Subject(s): Arabs -- History -- Turkey | Ulama -- History -- Turkey | Elite (Social sciences) -- History -- Turkey | Social change -- History -- Turkey Summary: "The Ottomans ruled much of the Arab World for four centuries. Bruce Masters's work surveys this period, emphasizing the cultural and social changes that occurred against the ba

Subject(s): Child witnesses -- Fiction | Mafia -- Fiction | Murder -- Fiction -- Investigation | Police chiefs -- Fiction | Arkansas -- Fiction Summary: "Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man&#

Subject(s): Seljuks | Seljuks -- Civilization | Turkey -- History -- To 1453 Summary: "Under Seljuk rule (c. 1081-1308) the formerly Christian Byzantine territories of Anatolia were transformed by the development of Muslim culture, society and politics, and it was then - well before the arrival of the Ottomans - that a Turkish population be

Subject(s): Women -- History -- 19th century -- Turkey | Women -- History -- 20th century -- Turkey | Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 Summary: In 'A Social History of the Late Ottoman Women: New Sources, New Stories', Duygu K©œksal and Anastasia Falierou bring together new research on women of different geographies and

Subject(s): Government investigators -- Fiction | Women physicians -- Fiction | Witnesses -- Fiction | Kidnapping -- Fiction | South Carolina -- Fiction Summary: Dr. Ellie Sullivan has just completed her residency at a large urban hospital. While jogging in a park nearby she witnesses the fatal shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted crim

Subject(s): Manuscripts, Malay -- Indonesia Sumatera Barat | Sumatera Barat (Indonesia) -- History | Sumatera Barat (Indonesia) -- Civilization Summary: Literay study on Malay manuscripts regarding history, politics, and civilization of Kerinci people in West Sumatra Province. Holdings: ,Book - General,Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

Subject(s): Turkey -- Civilization -- 1288-1918 | 'Uthmaniyah, 1299-1924 Scope and content: "Frontiers of the Ottoman Imagination is a compilation of articles celebrating the work of Rhoads Murphey, the eminent scholar of Ottoman studies who has worked at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Bi

Subject(s): Cartography -- History -- 17th century -- Turkey | Cartography -- History -- 17th century -- Europe | Religion and geography | Christianity and other religions -- Islam History | Islam -- Relations Christianity History | Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 Summary: "Simple paradigms of Muslim-Christian confrontation a

Subject(s): Armenian massacres, 1915-1923 | Armenian massacres, 1915-1923 -- Historiography | Armenians -- History -- Turkey | Genocide -- Turkey | Collective memory | Turkey -- History -- 20th century | Armenia -- History -- 20th century Summary: "The first genocide of the twentieth century remains unrecognized and unpunished. One hundred

Subject(s): Tablighi Jamaʻat | Islam -- Missions | Islam -- Southeast Asia | Da'wah -- Southeast Asia Summary: "Much nuance and variability have been lost in the process of the reductivist analysis of Islam post 9/11 and, as this study amply demonstrates, we are all the poorer as a result. This exhaustive examination of the rise and sp