous speed and reaped great commercial benefits. In the Middle East, railways were no less important and the Ottoman Empire’s Hejaz Railway was the first great industrial project of the twentieth century. A route running from Damascus to Mecca, it was longer than the line from Berlin to Baghdad and was designed to function as the artery of the Arab world – linking Constan-tinople to Arabia. Built by German engineers, and instituted by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the railway was financially crippling for the Ottoman state and its eventual stoppage 250 miles short of Mecca (the railway ended in Medina) was symbolic of the Ottoman Empire’s crumbling economic and diplomatic fortunes. This is the first book in English on the subject.256 PageS 216 x 134mm SePTemBer 20139781780763644 HarDBaCk £56.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 39


military intervention and crisis democracy in turkeyThe menderes era and its Demise

Mogens PeltUniversity of Copenhagen

Adnan Menderes’ election to power in 1950 signalled a new epoch in the history of modern Turkey. For the first time a democratic government ruled the country, challenging the political monopoly of the Kemalist elites. However, this period was short-lived. In 1960, Turkey’s army staged a coup d’état and Menderes was hanged the following year. Here, Mogens Pelt examines the era of the rule of the Democratic Party and the legacy of the military intervention that brought it to an end. Although the armed forces officially returned power to the civilians in 1961, this intervention allowed the military to become a major player in Turkey’s political process, weakening the role of elected politicians. This unique exploration of the Menderes period sheds new light on the shaping of post-war Turkey and will be vital for those researching the Turkish Republic, and the influence of the military in its destiny.

304 PageS 216 x 134mm july 20139781848857780 HarDBaCk £56.50lIBrary OF mODerN Turkey, VOl. 1


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women workers in turkeyglobal Industrial Production in Istanbul

Saniye Dedeoglu

Globalisation is often considered as not only generating jobs, but also having a negative effect on those at the bottom of the labour supply chain. Here Saniye Dedeoglu shows us exactly how globalisation has affected women engaged in insecure, invisible and low/unpaid garment work. Through a close ethnographic study of women workers in Istanbul’s garment industry, she reveals how industries have adapted their labour demands to make use of local female labour supplies, and highlights the strategies and responses that have evolved in response to contemporary changes in global industrial production in Turkey. The book throws up the critical question of what it means to be a woman in today’s globalised society, and is an important contribution to the various perspectives on the social and economic consequences of globalization to the least priviliged in industrial socieities.

‘A well-grounded contribution to the debates on women’s economics activities, gender ideologies and industrial production in Turkey.’– Professor Yildiz Ecevit, Middle East Technical University

232 PageS 216 x 134mm juNe 20129781780760315 PaPerBaCk £25.00


gender and society in turkeyThe Impact of Neoliberal Policies, Political Islam and eu accession

Saniye Dedeoglu, Warwick University and Adam yavuz Elveren, Sütçü Imam University, Turkey (Eds)

320 PageS 216 x 134mm IlluSTraTeD 20129781780760278 HarDBaCk £59.50lIBrary OF mODerN Turkey, VOl. 4

the army and the radical left in turkeymilitary Coups, Socialist revolution and kemalism

Özgür Mutlu ulusAcibadem University


occidentalism in turkeyQuestions of modernity and National Identity in Turkish radio Broadcasting

Meltem AhıskaBogaziçi University


technology and national identity in turkeymobile Communications and the evolution of a Post-Ottoman Nation

Burce CelikBahçesehir University, Turkey

224 PageS 216 x 134mm IlluSTraTeD 20119781848854291 HarDBaCk £59.50INTerNaTIONal lIBrary OF CulTural STuDIeS, VOl. 15

empire and holy war in the mediterraneanThe galley and maritime Conflict between the Habsburgs and Ottomans

Phillip Williams

In the century after 1530, the Catholic Monarchy of the Habsburgs and the Muslim Sultans of the Ottoman Empire fought a maritime war of ambiguous achievements. Lasting peace was as unlikely as final triumph and major campaigns seemed destined to lead nowhere, in part because the salient feature of this war was a form of piracy practiced by the North African Barbary corsairs. It was also a war of unequal means, since the Habsburgs had too few good warships and the Ottomans too many bad ones. Phillip Williams here provides a detailed examination of the nature of what came to be seen as a Holy War between Christendom and the Islamic World in the early modern Mediterranean. He considers the cultural and historical outlook of the protagonists, including the Habsburg rulers Charles V and Philip II and the Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, examining the extent to which the dictates of prudence triumphed over ideals of performing ‘the service of God’.

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the young atatürkFrom Ottoman Soldier to Statesman of Turkey

George W. GawrychBaylor University

Mustafa Kemal – latterly and better known as Atatürk – is without doubt the towering figure of modern Turkish history. But what was his path to power? And how did his early career as a soldier in the Ottoman army affect his later decisions as President? The Young Atatürk tracks the lesser covered period of Kemal’s life – from the War of Independence to the founding of the Republic – and shows that it is only by understanding Kemal’s military career that one can fully comprehend how he evolved as one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary statesmen. Delving into Kemal’s military writings, orders, and political decisions, speeches, proclamations and private correspondences, this book provides a rounded and nuanced portrait of the making of a major statesman.288 PageS 228x155mm IlluSTraTeD marCH 20139781780763224 HarDBaCk £25.00


palestine and the decline of the ottoman empiremodernisation and the Path to Palestinian Statehood

Farid Al-SalimKansas State University

During the final decades of Ottoman rule, Palestine was administratively divided into two states, Jerusalem and Beirut. As the Ottoman Empire began to recede, the education systems, taxation and bureaucracy which were left behind formed the foundation of administration in the Palestinian authority today. The reign of Sultan Abdülmecid I saw great changes in Palestine, in line with the Tanzimat reform programme. At the heart of these radical shifts in thought and infrastructure were the new administrative centres established by the Ottomans during this period of re-organisation. Drawing extensively on official Ottoman records, Farid Al-Salim charts the transformation of one such centre, Tulkarm, from a small village in central Palestine to a seat of admin-istrative reform in order to provide a new account of the forces behind the formation of modern Palestine.320 PageS 216 x 134mm SePTemBer 20139781780764566 HarDBaCk £59.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS


freemasonry in the ottoman empirea History of the Fraternity and its Influence in Syria and the levant

Dorothe SommerUniversity of Sheffield

The network of freemasons and Masonic lodges in the Middle East is an opaque and mysterious one, and is all too often seen – within the area – as a vanguard for Western purposes of regional domination. But here, Dorothe Sommer explains how freemasonry in Greater Syria at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century actually developed a life of its own, promoting local and regional identities. Indeed, the lodges attracted more participants – such as the Trad Family, the Jurji Yanni Yaziji Family, Hassan Bayhum, Alexander Barroudi and Khaireddeen Abdulwahab – than any other society or fraternity. Freemasonry in the Ottoman Empire analyses the social and cultural structures of the Masonic network of lodges and their interconnections at a pivotal juncture in the history of the Ottoman Empire.320 PageS 216 x 134mm july 20139781780763132 HarDBaCk £59.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 37


the emergence of modern istanbulTransformation and modernisation of a City

Murat GülUniversity of Economics and Technology, Ankara

In its transition from eighteenth-century capital of the Ottoman Empire to economic powerhouse of the Turkish Republic, Istanbul has been altered beyond recognition. This intricate and original account charts the urban transformation of an iconic and hybrid city and, through this, delves into the broader arena of Turkey’s history. After the establishment of the Republic, Turkey increasingly turned to the West for ideas about how to develop a modern culture, and Istanbul became a forum for different regimes to display their political, ideological and social policies in the context of the built environment. Murat Gül traces the impact of these changing policies on the very fabric of the city itself – its streets, buildings and landscapes – to present a compelling account of the dramatic changes to Turkey’s most important metropolis.256 PageS 234 x 156mm IlluSTraTeD OCTOBer 20129781780763743 PaPerBaCk £17.99


the rise of political islam in turkeyurban Poverty, grassroots activism and Islamic Fundamentalism

kayhan DelibasUniversity of Kent

Turkey, officially a secular state, voted in an Islamist party in 2002 and 2007. How far does this reflect the trend which has seen the rise of political Islam across the Middle East? Does this indicate a growing tendency in the direction of Islamisation amongst the Turkish population? If not, what are the underlying reasons behind the electoral triumphs of the Islamist Justice and Development Party (the AKP)? Kayhan Delibas seeks to answer these questions through an in-depth examination of the appeal of this political party, exploring its ideology, the routes and motives which produce party activists and local party organisations. Concluding that the AKP’s success has been built on its criticism of growing inequalities, widespread corruption, unemployment, poverty and lack of basic services, Delibas draws a nuanced portrait of modern Turkish society and the relationship between religion and politics.

288 PageS 216 x 134mm DeCemBer 20139781780765655 HarDBaCk £56.50lIBrary OF mODerN Turkey, VOl. 10


turkey and the politics of national identitySocial, economic and Cultural Transformation

Shane Brennan and Marc Herzog

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Turkey experienced an extraordinary set of transformations. In 2001, in the midst of financial difficulties, the country was under IMF stewardship, yet it has recently emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world. And on the international stage, Turkey has managed to enhance its position from being a backseat NATO member and outside candidate for EU membership to being an influential regional power, determining and developing its own individual foreign policy. Shane Brennan and Marc Herzog explore how these and other changes have shaped the way people in Turkey perceive themselves and how the country’s self-image shapes its actions. Through different approaches engaging with politics, economy, society, culture and history, they offer new perspectives on the transformation of national identity in this increasingly influential country in the Middle East.

320 PageS 216 x 134mm SePTemBer 20139781780765396 HarDBaCk £59.50lIBrary OF mODerN Turkey, VOl. 8


democratic transition in turkeyThe Transformation of Civil Society and the Challenges of eu accession

Hasan Turunc

‘West’ or ‘East’? ‘Modern’ or ‘Traditional’? ‘Global’ or ‘Local’? ‘Secular’ or ‘Islamic’? ‘Turkish’ or ‘Other’? These seemingly polar opposites have all-too-often been lazily used when examining the nature of the modern Turkish state and its society. Here, Hasan Turunc seeks to look at the nuance which lies in between these opposites, analysing the explosion of civil society institutions under the aegis and protection of the EU Copenhagen Political Criteria (which holds out eventual EU accession as the ultimate incentive in the negotiations). He thereby explores how the role of the army in Turkish society has been altered with the commencement of the EU accession process, as the balance is shifted more towards civilian institutions and away from the military. A fresh look at the current issues within Turkey, this book offers a vital and nuanced analysis for those researching modern Turkey and its political issues.

