Arabic Literature for the Classroom argues for a more visible presence of Arabic within the humanities and social sciences, stressing the need to make..
Due to its primacy in explaining issues of war and peace in the international arena, the discipline of International Relations (IR) looms large in ana..
In the aftermath of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Kurds were promised their own state. However, several factors meant that this dream never ..
There is a large and growing literature on Turkish politics in general, and the AKP in particular. However, local government and party organization, a..
The establishment of a Palestinian state has long been a strategic objective of EU and Russian foreign policy in the Middle East. However, over a deca..
Although the literature on party politics has significantly advanced both methodologically and theoretically in recent years, the study of political p..
The creation of Turkish nationhood, citizenship, economic transformation, the forceful removal of minorities and national homogenisation, gender right..
In the current political and social climate, there is increasing demand for a deeper understanding of Muslims, the Qur’an and Islam, as well as a keen..
The Mediterranean space, defined by a major sea, a large number of littoral countries and to some extent their hinterlands, is at the same time an int..
The formative period of Islam remains highly contested. From the beginning of modern scholarship on this formative period, scholars have questioned tr..
Shaykh Ṭanṭāwī Jawharī was an Egyptian exegete known for having produced a scientific interpretation of the Qurʾān. A pioneering scholar in terms of f..
Performing a political identity usually involves more than just casting a vote. For Left-wingers in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus – countries that emerged..