This book investigates the relationship between Turks and Jews in the Turkish Republic. A variety of sources, from popular literature to Islamist writings, are included in this unique study.
This book is the first publication of the unfinished memoir by the Portuguese Jew Jacques José Abravanel (1906–1993). For almost sixty years he was Portugal’s honorary consul in Istanbul and an active defender of ladino language.
This book studies a mission by Augustinians of the Assumption in Eskisehir from 1891–1924. It also offers an overview of the characteristics of the Christian missions in the Ottoman Empire.
This collection of papers by various scholars discusses a wide range of practices and beliefs relating to saints in Islam. The studies also demonstrate the influence of sainthood on political structures in many societies.
This rich collection of articles illustrates the range of Stanford J. Shaw’s more than forty years of research. Topics covered include the nineteenth-century Tanzimat reforms, Turkey in the World Wars, and the Ottoman archives.
This collection of papers in honour of Professor V. L. Ménage contains articles written by many leading Ottoman historians from around the world in English, French and Italian.
The contributors of this volume investigate not only human beings’ potentialities for violence and terrorism, but also for counter-terrorism and peace. They share with the reader their understandings, knowledge, and experiences of peace and nonviolence experiments set within different religious/cultural traditions, and the possibility of building peace communities around the world
This work narrates the history of the world from Adam to Jesus, presented in an English translation of Ethiopic and Coptic manuscripts. This exclusive translation of rare sources is recommended for readers interested in comparative religion, Oriental Orthodoxy, and biblical studies.
This early history of the Church of the East was part of a volume issued to commemorate the exhibition of thirty Syriac inscriptions from Central Asia at the Musee Guimet.