288 PageS 216 x 134mm OCTOBer 20139781780760919 HarDBaCk £56.50lIBrary OF mODerN Turkey, VOl. 3


citizenship and identity in turkeyFrom atatürk’s republic to the Present Day

Basak InceBilkent University

Is Turkish nationalism simply a product of Kemalist propaganda from the early Turkish Republic or an inevitable consequence of a firm and developing ‘Turkish’ identity? Turkish citizenship is a vital aspect of today’s Republic, and yet it has long been defined only through legal framework, neglecting its civil, political, and social implications. Here, Basak Ince seeks to rectify this, examining the identity facets of citizenship, and how this relates to nationalism, democracy and political participation in the modern Turkish republic. By tracing the development of the citizenship from the initial founding of the Republic to the immediate post-World War II period, and from the military interventions of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s to the present day she offers in-depth analysis of the interaction of state and society in modern Turkey, which holds wider implications for the study of the Middle East.

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the transformation of turkeyredefining State and Society from the Ottoman empire to the modern era

Fatma Müge GöçekUniversity of Michigan

In 1923, the Modern Turkish Republic rose from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, proclaiming a new era in the Middle East. However, many of the contemporary issues affecting Turkish state and society today have their roots not only in the history of the republic, but in the historical and political memory of the state’s imperial history. Here Fatma Müge Göçek draws on Turkey’s Ottoman heritage and history to explore current issues of ethnicity and religion alongside Turkey’s international position. This new perspective on history’s influence on contemporary tensions in Turkey will contribute to the ongoing debate surrounding Turkey’s accession to the EU, and offers insight into the social transformations in the transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish nation-state. 320 PageS 216 x 134mm FeBruary 20139781780764863 PaPerBaCk £25.009781848856110 HarDBaCk £62.50


turkey beyond nationalismTowards Post-Nationalist Identities

Hans-lukas kieser (Ed.)University of Zurich

Nationalism was a defining characteristic of Turkey in the twentieth century, and was a central driving force in Ataturk’s foundation of the Republic in 1923. How did the prominence of Kemalist ways of political thinking affect its people and its policies? To what extent has Turkey’s EU candidature been a vehicle of transformation since 1999 and what would EU membership mean for modern Turkey? This book explores the historical impact of Kemalism, anti-liberalism and westernization and examines the conditions which have contributed to the country’s evolution away from a nationalist political identity. Tracing the development of nationalism from its founding period before the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 to the present AKP government – and analysing key factors such as the position of minorities in the Turkification process and the influence of state and society centred religious politics – this strong and significant contribution casts a new light on a vivid international debate.272 PageS 234 x 156mm FeBruary 20139781780763996 PaPerBaCk £25.009781845111410 HarDBaCk £68.50


the emergence of social democracy in turkeyThe left and the Transformation of the republican People’s Party

yunus Emre

The RPP (Republican People’s Party) stands as Turkey’s main opposition party – one of two major political blocs, second only to Erdoğan’s ruling AK Party. Also known as the CHP (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi), it was the founding party of Atatürk’s republican regime and has a history of hostility towards leftist parties. Despite this, by the mid-1960s, the RPP had re-orientated itself as left of centre, as the growing influence of the left inside the RPP pushed it in a new direction. This is hailed as the entry point of social democratic politics into Turkey, and is the focus of Yunus Emre’s impressively researched book. He tracks the fluctuations in Turkish politics from the single-party period to the making of a new regime following the 1960 coup, looking at the place of both the RPP and the left in this trajectory, making this essential reading for scholars of Turkish politics and modern history.336 PageS 216 x 134mm auguST 20139781780764399 HarDBaCk £59.50


the young turks and the boycott movementNationalism, Protest and the Working Classes in the Formation of modern Turkey

Dogan ÇetinkayaIstanbul University

The first decade of the twentieth century was the Ottoman Empire’s ‘imperial twilight’. As the Empire fell away, the beginnings of a young and radical Turkish nationalism took root in Anatolia. The summer of 1908 saw the ‘Young Turks’ attempt to revitalise Turkey with a ‘constitutional revolution’ aimed at reducing the power of the Ottoman Sultan, Abdul Hamid II. Drawing on popular support for the defence of the Ottoman Empire’s Balkan territories, the Young Turks promised to build a nation from the people up, rather than from the top down. Here, Doğan Çetinkaya analyses the history of the Boycott Movement, a series of nationwide public meetings and protests which enshrined the Turkish democratic voice. 320 PageS 216 x 134mm marCH 20139781780764726 HarDBaCk £59.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS


ottoman imperial diplomacya Political, Social and Cultural History

Dogan GurpinarHarvard University

The Ottoman Empire maintained a complex and powerful bureaucratic system which enforced the Sultan’s authority across the Empire’s Middle-Eastern territories. This bureaucracy continued to gain in power and prestige, even as the empire itself began to crumble at the end of the nineteenth century. Through extensive new research in the Ottoman archives, Dogan Gurpinar assesses the intellectual, cultural and ideological foundations of the diplomatic service under Sultan Abdülhamid II. Ottoman Imperial Diplomacy presents a new model for understanding the formation of the modern Turkish nation, arguing that these Hamidian reforms – undertaken with the support of the ‘Young Ottomans’ led by Namik Kemal – constituted the beginnings of modern Turkish nationalism.

288 PageS 234 x 156mm FeBruary 20139781780761121 HarDBaCk £59.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 33


the voice of england in the eastStratford Canning and Diplomacy with the Ottoman empire

Steven RichmondIstanbul Technical University

In the age of the Great Powers, with Russia and France at war, and the Ottoman Empire at the height of its influence and majesty, the British diplomat Stratford Canning arrived in Constantinople. The cousin of George Canning, he would be Britain’s representative in the power politics of the Middle East for almost two decades, and was instrumental in the events which led up to the Crimean War and the events surrounding the ‘eastern question’ of the nineteenth century. In The Voice of England in the East, Steven Richmond reconstructs the diplomatic priorities of the period through the private papers and letters of a key British statesman, comparing them with Ottoman accounts written in the Sultan’s court for the first time. The result is a new analytical history of the late Ottoman Empire, British diplomacy in the era of Palmerston and the reality of politics in the ‘great game’ of the nineteenth century.

288 PageS 234 x 156mm IlluSTraTeD may 20139781780761176 HarDBaCk £59.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 35


empire and education under the ottomansPolitics, reform and resistance from the Tanzimat to the young Turks

Emine Ö. EveredMichigan State University

Once hailed as ‘the eternal state’, the Ottoman Empire was in decline by the end of the nineteenth century, finally collapsing under the pressures of World War I. Yet its legacies are still apparent, and few have had more impact than those of its schools and educational policies. Empire and Education under the Ottomans analyses the Empire’s educational politics from the mid-nineteenth century, amidst the Tanzimat reform period, until the Young Turk Revolution in 1908. Through a focus on the regional impact of decrees from Istanbul, Emine Ö. Evered unravels the complexities of the era, demonstrating how educational changes devised to strengthen the Empire actually hastened its demise. This book is the first history of education in the Ottoman Middle East to evaluate policies in the context of local responses and resistance, and includes the first published English translation of the watershed 1869 Ottoman Education Law.



JerusalemFrom the Ottomans to the British

Roberto MazzaSOAS

Led by General Allenby, British troops entered Jerusalem in December 1917, thereby ending Ottoman rule and opening a new and important era in the history of Jerusalem. This historical moment has often been described as the beginning of a period of great change and transformation, depicting the British as the real modernisers of Jerusalem. In this study, Mazza does not offer just another history of Jerusalem. He focuses on the often neglected transition from Ottoman rule to British administration, examining the impact of the First World War and considering the socio-political changes which occurred as a result of the transition. Through the extensive use of case studies and unpublished archival material from Spain and Vatican archives, Mazza takes a fresh approach to this period of Jerusalem’s history; focusing on a previously overlooked area and opening the field to new perspectives and research.

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the ottoman empire and the bosnian uprisingjanissaries, modernisation and rebellion in the Nineteenth Century

Fatma Sel Turhan

Bosnia enjoyed a special status within the Ottoman Empire. Many of the empire’s ‘janissaries’, an elite military stratum of soldiers and nobleman, hailed from this Balkan region. So when Sultan Mehmet II abolished this warrior class in 1826, and this curtailed the regions access to influence in Constan-tinople, Bosnia rebelled. Under the leadership of Husein Gradašcevic, the ‘dragon of Bosnia’, the kingdom declared independence and waged war with the Ottoman Empire. For the first time, Fatma Sel Turhan illuminates a period of crucial importance to the Balkan regions. She argues convincingly that the uprising was a response to Ottoman moves towards modernization designed to save the Ottoman Empire from decline, but which eventually led to its demise. She assesses how far the uprising can be considered a nationalist movement, who the rebels were, and how the central authorities dealt with and punished the perpetrators.

336 PageS 216 x 134mm SePTemBer 20139781780761114 HarDBaCk £59.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 34


petitioning the sultanProtests and justice in late Ottoman Palestine

yuval Ben-BassatUniversity of Haifa

The practice of petitioning the Ottoman Sultan was a well-known institution which existed in one form or another throughout Ottoman history and enabled Ottoman subjects, far from the capital of Istanbul, to convey their grievances directly to the supreme ruler. Here, Yuval Ben-Bassat examines the petitions, including many previously unpublished ones, sent during the last decades of the Empire to the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II. The petitions enable Ben-Bassat to explore Palestine’s history in this formative period from a unique perspective, providing first-hand accounts of the dilemmas, struggles, acts, concerns, schisms and transformations Palestinian society experienced. Petitioning the Sultan will be of great interest to a broad audience of specialists studying the history of the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, and Palestine’s late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century world.



beyond turkey’s borderslong-Distance kemalism, State Politics and the Turkish Diaspora

Banu SenayMacquarie University, Sydney

In an increasingly globalised world, the engagement of diasporic communities in trans-nationalism has become a potent force. Here, Banu Senay argues that expanding channels of communication have provided the Turkish state with more scope to mobilize its nationals abroad around official Kemalist ideology – in this case, in Australia. It is through the prism of ‘long-distance Kemalism’ that this book explores ideas of nationalism identity politics and cross-border mobilization. While the Turkish state injects its presence into everyday life – through its consular institutions and its management of Islam – it is the work of activists that gives efficacy to the ‘long arm of Kemalism’. However, the Australian multicultural context challenges this by giving a platform to groups, such as Kurds or Armenians, whose identity politics clash with that of Turkish officialdom. This book provides important new material for researchers of international politics, nationalism and migration.

