GINGKOSPRING 2018

Christmas and the Qur’an

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b y Karl-Josef Kuschel

t r a n s l a t e d b y S i m o n Pa r e

The depiction of Jesus and indeed of Mary in the Qur’an is a subject of great importance for a more intelligent dialogue

between Islam and the Christian tradition. Too many people know little or nothing about it, and it is a pleasure to welcome

the English translation of this book from a seasoned and creative scholar.

Dr. Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge

The familiar and heart-warming story of Christmas is one of hope, encapsulated by the birth of the infant Jesus. It is also a story which unites two faiths which have so often been at odds with one another.

The accounts of the Nativity given by the Evangelists Luke and Matthew find their parallels in surahs 3 and 19 of the Qur’an which take up the Annunciation to Mary, the Incarnation of the Holy Spirit and the Nativity. Christmas and the Qur’an is a sensitive and precise analysis of the Christmas story as it appears both in the Gospels and the Qur’an and shows startling similarities as well as significant differences. Exploring how Christians and Muslims read these scriptures, Kuschel reveals an intertwining legacy that serves as a base for greater understanding.

Karl-Josef Kuschel is Professor Emeritus of Catholic Theology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He taught the theology of culture and inter-religious dialogue and was the Deputy Director of Institute of Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Studies. He was a member of board of directors of the international theological journal, Concilium, as well as a member of the advisory board of Theology and Literature (London) and Faith meets Faith Series (New York). From 1995 to 2009 he was Vice President of the Stiftung Weltethos, working closely with his doctoral supervisor and founding president of Weltethos, Hans Küng. He continues to serve as an academic advisorof the foundation.

This is a highly accessible book written in the spirit of the author’s ‘Abrahamic ecumenism’ to encourage Christians and Muslims to carefully read Biblical and Qur’anic passages for a better appreciation of each other’s faiths.

Prof. Mona Siddiqui, University of Edinburgh

This is a most interesting and informative book; it is equally valuable for scholars and a wider readership. […] Professor Kuschel has highlighted very clearly the joint heritage of Christianity and Islam at a time when mutual understanding between these two religious traditions is so vital.

Prof. Carole Hillenbrand, University of St Andrews

Religious Imaginations and Global TransitionsHow narratives of faith are shaping today’s world

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e d i t e d b y James Walters

The causes of global transitions are numerous and complex. Market globalisation, technology, climate change and post-colonial political forces are all forging a new world. But caught up in the mix are some powerful religious narratives that are galvanising peoples and reimagining political and social order. Some are repressive, fundamentalist imaginations such as the so-called Islamic Caliphate. Others could be described as post-religious, such as the evolution of universal human rights out of the European Christian tradition. But the question of the compatibility of these religious worldviews, particularly those that have emerged out of the Abrahamic faith traditions, is perhaps the most pressing issue in global stability today. What scope for dialogue is there between the Jewish, Muslim and Christian ways of imagining the future? How can we engage with these multiple imaginations to create a shared peaceful future? This is an interdisciplinary volume of both new and well-known scholars exploring how religious narratives interact with the contemporary geopolitical climate.

James Walters is Director of the LSE Faith Centre which works to promote global interfaith leadership. He is a senior lecturer in practice at the LSE and a priest in the Church of England.

Contributors: Craig Calhoun, Mona Siddiqui, Anba Angaelos, Naftali Brawer, John Casson, Mena Mark Hanna, Kamran Bashir, Abby Day, Elena Arlyapova, Eileen Barker, Thahir Jamal, Catriona Robertson, Mohammed Gamal Metawea, John Fahy, Haydar al-Lami, Fabio Petito, Scott Thomas, Jenna Reinbold, Khushwant Singh, Emmanuel Karagiannis, Caleb Gordon, Abu Bakr Muhammad, Megan Shore.

