by mesaas | Nov 21, 2025 | All News |
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by mesaas | Nov 17, 2025 | Publications |
The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire: History and Legacy, co-edited by Hans-Lukas Kieser and Khatchig Mouradian, was published by Bloomsbury in November 2025. Bringing together contributions from fifty established and emerging scholars, the volume...
by mesaas | Nov 14, 2025 | Publications, Uncategorized |
Two centuries of Orientalist scholarship have denied that Islam has a constitutional concept. Premodern Islamic political practice has been subject to mistranslation, misinterpretation and condescension through the eyes of colonisers, and judged inferior to the norms...
by mesaas | Nov 14, 2025 | Publications |
Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State In 1972, when Mahmood Mamdani came home to Uganda, he found a country transformed by “an orgy of violence.” Two years earlier, with support from the colonial powers of Great Britain and Israel, Idi Amin...
