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A collection of essays on Istanbul, the Ottoman army, and Jews as seen by Spanish travellers in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The proceedings of a conference on Jewish publishing and printing in the Ottoman Empire.

The proceedings of a conference on Spain’s relations with the Islamic East during the 14 and 15th centuries

A study of the role of local translators in the embassies and consulates of European powers in the Ottoman Empire.

A collection of papers on the discovery of Istanbul and the Sephardic Jews by Spanish travellers in the 19th century.

The proceedings of a conference on Turkish-Spanish relations at the time of Cervantes.

The proceedings of a conference on Turkish-Spanish relations throughout the ages.

A study of Spain’s relations with the Ottoman Empire during the first half of the 16th century under the Habsburg dynasty.

A study of the Jewish community in Istanbul and how it was transformed by the Ottoman reform movement of the nineteenth century.

Makings of the Sea is an inquiry into the makings of the Mediterranean imagination in the 20th century, focusing on specific cases in the visual and performing arts, music and literature. It also questions a number of populist perceptions of the Mediterranean and its cultures. Following a thematic structure that falls broadly under the headings of journey, doubt and nostalgia, this is an essay on Mediterranean aesthetics.

This book cantains the Syriac text of Saint Ephrem's Commentary on Genesis supplied with an Arabic translation and commentaries. Its text is one of the most beautiful texts in Syriac language. The book is good for the general readers and those who have interest in the Syriac fathers and churches.

This work details the lives of seven Palestinian monks and abbots, written in popular Greek by Cyril of Scythopolis, a sixth-century monk.

Lily Montagu’s Shekhinah outlines Lily Montagu’s theological writing, particularly her appropriation of the feminine aspect of the divine presence, Shekhinah, and provides a much needed corrective to the androcentric Anglo-Jewish historiography that has ignored, marginalized, and completely erased the founder of the Liberal Jewish movement in England. Luke Devine’s book is vital reading for students of Anglo-Jewry, First-Wave feminism, Jewish feminism, Liberal Judaism, and Jewish mysticism.

Sydney H. Griffith provides a basic overview of Syriac authors that addressed the issue of Islam in their writings. Griffith discusses the major themes and common content of this literature and focuses on the dialogue genre.

Sebastian Brock provides an overview of Syriac literature from the second to the twenty-first century. Brock divides this overview into six historical periods, surveys the important authors and writings of each period, and provides excerpts from some important writings.

In the present work, Wilhelm Baum provides an historical survey of the experiences of Christian communities in Turkey with a particular emphasis on the massacre in the early twentieth century.

Thérèse Philippe Bresse offers a lecture in which she informs her audience of her first hand account of the suffering of Syrian and Armenian people in the early twentieth century and appeals for their help in liberating them.

E. A. Wallis Budge presents here the Syriac text of a metrical, acrostic work that covers the life of Rabban Hormizd and the foundation of the monastery named after him important within the Assyrian Church of the East tradition.

Arthur Vaschalde provides a brief survey and translation of a manuscript containing historical details about the Monastery of Rabban Hormizd in Iraq.

Félix Nève provides here a literature review of publications in Syriac studies that have broader implications for other sub-fields of religious studies, such as biblical studies, patristics, history and linguistics.

The present work is the travelogue compiled from the notes and letters of Eli Smith and Harrison Dwight who traveled to the Middle East to interact with Armenian Christians in the early nineteenth-century.

This volume represents the Bross Lectures given by Frederick J. Bliss in 1908 in which he describes the religious practices of Christians and Muslims in Syria and Palestine.

A. C. Moule presents here a survey of the sources for Christianity in China prior to 1550 in order to construct a history of Christianity in China prior to the modern missions of the sixteenth century.

P. Henri Charles discusses the various forms of interaction between Christians and Arab nomads in the sixth and early seventh-century that led to the rise of a unique expression of Christianity among the nomad tribes.

The present volume is the travelogue of Eduard Sachau, who visited various sites throughout the Middle East in 1879-80. Sachau focuses primarily on issues pertaining to topography and geography.