Serious, sophisticated and timely… a breath of fresh air in a stale international debate. 21st-century policymakers need to get over the false divide between religion and ‘normal’ secular policy. The world needs to reimagine ways to live together and to overcome the visions – ideological or religious – that feed violence and injustice. Religious ideas and communities are inextricable to this, posing our greatest challenges but also offering the richest resources humanity has for the task.

His Excellency John Casson, British Ambassador to Cairo

The Mercantile Effect Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World during the 17th and 18th Centuries

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This lavishly illustrated volume publishes a collection of papers delivered at the third Gingko conference: ‘The Mercantile Effect: on Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World during 17th-18th Centuries.’

Held in Berlin in 2016, this meeting brought together a group of established and early-career scholars to discuss how the movement of Armenian, Indian, Chinese, Persian, Turkish and European merchants and their trade goods spread new ideas and new technologies across Western Asia in the early modern era. Operating through the newly-established Dutch, English and French East India companies, as well as much older mercantile networks, prestigious exotic commodities - silk, ivory, books and glazed porcelains - were transported east and west. The collected essays in this volume introduce a fascinating array of subjects, all of them indicative of the impact of transcultural exchanges during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Sussan Babaie is the Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She taught widely in the USA and Germany before joining the Courtauld in 2013 and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright Scholar Program, and The Getty Research Institute among others.

Melanie Gibson is the Senior Editor of the Gingko Library Arts Series. She was Visiting Professor at New College of the Humanities, London from 2013 to 2016, and Director of the Islamic module for the Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art at SOAS from 2006 to 2017. She has published a number of articles on different aspects of ceramic and glass production as well as sculpture in plaster, metal, and ceramics.

edited by Sussan Babaie & Melanie Gibson

foreword by Melanie Gibson

introduction by Sussan Babaie

Contr ibutors :

Anna BallianFederica GiganteFrancesco GusellaGül KaleNicole Kançal-FerrariWilliam Kynan-WilsonSuet May LamAmy S. LandauChristos MerantzasNancy Um

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Series Editor: Melanie Gibson

The Mercantile Effect captures unexpected glimpses of a vast and shifting landscape and brings them into focus; this is what the future of art history looks like.

Dr George Manginis, Member of the Executive Committee, Benaki Museum

This fine of collection of stimulating essays is a fascinating introduction to some of the commodities, tastes and ideas that flowed around the Middle East in the premodern era.

Dr Julia Gonnella, Director, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Architectural Heritage of Yemen Buildings that Fill my Eye

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Twenty chapters, authored by leading scholars from around the world, explore the astonishing variety of building styles and traditions that have evolved over millennia in a region of diverse terrains, extreme climates and distinctive local histories. Generations of highly-skilled masons, carpenters and craftspeople have deftly employed the materials-to-hand and indigenous technologies to create urban architectural assemblages, gardens and rural landscapes that sit harmoniously within the natural contours and geological conditions of southern Arabia. A sharp escalation in military action and violence in the country since the 1990s has had a devastating impact on the region’s rich cultural heritage. In bringing together the astute observations and reflections of an international and interdisciplinary group of acclaimed scholars, this book raises awareness of Yemen’s long history of cultural creativity, and of the very urgent need for international collaboration to protect it and its people from the destructive forces that have beset the region. Following the editor’s introduction, the book is divided into three parts. Part One introduces readers to the astonishing variety of architecture and building traditions across the country, from the Red Sea coast, eastward into the mountainous highlands, to the edge of the Arabian Desert, and southward into the deep, dramatic wadis of Hadhramaut. Part Two is dedicated to exploring the issues and the challenges of conserving and preserving Yemen’s rich architectural heritage. Part Three offers vivid personal insights – both historical and contemporary – into the making of place and the construction of identities.

