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  • Forms and institutions of justice

    Legal actions in Ottoman contexts

    Edited by Yavuz Aykan, Işık Tamdoğan ...
    Series series Bibliothèque (électronique) de l’IFEA
    The articles forming the present volume aim to contribute to the rich and evolving historiography on the multiplicity of the actors and the institutions of Ottoman legal system. As the title of the volume suggests, “forms” and “institutions” of justice are a common thread in the contributions. Each article concentrates on a specific historical moment and context in order to chart the articulation ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • African Dominion

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  • The Ottoman World

    Edited by Christine Woodhead ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Ottoman empire as a political entity comprised most of the present Middle East (with the principal exception of Iran), north Africa and south-eastern Europe. For over 500 years, until its disintegration during World War I, it encompassed a diverse range of ethnic, religious and linguistic communities with varying political and cultural backgrounds.Yet, was there such a thing as an ‘Ottoman ... Read more

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  • Persian Documents

    Social History of Iran and Turan in the 15th-19th Centuries

    Edited by Kondo Nobuaki ...
    Series series New Horizons in Islamic Studies
    After the Mongol period, Persian was the official written language in Iran, Central Asia and India. A vast amount of documents relating to administration and social life were produced and yet, unlike Ottoman and Arabic documents, Persian historical resources have received very little critical attention. This book is the first to use Persian Documents as the sources of social history in Early ... Read more

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  • The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States

    by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman ...
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  • A History of the 'Alawis

    From Medieval Aleppo to the Turkish Republic

    by Stefan Winter ...
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  • Ottoman Ulema, Turkish Republic

    Agents of Change and Guardians of Tradition

    by Amit Bein ...
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  • Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran

    A Moment in World History

    by Richard Bulliet ...
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    A History

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  • Becoming Turkish

    Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey 1923-1945

    by Hale Yilmaz ...
    Series series Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
    Becoming Turkish deepens our understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post—Ottoman Turkey through a rare perspective that stresses social and cultural dimensions and everyday negotiations of the Kemalist reforms. Yilmaz asks how the reforms were mediated on the ground and how ordinary citizens received, reacted to, and experienced them. She traces the experiences of the ... Read more

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