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New and recent Titles 2015
Turkey & the Ottoman Empire
2015
CONTENTS
We are delighted to present our new 2014/2015
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.
Our 2014-15 programme includes A Short History of the
Byzanine Empire, new to the popular I.B.Tauris Short
Histores series (p.3); The Hejaz Railway and the Ottoman
Empire, the first book in English on the subject (p.6); a
new paperback edition of Mehmet Sinan Birdal’s acclaimed
The Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans (p.8); and an
important new work on honour killings and the law in
contemporary Turkey (p.16).
‘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
The Sacred
Architecture
of Byzantium
a short history
of The Byzantine
Empire
Art, Liturgy and
Symbolism in Early
Christian Churches
Dionysios Stathakopoulos
Nicholas N. Patricios
NEW
King’s College, University of London
NEW
University 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 Constantinople, 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 April 2014
9781780762913 Hardback £45.00
Library of Classical Studies
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 April 2014
9781780761930 Hardback £56.00
9781780761947 Paperback £12.99
e ebook available
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Diplomacy in the
Early Islamic
World
The Seljuks of
Anatolia
NEW
Court and Society in the
Medieval Middle East
NEW
A Tenth-century Treatise on
Arab-Byzantine Relations
A.C.S. Peacock and Sara Nur Yıldız
(Eds)
Maria Vaiou
University of St Andrews
Sabanci 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 October 2014
9781845116521 Hardback £68.00
Library of Middle East History,Vol. 17
e ebook available
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 2012
9781848858879 Hardback £58.00
Library of Middle East History,Vol. 38
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Children of Achilles
Lost Capital of Byzantium
The Greeks in Asia Minor since the
Days of Troy
The History of Mistra and the
Peloponnese
John Freely
Steven Runciman, New Foreword by John
Freely
288 Pages 234 x 156mm Illustrated 2009
9781845119416 Hardback £22.50
152 Pages 216 x 134mm 2009
9781845118952 Paperback £9.99
Storm on Horseback
the Rhetoric of Power in Late
Antiquity
The Seljuk Warriors of Turkey
John Freely
Religion and Politics in Byzantium,
Europe and the Early Islamic World
240 Pages 234 x 156mm 2008
9781845117030 Hardback £19.99
Elizabeth DePalma Digeser, University of
California, Santa Barbara, Robert M. Frakes, Clarion
University & Justin Stephens, Metropolitan State
Kingdoms of Ruin
College of Denver
320 Pages 216 x 134mm 2010
9781848854093 Hardback £68.50
Library of Classical Studies,Vol. 2
The Art and Architectural
Splendours of Ancient Turkey
Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch, Foreword by
John Freely
256 Pages 270 x 228mm 2010
9781845117993 Hardback £31.50
154 colour photographs
ottoman empire
Sharia and the
making of the
Modern Egyptian
Arming the
Sultan
NEW
German Arms Trade and
Diplomacy in the Ottoman
Empire Before World War I
Islamic Law and Custom in the
Courts of Ottoman Cairo
Reem A. Meshal
Naci Yorulmaz
NEW
University of Washington
Louisiana State University
In this new study, the author examines sijills, the official documents of the
Ottoman Islamic courts, to understand how sharia law, society, and the
early-modern economy of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman Cairo
related to the practice of custom in determining rulings. In the sixteenth
century, a new legal and cultural orthodoxy fostered the development of an
early-modern Islam that broke new ground, giving rise to a new concept of the
citizen and his role. Contrary to the prevailing scholarly view, this work adopts
the position that local custom began to diminish and decline as a source of
authority. These issues resonate today, several centuries later, in the continuing
discussions of individual rights in relation to Islamic law.
304 Pages 234 x 156mm April 2014
9789774166174 Hardback £49.50
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman armaments trade
was entirely self-sufficient. But by the end of the century, it was almost
entirely under German control. How did Germany under Chancellor
Bismarck manage to conquer what had until then been an extremely
competitive military market? Focusing on the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid
between 1876 and 1909, Naci Yorulmaz’s book explores the determining
factors that influenced the development of the Ottoman armaments
market. While acknowledging the importance of political and economic
factors, Arming the Sultan concentrates on the personal relationships which
shaped the development of the arms trade, including the bonds between
arms-makers and the government, between German politicians and Ottoman
grandees, and even the private relationships between Kaiser Wilhelm I, Otto
von Bismarck and the Sultan.
256 Pages 216 x 134mm August 2014
9781780766331 Hardback £58.00
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 43
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Travel and
Artisans in the
Ottoman Empire
The Ottomans and
the Mamluks
Imperial Diplomacy and
Warfare in the Islamic World
Economic Migration and
Commerce in the Early
Modern Period
Suraiya Faroqhi
Cihan Yüksel Muslu
NEW
University of Texas
NEW
Istanbul 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.
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.
320 Pages 234 x 156mm january 2014
9781780764818 Hardback £62.00
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256 Pages 216 x 134mm july 2014
9781780761497 Hardback £68.00
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 36
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Cities of the
Mediterranean
Empire and
Holy War in the
Mediterranean
From the Ottomans to the
Present Day
The Galley and Maritime
Conflict between the
Habsburgs and Ottomans
Phillip Williams
Both at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul
NEW
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’.