Trevor H.J. Marchand is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and has received the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Rivers Memorial Medal (2014).

edited and introduction by Trevor H.J. Marchand

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Fahd al-QuraishiSabina Antonini de Maigret Gabriele vom Bruck Deborah Dorman Barbara Finster Ingrid Hehmeyer Pamela JeromeTom LeiermannRonald Lewcock Tim Mackintosh-Smith Nabil al-Makaleh Trevor H.J. Marchand Anne Meneley Cristina MuradoreVenetia Porter Renzo Ravagnan Noha Sadek St John Simpson Nancy Um Fernando Varanda Shelagh Weir

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Series Editor: Melanie Gibson

£5 from the sale of each book will support UNHCR’s Yemen Appeal

Art, Trade and Culture in the Islamic World and BeyondFrom the Fatimids to the Mughals

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The essays in this volume bring to light the artistic exchanges that occurred between successive Islamic dynasties and those further afield in China, Armenia, India and Europe from the 12th to the 19th centuries.

All the articles present original research, many of them taking advantage of innovative scientific means allowing us to look at already familiar objects in a new light. Subjects include tile production during the reign of Qaytbay, book bindings associated with Qansuh al-Ghuri, depictions of fish on Mamluk textiles, and the relationship between Mamluk metalwork and Rasulid Yemen and Italy respectively. Other articles are concerned with epigraphic inscriptions found on the buildings of the Fatimid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods, examining the inscriptions on the Mausoleum of Yahya al-Shibihi in Cairo, tracing the revival of building inscriptions in 19th century Egypt, and how a Mamluk inscription from the Madrasa Qartawiya in Tripoli is replicated in Istanbul during the Ottoman period. The relationship between ceilings of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo and the Moukhroutas Palace in Constantinople is also explored, as is the unacknowledged debt that European lacquer work owes to Persian craftsmen. Other topics covered include the architecture of the Nusretiye Mosque in Istanbul, the role played by Armenian architects in the reshaping of Ottoman cities in the 19th century, the role of the hammam in Ottoman culture, and representations of beauty on Iznik pottery. Arictles on Port St. Symeon ceramics, the Armenian patrons of Chinese export wares of the 18th century, the history of the art of khatam kari in Iran, the artistic, architectural and literary influences in India between the 15th and 17th centuries, the influence of Timurid architecture in 15th century Bidar, and the influence of a 16th century Hindavi Sufi Romance are also included.

e d i t e d b y Alison Ohta, Michael Rogers, Rosalind Wade Haddon

f o r e w o r d b y Nasser David Khalili

C o n t r i b u t o r s :

Moya CareyNikolaos VryzidisRachel WardBernard O'Kane Bahia ShehabJeremy JohnsHelen PhilonBora KeskinerÜnver RüstemMehmet Baha TanmanAlyson Wharton-DurgaryanScott RedfordRosalind Wade HaddonSami de GiosaFiliz YenişehirlioğluGeorge ManginisMelanie GibsonMehreen Chida-Razvi Alison OhtaJ.M. RogersMalini RoyJavad Golmohammedi Maria SardiTim Stanley

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Pahlavi Iran in the Global 1960s and 1970s Contemporary History and politiCs series

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The reign of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1941-1979), marked the high-point of Iran’s global interconnectedness. Never before, nor ever since, have Iranians felt the impact of global political, social, economic, and cultural forces so intimately in their national and daily lives, nor have Iranian actors played such an important global role, on battlefields, barricades, and in board rooms far beyond Iran’s borders. Modern Iran is in many ways the product of the global interconnectedness that dramatically accelerated in the 1960s and 1970s. From the launch of the Shah’s White Revolution in 1963 to his overthrow in the popular Revolution of 1978-79, Iran experienced the longest period of sustained economic growth that the country had ever experienced. The shift in power from oil consumer to oil producers fuelled the modernisation aspirations of a generation of Iranians, in the context of competing capitalist and Marxist models of development. The history of Pahlavi Iran has traditionally been written as prologue to the 1979 Iranian Revolution. These histories largely locate the political, social and cultural origins of the revolution firmly within a national context, into which global actors intruded and Iranian actors retreated. While engaging with this national narrative, this volume is concerned with Iran’s place in the global history of the 1960s and 1970s. It examines and highlights the transnational threads that connected Pahlavi Iran to the world, from global traffic in modern art and narcotics, to the embrace of American social science by Iranian technocrats and the encounter of European intellectuals with the Iranian Revolution. In doing so, this volume seeks to write Pahlavi Iran into the global history of the 1960s and 1970s, when Iran mattered far beyond its borders.