336 PageS 216 x 134mm DeCemBer 20129781780760872 HarDBaCk £59.50INT. lIB. OF eTHNICITy, IDeNTITy aND CulTure, VOl. 3


confronting honour killings in turkeyThe Interaction of State and Civil Society

Nur Banu kavakli BirdalBogaziçi University

In 2005 Turkey introduced a set of legal reforms that were aimed at curbing incidents of honour killings and punishing those responsible. But in the years since this reform, there are still reports of gender-based violence and such honour killings – in which someone (usually a woman) is killed due to the perception that they have brought ‘dishonour’ upon their family or community – are still taking place. Here, Nur Banu Kavakli Birdal asks: what has gone wrong? What is problematic about the relation between written law and reality? Why has this new law not had a lasting impact on women’s everyday lives? In looking at the interplay between state and society through the lens of honour killings, Birdal offers a sociological insight into modern Turkey which will appeal to those involved in the study of this country and the wider region.



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politics and the peasantry in post-war turkeySocial History, Culture and modernization

Sinan yildirmazIstanbul University

Eric Hobsbawm famously called late twentieth-century Turkey ‘the last stronghold of the peasantry’. Turkey’s unique social, cultural and economic development after World War II kept intact a large social group which had all but disappeared in the rest of Europe by the 1960s. In the first period of Turkish multi-party democracy, this peasantry were re-invented, re-defined and ‘imagined’ by various political factions as Turkey attempted to shed its Ottoman past. Through the translation of ‘village literature’, the agency of this previously unheard voice is revealed, along with its role in the formation of Turkey. A cutting edge reassessment of the role of the Turkish peasantry, this is the first study of its kind, and will become an integral part of the history of the modern Turkish nation.

320 PageS 216 x 134mm SePTemBer 20139781780761138 HarDBaCk £59.50INT. lIB. OF eTHNICITy, IDeNTITy aND CulTure, VOl. 2


kurdish life in contemporary turkeymigration, gender and ethnic Identity

Anna Grabolle Celiker

The question of Kurdish identity and belonging is counted among the most controversial and challenging issues in modern Turkey. Kurdish Life in Contemporary Turkey cuts to the heart of this debate in an exploration of shifting ethnic identities brought on by the processes of extensive rural-urban labour migration. As well as analysing the effects of migration on social networks and local political landscapes, this volume examines how Kurdish gender roles have changed. The everyday experiences of rural-urban migrants from Van province, on the south-eastern borders of the country, are central to this book, but they are inextricably linked to conflicting discourses on Kurdishness and the place of this minority in Turkey.

320 PageS 216 x 134mm FeBruary 20139781780760926 HarDBaCk £59.50lIBrary OF mODerN Turkey, VOl. 2


the holy roman empire and the ottomansFrom global Imperial Power to absolutist States

Mehmet Sinan BirdalMaltepe University, Istanbul

The Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire, especially under their charismatic leaders Charles V and Suleyman I, were major empires of the early-modern period. Both exercised global power as, respectively, leaders of the universal ‘res publica Christiana’ and ‘dar-es Islam’. However, both lost supreme power in the course of the 17th and 18th centuries and began the transformation to absolutist nation states. This account of the important transition to modern notions of statehood is vital for understanding the reform strategies of both empires in administration, taxation, conduct of foreign policy and formation of the modern state. Mehmet Sinan Birdal draws upon original historical sources and the teachings of Habermas and the Frankfurt School for the doctrine of ‘legitimation’ as the theoretical basis for political authority in this original and revisionist work.

224 PageS 216 x 134mm SePTemBer 20139781780767109 PaPerBaCk £16.999781848856226 HarDBaCk £54.00


greece, the hidden centuriesTurkish rule from the Fall of Constantinople to greek Independence

David Brewer

For almost four hundred years, between the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the Greek War of Independence, the history of Greece is shrouded in mystery: distorted by Greek writers and largely neglected by others. What was life really like for the Greeks under Ottoman rule? How did the Greeks and Turks co-exist for so long? In this wide-ranging yet concise history, David Brewer explodes many of the myths about Turkish rule of Greece. He places the Greek story in its wider, international context and casts fresh light on the dynamics of power not only between Greeks and Ottomans but also between Muslims and Christians, both Orthodox and Catholic, throughout Europe. This absorbing and riveting account of a crucial period will ensure that the history of Greece under Turkish rule is no longer hidden. It will delight anyone with an interest in Greek and Turkish history and in how the past has shaped the Greece we know today.320 PageS 228x155mm aPrIl 20129781780762388 PaPerBaCk £12.99


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cities of the mediterraneanFrom the Ottomans to the Present Day

Biray kolluoglu and Meltem Toksöz (Eds)Both at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul

256 PageS 216 x 134mm 20109781848851276 HarDBaCk £62.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 23

the sultan’s admiralBarbarossa – Pirate and empire-Builder

Ernle BradfordNew Foreword by John Freely

248 PageS 198 x 126mm 2008978184511 793 1 PaPerBaCk £11.99 TaurIS Parke PaPerBaCkS

among the ottomansDiaries from Turkey in World War I

Ian lyster (Ed)208 PageS 216 x 134mm IlluSTraTeD 20109781848855212 HarDBaCk £25.50

artisans of empireCrafts and Craftspeople under the Ottomans

Suraiya FaroqhiBilgi University, Istanbul

304 PageS 228 x 155mm IlluSTraTeD 20119781848859609 PaPerBaCk £14.99

contested frontiers in the balkansOttoman, Habsburg and Communist rivalries in eastern europe

Irina Marin256 PageS 216 x 134mm 20129781780761053 HarDBaCk £54.50lIBrary OF eurOPeaN STuDIeS, VOl. 19

foreign investment in the ottoman empireInternational Trade and relations 1854-1914

v. Necla GeyikdagiYeditepe University, Istanbul

232 PageS 216 x 134mm IlluSTraTeD 20119781848854611 HarDBaCk £57.00lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 27

stephen the great and balkan nationalismmoldova and eastern european History

Jonathan Eagles256 PageS 216 x 134mm marCH 20139781780763538 HarDBaCk £59.50INTerNaTIONal lIBrary OF HISTOrICal STuDIeS, VOl. 85

innovation and empire in turkeySultan Selim III and the modernisation of the Ottoman Navy

Tuncay zorluIstanbul Technical University

272 PageS 216 x 134mm 20119781848857827 PaPerBaCk £27.009781845116941 HarDBaCk £59.00

the yezidisThe History of a Community, Culture and religion

Birgül Açikyildiz304 PageS 234 x 156mm 20109781848852747 HarDBaCk £52.00lIBrary OF mODerN relIgION, VOl. 17

the young turk legacy and nation buildingFrom the Ottoman empire to atatürk’s Turkey

Erik J. zürcherUniversity of Leiden

368 PageS 234 x 156mm auguST 20109781848852716 HarDBaCk £68.509781848852723 PaPerBaCk £17.99lIBrary OF mODerN mIDDle eaST STuDIeS, VOl. 87

ottomans looking west?The Origins of the Tulip age and its Development in modern Turkey

Can Erimtan288 PageS 216 x 134mm9781845114916 HarDBaCk £62.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 14

ottomans, turks and the balkansempire lost, relations altered

Ebru Boyar256 PageS 216 x 134mm 20079781845113513 HarDBaCk £68.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 12

palestine and egypt under the ottomansPaintings, Books, Photographs, maps and manuscripts

Hisham khatib300 PageS 350 x 320mm 20039781860648885 HarDBaCk £65.50150 COlOur IlluSTraTIONS

the political economy of ottoman public debtInsolvency and european Financial Control in the late Nineteenth Century

Murat Birdal256 PageS 216 x 134mm IlluSTraTeD 20109781848852983 HarDBaCk £59.00lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 18

rethinking orientalismWomen, Travel and the Ottoman Harem

Reina lewis256 PageS 234 x 156mm 20049781860647291 HarDBaCk £68.509781860647307 PaPerBaCk £18.99

subJects of the sultanCulture and Daily life in the Ottoman empire

Suraiya Faroqhi368 PageS 234 x 156mm 20059781850437604 PaPerBaCk £14.99

the sultan’s yemen19th-Century Challenges to Ottoman rule

Caesar E. Farah416 PageS 216 x 134mm 20029781860647673 HarDBaCk £68.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 1

women in the ottoman balkansgender, Culture and History

Amila Buturovic and Irvin Cemil Schick (Eds)




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late ottoman palestineThe Period of young Turk rule

yuval Ben-Bassat, University of Haifa, and Eyal Ginio, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem


ottoman haifaa History of Four Centuries under Turkish rule

Alex Carmel

224 PageS 216 x 134mm IlluSTraTeD 20109781848855601 HarDBaCk £59.00lIBrary OF mIDDle eaST HISTOry, VOl. 2

the ottoman origins of modern iraqPolitical reform, modernization and Development in the Nineteenth Century middle east

Ebubekır Ceylan, Fatih University320 PageS 216 x 134mm IlluSTraTeD 20119781848854253 HarDBaCk £62.50

ottoman paintingreflections of Western art from the Ottoman empire to the Turkish republic

Wendy M. k. ShawUniversity of Bern, Switzerland

224 PageS 234 x 156mm IlluSTraTeD 20119781848852884 HarDBaCk £37.00

remapping the ottoman middle eastmodernity, Imperial Bureaucracy and the Islamic State

Cem EmrenceUniversity of Massachusetts-Amherst


the transformation of ottoman creterevolts, Politics and Identity in the late Nineteenth Century

Pinar SenısikDogus University, Istanbul


the well-protected domainsIdeology and the legitimation of Power in the Ottoman empire 1876-1909

Selim Deringil, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul276 PageS 216 x 134mm 20119781848857865 PaPerBaCk £22.50

the young ottomansTurkish Critics of the eastern Question in the late Nineteenth Century

Nazan ÇiçekAnkara University


the british in the levantTrade and Perceptions of the Ottoman empire in the eighteenth Century

Christine laidlaw288 PageS 216 x 134mm IlluSTraTeD 20109781848853355 HarDBaCk £62.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 21

between two empiresahmet agaoglu and the New Turkey

A. Holly Shissler288 PageS 234 x 156mm 20039781860648557 HarDBaCk £62.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 2

the birth of modern turkeyThe Ottoman military and the march to WWI

Handan Nezir-Akmese240 PageS 234 x 156mm 20059781850437970 HarDBaCk £62.50

the crescent and the eagleOttoman rule, Islam and the albanians, 1874-1913

George Gawrych272 PageS 216 x 134mm 20069781845112875 HarDBaCk £68.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 10

the earl and his butler in constantinopleThe Secret Diary of an english Servant among the Ottomans