320 Pages 234 x 156mm Illustrated May 2014
9781848859852 Hardback £68.00
International Library of Historical Studies,Vol. 79
e ebook available
Biray Kolluoglu and Meltem Toksöz
(Eds) NEW IN PAPERBACK
The Eastern Mediterranean is one of the world’s most vibrant and vital
commercial centres and for centuries the region’s cities and ports have been
at the heart of East-West trade. Taking a full and comprehensive look at the
region as a whole rather than isolating individual cities or distinct cultures, Cities
of the Mediterranean offers a fresh and original portrait of the entire region,
from the 16th century to the present. In this ambitious inter-disciplinary study,
the authors examine the relationships between the Eastern Mediterranean
port cities and their hinterlands as well as inland and provincial cities from
many different perspectives – political, economic, international and ecological
– without prioritising either Ottoman Anatolia, or the Ottoman Balkans, or
the Arab provinces in order to think of the Eastern Mediterranean world as a
coherent whole.
256 Pages 216 x 134mm August 2014
9781780767697 Paperback £25.00
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Freemasonry
in the Ottoman
Empire
The Hejaz Railway
and the Ottoman
Empire
NEW
A History of the Fraternity and
its Influence in Syria and the
Levant
Modernity, Industrialisation
and Ottoman Decline
Murat Özyüksel
NEW
Dorothe Sommer
Istanbul 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 Constantinople 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 October 2014
9781780763644 hardback £62.00
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 39
Palestine and the
Decline of the
Ottoman Empire
Modernisation and the Path to
Palestinian Statehood
NEW
Kansas 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 administrative reform in
order to provide a new account of the forces behind the formation of modern
Palestine.
320 Pages 216 x 134mm December 2014
9781780764566 Hardback £62.00
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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 October 2014
9781780763132 Hardback £62.00
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 37
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Farid Al-Salim
University of Sheffield
Rituals of
Hospitality
NEW
Ornamented Trays of the
19th Century in Greece
and Turkey
Flavia Nessi and Myrto
Hatzaki (Eds)
Foreword by Orhan Pamuk, Nobel
Laureate (Literature)
The functions of daily life in the 19th century Ottoman Empire – and in the
newly established Kingdom of Greece – placed great emphasis on elaborate
rituals of hospitality. Central to these were the serving of coffee and syrupy
‘spoon’ sweets along with intricate rituals enacted over the presentation and
sharing of meals. In this context, a fashion developed for the creation and
display of elaborate ornamented trays painted with topographical scenes and
figures from Istanbul and across the empire. These paintings – often exquisitely
executed by unknown artists – present a remarkably fresh and candid picture
of life in late Ottoman Turkey and Greece. They are becoming increasingly
prized and sought after by collectors and museums worldwide and this work
will be a valuable benchmark and reference for all collectors. It brings together
and illustrates several hundred of the finest known examples and decodes the
iconography, functions and techniques of the various styles and types. What
emerges is a kaleidoscope of colours, flavours and meanings that lie beneath
the surface of these objects and which elegantly span the space between east
and west, oriental and occidental, functional and ornamental.
288 Pages 290 x 246mm April 2014
9789602043271 Hardback £45.00
Colour illustrations throughout
Melissa Publishing House
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Ottoman Tulips,
Ottoman Coffee
Encounters with
the Ottoman
Miniature
Leisure and Lifestyle in the
Eighteenth Century
NEW
Contemporary Readings of an
Imperial Art
Dana Sajdi (Ed)
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Boston College
Begüm Özden Fırat
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul
The dominant form of Ottoman pictorial art until the eighteenth century,
miniatures have traditionally been studied as reflecting the socio-historical
contexts, aesthetic concerns and artistic tastes of the era within which they
were produced. Begüm Özden Firat proposes instead a radical re-reading of
seventeenth- and eighteenth-century miniatures in the light of contemporary
critical theory, highlighting the viewer’s encounter with the image. Encounters
with the Ottoman Miniature employs contemporary concepts such as the
gaze, frame/framing, reading and re-reading, drawing on thinkers such as
Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Gilles Deleuze to establish the vibrant
cultural agency of miniature paintings. With analysis that illuminates both the
social and political situations in which these miniatures were painted as well
as emphasising the miniature’s contemporary relevance, Firat presents an
important new re-imagining of this art form.
320 Pages 216 x 134mm April 2015
9781780763910 Hardback £62.00
International Library of Visual Culture,Vol. 11
e ebook available
Tulips and coffee are defining cultural products of the Ottoman eighteenth
century, along with their related institutions of palace and coffeehouse. These
cultural products hold multiple meanings in the history and historiography
of the period. They are associated with the daily life of common people
and their sociabilities, on the one hand, and with the Ottoman court and
imperial legitimacy, on the other. Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee offers a critical
exploration of definitive cultural phenomena of the Ottoman eighteenth
century, such as the coffee house, the printing press, imperial architecture
and royal pageantry and festivals. Chapters explore subjects ranging from the
changing forms of imperial ritual in Ottoman circumcision celebrations, to the
history of the construction of the famed palace of Saadabad, to the reputedly
failed project of the first Ottoman printing press. In doing so, the book
reassesses the history and unravels the historiography of the so-called ‘Tulip
Period’.
