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In the history of the Ottoman Empire, the seventeenth century has often been considered an anomaly, characterized by political dissent and social conflict. In this book, Aslıhan Gürbüzel shows how the early modern period was, in fact, crucial to the formation of new kinds of political agency that challenged, negotiated with, and ultimately reshaped the Ottoman social order. Taming the Messiah offers a new method of studying public political life by focusing on the variety of religious visions and lifeworlds native to Ottoman society and the ways in which they were...
CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Lisa Suhair Majaj is a Palestinian-American writer living in Cyprus. She is the author of Geographies of Light(2009, Del Sol Press), of poems and essays in many journals and anthologies across the US, Europe, the Middle East and India, and of two children's books. She is also a scholar of Arab-American literature, and co-editor of three volumes of critical essays on Arab, Arab American, and other international women of color writers: Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers, Garland/Routledge, 2000; Intersections: Gender...