Nigel and Caroline Webb272 PageS 234 x 156mm 20089781845117825 PaPerBaCk £15.99

frontiers of ottoman studies, vol 1Colin Imber and keiko kiyotaki (Eds)304 PageS 234 x 156mm 20049781850436317 HarDBaCk £68.50

frontiers of ottoman studies, vol 2Colin Imber, keiko kiyotaki & Rhoads Murphey (Eds)264 PageS 234 x 156mm 20049781850436645 HarDBaCk £68.50

the grand turkSultan mehmet II - Conqueror of Constantinople, master of an empire and lord of Two Seas


guarding the frontierOttoman Border Forts and garrisons in europe

Mark l. Stein232 PageS 216 x 134mm 20079781845113018 HarDBaCk £68.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 11

ottoman and persian odysseysjames morier, Creator of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, and his Brothers

Henry Mckenzie Johnston

264 PageS 234 x 156mm9781860643309 HarDBaCk £44.00I.B.TaurIS IN aSSOCIaTION WITH THe CeNTre FOr leBaNeSe STuDIeS, OxFOrD

the ottoman empire and the world around itSuraiya Faroqhi304 PageS 234 x 156mm 20059781845111229 PaPerBaCk £14.99

ottoman propaganda and turkish identityliterature in Turkey During World War I

Erol koroglu272 PageS 216 x 134mm 20079781845114909 HarDBaCk £68.50

ottoman reform and muslim regenerationWeismann zachs288 PageS 234 x 156mm 20059781850437574 HarDBaCk £68.50

ottoman tulips, ottoman coffeeleisure and lifestyle in the eighteenth Century

Dana Sajdi (ed)280 PageS 216 x 134mm 20079781845115708 HarDBaCk £59.00



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late ottoman palestineThe Period of young Turk rule

yuval Ben-Bassat, University of Haifa, and Eyal Ginio, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem


ottoman haifaa History of Four Centuries under Turkish rule

Alex Carmel

224 PageS 216 x 134mm IlluSTraTeD 20109781848855601 HarDBaCk £59.00lIBrary OF mIDDle eaST HISTOry, VOl. 2

the ottoman origins of modern iraqPolitical reform, modernization and Development in the Nineteenth Century middle east

Ebubekır Ceylan, Fatih University320 PageS 216 x 134mm IlluSTraTeD 20119781848854253 HarDBaCk £62.50

ottoman paintingreflections of Western art from the Ottoman empire to the Turkish republic

Wendy M. k. ShawUniversity of Bern, Switzerland

224 PageS 234 x 156mm IlluSTraTeD 20119781848852884 HarDBaCk £37.00

remapping the ottoman middle eastmodernity, Imperial Bureaucracy and the Islamic State

Cem EmrenceUniversity of Massachusetts-Amherst


the transformation of ottoman creterevolts, Politics and Identity in the late Nineteenth Century

Pinar SenısikDogus University, Istanbul


the well-protected domainsIdeology and the legitimation of Power in the Ottoman empire 1876-1909

Selim Deringil, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul276 PageS 216 x 134mm 20119781848857865 PaPerBaCk £22.50

the young ottomansTurkish Critics of the eastern Question in the late Nineteenth Century

Nazan ÇiçekAnkara University


the british in the levantTrade and Perceptions of the Ottoman empire in the eighteenth Century

Christine laidlaw288 PageS 216 x 134mm IlluSTraTeD 20109781848853355 HarDBaCk £62.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 21

between two empiresahmet agaoglu and the New Turkey

A. Holly Shissler288 PageS 234 x 156mm 20039781860648557 HarDBaCk £62.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 2

the birth of modern turkeyThe Ottoman military and the march to WWI

Handan Nezir-Akmese240 PageS 234 x 156mm 20059781850437970 HarDBaCk £62.50

the crescent and the eagleOttoman rule, Islam and the albanians, 1874-1913

George Gawrych272 PageS 216 x 134mm 20069781845112875 HarDBaCk £68.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 10

the earl and his butler in constantinopleThe Secret Diary of an english Servant among the Ottomans

Nigel and Caroline Webb272 PageS 234 x 156mm 20089781845117825 PaPerBaCk £15.99

frontiers of ottoman studies, vol 1Colin Imber and keiko kiyotaki (Eds)304 PageS 234 x 156mm 20049781850436317 HarDBaCk £68.50

frontiers of ottoman studies, vol 2Colin Imber, keiko kiyotaki & Rhoads Murphey (Eds)264 PageS 234 x 156mm 20049781850436645 HarDBaCk £68.50

the grand turkSultan mehmet II - Conqueror of Constantinople, master of an empire and lord of Two Seas


guarding the frontierOttoman Border Forts and garrisons in europe

Mark l. Stein232 PageS 216 x 134mm 20079781845113018 HarDBaCk £68.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 11

ottoman and persian odysseysjames morier, Creator of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, and his Brothers

Henry Mckenzie Johnston

264 PageS 234 x 156mm9781860643309 HarDBaCk £44.00I.B.TaurIS IN aSSOCIaTION WITH THe CeNTre FOr leBaNeSe STuDIeS, OxFOrD

the ottoman empire and the world around itSuraiya Faroqhi304 PageS 234 x 156mm 20059781845111229 PaPerBaCk £14.99

ottoman propaganda and turkish identityliterature in Turkey During World War I

Erol koroglu272 PageS 216 x 134mm 20079781845114909 HarDBaCk £68.50

ottoman reform and muslim regenerationWeismann zachs288 PageS 234 x 156mm 20059781850437574 HarDBaCk £68.50

ottoman tulips, ottoman coffeeleisure and lifestyle in the eighteenth Century

Dana Sajdi (ed)280 PageS 216 x 134mm 20079781845115708 HarDBaCk £59.00



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cities of the mediterraneanFrom the Ottomans to the Present Day

Biray kolluoglu and Meltem Toksöz (Eds)Both at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul


the sultan’s admiralBarbarossa – Pirate and empire-Builder

Ernle BradfordNew Foreword by John Freely

248 PageS 198 x 126mm 2008978184511 793 1 PaPerBaCk £11.99 TaurIS Parke PaPerBaCkS

among the ottomansDiaries from Turkey in World War I

Ian lyster (Ed)208 PageS 216 x 134mm IlluSTraTeD 20109781848855212 HarDBaCk £25.50

artisans of empireCrafts and Craftspeople under the Ottomans

Suraiya FaroqhiBilgi University, Istanbul

304 PageS 228 x 155mm IlluSTraTeD 20119781848859609 PaPerBaCk £14.99

contested frontiers in the balkansOttoman, Habsburg and Communist rivalries in eastern europe

Irina Marin256 PageS 216 x 134mm 20129781780761053 HarDBaCk £54.50lIBrary OF eurOPeaN STuDIeS, VOl. 19

foreign investment in the ottoman empireInternational Trade and relations 1854-1914

v. Necla GeyikdagiYeditepe University, Istanbul


stephen the great and balkan nationalismmoldova and eastern european History

Jonathan Eagles256 PageS 216 x 134mm marCH 20139781780763538 HarDBaCk £59.50INTerNaTIONal lIBrary OF HISTOrICal STuDIeS, VOl. 85

innovation and empire in turkeySultan Selim III and the modernisation of the Ottoman Navy

Tuncay zorluIstanbul Technical University

272 PageS 216 x 134mm 20119781848857827 PaPerBaCk £27.009781845116941 HarDBaCk £59.00

the yezidisThe History of a Community, Culture and religion

Birgül Açikyildiz304 PageS 234 x 156mm 20109781848852747 HarDBaCk £52.00lIBrary OF mODerN relIgION, VOl. 17

the young turk legacy and nation buildingFrom the Ottoman empire to atatürk’s Turkey

Erik J. zürcherUniversity of Leiden

368 PageS 234 x 156mm auguST 20109781848852716 HarDBaCk £68.509781848852723 PaPerBaCk £17.99lIBrary OF mODerN mIDDle eaST STuDIeS, VOl. 87

ottomans looking west?The Origins of the Tulip age and its Development in modern Turkey

Can Erimtan288 PageS 216 x 134mm9781845114916 HarDBaCk £62.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 14

ottomans, turks and the balkansempire lost, relations altered

Ebru Boyar256 PageS 216 x 134mm 20079781845113513 HarDBaCk £68.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 12

palestine and egypt under the ottomansPaintings, Books, Photographs, maps and manuscripts

Hisham khatib300 PageS 350 x 320mm 20039781860648885 HarDBaCk £65.50150 COlOur IlluSTraTIONS

the political economy of ottoman public debtInsolvency and european Financial Control in the late Nineteenth Century

Murat Birdal256 PageS 216 x 134mm IlluSTraTeD 20109781848852983 HarDBaCk £59.00lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 18

rethinking orientalismWomen, Travel and the Ottoman Harem

Reina lewis256 PageS 234 x 156mm 20049781860647291 HarDBaCk £68.509781860647307 PaPerBaCk £18.99

subJects of the sultanCulture and Daily life in the Ottoman empire

Suraiya Faroqhi368 PageS 234 x 156mm 20059781850437604 PaPerBaCk £14.99

the sultan’s yemen19th-Century Challenges to Ottoman rule

Caesar E. Farah416 PageS 216 x 134mm 20029781860647673 HarDBaCk £68.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 1

women in the ottoman balkansgender, Culture and History

Amila Buturovic and Irvin Cemil Schick (Eds)




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the ottoman empire and the bosnian uprisingjanissaries, modernisation and rebellion in the Nineteenth Century

Fatma Sel Turhan

Bosnia enjoyed a special status within the Ottoman Empire. Many of the empire’s ‘janissaries’, an elite military stratum of soldiers and nobleman, hailed from this Balkan region. So when Sultan Mehmet II abolished this warrior class in 1826, and this curtailed the regions access to influence in Constan-tinople, Bosnia rebelled. Under the leadership of Husein Gradašcevic, the ‘dragon of Bosnia’, the kingdom declared independence and waged war with the Ottoman Empire. For the first time, Fatma Sel Turhan illuminates a period of crucial importance to the Balkan regions. She argues convincingly that the uprising was a response to Ottoman moves towards modernization designed to save the Ottoman Empire from decline, but which eventually led to its demise. She assesses how far the uprising can be considered a nationalist movement, who the rebels were, and how the central authorities dealt with and punished the perpetrators.



petitioning the sultanProtests and justice in late Ottoman Palestine

yuval Ben-BassatUniversity of Haifa

The practice of petitioning the Ottoman Sultan was a well-known institution which existed in one form or another throughout Ottoman history and enabled Ottoman subjects, far from the capital of Istanbul, to convey their grievances directly to the supreme ruler. Here, Yuval Ben-Bassat examines the petitions, including many previously unpublished ones, sent during the last decades of the Empire to the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II. The petitions enable Ben-Bassat to explore Palestine’s history in this formative period from a unique perspective, providing first-hand accounts of the dilemmas, struggles, acts, concerns, schisms and transformations Palestinian society experienced. Petitioning the Sultan will be of great interest to a broad audience of specialists studying the history of the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, and Palestine’s late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century world.



beyond turkey’s borderslong-Distance kemalism, State Politics and the Turkish Diaspora

Banu SenayMacquarie University, Sydney

In an increasingly globalised world, the engagement of diasporic communities in trans-nationalism has become a potent force. Here, Banu Senay argues that expanding channels of communication have provided the Turkish state with more scope to mobilize its nationals abroad around official Kemalist ideology – in this case, in Australia. It is through the prism of ‘long-distance Kemalism’ that this book explores ideas of nationalism identity politics and cross-border mobilization. While the Turkish state injects its presence into everyday life – through its consular institutions and its management of Islam – it is the work of activists that gives efficacy to the ‘long arm of Kemalism’. However, the Australian multicultural context challenges this by giving a platform to groups, such as Kurds or Armenians, whose identity politics clash with that of Turkish officialdom. This book provides important new material for researchers of international politics, nationalism and migration.

