Islamic Studies and History

In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency and achievements of…

As Cemil Aydin explains in this provocative history, it is a misconception to think that the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims constitute a single religio-political entity. How did this mistaken belief arise, why is it so widespread, and how can its grip be loosened so that a more fruitful discussion about politics in Musli…

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• İBRAHİM KUNT
• MURAT KARADEMİR

Abstract Turkish foreign policy has dramatically transformed over the last two decades. In the first decade of the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) rule, the ‘logic of interdependence’ constituted the driving motive of Turkish foreign policy. In the second decade, however, the ‘logic of interdependence’ and the s…

• MUSTAFA KUTLAY

How would the history of international relations in 'the East' be written if we did not always read the ending – the Rise of the West and the decline of the East – into the past? What if we did not assume that Asia was just a residual category, a variant of 'not-Europe', but saw it as a space of with its own particula…

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• GÖKHAN ÇETİNSAYA

Turkey's foreign minister was the first intellectual to devise a rationalistic and pragmatic Islamist foreign policy. Five years in office have exposed a huge gap between his ambitions and the country's ability to achieve them.

• BEHLÜL ÖZKAN

Turkey has been witnessing a new and interesting phenomenon in recent decades: the emergence of what some call green capital or Islamic capital. Others call the same phenomenon Anatolian tigers. The economic formation originated in those business circles that disapprove of interest and interestbased financial institut…

• METİN TOPRAK
• MUSTAFA ACAR
• ÖMER DEMİR

This article identifies the various ways in which Islamic endowments helped provide essential services for public welfare during the heyday of Islamic civilization. Four goals are essentially accomplished. One, the importance of endowments in an Islamic society is identified. Two, the various fonns of funding that hav…

• MONZER KAHF

Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun son dönemininin siyasi ve iktisadi tarihi alanındaki çalışmalar belirli bir olguiıluğa ulaşmış durumdadır. Öte yandan aynı dönemin düşünce ve zihniyet tarihine dair fazla çalışma olduğu söylenemez. Tanıtmaya çalışacağımız bu bildiriler kitabı, Osmanlı toplumunun son dönemindeki fıkriyatını bi…

• HAŞİM KOÇ

Deviating from the mainstream analyses of the AKP that see the rise of AKP to power as a result of the struggle between “center” and “periphery,” this study is an attempt to analyze and understand the modalities of inclusion and accommodation of Turkish Islamism into the sociopolitical structure of Turkey. Therefore,…

• MUSTAFA ŞEN

Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial capital of the Ottoman Empire. Seat of the Sultan and an opulent international emporium, Istanbul was also a city of violence shaken regularly by natural disasters and by the…