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Book Reviews

Book Review: Ottomania: The Romantics and the Myth of the Islamic Orient

CESRAN Int.28 March 201430 March 2014

Since Edward Said’s Orientalism modern scholarship has developed an ever-intensifying awareness toward Eurocentric notions that have been long imbedded in the Western narrations of the East, or Orient. BY YASIR YILMAZ | MAY...

Book Reviews

Book Reviews: The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East; Islamic Finance and Law: Theory and Practice in a Globalized World

CESRAN Int.28 March 201430 March 2014

The relative economic decline of the Middle Eastern Moslem world after 1500 requires some explanation. Comparing Istanbul, or Cairo, and London or Paris at the turn of the 16th century would...