Reviewed by Tobias P. Graf Continue reading →
Reviews
Review of Ehud Toledano, As if Silent and Absent: Bonds of Enslavement in the Islamic Middle East
21Dec 12Review of Madeline C. Zilfi, Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference
21Dec 12Reviewed by Nur Sobers-Khan Continue reading →
Review of Roger Botte, Esclavages et abolitions en terres d’islam. Tunisie, Arabie Saoudite, Maroc, Mauritanie, Soudan
21Dec 12Reviewed by Marta García Novo Continue reading →
Review of Robert C. Davis, Holy War and Human Bondage: Tales of Christian-Muslim Slavery in the Early-Modern Mediterranean
21Dec 12Reviewed by Will Smiley Continue reading →
Review of Géza Dávid and Pál Fodor (eds.), Ransom Slavery along the Ottoman Borders (Early Fifteenth – Early Eighteenth Centuries
21Dec 12Reviewed by Joshua Michael White Continue reading →
Review of Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno (eds.), Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Mediterranean
21Dec 12Reviewed by Jennifer Lofkrantz Continue reading →
Review of Ernest Tucker, The Middle East in Modern World History
10Dec 12Reviewed by Murat Yaşar Continue reading →
Review of Baki Tezcan, The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World
30Apr 12Reviewed by Abdurrahman Atçıl Continue reading →
Review of Avi Rubin, Ottoman Nizamiye Courts: Law and Modernity
13Mar 12Reviewed by Omar Y. Cheta Continue reading →
White Flag of Resistance
20Dec 11A review article by Yonatan Mendel
Texts reviewed:
Emile Habiby, The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist, trans. Salma Khadra Jayyusi and Trevor Le Gassick (London: Arabia Books, 2010).
Imīl Ḥabībī, al-Waqāʾiʿ al-Gharbiyya fī Ikhtifāʾ Saʿīd Abī al-Naḥs al-Mutashāʾil (Haifa: Dar Arabesque, 2006).
Imil Ḥabibi, ha-Opsimist: ha-Khroniḳa ha-Muflaʾah shel Heʿalmut Saʿid Abu al-Naḥs al-Mutashaʾil, trans. Anton Shammas (Tel Aviv: ha-Ḳibuts ha-Meʾuḥad, 1995). Continue reading →
