I.B. Tauris

Illuminating the interplay of religion and British diplomacy in Turkey within a broad time frame, This book explores the religious life of British expatriates in Turkey, and the politics of Anglican...

Following the Arab Uprisings, new ways of understanding sectarianism and sect-based differences emerged. But these perspectives, while useful, reduced sectarian identities to a consequence of either...

When Muslim rule in Kashmir ended in 1820, Sikh and later Hindu Dogra Rulers gained power, but the country was still largely influenced by Sunni religious orthodoxy. This book traces the impact of...

What is the nature of slavery as practiced and at times reintroduced over the past two centuries in the Middle East and North Africa? In spite of the rich regional diversity of the areas studied ?...

Author: Mario ErasmoPublisher: I.B. TaurisPublication Date: Feb 27, 2018Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1780762143ISBN-13: 9781780762142

The Balyan family were a dynasty of architects, builders and property owners who acted as the official architects to the Ottoman Sultans throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Originally Armenian,...

How is official denial of the Armenian genocide maintained in Turkey? In this book, Hakan Seckinelgin investigates the mechanisms by which denial of the events of 1915 are reproduced in official...

Over the past few decades, whilst evading severe governmental restrictions in Iran, the Iranian Evangelical diaspora has grown across Turkey, Germany, the Netherlands, the US and the UK. Far from the...

Founded in 1929, the Jewish Agency played a central role in the founding of the State of Israel. Throughout the 1920s, 30s and 40s, many secret meetings took place between the JA and Arab leaders and...

Since the Second World War, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt faced periods of extensive state repression, between 1948-1951 and 1954-1970 and again after 2013. These mihan or ?ordeals?, as members...

Author: Angus RoxburghPublisher: I.B. TaurisPublication Date: Nov 30, 2021Number of Pages: 464 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0755639251ISBN-13: 9780755639250

China is now the most powerful country on earth. Its manufacturing underpins the world's economy; its military is growing at the fastest rate of any nation and its leader - Xi Jinping - is to set the...

Vision Or Mirage : Saudi Arabia At The CrossroadsAuthor: David RundellPublisher: I.B. TaurisPublication Date: Nov 30, 2021Number of Pages: 432 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement. Designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the EU and the US, it seeks...

Zakariyya Tamir is Syria's foremost writer of short stories, and his works are widely read across the Arab world. In this, the first English language monograph on Tamir's entire oeuvre, Alessandro...

In the nineteenth century, a great number of Zoroastrians emigrated from Iran to India. The subsequent importance of the cultural, religious and political ties between the Zoroastrian communities of...