Roham Alvandi is Associate Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War (2014).

Contributors:

Claudia Castiglioni Houchang Chehabi Maziyar Ghiabi Ramin Nassehi Robert Steele Samine Tabatabaei Cyrus Schayegh

Series Editor: Ali M. Ansari

Ottoman Explorations of the NileEvliya Çelebi’s ‘Matchless Pearl These Reports of the Nile’ map and his accounts of the Nile and the Horn of Africa in The Book of Travels

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by Robert Dankoff, Nuran Tezcan and Michael D. Sheridan The most ambitious effort, before the time of Napoleon, to explore and map out the Nile was undertaken by the Ottomans, as attested by two monumental documents: an elaborate map, with 450 rubrics; and a lengthy travel account. Both were achieved at about the same time —c. 1685— and both apparently by the same man. Evliya Çelebi’s account of his Nile journeys, in Volume 10 of The Book of Travels (Seyahatname), has been known to the scholarly world since 1938. The map, in the Vatican Library, has been known to the scholarly world since 1949. A first edition of it was published in 2011. The authors of that edition, Robert Dankoff and Nuran Tezcan, demonstrated in detail that the map should be attributed to Evliya Çelebi. The edition of the map included here (which, considered as a text, is extraordinarily challenging philologically) incorporates many new readings, making this the definitive edition. This volume also contains Evliya’s six journeys, his travels in Egypt and Sudan and along the Red Sea coast, as well as problems regarding dates and authenticity of the journeys. The relation of the map and The Book of Travels is analysed, including similarities and correspondences in content, language, and style, along with discrepancies between the two documents and how to account for them.

Robert Dankoff has taught at Brandeis University, the University of Arizona, and since 1979 at the University of Chicago, where he is Professor Emeritus of Turkish and Islamic Studies.

Nuran Tezcan was assistant professor at Eastern Mediterranean University in North Cyprus from 2000 to 2003, and from 2003 to 2016 she was associate professor at the Department of Turkish Literature of Bilkent University in Ankara.

Michael D. Sheridan recently completed his Ph.D. at Bilkent University, Ankara, with a dissertation using the corpus of Ottoman invective verse of the early 17th century to investigate emerging sociocultural tensions within the elite classes.

‘In this splendid volume, Evliya Çelebi’s richly-annotated Nile map is published in full for the first time, alongside his extensive account of his pioneering journeys in the region in 1672. Expertly translated so as to preserve Evliya’s humorous style and penchant for drama, this is a substantial contribution to our appreciation of an unsung adventurer.’

Caroline Finkel, author of The Evliya Çelebi Way

‘An engaging work of scholarship, this volume brings alive the Ottoman exploration of the Nile, a fascinating if neglected achievement, as reflected in two remarkable works: Evliya Çelebi’s typically entertaining travel account and a meticulous map, surviving in a single copy at the Vatican Library and, as the book convincingly argues, the work of Evliya himself. Under Professor Dankoff Evliya Çelebi studies have truly come of age, and this beautiful book should delight every reader.’

Yorgos Dedes, Senior Lecturer in TurkishSOAS, University of London

‘In their notes and analyses, Dankoff, Tezcan, and Sheridan have left no stone unturned, no reference unchecked, and no question unaddressed. With sagacity and finess, the editors of this volume open for us a window into an Ottoman fascination with cultural and geographical explorations in the seventeenthcentury.’

