BIBLIOGRAPHY:
TURKEY, ISLAM & ISLAMIC SOCIETIES

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GENERAL RESOURCES

Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam: Historic Roots of a Modern Debate. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Arberry, Arthur J., trans. The Koran Interpreted. New York: Macmillan, 1955.

Bowen, Donna Lee and Evelyn A. Early, eds. Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Ergener, Resit. Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Turkey. re@dreamtours.com, 1999.

Esposito, John. Islam: The Straight Path. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock. In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman’s Global Journey. New York: Anchor Books, 1998.

Hourani, Albert. A History of the Arab Peoples. New York: Warner Books, 1991.

Kahveci, Niyazi. The Basics of Islam. Ankara: The Turkish Religious Foundation, 1993.

Lapidus, Ira. A History of Islamic Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Mansel, Philip. Constantinople: City of the World’s Desire, 1453-1924. London: Penguin Books Ltd, 1995.

Mastny, Vojtech and R. Craig Nation, eds. Turkey Between East and West: New Challenges for a Rising Regional Power. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.

Metz, Helen Chapin, ed. Turkey: A Country Study, 5th Edition. Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress, 1996.

Peters, F. E. A Reader on Classical Islam. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Pettifer, James. The Turkish Labyrinth: Ataturk and the New Islam. London: Penguin Books Ltd, 1998.

Shabbas, Audrey, ed. The Arab World Studies Notebook. Berkeley: Arab World and Islamic Resources, 1998.

Schimmel, Annemarie. Islam: An Introduction. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

Sluglett, Peter and Marion Farouk-Slugett, eds. The Times Guide to the Middle East. London: Times Books, 1996.

Stewart, Desmond. Life World Library - Turkey. New York: Time-Life Books, 1969.

Tekeli, Sirin, ed. Women In Modern Turkish Society. London: Zed Books Ltd, 1995.

Turkish News Agency. Facts About Turkey. Istanbul: Directorate General of Press and Information of the Prime Ministry, 1998.

Voll, John. Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World, Second Edition. Syracuse University Press, 1994.

Zurcher, Erik J. Turkey: A Modern History. London: I.B. Tauris and Co Ltd, 1997.

TRAVEL RESOURCES

Bayraktaroglu, Arin. Culture Shock! Turkey. Portland: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, 1996.

Brosnahan, Tom, Jim Masters and Perihan Masters. Turkish Phrasebook. Hawthorn: Lonely Planet Publications, 1999.

________ . Turkey: a Lonely Planet travel atlas. Hawthorn: Lonely Planet Publications, 1997.

________, and Pat Yale. Turkey: a Lonely Planet travel survival kit, 5th edition. Hawthorn: Lonely Planet Publications, 1996.

Caga, Tayfun and Gillian. Conversational Turkish In 7 Days. Lincolnwood: Passport Books, 1991.

Cole, Simon. Coping with Turkey. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1989.

Demirsar, Metin, ed. Insight Guides Turkish Coast. Maspeth: Langenscheidt Publishers Inc., 1998.

Erdemgil, Selahattin. Ephesus: Ruins And Museum. Istanbul: Net Turistik Yayinlar A.S., 1986.

Goodwin, Jason. Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1998.

Mesulam, Semra, editor. Let’s Go Turkey 1999. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

Seal, Jeremy. A Fez of the Heart: Travels Around Turkey In Search of A Hat. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1995.

Settle, Mary Lee. Turkish Reflections: A Biography of Place. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.

Strathern, Paul. Turkey: Trip Planner and Guide. Lincolnwood: Passport Books, 1995.

Thubron, Colin, ed. Istanbul. Amsterdam: Time-Life Books, 1978.

GENERAL INTERCULTURAL RESOURCES

Kohls, L. Robert. Survival Kit for Overseas Living, 3rd Edition. Yarmouth: Intercultural Press, 1996.

___________. Developing Intercultural Awareness. Washington, D.C.: The Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research, 1981.

Storti, Craig. Cross-Cultural Dialogues: 74 Brief Encounters with Cultural Difference. Yarmouth: Intercultural Press, 1994.

MISCELLANEOUS OTHER

Arikan, Necmettin, Gulsevin Taspinar and Gulderen Yenal. The Golden Dictionary: Ingilizce- Turkce, Turkce-Ingilizce. Istanbul: Altin Kitaplar Yayinevi, 1999.

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1998.

Ferrante, Joan. Sociology: A Global Perspective, Third Edition. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1998.

__________ . Sociology: The United States in a Global Community, Fourth Edition. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2000.

Johnson, Allan G. The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Basil Blackwell Inc., 1995.

Kartal, Numan. Liseler Icin Aciklamali Turkce Sozluk. Istanbul: Inkilap.

Kirisci, Kemal and Gareth M. Winrow. The Kurdish Question and Turkey: An Example of a Trans-state Ethnic Conflict. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1997.

