The provisioning of potable water was a microcosm of the Ottoman state's incomplete
projects of technopolitical modernization on the Arab frontier. Water questions sat at the …

Aqa Musa Naghiev Karbala'i (1849–1919)—an oil magnate from Baku and a significant
figure in the modern history of Baku and Azerbaijan—and his multiple identities are the …

Based on empirical research on the emergence of consumerism in Saudi Arabia, this article
examines the shifts in the understanding of time that emerge in the competing paradigms of …

This study examines the transformation of the Ottoman perception of the Wahhabi movement
by problematizing how the Ottoman empire politically and religiously reacted against the …

Аннотация В статье анализируется влияние «шиитского вопроса» на политическое
развитие Саудовской Аравии. Актуальность изучения межконфессиональных …

This study responds to the endemic lack of clarity and consensus afflicting academic and
policy discussions on the causes of ideological violence and, by extension, the appropriate …

This thesis is about the policies pursued by the Ottoman administration in Massawa, a city in
Ottoman Abyssinia during the 1849-1865 period. After the end of Massawa's decentralized …

Energy humanities scholars are map** the influence of fossil fuels on the conflicted
development of human society. The combined and uneven development of the fossil …

The conflict between Sultan Mahmud II and the ayan (magnate) of Egypt, Mehmed Ali Pasha
has started to receive much attention, with regard to the intentions of the strongman of Egypt …