272 Pages 216 x 134mm June 2014
9781780766553 Paperback £16.99
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The Architects
of Ottoman
Constantinople
THE Voice of
England in the
East
NEW
The Balyan Family and
the History of Ottoman
Architecture NEW
Stratford Canning and
Diplomacy with the Ottoman
Empire
Alyson Wharton
Steven Richmond
Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey
Istanbul Technical University
The Balyan family were a dynasty of architects, builders and property owners
who acted as the official architects to the Ottoman Sultans throughout the
18th and 19th centuries. Originally Armenian, the family is responsible for
some of the most famous Ottoman buildings in existence, many of which
are regarded as masterpieces of their period – including the Dolmabahçe
Palace (built between 1843 and 1856), parts of the Topkap? Palace, the
Ç?ra?an Palace and the Ortaköy Mosque. Forging a unique style based
around European contemporary architecture but with distinctive Ottoman
flourishes, the family is an integral part of Ottoman history. As Alyson
Wharton’s beautifully illustrated book reveals, the Balyan’s own history, of
falling in and out of favour with increasingly autocratic Sultans, serves as a
record of courtly power in the Ottoman era and is uniquely intertwined
with the history of Istanbul itself.
336 Pages 216 x 134mm November 2014
9781780768526 Hardback £62.00
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 June 2014
9781780761176 Hardback £62.00
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 35
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The Islands of
the Eastern
Mediterranean
The Ottoman
Empire and the
Bosnian Uprising
A History of Cross-Cultural
Encounters
Janissaries, Modernisation and
Rebellion in the Nineteenth
Century NEW
Özlem Çaykent and Luca Zavagno
(Eds) NEW
The Mediterranean, or ‘Middle Sea’, has long been regarded as the symbolic
centre of European civilization. The binding water between Turkey, the Middle
East, the trading communities of North Africa, and the European powerhouses
Italy, France and Greece, a history of this sea is a new and vital way of
understanding the history of the societies which have flourished in the region.
This book charts of the story of the water as both connector and border, and
analyses the islands’ role in world history. Covering Mehmed II’s efforts to
conquer the old Roman Empire, through to the claim of Rhodes and the role
of the Aegean Islands in Ottoman international relations, to the British Cyprus
and the present-day tensions, this book’s interconnected essays from leading
scholars form a tapestry of knowledge. Together, they represent a new frontier
in the way in which we look at sea histories.
224 pages 216 x 134mm August 2014
9781780766294 Hardback £56.50
International Library of Ethnicity, Identity & Culture,Vol. 5
e ebook available
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 Constantinople, 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 October 2014
9781780761114 Hardback £68.00
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 34
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Pilgrims and
Sultans
The Holy Roman
Empire and the
Ottomans
The Hajj Under the Ottomans
Suraiya Faroqhi
NEW IN PAPERBACK
From Global Imperial Power to
Absolutist States
Istanbul Bilgi University
Mehmet Sinan Birdal
Maltepe University, Istanbul
NEW IN PAPERBACK
The pilgrimage to Mecca – the hajj – is a major aspect of the Islamic religion,
yet little has been written about its history or of the conditions under which
thousands of pilgrims from far flung regions of the Islamic world travelled
to the heart of the Arabian peninsula. This pioneering book concentrates
on the pilgrimage in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when Mecca
was ruled by the Ottoman sultans. At a time when, for the majority of the
faithful, the journey was long, arduous and fraught with danger, the provision
of food, water, shelter and protection for pilgrims presented a major challenge
to the provincial governors of the vast Ottoman Empire. Drawing on rich
documentation left by Ottoman administrators and on the accounts of
contemporary pilgrims, Suraiya Faroqhi here sheds new light on the trials and
experiences of everyday life for those undertaking the hajj.
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.
256 Pages 216 x 134mm march 2014
9781780767710 Paperback £12.99
224 Pages 216 x 134mm january 2014
9781780767109 Paperback £16.99
9781848856226 Hardback £58.00
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Jerusalem
Ottomania
From the Ottomans to the British
The Romantics and the Myth of the
Islamic Orient
Roberto Mazza
SOAS
288 Pages 216 x 134mm october 2013
9781780767086 Paperback £17.99
Stephen the Great and
Balkan Nationalism
Moldova and Eastern European
History
Jonathan Eagles
256 Pages 216 x 134mm 2013
9781780763538 Hardback £62.00
International Library of Historical Studies,
Vol. 85
the Young Atatürk
From Ottoman Soldier to
Statesman of Turkey
George W. Gawrych
Baylor University
288 Pages 228x155mm 2013
9781780763224 Hardback £25.00
Ottoman Imperial Diplomacy
A Political, Social and Cultural
History
Dogan Gurpinar
Harvard University
288 Pages 234 x 156mm 2013
9781780761121 Hardback £68.00
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 33
Petitioning the Sultan
Protests and Justice in Late
Ottoman Palestine
Roderick Cavaliero
272 Pages 228x155mm 2013
9781780764825 Paperback £12.99
The Emergence of Modern
Istanbul
Transformation and Modernisation of
a City
Murat Gül
University of Economics and Technology, Ankara
256 Pages 234 x 156mm 2012
9781780763743 Paperback £17.99
