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An intimate, riveting portrait of modern Turkey, combining memoir, politics and history.
'Captivating. Kent effortlessly weaves travels that are close to his heart into a bigger story of Turkey’s past and present' – Mishal Husain 'A rich, spellbinding book: dense with people, stories, history, colour, lived experience . . . The book is alive on every page' – Neel Mukherjee, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Lives of Others The Endless Country takes a journey through Turkey’s past – the nation the author’s father left decades ago and he returns to as a young man. It is not about Erdogan or Atatürk, the two towering Presidents who have book-ended that history, and at times have appeared impossible to escape. Instead Sami Kent’s book goes deep beyond them, revea...
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From sending imams abroad to financing mosques and Islamic associations, home states play a key role in governing Islam in Western Europe. Drawing on over one hundred interviews and years of fieldwork, this book employs a comparative perspective that analyzes the foreign religious activities of the two home states with the largest diaspora populations in Europe: Turkey and Morocco. The research shows how these states use religion to promote ties with their citizens and their descendants abroad while also seeking to maintain control over the forms of Islam that develop within the diaspora. The author identifies and explains the internal and foreign political interests that have motivated state actors on both sides of the Mediterranean, ultimately arguing that interstate cooperation in religious affairs has and will continue to have a structural influence on the evolution of Islam in Western Europe.
There is no single volume that encompasses an integrated social and cultural history of the Sámi people from the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia. Neil Kent's book fills this lacuna. In the first instance, he considers how the Sámi homeland is defined: its geography, climate, and early contact with other peoples. He then moves on to its early chronicles and the onset of colonisation, which changed Sámi life profoundly over the last millennium. Thereafter, the nature of Sámi ethnicity is examined, in the context of the peoples among whom the Sámi increasingly lived, as well as the growing intrusions of the states who claimed sovereignty over them. The Soviet gulag, the Lapland Wa...
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Yazar bu çalışmada Kürt halkının egemenlerce kendine mal edilmeye çalışılan tarihine big bangtan başlayıp eşitlikçi klan-kabile döneminden, bu dönemin nasıl ataerkil aşiret formuna dönüştüğünden, devletlerin inşa edilmesinden devlet dışı kalan toplumların çelişki ve çatışkılarına kadar antik çağda gelişen Kürt tarihine ışık tutmaktadır. Mikro tarih anlayışı yüzünden muallakta kalan; Kürtler Yahudilerin kayıp bir kolu mudur? Zerdüştlük inancı Fars kültürüne mi aittir? Newroz gerçekliği ve bu gerçeklikte demirci kawanın rolü nedir? İlk demokrasi örneği Atina’da mı uygulanmıştır? Trova Yunanista’nın kültürel bölgesine...