336 PageS 216 x 134mm DeCemBer 20129781780760872 HarDBaCk £59.50INT. lIB. OF eTHNICITy, IDeNTITy aND CulTure, VOl. 3


confronting honour killings in turkeyThe Interaction of State and Civil Society

Nur Banu kavakli BirdalBogaziçi University

In 2005 Turkey introduced a set of legal reforms that were aimed at curbing incidents of honour killings and punishing those responsible. But in the years since this reform, there are still reports of gender-based violence and such honour killings – in which someone (usually a woman) is killed due to the perception that they have brought ‘dishonour’ upon their family or community – are still taking place. Here, Nur Banu Kavakli Birdal asks: what has gone wrong? What is problematic about the relation between written law and reality? Why has this new law not had a lasting impact on women’s everyday lives? In looking at the interplay between state and society through the lens of honour killings, Birdal offers a sociological insight into modern Turkey which will appeal to those involved in the study of this country and the wider region.



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politics and the peasantry in post-war turkeySocial History, Culture and modernization

Sinan yildirmazIstanbul University

Eric Hobsbawm famously called late twentieth-century Turkey ‘the last stronghold of the peasantry’. Turkey’s unique social, cultural and economic development after World War II kept intact a large social group which had all but disappeared in the rest of Europe by the 1960s. In the first period of Turkish multi-party democracy, this peasantry were re-invented, re-defined and ‘imagined’ by various political factions as Turkey attempted to shed its Ottoman past. Through the translation of ‘village literature’, the agency of this previously unheard voice is revealed, along with its role in the formation of Turkey. A cutting edge reassessment of the role of the Turkish peasantry, this is the first study of its kind, and will become an integral part of the history of the modern Turkish nation.

320 PageS 216 x 134mm SePTemBer 20139781780761138 HarDBaCk £59.50INT. lIB. OF eTHNICITy, IDeNTITy aND CulTure, VOl. 2


kurdish life in contemporary turkeymigration, gender and ethnic Identity

Anna Grabolle Celiker

The question of Kurdish identity and belonging is counted among the most controversial and challenging issues in modern Turkey. Kurdish Life in Contemporary Turkey cuts to the heart of this debate in an exploration of shifting ethnic identities brought on by the processes of extensive rural-urban labour migration. As well as analysing the effects of migration on social networks and local political landscapes, this volume examines how Kurdish gender roles have changed. The everyday experiences of rural-urban migrants from Van province, on the south-eastern borders of the country, are central to this book, but they are inextricably linked to conflicting discourses on Kurdishness and the place of this minority in Turkey.

320 PageS 216 x 134mm FeBruary 20139781780760926 HarDBaCk £59.50lIBrary OF mODerN Turkey, VOl. 2


the holy roman empire and the ottomansFrom global Imperial Power to absolutist States

Mehmet Sinan BirdalMaltepe University, Istanbul

The Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire, especially under their charismatic leaders Charles V and Suleyman I, were major empires of the early-modern period. Both exercised global power as, respectively, leaders of the universal ‘res publica Christiana’ and ‘dar-es Islam’. However, both lost supreme power in the course of the 17th and 18th centuries and began the transformation to absolutist nation states. This account of the important transition to modern notions of statehood is vital for understanding the reform strategies of both empires in administration, taxation, conduct of foreign policy and formation of the modern state. Mehmet Sinan Birdal draws upon original historical sources and the teachings of Habermas and the Frankfurt School for the doctrine of ‘legitimation’ as the theoretical basis for political authority in this original and revisionist work.

224 PageS 216 x 134mm SePTemBer 20139781780767109 PaPerBaCk £16.999781848856226 HarDBaCk £54.00


greece, the hidden centuriesTurkish rule from the Fall of Constantinople to greek Independence

David Brewer

For almost four hundred years, between the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the Greek War of Independence, the history of Greece is shrouded in mystery: distorted by Greek writers and largely neglected by others. What was life really like for the Greeks under Ottoman rule? How did the Greeks and Turks co-exist for so long? In this wide-ranging yet concise history, David Brewer explodes many of the myths about Turkish rule of Greece. He places the Greek story in its wider, international context and casts fresh light on the dynamics of power not only between Greeks and Ottomans but also between Muslims and Christians, both Orthodox and Catholic, throughout Europe. This absorbing and riveting account of a crucial period will ensure that the history of Greece under Turkish rule is no longer hidden. It will delight anyone with an interest in Greek and Turkish history and in how the past has shaped the Greece we know today.320 PageS 228x155mm aPrIl 20129781780762388 PaPerBaCk £12.99


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the transformation of turkeyredefining State and Society from the Ottoman empire to the modern era

Fatma Müge GöçekUniversity of Michigan

In 1923, the Modern Turkish Republic rose from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, proclaiming a new era in the Middle East. However, many of the contemporary issues affecting Turkish state and society today have their roots not only in the history of the republic, but in the historical and political memory of the state’s imperial history. Here Fatma Müge Göçek draws on Turkey’s Ottoman heritage and history to explore current issues of ethnicity and religion alongside Turkey’s international position. This new perspective on history’s influence on contemporary tensions in Turkey will contribute to the ongoing debate surrounding Turkey’s accession to the EU, and offers insight into the social transformations in the transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish nation-state. 320 PageS 216 x 134mm FeBruary 20139781780764863 PaPerBaCk £25.009781848856110 HarDBaCk £62.50


turkey beyond nationalismTowards Post-Nationalist Identities

Hans-lukas kieser (Ed.)University of Zurich

Nationalism was a defining characteristic of Turkey in the twentieth century, and was a central driving force in Ataturk’s foundation of the Republic in 1923. How did the prominence of Kemalist ways of political thinking affect its people and its policies? To what extent has Turkey’s EU candidature been a vehicle of transformation since 1999 and what would EU membership mean for modern Turkey? This book explores the historical impact of Kemalism, anti-liberalism and westernization and examines the conditions which have contributed to the country’s evolution away from a nationalist political identity. Tracing the development of nationalism from its founding period before the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 to the present AKP government – and analysing key factors such as the position of minorities in the Turkification process and the influence of state and society centred religious politics – this strong and significant contribution casts a new light on a vivid international debate.272 PageS 234 x 156mm FeBruary 20139781780763996 PaPerBaCk £25.009781845111410 HarDBaCk £68.50


the emergence of social democracy in turkeyThe left and the Transformation of the republican People’s Party

yunus Emre

The RPP (Republican People’s Party) stands as Turkey’s main opposition party – one of two major political blocs, second only to Erdoğan’s ruling AK Party. Also known as the CHP (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi), it was the founding party of Atatürk’s republican regime and has a history of hostility towards leftist parties. Despite this, by the mid-1960s, the RPP had re-orientated itself as left of centre, as the growing influence of the left inside the RPP pushed it in a new direction. This is hailed as the entry point of social democratic politics into Turkey, and is the focus of Yunus Emre’s impressively researched book. He tracks the fluctuations in Turkish politics from the single-party period to the making of a new regime following the 1960 coup, looking at the place of both the RPP and the left in this trajectory, making this essential reading for scholars of Turkish politics and modern history.336 PageS 216 x 134mm auguST 20139781780764399 HarDBaCk £59.50


the young turks and the boycott movementNationalism, Protest and the Working Classes in the Formation of modern Turkey

Dogan ÇetinkayaIstanbul University

The first decade of the twentieth century was the Ottoman Empire’s ‘imperial twilight’. As the Empire fell away, the beginnings of a young and radical Turkish nationalism took root in Anatolia. The summer of 1908 saw the ‘Young Turks’ attempt to revitalise Turkey with a ‘constitutional revolution’ aimed at reducing the power of the Ottoman Sultan, Abdul Hamid II. Drawing on popular support for the defence of the Ottoman Empire’s Balkan territories, the Young Turks promised to build a nation from the people up, rather than from the top down. Here, Doğan Çetinkaya analyses the history of the Boycott Movement, a series of nationwide public meetings and protests which enshrined the Turkish democratic voice. 320 PageS 216 x 134mm marCH 20139781780764726 HarDBaCk £59.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS


ottoman imperial diplomacya Political, Social and Cultural History

Dogan GurpinarHarvard University

The Ottoman Empire maintained a complex and powerful bureaucratic system which enforced the Sultan’s authority across the Empire’s Middle-Eastern territories. This bureaucracy continued to gain in power and prestige, even as the empire itself began to crumble at the end of the nineteenth century. Through extensive new research in the Ottoman archives, Dogan Gurpinar assesses the intellectual, cultural and ideological foundations of the diplomatic service under Sultan Abdülhamid II. Ottoman Imperial Diplomacy presents a new model for understanding the formation of the modern Turkish nation, arguing that these Hamidian reforms – undertaken with the support of the ‘Young Ottomans’ led by Namik Kemal – constituted the beginnings of modern Turkish nationalism.

