This article investigates religious transformations in contemporary Turkey through the case of women’s unveiling. Drawing on 10 in-depth interviews with university-educated urban women who have recently stopped wearing the ...

The abolition of the Caliphate in 1924 had enormous repercussions over the entire Muslim World, which was going through great cultural, political, and economic transformations. The abolition came after a heated debate among ...

This article studies a new shopping and entertainment centre in Istanbul, Zeruj Port, founded and run by young Muslim female entrepreneurs who specialize in Islamic modest fashion. Based on an ethnographic enquiry, the ...

Ottoman diplomacy during the reign of Selim II: Parameters and perimeters of the Ottoman Empire in the third quarter of the XI century

In Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly traversed the early modern Venetian-Ottoman frontier, including colonial migrants, redeemed slaves, merchants, commercial ...

Muslim Fashionistas in Contemporary Turkey: Devoted Mothers, Benevolent Philanthropists, and Leisure Enthusiasts

This article addresses the role of securitization of migration as the main binding factor for the populist radical right parties after the so-called ‘migration crisis’ and their increasing influence in the 2019 European ...

This article deals with Habsburg efforts to eliminate the ottoman naval threat by employing clandestine measures and undertaking covert operations. Realizing the danger that the ottoman fleet and corsairs created for their ...

Relying on documentation from Ottoman, Spanish, Venetian and Florentine archives, this article delineates the characteristics of Ottoman espionage in the sixteenth-century. It argues that Ottoman information gathering was ...

The understanding of things: A history of information between Italy and Mediterranean (XVI-XVII centuries)