Istanbul at the Threshold of Nation State

Istanbul at the Threshold of Nation State

In capturing the lively and revealing conversations of these young voices

the book shows the significance of this mode of seeing the world for those who lived in the premodern Islamic era and how cosmological ideas became manifest in the buildings and spaces of their everyday lives

Wasiti's life is little known today

Goethe blends his own identity with that of the Persian Sufi master who sang the delights of wine and tavern romance in a context of Qur'anic allusion

significant areas of research in which both are both deeply implicated

Blending scholarship with poetry

and utopian studies scholars from across the world

this book brings Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching together to present current scholarship on their history and interpretation

This book does exactly that by detailing the doings of a US Foreign Service cultural officer in five hot spots of the Cold War - Germany

which made him a household name around the world

pictorial and archaeological testimonies to create a new overview of the great emperor

in any circumstance