Empire and Education under
the Ottomans
Politics, Reform and Resistance from
the Tanzimat to the Young Turks
Emine Ö. Evered
Michigan State University
288 Pages 216 x 134mm May 2012
9781780761091 Hardback £68.00
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 32
Greece, the Hidden Centuries
Turkish Rule from the Fall
of Constantinople to Greek
Independence
David Brewer
320 Pages 228x155mm 2012
9781780762388 Paperback £12.99
The Sultan’s Admiral
Barbarossa – Pirate and EmpireBuilder
University of Haifa
Ernle Bradford
New Foreword by John Freely
320 Pages 216 x 134mm 2013
9781780764573 Hardback £62.00
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 42
248 Pages 198 x 126mm 2008
978184511 793 1 Paperback £11.99
Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Allies with the Infidel
Among the Ottomans
The Ottoman and French Alliance in
the Sixteenth Century
Diaries from Turkey in World War I
Yuval Ben-Bassat
Christine Isom-Verhaaren
Benedictine University, Illinois
288 Pages 216 x 134mm 2013
9781848857285 Hardback £62.00
9781780764979 Paperback £17.99
Ian Lyster (Ed)
208 Pages 216 x 134mm Illustrated 2010
9781848855212 Hardback £25.50
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Artisans of Empire
Late Ottoman Palestine
Crafts and Craftspeople Under the
Ottomans
The Period of Young Turk Rule
Suraiya Faroqhi
Bilgi University, Istanbul
304 Pages 228 x 155mm Illustrated 2011
9781848859609 Paperback £14.99
320 Pages 216 x 134mm 2011
9781848856318 Hardback £62.50
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 29
Contested Frontiers in the
Balkans
Ottoman Haifa
Ottoman, Habsburg and Communist
Rivalries in Eastern Europe
Alex Carmel
Irina Marin
256 Pages 216 x 134mm 2012
9781780761053 Hardback £58.00
Library of European Studies,Vol. 19
Foreign Investment in the
Ottoman Empire
International Trade and Relations
1854-1914
V. Necla Geyikdagi
Yeditepe University, Istanbul
232 Pages 216 x 134mm Illustrated 2011
9781848854611 Hardback £57.00
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 27
Innovation and Empire in
Turkey
Sultan Selim III and the Modernisation
of the Ottoman Navy
Tuncay Zorlu
Istanbul Technical University
272 Pages 216 x 134mm 2011
9781848857827 Paperback £27.00
9781845116941 Hardback £59.00
The Young Turk Legacy and
Nation Building
From the Ottoman Empire to
Atatürk’s Turkey
Erik J. Zürcher, University of Leiden
368 Pages 234 x 156mm 2010
9781848852716 Hardback £68.50
9781848852723 Paperback £17.99
Library of Modern Middle East Studies,Vol. 87
10
Yuval Ben-Bassat, University of Haifa, and Eyal
Ginio, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
A History of Four Centuries under
Turkish Rule
224 Pages 216 x 134mm Illustrated 2010
9781848855601 hardback £59.00
Library of Middle East History,Vol. 2
the Ottoman Origins of
Modern Iraq
Political Reform, Modernization and
Development in the Nineteenth
Century Middle East
Ebubekır Ceylan, Fatih University
320 Pages 216 x 134mm Illustrated 2011
9781848854253 Hardback £62.50
Ottoman Painting
Reflections of Western Art from
the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish
Republic
Wendy M. K. Shaw
University of Bern, Switzerland
224 Pages 234 x 156mm Illustrated 2011
9781848852884 Hardback £37.00
Remapping the Ottoman
Middle East
Modernity, Imperial Bureaucracy and
the Islamic State
Cem Emrence
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
208 Pages 216 x 134mm Illustrated 2011
9781848859586 Hardback £56.00
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 31
turkey & the ottoman empire
New and recent Titles 2015
the Transformation of
Ottoman Crete
Revolts, Politics and Identity in the
Late Nineteenth Century
Pinar Senısik
Dogus University, Istanbul
352 Pages 216 x 134mm Illustrated 2011
9781848855410 Hardback £62.50
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 26
The Well-Protected Domains
Ideology and the Legitimation of
Power in the Ottoman Empire
1876-1909
Selim Deringil, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul
276 Pages 216 x 134mm 2011
9781848857865 Paperback £18.99
The Young Ottomans
Turkish Critics of the Eastern
Question in the Late Nineteenth
Century
the Crescent and the Eagle
Ottoman Rule, Islam and the
Albanians, 1874-1913
George Gawrych
272 Pages 216 x 134mm 2006
9781845112875 Hardback £68.50
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 10
the Earl and His Butler in
Constantinople
The Secret Diary of an English
Servant Among the Ottomans
Nigel and Caroline Webb
272 Pages 234 x 156mm 2008
9781845117825 Paperback £15.99
Frontiers of Ottoman
Studies, vol 1
Colin Imber and Keiko Kiyotaki (Eds)
304 Pages 234 x 156mm 2004
9781850436317 Hardback £68.50
Nazan Çiçek
Ankara University
320 Pages 216 x 134mm 2010
9781848853331 Hardback £62.50
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 20
the British in the Levant
Trade and Perceptions of the Ottoman
Empire in the Eighteenth Century
Christine Laidlaw
288 Pages 216 x 134mm Illustrated 2010
9781848853355 Hardback £62.50
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 21
Between Two Empires
Ahmet Agaoglu and the New Turkey
Frontiers of Ottoman
Studies, vol 2
Colin Imber, Keiko Kiyotaki & Rhoads
Murphey (Eds)
264 Pages 234 x 156mm 2004
9781850436645 Hardback £68.50
the Grand Turk
Sultan Mehmet II - Conqueror of
Constantinople, Master of an Empire
and Lord of Two Seas
John Freely
288 Pages 234 x 156mm 2009
9781845117047 Hardback £18.99
A. Holly Shissler
288 Pages 234 x 156mm 2003
9781860648557 Hardback £62.50
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 2
the Birth of Modern Turkey
The Ottoman Military and the March
to WWI
Guarding the Frontier