Ilker Evrim Binbaş, Lecturer in Early Modern Islamic History, University of Bonn

The Phoenix Mosque and the Persians of Medieval Hangzhou

edited by George Lane

In the early 1250s Mongke Khan, grandson and successor of the mighty Mongol emperor, Genghis Khan, sent out his younger brothers Qubilai and Hulegu to consolidate his grip on power. Hulegu was welcomed into Iran while his older brother, Qubilai, continued to erode the power of the Song emperors of southern China. In 1276 he finally forced their submission and peacefully occupied their capital, Hangzhou. The city enjoyed a revival as the cultural capital of a united China and was soon filled with traders, adventurers, artists, entrepreneurs, and artisans from throughout the great Mongol Empire including a prosperous, influential and seemingly welcome community of Persians. In 1281, one of their number, Alā al-Din, built the Phoenix Mosque in the heart of the city where it still stands today. This study of the mosque and the Ju-jing Yuan cemetery, which today is a lake-side public park, casts light on an important and transformative period in Chinese history, and perhaps the most important period in Chinese Islamic history. The book is published in the Persian Studies Series of the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS).

George Lane is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the History of the Middle East and Central Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

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Series Editor: Charles Melville

Contributors:

George Lane

Qing Chen

Alexander Morton

On Literature and Philosophy

Essays of the Sadat Era 1976-81 The Non-Fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz: Volume II

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b y Naguib Mahfouzintroduct ion by Rasheed El-Enany

Written by a winner of the Nobel Prize in 1988, Mahfouz’s novels brought Arabic literature to an international readership. Far fewer people know his non-fiction works however – a gap that this book fills. Bringing together Mahfouz’s early non-fiction writings (mostly penned during the 1930s) which have never before been available in English, this volume offers a rare glimpse into the early development of this renowned author. As these pieces show, Mahfouz was deeply interested in literature and philosophy, and his early writing engages with the origins of philosophy, its development and place in the history of thought, as well as its meaning, writ large. In his literary essays, he discusses a wide range of authors, from Anton Chekhov to his own Arab contemporaries like Taha Hussein.

Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) is regarded as the most important Arabic writer of his generation. He is the author of over thirty novels, including The Cairo Trilogy and Children of the Alley. In 1988 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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b y Naguib Mahfouzintroduct ion by Rasheed El-Enany

When Mahfouz retired from his job as a civil servant in 1971, he took up an appointment as a member of the editorial staff at Egypt’s Al-Ahram newspaper. Many of his novels were serialised in Al-Ahram. Less well known, however, are the essays he also published through the newspaper. This fascinating volume brings together Mahfouz’s non-fiction writings penned during the era of Sadat, whose presidency comprised some of the most dramatic events in Egyptian history: from Sadat’s ‘Corrective Revolution’ to the Yom Kippur War with Israel. In this collection Mahfouz deals with diverse political topics, such as socio-economic class, democracy and dictatorship, Islam and extremism – topics which still seem highly pertinent in relation to the situation in Egypt today. While Mahfouz’s opinions are often considered to be obscured in his fiction writing, here we gain an extraordinarily clear insight into his personal views – views which helped shape his novels. Essays of the Sadat Era is the second of four volumes that will see Mahfouz’s non-fiction work translated into English for the first time.

The Non-Fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz: Volume I

Iran’s Constitutional Revolution of 1906 Narratives of the Enlightenment

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edited by Ali M. Ansari

The Constitutional Revolution of 1906 opened the way for enormous change in Persia, heralding the modern era and creating a model for later political and cultural movements in the region. It saw a period of unprecedented debate within the country’s burgeoning press. The revolution created new opportunities and opened up seemingly boundless possibilities for Persia’s future. Many different groups fought to shape the course of the Revolution, and all sections of society were ultimately changed by it. The old order, which the Shah had struggled for so long to sustain, finally died, to be replaced by new institutions, new forms of expression, and a new social and political order. Broad in its scope, this multidisciplinary volume brings together the essays of outstanding scholars in the field of Iranian Studies. It explores the characters involved, contact with the West and modernity which helped shape events, as well as exploring themes such as the role of women, the use of photography, and the uniqueness of the Revolution as an Iranian experience.

