This volume collects the work of Michael E. Meeker on Turkish society. Meeker’s research is based on field work he conducted in rural Turkey in the 1960s and then in Istanbul in the 1980s. Meeker’s interest is in how Turkish social conventions imply structures of political authority. In Turkey, formal institutions and interpersonal association have a close relationship, something which dates back to Ottoman times. The first two sections are devoted to the Black Sea Turks in general and then the Black Sea district of Of. The third part is devoted to Meeker’s writings on an Islamic...

A selection of articles by Irene Melikoff on early Turkish and Ottoman literature with a wider point of view to include cultural and historical references.

This collection of articles by Rena Molho addresses Salonica’s Jewish community during the nineteenth century and the first fifty years of the twentieth century, when the city was home to a large Jewish population.

Perilous Modernity collects essays on the idea of modern science and medicine in the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

A series of essays about Jewish printing and publishing in the Ottoman and Empire.

A study of the role of the German playwright Brecht on Turkish society and thinking in the twentieth century.

Amele Taburu is the French-language journal kept by Haim Akbukrek, a Jewish conscript in the Turkish nationalist army during the War of Independence in the 1920s.

A collection of articles by Robert Olson on the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth century, Ottoman Jews and Kurds, and historiography.

A collection of essays by Dr. Robert Olson on the 18th and 20th century Ottoman and Turkish history with particular emphasis on Jews, Kurds and the Tulip Period.