288 PageS 234 x 156mm FeBruary 20139781780761121 HarDBaCk £59.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 33


the voice of england in the eastStratford Canning and Diplomacy with the Ottoman empire

Steven RichmondIstanbul Technical University

In the age of the Great Powers, with Russia and France at war, and the Ottoman Empire at the height of its influence and majesty, the British diplomat Stratford Canning arrived in Constantinople. The cousin of George Canning, he would be Britain’s representative in the power politics of the Middle East for almost two decades, and was instrumental in the events which led up to the Crimean War and the events surrounding the ‘eastern question’ of the nineteenth century. In The Voice of England in the East, Steven Richmond reconstructs the diplomatic priorities of the period through the private papers and letters of a key British statesman, comparing them with Ottoman accounts written in the Sultan’s court for the first time. The result is a new analytical history of the late Ottoman Empire, British diplomacy in the era of Palmerston and the reality of politics in the ‘great game’ of the nineteenth century.



empire and education under the ottomansPolitics, reform and resistance from the Tanzimat to the young Turks

Emine Ö. EveredMichigan State University

Once hailed as ‘the eternal state’, the Ottoman Empire was in decline by the end of the nineteenth century, finally collapsing under the pressures of World War I. Yet its legacies are still apparent, and few have had more impact than those of its schools and educational policies. Empire and Education under the Ottomans analyses the Empire’s educational politics from the mid-nineteenth century, amidst the Tanzimat reform period, until the Young Turk Revolution in 1908. Through a focus on the regional impact of decrees from Istanbul, Emine Ö. Evered unravels the complexities of the era, demonstrating how educational changes devised to strengthen the Empire actually hastened its demise. This book is the first history of education in the Ottoman Middle East to evaluate policies in the context of local responses and resistance, and includes the first published English translation of the watershed 1869 Ottoman Education Law.



JerusalemFrom the Ottomans to the British

Roberto MazzaSOAS

Led by General Allenby, British troops entered Jerusalem in December 1917, thereby ending Ottoman rule and opening a new and important era in the history of Jerusalem. This historical moment has often been described as the beginning of a period of great change and transformation, depicting the British as the real modernisers of Jerusalem. In this study, Mazza does not offer just another history of Jerusalem. He focuses on the often neglected transition from Ottoman rule to British administration, examining the impact of the First World War and considering the socio-political changes which occurred as a result of the transition. Through the extensive use of case studies and unpublished archival material from Spain and Vatican archives, Mazza takes a fresh approach to this period of Jerusalem’s history; focusing on a previously overlooked area and opening the field to new perspectives and research.

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the young atatürkFrom Ottoman Soldier to Statesman of Turkey

George W. GawrychBaylor University

Mustafa Kemal – latterly and better known as Atatürk – is without doubt the towering figure of modern Turkish history. But what was his path to power? And how did his early career as a soldier in the Ottoman army affect his later decisions as President? The Young Atatürk tracks the lesser covered period of Kemal’s life – from the War of Independence to the founding of the Republic – and shows that it is only by understanding Kemal’s military career that one can fully comprehend how he evolved as one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary statesmen. Delving into Kemal’s military writings, orders, and political decisions, speeches, proclamations and private correspondences, this book provides a rounded and nuanced portrait of the making of a major statesman.288 PageS 228x155mm IlluSTraTeD marCH 20139781780763224 HarDBaCk £25.00


palestine and the decline of the ottoman empiremodernisation and the Path to Palestinian Statehood

Farid Al-SalimKansas State University

During the final decades of Ottoman rule, Palestine was administratively divided into two states, Jerusalem and Beirut. As the Ottoman Empire began to recede, the education systems, taxation and bureaucracy which were left behind formed the foundation of administration in the Palestinian authority today. The reign of Sultan Abdülmecid I saw great changes in Palestine, in line with the Tanzimat reform programme. At the heart of these radical shifts in thought and infrastructure were the new administrative centres established by the Ottomans during this period of re-organisation. Drawing extensively on official Ottoman records, Farid Al-Salim charts the transformation of one such centre, Tulkarm, from a small village in central Palestine to a seat of admin-istrative reform in order to provide a new account of the forces behind the formation of modern Palestine.320 PageS 216 x 134mm SePTemBer 20139781780764566 HarDBaCk £59.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS


freemasonry in the ottoman empirea History of the Fraternity and its Influence in Syria and the levant

Dorothe SommerUniversity of Sheffield

The network of freemasons and Masonic lodges in the Middle East is an opaque and mysterious one, and is all too often seen – within the area – as a vanguard for Western purposes of regional domination. But here, Dorothe Sommer explains how freemasonry in Greater Syria at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century actually developed a life of its own, promoting local and regional identities. Indeed, the lodges attracted more participants – such as the Trad Family, the Jurji Yanni Yaziji Family, Hassan Bayhum, Alexander Barroudi and Khaireddeen Abdulwahab – than any other society or fraternity. Freemasonry in the Ottoman Empire analyses the social and cultural structures of the Masonic network of lodges and their interconnections at a pivotal juncture in the history of the Ottoman Empire.320 PageS 216 x 134mm july 20139781780763132 HarDBaCk £59.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 37


the emergence of modern istanbulTransformation and modernisation of a City

Murat GülUniversity of Economics and Technology, Ankara

In its transition from eighteenth-century capital of the Ottoman Empire to economic powerhouse of the Turkish Republic, Istanbul has been altered beyond recognition. This intricate and original account charts the urban transformation of an iconic and hybrid city and, through this, delves into the broader arena of Turkey’s history. After the establishment of the Republic, Turkey increasingly turned to the West for ideas about how to develop a modern culture, and Istanbul became a forum for different regimes to display their political, ideological and social policies in the context of the built environment. Murat Gül traces the impact of these changing policies on the very fabric of the city itself – its streets, buildings and landscapes – to present a compelling account of the dramatic changes to Turkey’s most important metropolis.256 PageS 234 x 156mm IlluSTraTeD OCTOBer 20129781780763743 PaPerBaCk £17.99


the rise of political islam in turkeyurban Poverty, grassroots activism and Islamic Fundamentalism

kayhan DelibasUniversity of Kent

Turkey, officially a secular state, voted in an Islamist party in 2002 and 2007. How far does this reflect the trend which has seen the rise of political Islam across the Middle East? Does this indicate a growing tendency in the direction of Islamisation amongst the Turkish population? If not, what are the underlying reasons behind the electoral triumphs of the Islamist Justice and Development Party (the AKP)? Kayhan Delibas seeks to answer these questions through an in-depth examination of the appeal of this political party, exploring its ideology, the routes and motives which produce party activists and local party organisations. Concluding that the AKP’s success has been built on its criticism of growing inequalities, widespread corruption, unemployment, poverty and lack of basic services, Delibas draws a nuanced portrait of modern Turkish society and the relationship between religion and politics.

288 PageS 216 x 134mm DeCemBer 20139781780765655 HarDBaCk £56.50lIBrary OF mODerN Turkey, VOl. 10


turkey and the politics of national identitySocial, economic and Cultural Transformation

Shane Brennan and Marc Herzog

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Turkey experienced an extraordinary set of transformations. In 2001, in the midst of financial difficulties, the country was under IMF stewardship, yet it has recently emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world. And on the international stage, Turkey has managed to enhance its position from being a backseat NATO member and outside candidate for EU membership to being an influential regional power, determining and developing its own individual foreign policy. Shane Brennan and Marc Herzog explore how these and other changes have shaped the way people in Turkey perceive themselves and how the country’s self-image shapes its actions. Through different approaches engaging with politics, economy, society, culture and history, they offer new perspectives on the transformation of national identity in this increasingly influential country in the Middle East.



democratic transition in turkeyThe Transformation of Civil Society and the Challenges of eu accession

Hasan Turunc

‘West’ or ‘East’? ‘Modern’ or ‘Traditional’? ‘Global’ or ‘Local’? ‘Secular’ or ‘Islamic’? ‘Turkish’ or ‘Other’? These seemingly polar opposites have all-too-often been lazily used when examining the nature of the modern Turkish state and its society. Here, Hasan Turunc seeks to look at the nuance which lies in between these opposites, analysing the explosion of civil society institutions under the aegis and protection of the EU Copenhagen Political Criteria (which holds out eventual EU accession as the ultimate incentive in the negotiations). He thereby explores how the role of the army in Turkish society has been altered with the commencement of the EU accession process, as the balance is shifted more towards civilian institutions and away from the military. A fresh look at the current issues within Turkey, this book offers a vital and nuanced analysis for those researching modern Turkey and its political issues.

288 PageS 216 x 134mm OCTOBer 20139781780760919 HarDBaCk £56.50lIBrary OF mODerN Turkey, VOl. 3


citizenship and identity in turkeyFrom atatürk’s republic to the Present Day

Basak InceBilkent University

Is Turkish nationalism simply a product of Kemalist propaganda from the early Turkish Republic or an inevitable consequence of a firm and developing ‘Turkish’ identity? Turkish citizenship is a vital aspect of today’s Republic, and yet it has long been defined only through legal framework, neglecting its civil, political, and social implications. Here, Basak Ince seeks to rectify this, examining the identity facets of citizenship, and how this relates to nationalism, democracy and political participation in the modern Turkish republic. By tracing the development of the citizenship from the initial founding of the Republic to the immediate post-World War II period, and from the military interventions of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s to the present day she offers in-depth analysis of the interaction of state and society in modern Turkey, which holds wider implications for the study of the Middle East.

320 PageS 216 x 134mm aPrIl 20129781780760261 HarDBaCk £59.50lIBrary OF mODerN Turkey


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ottomaniaThe romantics and the myth of the Islamic Orient

Roderick Cavaliero

‘Romanticism had its roots in fantasy and fed on myth’. So Roderick Cavaliero introduces the nineteenth-century European Romantic obsession with the Orient. Cavaliero brings on a rich cast of leading Romantic writers, artists, musicians and travellers, including Beckford, Byron, Shelley, Walter Scott, Pierre Loti, Thomas Moore, Rossini, Eugene Delacroix, Thackeray and Disraeli, who luxuriated in the exotic sights, sounds, literature and mythology of the Orient. Cavaliero analyses the Romantic vision of the Orient from Ottoman Turkey, through the Middle East, including Egypt and Persia, to the Vale of Kashmir. The book will delight all readers interested in tales of the Orient and the literature of the Romantic movement – a rich treasure-house of poets, novelists and travellers.272 PageS 228x155mm jaNuary 20139781780764825 PaPerBaCk £12.99


the ottomans and the mamluksImperial Diplomacy and Warfare in the Islamic World

Cihan yüksel MusluUniversity of Texas

Beginning on the eve of Oceanic exploration, and the first European forays into the Indian Ocean and the Middle East, The Ottomans and the Mamluks traces the growth of the Ottoman Empire from a tiny Anatolian principality to a world power, and the relative decline of the Mamluks – historic defenders of Mecca and Medina and the rulers of Egypt and Syria. Cihan Yüksel Muslu traces the intertwined stories of these two dominant Sunni Muslim empires of the early modern world, setting out to question the view that Muslim rulers were historically concerned above all with the idea of Jihad against non-Muslim entities. Through analysis of the diplomatic and military engagements around the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, Muslu traces the interactions of these Islamic super-powers and their attitudes towards the wider world. 256 PageS 216 x 134mm DeCemBer 20139781780761497 HarDBaCk £56.00lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 36


the heJaz railway and the ottoman empiremodernity, Industrialisation and Ottoman Decline