Ottoman Border Forts and Garrisons
in Europe
Mark L. Stein
232 Pages 216 x 134mm 2007
9781845113018 hardback £68.50
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 11
Handan Nezir-Akmese
240 Pages 234 x 156mm 2005
9781850437970 Hardback £62.50
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Ottoman and Persian
Odysseys
Palestine and Egypt under
the Ottomans
James Morier, Creator of Hajji Baba of
Ispahan, and his Brothers
Paintings, Books, Photographs, Maps
and Manuscripts
Henry McKenzie Johnston
Hisham Khatib
264 Pages 234 x 156mm 1998
9781860643309 Hardback £44.00
I.B.Tauris in association with the Centre for
Lebanese Studies, Oxford
300 Pages 350 x 320mm 2003
9781860648885 Hardback £68.50
150 colour illustrations
the Ottoman Empire and the
World around it
Suraiya Faroqhi
304 Pages 234 x 156mm 2005
9781845111229 Paperback £14.99
the Political Economy of
Ottoman Public Debt
Insolvency and European Financial
Control in the Late Nineteenth
Century
Murat Birdal
256 Pages 216 x 134mm Illustrated 2010
9781848852983 Hardback £59.00
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 18
Ottoman Propaganda and
Turkish Identity
Rethinking Orientalism
Literature in Turkey During
World War I
Women,Travel and the Ottoman
Harem
Erol Koroglu
Reina Lewis
272 Pages 216 x 134mm 2007
9781845114909 Hardback £68.50
256 Pages 234 x 156mm 2004
9781860647291 Hardback £68.50
9781860647307 Paperback £18.99
Ottoman Reform and Muslim
Regeneration
Weismann Zachs
288 Pages 234 x 156mm 2005
9781850437574 Hardback £68.50
Subjects of the Sultan
Culture and Daily Life in the
Ottoman Empire
Suraiya Faroqhi
368 Pages 234 x 156mm 2005
9781850437604 Paperback £14.99
Ottomans Looking West?
The Origins of the Tulip Age and its
Development in Modern Turkey
Can Erimtan
288 Pages 216 x 134mm 2008
9781845114916 Hardback £62.50
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 14
Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans
Empire Lost, Relations Altered
Ebru Boyar
256 Pages 216 x 134mm 2007
9781845113513 Hardback £68.50
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 12
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the Sultan’s Yemen
19th-Century Challenges to Ottoman
Rule
Caesar E. Farah
416 Pages 216 x 134mm 2002
9781860647673 Hardback £68.50
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 1
Women in the Ottoman
Balkans
Gender, Culture and History
Amila Buturovic and Irvin Cemil Schick
(Eds)
384 Pages 234 x 156mm 2007
9781845115050 Hardback £68.50
Library of Ottoman Studies,Vol. 15
turkey & the ottoman empire
New and recent Titles 2015
modern turkey
The Yezidis
Cyprus in the
1930s
The History of a Community,
Culture and Religion
NEW
Birgül Açikyildiz
British Colonial Rule and the
Roots of the Cyprus Conflict
Mardin Artuklu University
Alexis Rappas
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris.
The minority communities of northern Iraq are under increasingly severe
threat from Islamic State jihadists. Among these minorities, the Yezidis have
one of the most remarkable legacies in the Middle East.Yet not just their
religious and material culture but now their entire existence is in peril as
entire populations seek refuge from their violent oppressors. But who are the
Yezidis (or ‘Yazidis’)? Predominantly ethnic Kurds, and the target of persecution
over many centuries, until now they have succeeded in keeping their ancient
religion alive despite the claim that they are ‘devil worshippers.’ This essential
guide reveals an intricate system of belief influenced by Zoroastrianism, Sufism
and Mithraism. It explores the origins their origins, art and architecture and
the often misunderstood connections with the Satan/Sheitan of Christian and
Muslim tradition. Extensively illustrated, this pioneering book is a testimonial to
one of the region’s most extraordinary and ancient peoples.
Why has the unification of Cyprus proved impossible? The existing literature
looks to the 1950s, and the formation of EOKA under George Grivas. Here,
Alexis Rappas challenges that view, showing that the key to the conflict
between the British Empire and Greek Cypriots lies in the history of the 1930s.
Cyprus in the 1930s charts the history of the island in this period, and details
British attempts to impose a homogeneous ‘Cypriot’ culture onto a diverse and
divided population. Community leaders and the hierarchy of the Church, who
had functioned as bridges between local interests, were marginalised as Britain
attempted to engineer unification through education and social policy. The
result was a radicalisation of both Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot identity.
Based on primary source material from Britain, Cyprus, Greece and Turkey,
Rappas analyses British state-building and the role of Cypriot ethnicities in the
formation of modern Cyprus.
304 pages 216 x 134mm September 2014
9781784532161 Paperback £14.99
272 Pages 216 x 134mm june 2014
9781780764382 Hardback £62.00
International Library of Twentieth Century History, Vol. 66
e ebook available
e ebook available
Politics and the
Peasantry in PostWar Turkey
The Economic
Transformation
of Turkey
NEW
NEW
Neoliberalism and State
Intervention
Social History, Culture and
Modernization
Nilgün Önder
Sinan Yildirmaz
University of Regina, Canada
Istanbul University
The coup d’état which took place in Turkey on 12 September 1980 was the
third in the history of the Republic, and ushered in a three-year period of
military rule. Nilgün Önder investigates the economic transformation of
Turkey after this coup, examining both the policies enacted under the military
regime and those during the subsequent period of civilian government.
