...Benjamin C. Fortna Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2002 Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic Benjamin C. Fortna Few would deny the centrality of reading to modern so- hand, and the flimsiness of the underlying evidence...

... 75 SELÇUK AKSIN SOMEL, The Modernization of Public Education in ious minorities) closer to the center, but the very act of cen- the Ottoman Empire, 1839-1908: Islamization, Autocracy and Disci- tralization, implying the use of Turkish, exacerbated, accord- pline (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2001). Pp...

... Book Reviews 75 SELÇUK AKSIN SOMEL, The Modernization of Public Education in ious minorities) closer to the center, but the very act of cen- the Ottoman Empire, 1839-1908: Islamization, Autocracy and Disci- tralization, implying the use of Turkish...

... and the Ottoman Empire to Iran. This article is based on Persian and Turkish newspapers printed in Istanbul, and Ottoman archival as well as Persian and Turkish narrative sources. Duke University Press 2008 From Istanbul to Tabriz...

... But it was constitutionally and psychologically Empire man Otto- ofthe part remained Egypt provinces. Ottoman southern the and India British tween century. nineteenth the into persisted such asthe relatively greater importance of local nobility in India, these sharp differences Maratha fl trasted...

... and Kurdistan and the foot”:Imagining the Ottoman Empire Asia, Africa and the Middle East Middle the and Africa Asia, Politics,” Fragmented and Identity Fragmented ‘Others’: Their and Kurds Vali,“The Abbas e.g., See, 1. principalities’ Kurdish extentofthe...

...Brian Silverstein This article examines transformations in Sufi orders and in the status of Sufis in the late Ottoman Empire and argues that their increasing bureaucratization was an extension of increased rationalization of Ottoman administration and the normalization of the objects of governance...

...Benjamin C. Fortna This article examines the concepts of public and private in the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic through the worlds of child readers. It interrogates the shifting lines of demarcation between public and private against the background of children learning to read...

...Zoe Griffith State building and nationalism have been widely examined in the context of both the late Ottoman Empire and the modern Turkish Republic. This article explores the role of Islamic calligraphy and calligraphers during the final decades of Ottoman rule and through the twentieth century...

...Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet © 1998: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1998 “City of the Dead”: The Frontier Polemics of Quarantines in the Ottoman Empire and Iran Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet...

... as P The Ottoman Empire from Present to Past: mpire E Memory and Ideology in Turkey...

...İrvin Cemil Schick Increasingly, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, publications appeared in the Ottoman Empire that took issue with traditional norms of gender and sexuality and advocated alternatives. They criticized arranged marriages and supported companionate unions...

...Dina Le Gall Contested Conversions to Islam: Narratives of Religious Change in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Krstić Tijana . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2011 xvi + 264 pp., $60.00 (cloth) © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Politics of Women’s Rights...

... Empire and the various social forces that both shaped and resisted these processes. What emerges is a nuanced view of the post-Tanzimat Ottoman state’s ability to exercise its will on the ground. Finally, it provides crucial and much needed insight into the relationship between the central Ottoman state...

... alism, perhaps, at least of the Ottoman sort, is not. In other words, the Ottoman Empire as an an as Empire Ottoman the words, other not.In is sort, Ottoman ofthe atleast perhaps, alism, Rights, PaternalRights, Privilege, and Gender in French Syria andLeba- Verso, Elizabeth 1999...

...Baki Tezcan This essay proposes a new framework to study the history of the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by focusing on the transformation of Ottoman political structures in the seventeenth century. It offers a summary of Ottoman political history up to the sixteenth...

...Lâle Can; Aimee M. Genell Abstract Were Ottoman autonomous provinces nation-states in the making or signs of a semicolonial and irredeemably weak empire? Or, were they evidence of alternative arrangements of imperial sovereignty? By taking a long view of Ottoman history and examining “exceptional...

...Sabri Ates The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone Klein Janet . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2011 xi + 275 pp., $55.00 (cloth) © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran ernment...

... Donald and Inalcık Halil ed. 1300–1914 Empire, Ottoman the of History Social and nomic in 1812–1914,” Reforms, of Age “The Quataert, Donald 1. 2005. April 30 University, Harvard Perspectives,” Comparative and Historical Japan: and inTurkey, Critiques Iran, “Anti-Western...

... of the contemporaneous emergence of human violence and affection toward dogs. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 dogs Egypt Ottoman Empire interspecies relations urban regulation Earlier versions of portions of this article appear in Alan Mikhail, The Animal in Ottoman Egypt (Oxford University...