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Unseeable
Have you ever felt unappreciated, overlooked and ignored? Have you ever felt invisible? When Joe's feelings of insignificance begin to take over his life, he finds himself slowly but surely disappearing from the world. With a wry sense of humour he encounters a myriad of physical challenges with his day-to-day routine, struggling to manoeuvre his evanescent physical form. When gravity releases its hold on Joe, it's clear that time is not on his side. As he prepares to transcend, his only hope is compassion-that of others and his own. Unseeable is a cautionary tale of the repercussions of an uncaring society in which its unassuming members are all too often disregarded, unseen and unappreciated. But if Joe can find meaning and a reason to hold on, there's hope for us all... Unseeable Is the fourth instalment in the Bruce Masters Universe series of books.
The Fall and Rise of a Comedy Legend!
In June 2018, the most popular British comedian of our time was mugged. What happened to Michael McIntyre's stolen watch? More importantly, what happened to Michael McIntyre? In a fictional re-imagining of events, The Fall and Rise of a Comedy Legend recreates the days that followed that fateful day, taking Michael on an adventure of personal discovery-all with a healthy dollop of comedy along the way. The comedian finds himself in an unexpected alliance and is given the necessary tools to turn his experience into a life-changing epoch. He realises it's time to make his first move when he comes face-to-face with his attacker. Armed with an arsenal of new gadgets and renewed fortitude, Michael heads off to win the day. The Fall and Rise of a Comedy Legend highlights the current climate of increasing crime in London and ponders the resulting consequences for both victims and criminals. When a much-loved comedian becomes a victim outside of a school in broad daylight, it's unarguably time to fight back. The Fall and Rise of a Comedy Legend! Is the third instalment in the Bruce Masters Universe series of books.
The Cambridge History of Turkey
Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of Turkey covers the period from 1603 to 1839.
Collective Ijtihad
THE CONTEMPORARY postnormal world is posing for Muslims ever strange ethical, financial, and medical dilemmas for which modern jurists are expected to provide a suitable theological response. Yet even with an encyclopedic knowledge of Islamic law, the task facing them is daunting. In the real world this level of complexity has led to chaos in fatwa issuance with many scholars voicing concern at the direction to which things are moving and calling for the process to be regulated. This book critiques fatwa issuance in the modern context and calls for application of a synthesized approach using the mechanism of collective ijtihad to formulate rulings and overcome current weaknesses. It carefull...
Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder
A historiography of Ottoman Basra, a trade center in the eighteenth century.
Narrating the Dragoman’s Self in the Veneto-Ottoman Balkans, c. 1550–1650
This microhistory of the Salvagos—an Istanbul family of Venetian interpreters and spies travelling the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mediterranean—is a remarkable feat of the historian’s craft of storytelling. With his father having been killed by secret order of Venice and his nephew to be publicly assassinated by Ottoman authorities, Genesino Salvago and his brothers started writing self-narratives. When crossing the borders of words and worlds, the Salvagos’ self-narratives helped navigate at times beneficial, other times unsettling entanglements of empire, family, and translation. The discovery of an autobiographical text with rich information on Southeastern Europe, edited ...
The Arabs of the Ottoman Empire, 1516–1918
The Ottomans ruled much of the Arab World for four centuries. Bruce Masters's work surveys this period, emphasizing the cultural and social changes that occurred against the backdrop of the political realities that Arabs experienced as subjects of the Ottoman sultans. The persistence of Ottoman rule over a vast area for several centuries required that some Arabs collaborate in the imperial enterprise. Masters highlights the role of two social classes that made the empire successful: the Sunni Muslim religious scholars, the ulama, and the urban notables, the acyan. Both groups identified with the Ottoman sultanate and were its firmest backers, although for different reasons. The ulama legitimated the Ottoman state as a righteous Muslim sultanate, while the acyan emerged as the dominant political and economic class in most Arab cities due to their connections to the regime. Together, the two helped to maintain the empire.
A Commerce of Knowledge
A Commerce of Knowledge tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company in Syria during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Reconstructing the careers of its protagonists in the cosmopolitan city of Ottoman Aleppo, Simon Millsinvestigates the links between English commercial and diplomatic expansion, and English scholarly and missionary interests: the study of Middle-Eastern languages; the exploration of biblical and Greco-Roman antiquities; and the early dissemination of Protestant literature in Arabic. Early modernOrientalism is usually conceived as an episode in the history of scholarship. By shifting the focus to Aleppo, A C...
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