Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman calligraphy

Teaching and learning Persian as an additional language is facing unprecedented demand inside and outside the Persian-speaking counties. This chapter discusses teaching Persian to ...

The articles written by friends, colleagues, former students, and one current doctoral student collected in this celebratory volume dedicated to the doyen of Ottoman studies in Cro...

This two-volume reference provides university and high school students—and the general public—with a wealth of information on one of the most important empires the world has ever k...

This two-volume reference provides university and high school students—and the general public—with a wealth of information on one of the most important empires the world has ever k...

Distinguished scholar James D. Tracy shows how the Ottoman advance across Europe stalled in the western Balkans, where three great powers confronted one another in three adjoining ...

Over recent years, Arabic popular culture has become a focal point of West Asian and North African studies. Most of the new research dealing with it concentrates on the ‘popular’ a...

The present chapter is an overview of sociolinguistic studies in the Persian-speaking territory with an emphasis on Iran and is divided into two general parts. In the first part, d...