This article revisits Ottoman history by exploring the enduring relationship between humans and locusts through an animal-human history approach, emphasizing their ‘companionship’ and combined agen...

This article explores Fascist Italy’s attempts in the interwar era to influence Turkish perceptions of fascism and Italy. The techniques to be reviewed include interviews by diplomatic personnel, t...

Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın (1875 − 1957) was a prominent and prolific writer who, in 1908, was also the first journalist elected to the Ottoman Chamber of Deputies. He was a member of the Committee of Un...

The millennium-long history of the Druze continues to shape members’ sense of ethnoreligious particularism and relations with other groups in Lebanon. Their contemporary heritage narrative and proc...

Turkey was among the countries that refused the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine which was put to vote on 29 November 1947, and this was celebrated by many Arab governments. Nevertheless...

This article examines the encounters between the Arabian Mission and the people of Bahrain from 1892 to 1917. The Arabian Mission which began as an American missionary project, established a statio...

Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 6, 2024)

Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 6, 2024)

This article presents a broad analysis of the Ottoman penal policies concerning the tolerant and clement punitive sanctions for mother offenders during the late Ottoman era. It scrutinizes the pena...

Who is protected by social security? This article explores this question by tracing the chronological sequence of inclusion into old age protection in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. The focus lies ...

The island of Syros in the Cyclades almost spontaneously emerged in 1830 as a prominent transit and trade hub for Greece and the Ottoman Empire. The present work is an attempt to conduct a deductiv...

This article examines the transformation of Direklerarası Street, located on Istanbul’s historical Divanyolu, from the 1720s to the 1920s. Originally built in 1729 as an arasta to generate revenue ...

This article aims to contribute to a better understanding of the complexity and diversity of anti-constitutionalist thought developed by the ulama by synthesizing the arguments of Shaykh Marandi (d...

In this article, we interrogate the extent to which a so-called Islamist advantage existed prior to the Arab Spring by examining country cases often neglected in the literature on Sunni Islamism. W...

Imam Hatip schools are among the educational institutions that have had a major impact on the social transformations in Turkey’s recent history. These institutions have played a major role in integ...

Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 6, 2024)

There is a growing consensus that the end of empire did not necessarily equate with a severing of imperial ties. Some historians have even argued that there was a shift from formal to informal empi...

Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

This essay represents the continuation of my research, on the Hamas Organization’s novel methods of psychological warfare against Israel. The previous article, which covered the period between 2007...

The leader of Republican People’s Party (RPP), İsmet İnönü, formed three governments between 1961 and 1965. Turkey faced several political, economic, social and military challenges in this period. ...

Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 5, 2024)

The question of Farouk’s title is considered an important part of Anglo-Egyptian rivalry. However, the existing literature neglects the issue’s possible impact on third countries. The purpose of th...

This article sheds light on the activity and thinking of women belonging to the Muslim Sisters Section within the Muslim Brothers movement (MB) in twentieth-century Egypt. While the MB has received...

Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 5, 2024)

This paper focuses on a specific historical period that preceded the proclamation of the Turkish Republic and tries to re-interpret its meaning for the development of liberal democracy in Turkey. A...

Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 5, 2024)

Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 4, 2024)

Focusing on the salons of Istanbul houses in the nineteenth century of the Ottoman Empire, this article is an attempt to rethink the spatial arrangement of the salon, the daily life practices and f...

This research aims to contribute to the literature on Ottoman common and by analysing how mid-nineteenth century land codes influenced conflicts regarding common pastures in the Balkans. To accompl...

This article explores the ideas of the Turkish-Islamist Millî Görüş movement on liberal democracy. From its formation in the 1970s to the 1990s, when it won the Turkish elections, the movement exhi...

Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 4, 2024)

Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 4, 2024)

For well over a hundred years, Russian expansion into the Caucasus put it face-to-face with the Circassians. This small group of Muslims successfully waged war against Russia, both militarily and d...

Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 3, 2024)

Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

From 1948 to 1967, most Arab stamp depictions of Palestine showed its borders as it existed during the British Mandate (1922-1948), from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. These borders con...

When Istanbul prohibited the trade of enslaved Africans in 1857, the Ottoman local authorities expanded efforts to curb human trafficking throughout the imperial realm. These endeavours also includ...

Drawing on the writings of the founding representatives of late Imperial Russia’s Oriental studies, and documents from Russian archives, this article first traces Professor Nikolay Veselovsky’s (18...

Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 2, 2024)

The main aim of the article is to compare and contrast different sources that pertain to the Greek population of Pontus during the early twentieth century. More precisely, the article investigates ...

During Israel’s War of Independence (1947–1949), women were a minority in the enlisted forces (10 per cent) and among the victims (9 per cent). Most did not carry weapons, and some were not killed ...

In histories of preventing and treating tuberculosis, many physicians came to prioritize the place and role of the home by the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This was as true in the...

Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 3, 2024)

Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 3, 2024)

Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 1, 2024)

Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 1, 2024)

The purpose of this research is to investigate how the value of the unity of the homeland (Israel) and the value of the unity of the people (Jewish Nation) in the writings and policy of Yitzhak Sha...

The new, developing bureaucratic procedures in the nineteenth century had wide-ranging influence over the Ottoman ulema in such areas as professionalization, performance evaluations, examinations f...

This article examines the transnational role of the most influential ʿAjam mercantile families (Maʿrafi, Bin Ghalib, and Behbehani) in the economic development of the state of Kuwait from the reign...

This article examines the peacemaking and peacekeeping efforts of the United Nations (UN) Palestine Commission, which was charged with implementing the General Assembly’s Resolution 181 on the part...

This paper examines the relationship between al-Azhar and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) following the 2011 Egyptianuprising. While the interplay between them in the pre-revolutionary period was mostl...

This article delves into the often-overlooked emotional aspect of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s decision-making during the 1975 Shuttle Diplomacy, focusing on the US-Israel relationship. Whi...

Based on the story of a balloon accident in the Bihke region of Bosnia in 1803, this article evaluates the balloon technology of the period through the life of Francesco Zambeccari, who was the aer...

Within the Zionist movement, the sea initially served no nationalistic purpose; it was a means of transit, a conduit for ingathering the Jewish diaspora. The Zionist leadership neglected the sea as...

Since the early nineteenth century, various ideologies have attempted to design education systems with an abundance of military attitudes for the future of the state and society, thereby benefiting...

In the Ottoman Empire, opposition journalism outside the country presented its first examples during the reign of Abdülaziz. Publishing newspapers outside the country reached its peak during the re...

The establishment of the Turkish and Irish republics took place nearly simultaneously, under the influence of the nationalist movement. This study discusses the cultural foundations of nationalism ...

With the signing of the Ankara Agreement in 1930 between Turkey and Greece, the Greek government withdrew its open support for Turkish political opponents of the Kemalist government and expelled su...

When reading texts mentioning past currencies, especially those that were in use in Ottoman and British Palestine and the first decade of the State of Israel, historians often remain puzzled as to ...

This article analyses an interview given by Princess Nazlı Fazıl (1856–1913) on 3 June 1899 to the British journal The Gentlewoman . Examining this rare instance of the representation of an elite O...