Önder argues the key aspect of economic policy was that of neoliberal
restructuring, and integral to this was the exclusion of organised labour from
the political process. In doing so, she highlights the irony of the era: that at
an official level, there was an emphasis upon neoliberal economic values,
such as limited state involvement. And yet at the same time, policies were
enacted which were aimed at a more interventionist position when it came
to industrial relations. It was through new legislation and bureaucratisation
of the industrial relations system that the state transformed the Turkish
economy, attempting to open it up to foreign investment and trade: in effect
creating the foundations of Turkey’s current economic success.
Eric Hobsbawm famously called late twentiethcentury 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 April 2015
9781780761138 Hardback £62.00
Int. Lib. of Ethnicity, Identity and Culture,Vol. 2
e ebook available
288 Pages 216 x 134mm April 2015
9781780768830 Hardback £62.00
Library of Modern Turkey
e ebook available
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Women and
Cultural
Citizenship in
Turkey
The
Transformation
of Turkey
Redefining State and Society
from the Ottoman Empire to
the Modern Era
NEW
Mass Media and ‘Woman’s
Voice’ Television
Fatma Müge Göçek
Solen Sanli
University of Michigan
Regis University
TV Talk shows, often seen as vulgar and low-brow, can actually be a vehicle
through which hitherto undiscussed topics (such as violence against women
or political exclusion) are brought into the public sphere. Solen Sanli argues
that this is the case in Turkey, where talk shows often invite ordinary women
from lower socio-economic classes to speak of their experiences of family life:
marriage, divorce, child custody rights and relations with in-laws. Specifically
looking at popular women’s talk shows such as these (commonly called
‘Woman’s Voice’ television), Sanli explores how groups with political and
cultural power control public discourse and the public sphere in Turkey, and
how urban/rural and Islamist/secular oppositions are constructed and evolve.
This book offers topical and original insights relevant for a range of disciplines,
such as Anthropology, Gender and Communication Studies, as well as those
researching cultural and political participation in the Middle East.
288 Pages 216 x 134mm December 2014
9781780763927 Hardback £62.00
Library of Modern Turkey
NEW IN PAPERBACK
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 December 2014
9781780764863 Paperback £25.00
9781848856110 Hardback £62.50
e ebook available
Secularism and
State Religion in
Modern Turkey
The Young Turks
and the Boycott
Movement
NEW
Law, Policy-Making and the
Diyanet NEW
Nationalism, Protest and
the Working Classes in the
Formation of Modern Turkey
Emir Kaya
Dogan Çetinkaya
Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara
Istanbul University
The Diyanet is the ‘Presidency of Religious Affairs’, the official face of Islam
and highest religious authority in Turkey, and is a governmental department
established in 1924 after the break-up of the Ottoman Empire. In this book,
Emir Kaya offers an in-depth multidisciplinary analysis of this vital institution.
Focusing on the role of the Diyanet in society, Kaya explores the balance the
institution has to strike between the Islamic traditions of the Turkish population
and the officially secular creed of the Turkish state. By examining the various
laws that either bolstered or hindered the Diyanet’s budgets and activities,
Kaya highlights the institutional mindsets of the Diyanet membership as well
as evaluating its successes and failures as a governmental department that has
to consistently operate within the context of the religiosity of Turkish society.
By situating all of this within the context of the two competing – but often
complimentary – concepts of religion and secularism, Kaya offers a book that is
important for those researching the role of religion and the state in society in
the Middle East and beyond.
320 Pages 216 x 134mm April 2015
9781780766225 Hardback £62.00
Library of Modern Turkey,Vol. 9
14
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 february 2014
9781780764726 Hardback £62.00
Library of Ottoman Studies
e ebook available
turkey & the ottoman empire
New and recent Titles 2015
The Emergence
of Social
Democracy in
Turkey
The Rise of
Political Islam in
Turkey
NEW
Urban Poverty, Grassroots
Activism and Islamic
Fundamentalism
NEW
The Left and the
Transformation of the
Republican People’s Party
Kayhan Delibas
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 february 2014
9781780764399 Hardback £62.00
e ebook available
University 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 may 2014
9781780765655 Hardback £62.00
Library of Modern Turkey,Vol. 10
e ebook available
Turkey and
the Politics of
National Identity
Democratic
Transition in
Turkey
Social, Economic and
Cultural Transformation
The Transformation of Civil
Society and the Challenges of
EU Accession
NEW
NEW
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 june 2014
9781780765396 Hardback £62.00
Library of Modern Turkey,Vol. 8
e ebook available
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 2015
9781780760919 Hardback £62.00
Library of Modern Turkey,Vol. 3
e ebook available
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Political Islam
and the Secular
State in Turkey
Military
Intervention and a
Crisis Democracy
in Turkey
Democracy, Reform and the
Justice and Development
Party
NEW
The Menderes Era and its
Demise
Evangelia Axiarlis, Foreword by
James Piscatori NEW
Mogens Pelt
University 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 June 2014
9781848857780 Hardback £62.00
Library of Modern Turkey,Vol. 1
How safe is Turkey’s liberal democracy? The rise to power in 2002 of the
right-leaning Islamic Justice and Development Party ignited fears in the West
that Turkey could no longer be relied upon to provide a buffer against the
growth of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East. But the contribution of
the JDP (or AKP as it known in Turkey) to civil liberties and basic freedoms,
long suppressed by secular and statist Kemalist ideology, has remained
unexamined despite more than a decade in government. In this – the first
detailed study of the policies and ideology of Prime Minister Erdo?an’s
government – Evangelia Axiarlis examines the extent to which the JDP
has worked to improve civil life in Turkey and critically addresses whether
a government built on Islamic principles can champion political reform.
