The purpose of the book is twofold: first, to give an accurate and reasonably complete narrative account of the Armenian events of 1909 and their aftermath in the province of Adana and the developments leading up to and following them; and equally importantly, to provide an interpretive framework that makes some sense out of this episode in Ottoman history.
Turkey and the West: From Neutrality to Commitment considers the formulation of Turkish foreign policy in the post-Ataturk period of 1938 to 1958 and discusses Turkey's uneasy shift from neutrality to become a member of the Western Alliance.
An extraordinary collection of essays by Nobel Peace laureates and leading scholars on the concluded Iraq War, The Iraq War and its Consequences is the First and Only book that brings together more than 30 Nobel Peace laureates and eminent scholars to offer opinions, analyses and insights on the war that has drawn both widespread opposition and strong support.
In spring 1456, with the help of the faqih Yca Gidelli, Juan de Segovia accomplished a trilingual Qur'an (Castilian, Arabic and Latin) he regarded as fundamental to the conversion of the Muslims after the Ottoman conquest of Byzantium.
For the millions of citizens in the Arab World who came together in 2010-2011 to discover their common yearning for dignity and liberty, the real revolutions only began after the wave of protests.
The modern history of Iraq is punctuated by a series of successive and radical ruptures (coups d'etat, changes of regime, military adventures and foreign invasions) whose chronological markers are relatively easy to identify.
An extraordinary collection of essays by Nobel Peace laureates and leading scholars on the concluded Iraq War, The Iraq War and its Consequences is the First and Only book that brings together more than 30 Nobel Peace laureates and eminent scholars to offer opinions, analyses and insights on the war that has drawn both widespread opposition and strong support.
This book concentrates on the formative period of the Gaza Strip and the bordering Israeli Gaza Frontier Area, considering them as a distinct geographic region that might best be understood as an integral unit of analysis.
This book collates selective outputs from the 1st International Conference on Contemporary Islamic Studies, focusing on interdisciplinary research that is relevant and timely.
The book examines the dynamic processes of the various social, political, and cultural negotiations that representatives of Christian groups engage in within authoritarian societies in Greater China, where Christianity is deemed a foreign religious system brought to China by colonial rulers.
This book presents the welfare regime of societies of Chinese heritage as a liminal space where religious and state authorities compete with each other for legitimacy.
This book provides an overview of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) to assist readers in developing a more complete understanding of P/CVE and the issues of radicalisation, disengagement and rehabilitation.
This book presents the welfare regime of societies of Chinese heritage as a liminal space where religious and state authorities compete with each other for legitimacy.
This book describes the Islamisation process that has unfolded in Malaysia over the last fifty years and provides feedback from in-depth interviews with 100 individuals from Malaysia's "e;educated classes"e;, or the "e;elite"e;, regarding their reactions to the changes that have accompanied Islamisation and how they feel it has impacted them.
This book argues that Political Islam in the Iranian context evolved into three main schools of thought during the 1960s and 1970s: Jurisprudential Islam led by Ayatollah Khomeini, Leftist Islam led by Shariati, and Liberal Islam led by Bazargan.
Discourse on fundamentalism has gained much attention in recent years, particularly in a post-9/11 context where extremist or terrorist threats are more prominent, perilous, and pervasive.
This book provides a ground breaking interdisciplinary study of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, focusing on the post 1949 Civil War in China through to the present day, and discusses the role played by the Catholic Church in contemporary Taiwanese society.
This book is about the 100 years of World Wars and Regional Collaboration in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, investigating and considering how to foster Good Governance and New World Order.
A Syrian filmmaker's haunting record of his time in Lebanon's Palestinian refugee campsIn 1980, Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas traveled to Lebanon to film a documentary of interviews with Palestinians of the refugee camps around Beirut about their dreams.
El viaje a Oriente es el descubrimiento de lo desconocido, repleto de misterio, que se presenta sensual, excitante, cargado de promesas, pero poco fiable, hostil, feroz y cruelEl viaje a Oriente tiene su esplendor desde finales del siglo xviii, con las campañas napoleónicas, hasta finales del siglo xix, con la caída del imperio Otomano y la apertura del canal de Suez.
Creado a finales del siglo xix desde una óptica eurocéntrica, Oriente Medio es un término que hoy en día sirve para denominar un amplio territorio que se extiende desde Marruecos a Irán.
From the outset of the twentieth century, Egyptian and Indian leaders understood their movements for self-determination as linked and part of a shared project.
"El imaginario social construido desde la década de los ochenta está plagado de perversiones ideológicas: desde el pensamiento único que aboga por la imposibilidad de cuestionar el capitalismo hasta el inevitable choque civilizatorio entre Oriente y Occidente que mantiene que los musulmanes del mundo se unirían para destruir la civilización judeo-cristiana.
Irán no es el país sombrío e inseguro que se muestra en los medios, sino un magnífico destino que comienza a abrirse y que presenta una tierra llena de posibilidades.
Los autores denuncian, desde diferentes perspectivas, cómo Israel desarrolla una estrategia perfectamente planificada de ocupación y desalojo de Palestina, y cómo la llamada comunidad internacional emite, como mucho, algunas quejas retóricas en las que sitúa al agresor y al agredido en el mismo plano.
El pueblo judío en la historia: política, sociedad, religión y cultura aborda ―centrándose en los judíos― algunos de los principales aspectos que suelen caracterizar la vida de las personas y que, por tanto, contribuyen a identificar a las civilizaciones y a ciertos grupos sociales.
Obra histórica enriquecida con abundantes citas de conocidos autores, narra, en orden cronológico, la vida del pueblo judío desde su formación hasta mediados del siglo XX.
An FT Best Book of the Year'Saad Mohseni is one of the most remarkable figures in modern Afghanistan - brave, entrepreneurial, with a knack for imagining the impossible - he transformed the Afghan media landscape and brought serious news, and exceptional entertainment to millions in the most testing circumstances imaginable' Rory StewartThe deeply moving and surprising story of the attempt to build a truly independent media company in contemporary Afghanistan.
The Ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, ancient Iran Asia Minor and Armenian Highlands, the Levant, Cyprus and the Arabian Peninsula.
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