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The Caliphate, One Year Later By Samuel M. Taylor One year ago, there was nothing we could honestly call a ‘caliphate’ in Iraq and Syria. One year ago, a ragtag ‘JV’ team had just taken the northern Iraqi city of … Continue reading
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Imagining Palestine: The Press, Public Sphere, and Nationalism in the Second Constitutional Period, 1908-1914 Part III : Palestinian Print Culture at the Turn of the Century Despite the emergence of a semi-independent press in the second half of the 19th century, … Continue reading
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Imagining Palestine: The Press, Public Sphere, and Nationalism in the Second Constitutional Period, 1908-1914 Part II : Imagining the ‘Public Sphere’ in Late Ottoman Palestine This section will aim to determine to what extent the liberal model of the public sphere[1] … Continue reading
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Imagining Palestine: The Press, Public Sphere, and Nationalism in the Second Constitutional Period, 1908-1914 Part I : Introduction “The best speakers in these days are the newspapers, and the newspapers are the ears of the needs and necessities after the … Continue reading
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By Samuel M Taylor Few accounts offer a more detailed narrative of the evolution of the Ottoman government policy of mass deportation of Armenians than do the proceedings of the Ottoman Extraordinary Military Tribunal of 1919-1920. While Allied powers had … Continue reading
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By Samuel M. Taylor The end of Sultan Abdulhamid II’s 33-year reign in 1909 brought about a sea change in the political life of the Ottoman Jewish community. Following the ascendancy of the Committee of Union and Progress the previous … Continue reading
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By Samuel M. Taylor The emergence of what scholars refer to as the ‘Islamic press’ has been the subject of very few but nonetheless vigorous debates among historians of the Middle East. In historical studies, the advent of the printing … Continue reading
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By Samuel M. Taylor In 1973, members of the First International Congress of Orientalists convened in Paris on their 100th anniversary to call into question the very term for the field in which they had chosen to involve themselves. The … Continue reading
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By Samuel M. Taylor Like both Christianity and Judaism, Islam traces its origins to the covenant between God and Abraham—the first in a series of prophets mentioned in Islam’s holy book, the Qur’an. Though many of the Qur’anic prophets correspond … Continue reading
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By Samuel M. Taylor The following collection of literature illustrates varying analyses of the position of the Jews of Medina during the life of the Prophet Muhammad and their relationship to the fledgling Muslim community. While there is a degree … Continue reading
Through the Needle's Eye 