Exploring how Islam and democracy are neither monoliths nor mutually
exclusive, this is a timely contribution to the wider understanding of political
Islam.
320 Pages 216 x 134mm June 2014
9781780769233 Hardback £68.00
e ebook available
e ebook available
Muslims in Modern Turkey
Turkey Beyond Nationalism
Kemalism, Modernism and the Revolt
of the Islamic Intellectuals
Towards Post-Nationalist Identities
Sena Karasipahi
Texas A&M University
256 Pages 234 x 156mm february 2014
9781780767703 paperback £17.99
University of Zurich
272 Pages 234 x 156mm 2013
9781780763996 Paperback £25.00
9781845111410 Hardback £68.50
Confronting Honour Killings
in Turkey
Beyond Turkey’s Borders
The Interaction of State and Civil
Society
Banu Senay
Nur Banu Kavakli Birdal
Bogaziçi University
288 Pages 216 x 134mm january 2014
9781780765259 Hardback £62.00
Library of Modern Turkey,Vol. 7
Kurdish Life in Contemporary
Turkey
Long-Distance Kemalism, State Politics
and the Turkish Diaspora
Macquarie University, Sydney
336 Pages 216 x 134mm 2012
9781780760872 Hardback £62.00
Int. Lib. of Ethnicity, Identity and Culture,Vol. 3
Citizenship and Identity in
Turkey
Migration, Gender and Ethnic Identity
From Atatürk’s Republic to the
Present Day
Anna Grabolle Celiker
Basak Ince
320 Pages 216 x 134mm 2013
9781780760926 Hardback £62.00
Library of Modern Turkey,Vol. 2
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Hans-Lukas Kieser (Ed)
Bilkent University
320 Pages 216 x 134mm 2012
9781780760261 Hardback £62.00
Library of Modern Turkey
turkey & the ottoman empire
New and recent Titles 2015
Women Workers in Turkey
Global Industrial Production in Istanbul
Saniye Dedeoglu
232 Pages 216 x 134mm 2012
9781780760315 Paperback £25.00
Gender and Society in Turkey
The 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 2012
9781780760278 Hardback £62.00
Library of Modern Turkey,Vol. 4
The Army and the Radical Left
in Turkey
Military Coups, Socialist Revolution
and Kemalism
Turkey and the Dilemma of EU
Accession
When Religion Meets Politics
Mirela Bogdani
240 Pages 216 x 134mm 2010
9781848854581 Hardback £59.00
9781848854598 Paperback £14.99
Library of European Studies,Vol. 16
The Zaza Kurds of Turkey
A Middle Eastern Minority in a
Globalised Society
Mehmed S. Kaya
Lillehammer University College
240 Pages 216 x 134mm 2011
9781845118754 Hardback £59.50
Library of Modern Middle East Studies,Vol. 71
Kurds of Modern Turkey
Özgür Mutlu Ulus
Migration, Neoliberalism and Exclusion
in Turkish Society
Acibadem University
Cenk Saraçoglu
280 Pages 216 x 134mm 2010
9781848854840 Hardback £62.50
Library of Modern Middle East Studies,Vol. 97
Occidentalism in Turkey
Questions of Modernity and National
Identity in Turkish Radio Broadcasting
Meltem Ahıska
Bogaziçi University
288 Pages 216 x 134mm 2010
9781845116538 Hardback £62.50
Library of Modern Middle East Studies,Vol. 79
Technology and National
Identity in Turkey
Mobile Communications and the
Evolution of a Post-Ottoman Nation
Burce Celik
Bahçesehir University, Turkey
224 Pages 216 x 134mm Illustrated 2011
9781848854291 Hardback £59.50
International Library of Cultural Studies,Vol. 15
Turkey and European Security
Defence Policy
Middle East Technical University
248 Pages 216 x 134mm 2010
9781848854680 Hardback £59.00
Library of Modern Middle East Studies,Vol. 95
Islam and Secularism in
Turkey
Kemalism, Religion and the Nation
State
Umut Azak
256 Pages 234 x 156mm Illustrated 2010
9781848852631 Hardback £58.00
International Library of Twentieth Century
History,Vol. 27
Living Islam
Women, Religion and the Politicization
of Culture in Turkey
Ayse Saktanber
304 Pages 216 x 134mm 2002
9781860641787 Hardback £62.50
Library of Modern Middle East Studies,Vol. 20
Men of Order
Compatibility and Security Cultures in
a Globalised World
Authoritarian Modernization under
Atatürk and Reza Shah
Çigdem Üstün
Touraj Atabaki and Erik J. Zürcher (Eds)
Gediz University, Izmir
296 Pages 216 x 134mm 2004
9781860644269 Hardback £62.50
Library of Modern Middle East Studies,
Vol. 21
288 Pages 216 x 134mm 2010
9781848852679 Hardback £62.50
Library of European Studies,Vol. 12
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Migrating to America
Transnational Social Networks and
Regional Identity among Turkish
Migrants
Lisa DiCarlo
200 Pages 216 x 134mm 2008
9781845116460 Hardback £62.00
International Library of Migration Studies,Vol. 1
Muslims in Modern Turkey
Kemalism, Modernism and the Revolt
of the Islamic Intellectuals
Sena Karasipahi
256 Pages 234 x 156mm 2008
9781845117832 Hardback £59.00
Library of Modern Middle East Studies,Vol. 72
New Turkish Cinema
Belonging, Identity and Memory
Asuman Suner
224 Pages 234 x 156mm 2010
9781845119492 Hardback £59.00
9781845119508 Paperback £17.99
Britain and Turkey in the
Middle East
Politics and Influence in the Early Cold
War Era
Mustafa Bilgin
336 Pages 216 x 134mm 2007
9781845113506 Hardback £62.50
Library of Modern Middle East Studies,Vol. 75
the EU and Turkey
A Glittering Prize or a Millstone?
