Middle East
azw3 |eng | 2015-07-31 | Author:Nükhet Varlik [Varlik, Nükhet]

( Category: Middle East April 3,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-06-17 | Author:Norman Stone [Stone, Norman]

______________ 1 The Crimean Memorial Church (Christ Church) was rescued after 1991 by a very enterprising clergyman, Canon Ian Sherwood, who defied a challenge by his superiors to have the ...
( Category: Middle East April 3,2018 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-08 | Author:M. Şükrü Hanioğlu [Hanioğlu, M. Şükrü]

FIGURE 10. Ottoman deputies 1877 (province/electoral district). a. Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Ahmed Vefik Efendi (later pasha, senator, and grand vizier); appointed on February 5, 1877. b. Hacı ...
( Category: Middle East April 3,2018 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Dan Jones [Jones, Dan]

The feud began in earnest with the emperor’s decision to march south from Acre to Jaffa on November 15, so that he could parlay with the sultan of Egypt. Power ...
( Category: Churches & Church Leadership April 2,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-12-20 | Author:Suraiya Faroqhi [Faroqhi, Suraiya]

~ In conclusion As these paragraphs have demonstrated, research concerning prisoners of war on Ottoman territory, and on Ottoman captives abroad is still in its beginning stages: this accounts for ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 2,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2001-10-17 | Author:Bernard Lewis [Lewis, Bernard]

VI Religion For the Muslim, religion was the core of identity, of his own and therefore of other men’s. The civilized world consisted of the House of Islam, in which ...
( Category: Middle East April 2,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-06-22 | Author:George Junne [Junne, George]

From many accounts of the time, Moralı Beşir Ağa wielded a lot of influence but used it primarily for personal gain. He loved money and made a fortune illegally. He ...
( Category: Middle East April 2,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Nitsana Darshan-Leitner & Samuel M. Katz [Darshan-Leitner, Nitsana]

The money that Hezbollah paid to the residents of south Beirut and south Lebanon following the 2006 Second Lebanon War was called “clean money” by the locals.11 The money was ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 2,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-12-09 | Author:Bernard Lewis [Lewis, Bernard]

It is a charge often levelled at historians that their enquiries are concerned only with the possessors of wealth, power and learning; that though they may pretend to write the ...
( Category: Middle East April 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-22 | Author:Egger, Vernon O. [Egger, Vernon O.]

The Muslim West The Muslim lands bordering the western Mediterranean enjoyed a halcyon period during the second half of the tenth century. The eleventh century, on the other hand, witnessed ...
( Category: Middle East April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-07-25 | Author:Cihan Yüksel Muslu [Muslu, Cihan Yüksel]

The Last Performances of the Mamluk Court for Bayezid Five days after his audience with the Ottoman ambassador, Qansuh al-Ghawri called the European consuls in Mamluk lands to a public ...
( Category: Middle East April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-17 | Author:Malcolm Yapp [Yapp, Malcolm]

JORDAN No country in the Near East endured greater territorial convulsions during the period following the Second World War than did Jordan; nor did any country, except Israel, enjoy greater ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 1,2018 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-05-31 | Author:Palmira Brummett [Brummett, Palmira]

Figure 5.1. Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–77) [“Turk's Head”], Antwerp, 1645. By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Shelfmark: ART 254–213 (size S). Figure 5.2. [Du Vignau, Sieur des Joanots] Person of ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-09-20 | Author:Jerry Brotton [Brotton, Jerry]

8 Mahomet’s Dove In his diary entries for the Rose Theatre’s spring season in 1592, Philip Henslowe noted that Marlowe’s Jew of Malta was a popular hit, performed on at ...
( Category: Middle East April 1,2018 )