"Global Culture." National Geographic, Vol. 196, No. 2. August 1999

Peirce, Leslie P. The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Schimmel, Annemarie, trans. Selected Poems of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi. Ankara: Donmez Offset, 1994.

Stigler, Robert et alia. The Old World: Early Man to the Development of Agriculture. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1974. RLP-JCCC-9/99

Ahmed, Leila.  Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Akbar, Ahmet S.  Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society.   Wiesbada: Autoherrssowitz, 1998, 1995.

Akurgal, Ekrem, Ancient Civilizations and Ruins in Turkey. Istanbul: Net Turistik Yayýn, 1993.

Andrews, Peter. Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Velag, 1989.

Ayata, Asbe. "The Emergence of Identity Politics in Turkey." New Perspectives on Turkey, 17, 1997, pp. 59-73.

Balkir, Canan and Williams, Allan.  Turkey and Europe.  Pinter Publishers Ltd., Covent Garden, London. 1993.

Eralp, A., Tünay, M. and Yesisada, B. (eds). The Political and Socioeconomic Transformation of Turkey. Westport, Conn. Praeger.

Gilsenan, Michael. Recognizing Islam. Croom Helm, 1984.

Hanfman, G.M.A. From Croesus to Constantine. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1975.

Grabar, Oleg. Formation of Islamic Art (particularly the introduction), New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

Kabani, Rana. Europe’s Myths of the Orient. Bloomington: Indiana Press, 1980.

Karpat, Kemal. "The Ottoman Ethnic and Confessional Legacy in the Middle East." Ethnicity, Pluralism and the State in the Middle East. Ithaca; Cornell University Press: 35-53, 1988.

Karatas, C. et. Al. Turkey: Economic, Political and Foreign Challenges for the 1990’s. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994.

Kinross, Lord. Atatürk, The Rebirth of a Nation. Northern Cyprus, K Rüstem and Brother, 1981.

Kostof, S. Caves of Gods; The Monastic Environment of Byzantine Cappadocia. Cambridge, Mass., 1972.

Krautheimer, R. Early Christain and Byzantine Architecture. Penguin. 1965.

Metz, Helen Chapin (ed). Turkey: A Country Study. Library of Congress, 1995.

Özdalga E. and Persson, S. (eds). Civil Society, Democracy and the Muslim World. Richmondi Surrey: Curzon Press Ltd., 1997.

Rice, D.T. Islamic Art, 1965.

Rice, D.T. The Seljuks in Asia Minor. 1961.

Internet Sites).  The Political Economy of Turkey in the Post-Soviet Era. Praeger Publishers, Westport, Conn 1998.

Rodley, L. Cave Monasteris of Byzantine Cappadocia.  Cambridge, Mass., 1985.

Said, Edward W. Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981.

Shaw, Stanford Jay. History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, Vol. 1 1976; Vol. II 1977.

Stirling, Paul. Culture and Economy: Changes in Turkish Villages. Cambridgeshire, England: Eothen Press, 1993.

Tapper, Richard. Islam in Turkey: Religion, Politics and Literature in a Secular State. London: I.B. Tauris, University of London, 1991.

Williams, Ellen and Balkir, Canan (ed) Turkey and Europe. London: Pinter 1993.

Zèurcher, Erik Jan. Turkey: A Modern History. London; New York: I.B. Tauris, 1993.

And, Metin. Karagoz: Turkish Shadow Theatre. 3rd ed. Istanbul: Reyo Ofset, 1987.

Andersen, Hans Christian. A Poet's Bazaar. Trans.Grace Thornton. New York: Michael Kesend Publishing, 1988.

Askin, Mustafa. Troy. Rev.ed. Istanbul: Keskin Color Kartpostalchilik,1998.

Halman, Talat S. Suleyman The Magnificent Poet. Istanbul: Reyo Ofset, 1987.

Turkish Legends and Folk Poems. Istanbul: Dost Yayinlari,1992.

Kabacali, Alpay. Nasreddin Hodja. Istanbul: Net Turistik Yayinlar A.S., 1998.

Korfman, Manfred, et. al. A Guide to Troy. Istanbul: ege press, 1997.

Lewis, Bernard. Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963.

Nicholson, Reynold A. Rumi: Poet and Mystic. Oxford: One World,1995.

Ozalp, Mehmet. Marsyas'in Ilinden. Tesisleri, Turkey: Akin Ofset,1997.

Rumi, Mevlana. Selected Poems. Trans. Annemarie Schimmel. Ankara,Donmez Offset, n.d. Runciman, Steven. Byzantine Civilization. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1933, repr. 1967.

Silay, Kemal, ed. An Anthology of Turkish Literature. Bloomington, Indiana:
Indiana University Turkish Studies, 1996.

Walker, Barbara. The Art of the Turkish Tale. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1990.

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