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[Book Review]: "Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair"
(SETA, 2017).Through meticulous research, Adeed Dawisha traces Arab nationalism chronologically from its rise to its fall. The book offers a historical description of Arab nationalism as an artificial construct, starting from its origins ... -
[Book Review]: "Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe in Them"
(SETA, 2021).Joseph Uscinski’s multi-author volume attempts to bring together a wide range of disciplinary perspectives on the phenomena of conspiracy theories (CTs) into one book. Given the significant epistemological disagreements ... -
[Book Review]: "Human Rights, Islam and the Failure of Cosmopolitanism"
(Oxford University Press, 2020).June Edmunds’s work weighs in on the bourgeoning debate on Islam and human rights in the European political sphere. The book is explicitly written in the wake of several terrorist attacks in Europe (the author highlights ... -
[Book Review]: "The Experiences of Face Veil Wearers in Europe and the Law"
(SETA, 2017).The Islamic face veil is now banned in public spaces by several European countries; Austria being the last country to pass a bill for a general ban in March 2017 and Germany having decided for a partial ban for selected ... -
[Book Review]: "The Idea of Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History"
(Wiley, 2020).his volume questions the geopolitical construct of an in-ternally unified and monolithic “Muslim world” and how thisnotion has been used (and misused) to support both Muslim ex-ceptionalism and Islamophobia. Aydin claims ... -
[Book Review]: "The Last of an Age: The Making and Unmaking of a Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Poet"
(Penn State University Press, 2021).It is never easy to write a book. Even less so if you want to incorporate into one book diverse topics that range from language movements to poetic canon formation and reception of a poet among different social groups. ... -
[Book Review]: Salem, Feryal. The Emergence of Early Sufi Piety and Sunnī Scholasticism: ʿAbdallāh b. al-Mubārak and the Formation of Sunnī Identity in the Second Islamic Century"
(İstanbul Üniversitesi, 2021).The book titled “The Emergence of Early Sufi Piety and Sunnī Scholasticism: ʿAbdallāh b. al-Mubārak and the Formation of Sunnī Identity in the Second Islamic Century” is a monograph in which the author focuses on Abdallāh ... -
[Book Review]: “Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash that Shaped the Middle East"
(SETA, 2019).The protests ignited by the selfimmolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia in the final days of 2010 metamorphosed into, as it were, a huge conflagration swallowing the whole Middle East one way or another. Paeans accompanied ... -
[Book Review]: “The Political History of Muslim Bengal: An Unfinished Battle of Faith"
(SETA, 2020).The Political History of Muslim Bengal, while speaking of the history of a lesser-known part of the Muslim world, has an interesting story of its own. The author, a former energy advisor to the Bangladesh government and ... -
A critical appraisal of Marshal Hodgson’s view of Islam vis-à-vis cumulative and discursive traditions
(İlmi Etüdler Derneği, 2018).The article engages closely with Marshall C. Hodgson's view of Islam in his theory of Islamicate civilization. Despite his methodological consciousness and various revisions he introduced in the study of Islamic civilization, ... -
Engineering a European Islam: an analysis of attempts to domesticate European Muslims in Austria, France, and Germany
(SETA, 2018).Today, a number of European states’ policies on religion aim at creating a nationalized Islam. In many Western European countries, the Ministries of the Interior have institutionalized ‘dialogue platforms’ to discuss issues ... -
The EU and human rights as institutional facts in the Finnish political discourse on family reunification
(Transnational Press London Ltd, 2019).This article analyses the Finnish political response to the refugee influx connected with the Syrian war and violent conflicts in its neighbouring states. In July 2016, a law amendment on the Finnish Aliens Act about a ... -
The inviolability of the non-muslims in Islamic law: A comparative reading of modern and classical debates
(University of Malaya, 2020).The question of the universality of the protection of rights has been an area of debate on different levels. This article will begin with a comparative reading of parallel debates on inclusion and universality in the ... -
Is there life outside earth?: Negotiating religious and scientific authority in late Ottoman periodicals
(MESA, 2020).This paper rethinks the inflow of Western ideas into the Ottoman Empire through the metaphor of ‘cultural translation,’ which conceives of ‘translators’ as active ‘negotiators’ rather than simple transmitters. These ... -
Overcoming nihilism through sufism: An analysis of Iqbal’s article on ‘ABD al-Karim al-Jili
(Oxford Academic, 2019).This paper attempts to rethink the philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) and challenge the still prevailing tendency in Iqbal scholarship to view it merely as an outcome of the influence of the ideas of various ... -
Rational theology in speculative science: Extraterrestrial life debates in the late Ottoman Empire
(Gesellschaft für Turkologie, Osmanistik und Türkeiforschung (GTOT), 2018).By setting the earth into motion the Copernican revolution had opened a venue for the possibility of extraterrestrial life in other planets inasmuch as they were now “similar” to earth (principle of similarity). By the end ... -
The Tanzimat novel in the service of science: On Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s American Doctors
(I.B. Tauris, 2020).In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when Ottomans started to syste1natically adopt European science and technology, they largely conceived of it as an addendum to their established body of traditional ... -
Transcending the imperial concept of “Civilization”: Recalling the concept of al-‘Umrān
(İzmir Katip Çelebi Üniversitesi, 2021).The concept of “civilization” is extremely problematic, confusing, and misleading. First, the concept of “civilization” is very problematic because it originated as part of the imperial process in which the West invaded, ... -
The vision of order and al-‘Umran as an explanatory concept in the debates on civilization
(Oxford University Press, 2017).Debates around the concept of civilization are increasing. It is natural for debates to intensify given that several disciplines such as sociology, political science, and international relations are using civilization as ...