Edited by Michael Lake
180 Pages 228x148mm 2005
9781903403617 Paperback £16.99
9781903403754 Hardback £47.50
Fragments of Culture
Spatial Conceptions of the
Nation
Modernizing Geographies in Greece
and Turkey
Nikiforos Diamandouros, Thalia Dragonas and
Çaglar Keyder (Eds)
320 Pages 216 x 134mm 2010
9781848851313 Hardback £62.50
the State and the Subaltern
Modernization, Society and the State
in Turkey and Iran
Touraj Atabaki (Ed)
272 Pages 234 x 156mm 2007
9781845113391 Hardback £68.50
Library of Modern Middle East Studies,Vol. 66
Turkey
A Modern History
Erik J. Zürcher
432 Pages 216 x 134mm 2005
9781860649585 Paperback £15.99
Turkey, Islamists and
Democracy
Transition and Globalization in a
Muslim State
Yildiz Atasoy
240 Pages 234 x 156mm 2005
9781850437581 Hardback £59.00
Turkish Democracy Today
Elections, Protest and Stability in an
Islamic Society
Ali Carkoglu & Ersin Kalaycioglu
256 Pages 234 x 156mm 2006
9781845111854 Hardback £62.50
International Library of Political Studies,Vol.
15
the Unwelcome Neighbour
Turkey’s Kurdish Policy
The Everyday of Modern Turkey
Asa Lundgren
Deniz Kandiyoti & Ayse Saktanber (Eds)
168 Pages 234 x 156mm 2006
9781850436829 Hardback £62.50
Culture and Society in Western & Central Asia,
Vol. 3
360 Pages 234 x 156mm 2001
9781860644276 Paperback £18.99
Ways to Modernity in Greece
and Turkey
Encounters with Europe, 1850-1950
Anna Frangoudaki and Caglar Keyder (Eds)
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272 Pages 234 x 156mm 2007
9781845112899 Hardback £68.50
Library of European Studies,Vol. 1
turkey & the ottoman empire
New and recent Titles 2015
travel
Cities, Citadels and Sights of the Near
East
NEW
Francis Bedford’s Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Egypt, the
Levant, and Constantinople
Sophie Gordon and Badr El Hage
In 1862, the Prince of Wales, son of Queen Victoria, embarked on a grand tour of the Middle East. With
the party was photographer Francis Bedford. From timeless views of the Pyramids, Baalbek, and Hagia
Sophia to Cairo streets and tall ships on the Bosphorus, this is 120 of his most outstanding photographs
of ancient lands in royal company.
160 pages 254 x 254mm October 2014
9789774166709 Paperback £24.95
The American University in Cairo Press
e ebook available
The Lycian Shore
A Turkish Odyssey
Freya Stark
240 Pages 198 x 126mm Illustrated 2011
9781848853126 Paperback £9.99
Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Strolling through Istanbul
The Classic Guide to the City
Hilary Sumner-Boyd and John Freely
Across the Hellespont
512 Pages 198 x 126mm Illustrated 2009
9781848851542 Paperback £12.99
A Literary Guide to Turkey
Richard Stoneman
Exeter University
264 Pages 198 x 126mm 2010
9781848854222 Paperback £11.99
the Western Shores of Turkey
Discovering the Aegean and
Mediterranean Coasts
John Freely
Imperial Istanbul
424 Pages 198 x 126mm Illustrated 2004
9781850436188 Paperback £12.99
A Traveller’s Guide: Includes Iznik,
Bursa and Edirne
Jane Taylor
352 Pages 198 x 126mm 2007
9781860642494 paperback £12.99
a Byzantine Journey
John Ash
352 Pages 198 x 126mm 2006
9781845113070 Paperback £12.99
Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Ionia
A Quest
Freya Stark
376 Pages 198 x 126mm Illustrated 2010
9781848851917 Paperback £11.99
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turkey & the ottoman empire
New and recent Titles 2015
Rome on the Euphrates
South from Ephesus
The Story of a Frontier
Travels through Aegean Turkey
Freya Stark
Brian Sewell
496 Pages 198 x 126mm May 2012
9781848853140 Paperback £12.99
Tauris Parke Paperbacks
288 Pages 198 x 126mm Illustrated 2012
9781780761206 Paperback £11.99
Tauris Parke Paperbacks
cookery
Sherbet 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 2012
9781848858985 Hardback £20.00
Tastes of Byzantium
Classic Turkish
Cooking
The Cuisine of a Legendary
Empire
Ghillie Basan and Jonathan
Basan
Andrew Dalby
272 Pages 198 x 126mm 2010
9781848851658 Paperback £14.99
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224 Pages 236 x 236mm 2011
9781848859845 Paperback £18.99
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