Publications

Conference volumes from the Turkish Studies Project will be published by the University of Utah Press as part of their series on Turkish and Islamic Studies.

Titles in this series include:

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  • The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey
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    Avoiding the sterile "was-it-genocide-or-not" debate, this book will open a new chapter in this contentious controversy and may help achieve a long-overdue reconciliation of Armenians and Turks.
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  • The Emergence of a New Turkey
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    Explains the social, economic, and historical origins of the ruling Justice and Development Party, offering keen insight into one of the most successful transformations of an Islamic movement in the Muslim world.
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  • The Armenian Rebellion at Van
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    Presents a long-overdue examination of the actions at Van, an ancient city in southeastern Anatolia, where the Armenian Revolt is believed to have been a precursor to a great massacre of the people of the East.
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  • Debating Moderate Islam
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    Brings together prominent Muslim voices to debate the nature of moderate, as opposed to fundamentalist, Islam and what moderation means in both a theological and a geopolitical sense.
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  • The Ottoman Army, 1914–1918
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    Provides extensive documentation of disease and death across the Ottoman Empire during World War I, when epidemics annihilated armies and caused civilians to perish en masse, and what it meant for the war.
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  • A Religion, Not a State
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    Examines the work of Ali 'Abd al-Raziq, considered the intellectual father of Islamic secularism, and his controversial idea that Islam is "a religion, not a state; a message, not a government."
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  • Turkish Foreign Policy 1919–2006
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    Already a classic textbook in Turkey, this book is the only comprehensive work that covers Turkish foreign policy from the end of Ottoman rule in 1919 to the present.
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  • The Search for God's Law
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    Brings to life Sayf al-Dīn al Āmidī's classic exposition of the methodologies through which Muslim scholars have constructed their understandings of the divine law. Revised with a new introduction and updated index.
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  • Sustainability of Microstates
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    Discusses the development, economics, and politics of North Cyprus, a micro-state that may possess inherent comparative economic advantages enabling sustainability in today's economic world.
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  • The Turk in America
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    A history of American prejudice towards Turks in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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  • An Index to the History of the Patriarchs of the Coptic Church
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    A five-sectioned index to the history of The Patriarchs of the Coptic Church by Lola Atiya.
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  • Ulama, Politics, and the Public Sphere
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    Traces the diverse Ulama reactions to late nineteenth and early twentieth century state building and national cohesion in Egypt.
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  • American Missionaries and the Middle East
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    History of the way nineteenth and early twentieth century American missionaries affected future U.S.–Middle East relations.
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  • Symbiotic Antagonisms
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    Examines the state-centric mode of modernization that has produced an ideological transformation in Turkey. Turkish, Kurdish, and Islamic nationalisms are systematically compared in this timely and significant work.
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  • War and Diplomacy
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    Based on the proceedings of a 2010 conference on the Treaty of Berlin, this volume offers an understanding of the events that led to the Balkan Wars and WWI.
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  • War and Nationalism
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    An interdisciplinary cadre of specialists offer in-depth analyses of the Balkan Wars and the nationalistic struggles that transformed the Ottoman Empire