Sami Zubaida: 2 books
Beyond Islam
A New Understanding of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
In this magisterial work, Sami Zubaida draws on a distinguished career's worth of experience trying to understand the region to address the fundamental question in Middle East studies: what is the Middle East? He argues, controversially, that to see it through the prism of Islam, as it is conventionally...
Istanbul
Living with Difference in a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Istanbul explores how to live with difference through the prism of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have long confronted the challenge of sharing space with the Other. Located at the intersection of trade networks connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, Istanbul is western and eastern, northern...