Murat ÖzyükselIstanbul University

Railway expansion was symbolic of modernisation in the late nineteenth century, and Britain, Germany and France built railways at enormous speed and reaped great commercial benefits. In the Middle East, railways were no less important and the Ottoman Empire’s Hejaz Railway was the first great industrial project of the twentieth century. A route running from Damascus to Mecca, it was longer than the line from Berlin to Baghdad and was designed to function as the artery of the Arab world – linking Constan-tinople to Arabia. Built by German engineers, and instituted by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the railway was financially crippling for the Ottoman state and its eventual stoppage 250 miles short of Mecca (the railway ended in Medina) was symbolic of the Ottoman Empire’s crumbling economic and diplomatic fortunes. This is the first book in English on the subject.256 PageS 216 x 134mm SePTemBer 20139781780763644 HarDBaCk £56.50lIBrary OF OTTOmaN STuDIeS, VOl. 39


military intervention and crisis democracy in turkeyThe menderes era and its Demise

Mogens PeltUniversity of Copenhagen

Adnan Menderes’ election to power in 1950 signalled a new epoch in the history of modern Turkey. For the first time a democratic government ruled the country, challenging the political monopoly of the Kemalist elites. However, this period was short-lived. In 1960, Turkey’s army staged a coup d’état and Menderes was hanged the following year. Here, Mogens Pelt examines the era of the rule of the Democratic Party and the legacy of the military intervention that brought it to an end. Although the armed forces officially returned power to the civilians in 1961, this intervention allowed the military to become a major player in Turkey’s political process, weakening the role of elected politicians. This unique exploration of the Menderes period sheds new light on the shaping of post-war Turkey and will be vital for those researching the Turkish Republic, and the influence of the military in its destiny.

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women workers in turkeyglobal Industrial Production in Istanbul

Saniye Dedeoglu

Globalisation is often considered as not only generating jobs, but also having a negative effect on those at the bottom of the labour supply chain. Here Saniye Dedeoglu shows us exactly how globalisation has affected women engaged in insecure, invisible and low/unpaid garment work. Through a close ethnographic study of women workers in Istanbul’s garment industry, she reveals how industries have adapted their labour demands to make use of local female labour supplies, and highlights the strategies and responses that have evolved in response to contemporary changes in global industrial production in Turkey. The book throws up the critical question of what it means to be a woman in today’s globalised society, and is an important contribution to the various perspectives on the social and economic consequences of globalization to the least priviliged in industrial socieities.

‘A well-grounded contribution to the debates on women’s economics activities, gender ideologies and industrial production in Turkey.’– Professor Yildiz Ecevit, Middle East Technical University

232 PageS 216 x 134mm juNe 20129781780760315 PaPerBaCk £25.00


gender and society in turkeyThe Impact of Neoliberal Policies, Political Islam and eu accession

Saniye Dedeoglu, Warwick University and Adam yavuz Elveren, Sütçü Imam University, Turkey (Eds)

320 PageS 216 x 134mm IlluSTraTeD 20129781780760278 HarDBaCk £59.50lIBrary OF mODerN Turkey, VOl. 4

the army and the radical left in turkeymilitary Coups, Socialist revolution and kemalism

Özgür Mutlu ulusAcibadem University


occidentalism in turkeyQuestions of modernity and National Identity in Turkish radio Broadcasting

Meltem AhıskaBogaziçi University


technology and national identity in turkeymobile Communications and the evolution of a Post-Ottoman Nation

Burce CelikBahçesehir University, Turkey

224 PageS 216 x 134mm IlluSTraTeD 20119781848854291 HarDBaCk £59.50INTerNaTIONal lIBrary OF CulTural STuDIeS, VOl. 15

empire and holy war in the mediterraneanThe galley and maritime Conflict between the Habsburgs and Ottomans

Phillip Williams

In the century after 1530, the Catholic Monarchy of the Habsburgs and the Muslim Sultans of the Ottoman Empire fought a maritime war of ambiguous achievements. Lasting peace was as unlikely as final triumph and major campaigns seemed destined to lead nowhere, in part because the salient feature of this war was a form of piracy practiced by the North African Barbary corsairs. It was also a war of unequal means, since the Habsburgs had too few good warships and the Ottomans too many bad ones. Phillip Williams here provides a detailed examination of the nature of what came to be seen as a Holy War between Christendom and the Islamic World in the early modern Mediterranean. He considers the cultural and historical outlook of the protagonists, including the Habsburg rulers Charles V and Philip II and the Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, examining the extent to which the dictates of prudence triumphed over ideals of performing ‘the service of God’.

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allies with the infidelThe Ottoman and French alliance in the Sixteenth Century

Christine Isom-verhaarenBenedictine University, Illinois

In 1543, the Ottoman fleet appeared off the coast of France to bombard and lay siege to the city of Nice. The operation came in response to a request from François I of France for assistance from Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent in France’s struggle against Charles V, the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. This military alliance between mutual ‘infidels’, the Christian French King and the Muslim Sultan, aroused intense condemnation on religious grounds from the Habsburgs and their supporters as an aberration from accepted diplomacy. Allies with the Infidel places the events of 1543 and the subsequent wintering of the Ottoman fleet in Toulon in the context of the power politics of the sixteenth century. Relying on contemporary Ottoman and French sources, it presents the realpolitik of diplomacy with ‘infidels’ in the early modern era. 288 PageS 216 x 134mm FeBruary 20139781848857285 HarDBaCk £55.009781780764979 PaPerBaCk £17.99


lost capital of byzantiumThe History of mistra and the Peloponnese

Steven Runciman, New Foreword by John Freely152 PageS 216 x 134mm 20099781845118952 PaPerBaCk £9.99

storm on horsebackThe Seljuk Warriors of Turkey


kingdoms of ruinThe art and architectural Splendours of ancient Turkey

Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch, Foreword by John Freely256 PageS 270 x 228mm 20109781845117993 HarDBaCk £31.50

artisans and travel in the ottoman empireeconomic migration and Commerce in the early modern Period

Suraiya FaroqhiIstanbul Bilgi University

It has often been assumed that the subjects of the Ottoman sultans were unable to travel beyond their localities – since peasants needed the permission of their local administrators before they could legally leave their villages. According to this view, only soldiers and members of the governing elite would have been free to travel. However Suraiya Faroqhi’s extensive archival research shows that this was not the case. Pious men from all walks of life went on pilgrimage to Mecca, slaves escaped from their masters and craftspeople travelled in order to look for work. Faroqhi shows that even those craftsmen who did not travel extensively had some level of mobility and that the Ottoman sultans and viziers, who spent so much effort in attempting to control the movements of their subjects, could do so only within often very narrow limits. Challenging existing historiography and providing an important new perspective, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of Ottoman history.320 PageS 234 x 156mm july 20139781780764818 HarDBaCk £59.50


children of achillesThe greeks in asia minor since the Days of Troy

John Freely288 PageS 234 x 156mm IlluSTraTeD 20099781845119416 HarDBaCk £22.50

the rhetoric of power in late antiquityreligion and Politics in Byzantium, europe and the early Islamic World

Elizabeth DePalma Digeser, University of California, Santa Barbara, Robert M. Frakes, Clarion University & Justin Stephens, Metropolitan

State College of Denver320 PageS 216 x 134mm 20109781848854093 HarDBaCk £68.50lIBrary OF ClaSSICal STuDIeS, VOl. 2

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turkey and european security defence policyCompatibility and Security Cultures in a globalised World

Çigdem ÜstünGediz University, Izmir

288 PageS 216 x 134mm auguST 20109781848852679 HarDBaCk £62.50lIBrary OF eurOPeaN STuDIeS, VOl. 12

turkey and the dilemma of eu accessionWhen religion meets Politics

Mirela Bogdani

240 PageS 216 x 134mm SePTemBer 20109781848854581 HarDBaCk £59.009781848854598 PaPerBaCk £14.99lIBrary OF eurOPeaN STuDIeS, VOl. 16

the zaza kurds of turkeya middle eastern minority in a globalised Society

Mehmed S. kayaLillehammer University College


kurds of modern turkeymigration, Neoliberalism and exclusion in Turkish Society

Cenk SaraçogluMiddle East Technical University


islam and secularism in turkeykemalism, religion and the Nation State

umut Azak

256 PageS 234 x 156mm IlluSTraTeD 20109781848852631 HarDBaCk £56.00INTerNaTIONal lIBrary OF TWeNTIeTH CeNTury HISTOry, VOl. 27

living islamWomen, religion and the Politicization of Culture in Turkey

Ayse Saktanber304 PageS 216 x 134mm 20029781860641787 HarDBaCk £62.50lIBrary OF mODerN mIDDle eaST STuDIeS, VOl. 20

men of orderauthoritarian modernization under atatürk and reza Shah

Touraj Atabaki and Erik J. zürcher (Eds)296 PageS 216 x 134mm 20049781860644269 HarDBaCk £62.50lIBrary OF mODerN mIDDle eaST STuDIeS, VOl. 21

migrating to americaTransnational Social Networks and regional Identity among Turkish migrants

lisa DiCarlo200 PageS 216 x 134mm 20089781845116460 HarDBaCk £59.00INTerNaTIONal lIBrary OF mIgraTION STuDIeS, VOl. 1

muslims in modern turkeykemalism, modernism and the revolt of the Islamic Intellectuals

Sena karasipahi256 PageS 234 x 156mm 20089781845117832 HarDBaCk £59.00lIBrary OF mODerN mIDDle eaST STuDIeS, VOl. 72

new turkish cinemaBelonging, Identity and memory

Asuman Suner224 PageS 234 x 156mm 20109781845119492 HarDBaCk £59.009781845119508 PaPerBaCk £17.99

britain and turkey in the middle eastPolitics and Influence in the early Cold War era

Mustafa Bilgin


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the sacred architecture of byzantiumart, liturgy and Symbolism in early Christian Churches