Contributors: Pejman Abdolmohammadi, Ali Gheissari, Evan Siegel, Elahe Helbig, Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, Urs Gösken, Milad Odabaei, Kamran Matin, Salour Evaz Malayeri, Roman Seidel.

by Ali M. Ansari

The surprise election of Hasan Rouhani in 2013 has focussed attention on the dynamics between Islam and democracy in Iran after the hiatus of the Ahmadinejad presidency. With comparisons being drawn between Rouhani and his predecessors but one, the reformist president Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005), there has never been a better time for a review and detailed analysis of the rise and fall of the reform movement in Iran, allowing us to better situate within the context of the ‘politics of managing change’. This revised and updated edition with a new introduction and conclusion, incorporates more recent work on the presidential election crisis of 2009, along with the election of Rouhani in 2013, and an additional essay on the idea of reformism in Iran in historical context. The study remains the most comprehensive account of the politics of reform and in situating the Rouhani presidency within that context, it shines a clear light on the pressures and pitfalls that face it as it seeks to redefine Iran’s politics and international relations.

Ali M. Ansari is Professor of Iranian History and Founding Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews.

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The Politics of Managing ChangeIran, Islam and Democracy

Pagan Christmas

Memories of a Bygone Age Qajar Persia and Imperial Russia 1853-1902

b y Augusto S. Cacopardo

This authoritative work sheds light on the religious world of the Kalasha people of the Birir valley in the Pakistani district of Chitral, focusing on their winter feasts which culminate in a great winter solstice festival. The Kalasha represent the last example of the pre-Islamic cultures of the Hindu Kush/Karakorum, but are also the only observable example, worldwide, of an archaic Indo-European religion. Cacopardo addresses the historical and cultural context of the area and, referencing an array of relevant literature, offers comparisons with the Indian world and the religious folklore of Europe. Interdisciplinary and based on extensive field research, Pagan Christmas is the first extended ethnographic study devoted to this little known Kalasha community and represents a standard international reference source on the anthropology, ethnography, and history of religions of Pakistan and Central South Asia.

Augusto S. Cacopardo has conducted anthropological research in Pakistan under the aegis of the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente and is Professor of Ethnography at the University of Florence. His publications include the monograph Gates of Peristan: History, Religion and Society in the Hindu Kush (2001), co-authored with his brother Alberto M. Cacopardo.

b y Prince Arfa

Set against the backdrop of the remorseless decline of Iran and its unequal struggle against the rising powers of Russia and Britain, Prince Arfa’s memoirs (1853-1902), packed with picaresque-like adventures, narrate his rise from humble provincial beginnings to the heights of the Iranian state. He writes wittily of the deadly intrigues of the Qajar court and of the power of the eunuchs. He sadly, but resolutely, chronicles the decline of Iran from a once great empire to an almost bankrupt, lawless state, in which the latent social unrest is channelled and exploited by the clergy. He describes the interaction between Iran and Europe: the weary, profligate Naser-od-Din Shah’s 1889 visits to Britain and France; the splendour and eccentricities of the doomed Tsar Nicholas II’s court; the Tsar’s omen-laden coronation; and his own favour with the Tsarina, from whom he used to extract Russian concessions on matters of vital importance to his country.

Michael Noël-Clarke studied Persian and Arabic at Oxford, spent a year as an undergraduate in Isfahan and was a member of the British Embassy in Tehran from 1970-1974. Noël-Clarke was Chairman of the Iran Society from 1996 to 2006.

