African history and culture analysis

The ‘Alawis, or Alawites, are a prominent religious minority in northern Syria, Lebanon, and southern Turkey, best known today for enjoying disproportionate political power in war-torn Syria. In this book, Stefan Winter offers a complete history of the community, from the birth of the ‘Alawi (Nusayri) sect in the tent…

This paper aims to analyze the Alevi Opening in 2009 by the Justice and Development Party. Based on a close reading of the manuscripts of the seven workshops and the subsequently published report, a critical analysis of the initiative by the government is presented. It is argued that the organization and the compositi…

• CEMİL BOYRAZ

This article aims to show how and why Armeno-Turkish, or Ottoman Turkish written in Armenian letters, especially throughout the nineteenth century, was not merely an Armenian phenomenon but rather a cultural reflection of a larger Ottoman history. The article begins with a critique of the literature on the Ottoman mil…

• MURAT CANKARA

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Abstract The authors describe how Middle Eastern Muslims are represented in a text set of award‐winning picture books. Most were written by authors with outsider perspectives who wrote about (a) antiquated times and practices and (b) war‐stricken countries and dangerous journeys. Although most of the books are not pro…

• MEHMET GÜLTEKİN

Have you a pushee on your head? Was it made in Diyarbekir? (Popular ballad from Diyarbakır) Pushee weavers (Syrian Christian weavers of traditional silk cloth) have always been part and parcel of t...

• AHMET TAŞĞIN

Regional archaeological research in Lydia (western Turkey) has focused on prehistoric and Hellenistic through Byzantine periods with relative neglect of settlement patterns during the period in which Lydia was under Lydian and, subsequently, Persian control in the 7th through 4th centuries B.C. A multi-component resea…

• CHRISTOPHER HAVEMEYER ROOSEVELT

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• MEHMET RECEP TAŞ

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• KEMAL EROL

Introduction: Multiple Backgrounds 1 Elimination of the Barrier: Cemal Pasha and the Arabist Movement 2 Assertion of the State Authority Over Secondary, Local and Autonomous Structures 3 From a Dangerous Multitude into a Harmless Minority: The Treatment of the Armenians in Syria 4 Struggling Against Foreign Influence…

(1991). The search for the peasant in Western and Turkish history/historiography. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 18, New Approaches to State and Peasant in Ottoman History, pp. 109-184.

There are few other disciplines that are more open to fundamental criticism, inter-disciplinarity, and input from non-academic sources than is International Relations (IR). Over the years, IR scholars have imported various debates, paradigms, questions, models, methods, and data from other disciplines, practitioners,…