Nicholas N. PatriciosUniversity of Miami

The churches of the Byzantine era were built to represent heaven on earth: architecture, art and liturgy were intertwined in them to a degree that has never been replicated elsewhere. Nicholas N. Patricios here offers a comprehensive survey, from the age of Constantine to the fall of Constan-tinople, of the nexus between buildings, worship and art. His identification of seven distinct Byzantine church types, based on a close analysis of 370 church building plans, will have considerable appeal to Byzantinists. Beyond categorising and describing the churches themselves, which are richly illustrated with photographs, plans and diagrams, the author interprets the sacred liturgy that took place within these holy buildings. Focusing on buildings in twenty-two different locations, this sumptuous book is an essential guide to individual features and the wider significance of Byzantine art and architecture.384 PageS 246 x 189mm IlluSTraTeD may 20139781780762913 HarDBaCk £45.00lIBrary OF ClaSSICal STuDIeS


a short history of the byzantine empireDionysios StathakopoulosKing’s College, University of London

The Byzantine Empire was one of the most impressive imperial adventures in history. Dionysios Stathakopoulos here tells a compelling story of military conquest, alliance and reversal, including the terrifying secret weapon of ‘Greek fire’. His new short history is above all a narrative of individuals: of powerful rulers like Justinian I, who recovered Italy from the Vandals and oversaw construction of Hagia Sofia (completed in 537); of his notorious queen Theodora, a courtesan who rose improbably to the highest office of imperial first lady; of the charismatic but cuckolded general Belisarius; and of the religious leaders Arius and Athanasius, whose conflicting ideas about Christ and doctrine shook the Empire to its core.192 PageS 216 x 134mm SePTemBer 20139781780761930 HarDBaCk £47.509781780761947 PaPerBaCk £12.99


diplomacy in the early islamic worlda Tenth-century Treatise on arab-Byzantine relations

Maria vaiouSabanci University, Istanbul

Arab messengers played a vital role in the medieval Islamic world and its diplomatic relations with foreign powers. An innovative treatise from the 10th Century (Rusul al-Muluk, Messengers of Kings) is perhaps the most important account of the diplomacy of the period, and it is here translated into English for the first time. Rusul al-Muluk draws on examples from the Qur’an and other sources which extend from the period of al- jahiliyya to the time of the ‘Abbasid caliph al-Mu‘tasim (218-227/833-842). In the only medieval Arabic work which exists on the conduct of messengers and their qualifications, the author Ibn al-Farra rejects jihadist policies in favour of quiet diplomacy and a pragmatic outlook of constructive realpolitik.

‘Dr Vaiou succinctly characterizes the text’s nature and purpose... The text will be of very great interest to historians of Islam, both cultural and political historians, and also to Byzantinists and medievalists in general.’– Dr Jonathan Shepherd, Oxford University

288 PageS 216 x 134mm marCH 20139781845116521 HarDBaCk £56.50lIBrary OF mIDDle eaST HISTOry, VOl. 17


ancient and byzantine turkey

the selJuks of anatoliaCourt and Society in the medieval middle east

A.C.S. Peacock and Sara Nur yıldız (Eds)University of St Andrews

Under Seljuk rule (c. 1081-1308) the formerly Christian Byzantine territories of Anatolia were transformed by the development of Muslim culture, society and politics, and it was then – well before the arrival of the Ottomans – that a Turkish population became firmly established in these lands. But these developments are little understood, and the Seljuk dynasty remains little studied. Yet the Seljuks of Anatolia were one of the most influential dynasties of the thirteenth-century Middle East, controlling some of the major trade routes of the period, playing a crucial role in linking East and West of the medieval world. This volume examines Seljuk culture and history by looking at developments both at court and in society at large, and sheds new light on Seljuk political culture and dynastic ideology, the engagement of politics with religion, and Christian-Muslim interaction.

‘This impressive scholarly volume opens up several new lines of research into the turbulent and little-known history of Seljuk Anatolia.’– Professor Charles Melville, University of Cambridge

320 PageS 216 x 134mm NOVemBer 20129781848858879 HarDBaCk £56.00lIBrary OF mIDDle eaST HISTOry, VOl. 38


the eu and turkeya glittering Prize or a millstone?

Edited by Michael lake180 PageS 228x148mm 20059781903403617 PaPerBaCk £16.999781903403754 HarDBaCk £47.50

fragments of cultureThe everyday of modern Turkey

Deniz kandiyoti & Ayse Saktanber (eds)360 PageS 234 x 156mm 20019781860644276 PaPerBaCk £18.99

spatial conceptions of the nationmodernizing geographies in greece and Turkey

Nikiforos Diamandouros, Thalia Dragonas and Çaglar keyder (Eds)

320 PageS 216 x 134mm 20109781848851313 HarDBaCk £62.50

the state and the subalternmodernization, Society and the State in Turkey and Iran

Touraj Atabaki (Ed)272 PageS 234 x 156mm 20079781845113391 HarDBaCk £65.50lIBrary OF mODerN mIDDle eaST STuDIeS, VOl. 66

turkeya modern History

Erik J. zürcher432 PageS 216 x 134mm 20059781860649585 PaPerBaCk £16.99

turkey, islamists and democracyTransition and globalization in a muslim State

yildiz Atasoy240 PageS 234 x 156mm 20059781850437581 HarDBaCk £59.00

turkish democracy today elections, Protest and Stability in an Islamic Society

Ali Carkoglu & Ersin kalaycioglu256 PageS 234 x 156mm 20069781845111854 HarDBaCk £62.50INTerNaTIONal lIBrary OF POlITICal STuDIeS, VOl. 15

the unwelcome neighbourTurkey’s kurdish Policy

Asa lundgren168 PageS 234 x 156mm 20079781850436829 HarDBaCk £59.00CulTure aND SOCIeTy IN WeSTerN & CeNTral aSIa, VOl. 3

ways to modernity in greece and turkeyencounters with europe, 1850-1950

Anna Frangoudaki and Caglar keyder (Eds)272 PageS 234 x 156mm 20079781845112899 HarDBaCk £68.50lIBrary OF eurOPeaN STuDIeS, VOl. 1

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south from ephesusTravels through aegean Turkey

Brian Sewell

Weary of what he called the ‘tyranny’ of western art, Brian Sewell first visited Turkey in 1975. He thought that there, anything he found would have no relevance to European and that he could therefore enjoy the art for its own sake. But Turkey surprised him and he delighted in the unexpected wealth of Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic cultures there, returning three of four times a year until 1990. The main bulk of this book focuses on his journey from Ephesus to Side one winter. With typically acerbic commentary, Sewell describes (not always favourably) the archaeological and historical sites he comes across, the landscapes that so clearly thrilled him, and the encounters he has along the way. South from Ephesus is an incomparable portrait of Turkey and its artistic heritage – a book that could only have been written by Sewell and which has become a quirky classic of travel literature.

‘Startlingly original’ – Times Literary Supplement

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the lycian shorea Turkish Odyssey

Freya Stark240 PageS 198 x 126mm IlluSTraTeD 20119781848853126 PaPerBaCk £9.99TaurIS Parke PaPerBaCkS

across the hellesponta literary guide to Turkey

Richard StonemanExeter University264 PageS 198 x 126mm NOVemBer 20109781848854222 PaPerBaCk £11.99

imperial istanbula Traveller’s guide: Includes Iznik, Bursa and edirne

Jane Taylor352 PageS 198 x 126mm 20079781860642494 PaPerBaCk £12.99

ioniaa Quest

Freya Stark376 PageS 198 x 126mm IlluSTraTeD 20109781848851917 PaPerBaCk £11.99

strolling through istanbulThe Classic guide to the City

Hilary Sumner-Boyd and John Freely512 PageS 198 x 126mm IlluSTraTeD 20099781848851542 PaPerBaCk £12.99

the western shores of turkeyDiscovering the aegean and mediterranean Coasts

John Freely424 PageS 198 x 126mm IlluSTraTeD 20049781850436188 PaPerBaCk £12.99

a byzantine JourneyJohn Ash352 PageS 198 x 126mm 20069781845113070 PaPerBaCk £12.99TaurIS Parke PaPerBaCkS

rome on the euphratesThe Story of a Frontier

Freya Stark496 PageS 198 x 126mm may 20129781848853140 PaPerBaCk £12.99TaurIS Parke PaPerBaCkS

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Turkey & the Ottoman Empire2013

At the height of its power, the Ottoman Empire held sway over much of southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. With Constantinople its capital, the empire was a fusion of cultures, languages and influences from east and west. Following the demise of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey became a Republic in 1923 – and is now a thriving economy and an increasingly influential force in the modern world.

We are delighted to present our new 2013 publications on Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. As a world leader in Turkey & Ottoman Studies, we seek to represent the richness of the empire’s history along with the most topical debates. Covering the history, politics and cultures of the region from ancient times through the Byzantine and Ottoman eras to the Republic and the present day, the list comprises academic monographs, which showcase the latest scholarly research, along with general books for the interested reader, such as travel writing classics and illustrated cookery titles.

‘In the last generation, there has been a transformation in Ottoman Studies – I.B.Tauris has been a major agent in presenting the new research to the world.’

– Peter Clark, Asian Affairs, November 2011

To view the full range of our publishing on the Ottoman Empire go to:

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ANCIENT AND ByzANTINE TuRkEy 2-3OTTOMAN TuRkEy 3-11MODERN TuRkEy 12-17TRAvEl 18COOkERy 19

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& the ottoman empirenew and recent titles 2013sherbet and spice

The Complete Story of Turkish Sweets and Desserts

Mary Isin

The stories behind Turkey’s huge variety of sweets and puddings are as fascinating as their multiplicity of flavours. This riveting exploration of their history and role in Turkish culture is a voyage of adventure, taking us from the sultan’s palace to the homes of ordinary people in Turkey’s villages and towns, and beyond to Central Asia, Persia, Arabia, Egypt and the Levant. This is the land of Turkish delight perfumed with rosewater and musk, rose jam, baklava filled with nuts, clotted cream or cheese, milk puddings and helvas, strings of nuts dipped in grape syrup, and model gardens built of sugar carried in wedding processions. The first study of Turkish confectionery ever to be published, Sherbet and Spice offers a rare look at the evolution of sweets from the non-European angle, based on many Turkish sources little known outside Turkey that lend a new dimension to the subject.

‘A fascinating and informative exploration of the role of sweetness in Turkish culture over the centuries.’– Laura Mason, food historian and author of Sugar-plums and Sherbet

304 PageS 228 x 155mm IlluSTraTeD NOVemBer 20129781848858985 HarDBaCk £20.00

tastes of byzantiumThe Cuisine of a legendary empire

Andrew Dalby272 PageS 198 x 126mm 20109781848851658 PaPerBaCk £14.99

classic turkish cookingGhillie Basan and Jonathan Basan224 PageS 236 x 236mm 20119781848859845 PaPerBaCk £18.99

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