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The Great War is still seen as a mostly European war. The Middle Eastern theater is, at best, considered a sideshow written from the western perspecti

The Ottoman Empire was the only great European Muslim power and was at one time the most serious threat to European Christendom. Yet, by the turn of t

Selim Deringil, a leading historian of the late Ottoman Empire, collects a sample of his essays on the central state and its relations with the periph

In the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire traditional religious structures crumbled as the empire itself began to fall apart. The state's answer to sch

This book provides the first systematic analysis of Turkish diplomacy during the Second World War. The 'active neutrality' policy has been criticised

The Great War is still seen as a mostly European war. The Middle Eastern theater is, at best, considered a sideshow written from the western perspecti

Set in the declining years of the Ottoman Empire, this book examines how issues of nationalism, national identity and processes of belonging played ou

Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to 'breathe well' along the Su

"I desire an army of apostolic souls consecrated to me by the vow of victim not to expiate the sins of others by extraordinary trials, no, that is not