One of the most significant yet least known periods of modern Turkish history is that of Turkey's second president, Iusmet Iunonu. Following the death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1938, Turkish politicians and intellectuals struggled to redefine Kemalist notions of modernity and democracy, Islam and secularization, the role of the state, and Turkey's place in the world. The Politics of Turkish Democracy examines Iunonu's presidency (1938-1950), which developed amid the crises of World War II and the Cold War, global economic and political transformation, and economic and social change within...
One of the most significant yet least known periods of modern Turkish history is that of Turkey's second president, Iusmet Iunonu. Following the death...
This revisionist study reevaluates the origins and foundation myths of the Faqaris and Qasimis, two rival factions that divided Egyptian society during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Egypt was the largest province in the Ottoman Empire. In answer to the enduring mystery surrounding the factions' origins, Jane Hathaway places their emergence within the generalized crisis that the Ottoman Empire--like much of the rest of the world--suffered during the early modern period, while uncovering a symbiosis between Ottoman Egypt and Yemen that was critical to their formation. In...
This revisionist study reevaluates the origins and foundation myths of the Faqaris and Qasimis, two rival factions that divided Egyptian society durin...