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Winter Feasts of the Kalasha of the Hindu Kush

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Making the Modern Middle East

The First World War and its Aftermath The Shaping of the Modern Middle East

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b y TG Fraser, Andrew Mango and Robert McNamara

In 1914, the Middle East was still dominated, as it had been for some four centuries, by the Ottoman Empire. By 1923, its political shape had changed beyond recognition as the result of the insistent claims of Arab and Turkish nationalism and of Zionism. This book examines that historic transformation, taking as its focus the work of three leaders. The Hashemite Emir Feisal hoped to head an Arab kingdom in Syria but was thwarted by the French. The Turkish war hero Mustafa Kemal defied the imperial ambitions of the European powers, inspiring a new Turkish nationalism and founding a secular republic on the ruins of a defeated empire. The Russian-born scientist Chaim Weizmann seized the chance to secure the Balfour Declaration in favour of Zionism from the British in 1917, and then successfully argued for a British mandate for Palestine which would carry this out.

TG Fraser is Professor Emeritus at Ulster University. Andrew Mango (1926-2014) was the author of the definitive biography of Atatürk (2002). Robert McNamara is currently a Senior Lecturer in International History at Ulster University.

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A collection of essays by leading scholars examining the impact of the First World War on the Middle East – so crucial to the understanding of the conflicts unfolding in the region today. In addition to recounting the international politics of the Great Powers that drew lines in the sand, contributors address topics ranging from the war’s effects on women, the experience of the Kurds, sectarianism, the evolution of Islamism, and the importance of prominent intellectuals. They examine the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the exploitation of notions of Islamic unity and pan-Arabism, the influences of Wilsonian American ideals on Middle East leaders, and likewise the influence of Lenin’s vision of a communist utopia. Altogether, they tell a story of promises made and promises broken, of the struggle between self-determination and international recognition.

Contributors: Amany Soliman, Jason Pack, Steven Wagner, Noga Efrati, Mark Farha, Najwa Al-Qattan, Andrew Arsan, Louise Pyne-Jones, Aaron Y. Zelin, John McHugo, Kaveh Ehsani, Bruno Ronfard, Michael Erdman, Sevinc Elaman-Garner, Laila McQuade, Nabil Al-Tikriti, Alp Yenen, Harrison Guthorn and Jonathan Conlin.

Hafiz, Goethe and the Gingko: Inspiration for the New Divan£25 / €30 | 2015 | HBK | 9781909942-82-0

The Makers of the Modern Middle East£35 / $50 / €40 | 2015 | HBK | 9781909942-00-4

East-West Divan: In Memory of Werner Mark Linz£50 / $80 / €60 | 2014 | HBK | 9781909942-02-8

Democracy is the Answer: Egypt’s Years of Revoltuion£30 / $43 / €36 | 2015 | HBK | 9781909942-71-4New Thinking in Islam£28 / $39.95 / €34 | 2015 | HBK | 9781909942-73-8

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Publish with Us

We welcome proposals for new, learned books that deal with topics pertaining to the Middle East and North Africa, or the Islamic world in general, whether they are academic

monographs, edited volumes, or general interest (non-fiction) books.

If you have a project that you would like us to consider, please get in touch with our editorial department at gingko@gingkolibrary.com. For more information please visit our

Academic Advasory Board page on our website www.gingko.org.uk

Why publish with Gingko?

• Ethical Publishing – Gingko Library is an independent publisher. Our aim is to advance informed discourse about the Middle East and North Africa for the benefit of academics and the wider public.

• Rigour – we care about quality; all of our academic publications are subject to peer review

• Facility – Gingko Library provides dedicated editing and indexing services for our authors free of charge

• Speed – we aim to publish within a year of the manuscript’s acceptance

• Royalties – we believe authors should be compensated for their work

• Promotion – Gingko's marketing and publicity department works closely with our authors to promote their books to a wider audience

• International Presence – we have a presence at conferences and exhibits worldwide, such as MESA, BRISMES and others

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• Open Access – it is the policy of Gingko to make the articles of our edited volumes open access two years after the original date of publication

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