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This rich collection of articles illustrates the range of Stanford J. Shaw's more than forty years of research. Topics covered include the nineteenth-century Tanzimat reforms, Turkey in the World Wars, and the Ottoman archives.

A selection of essays by Professor Ronald C. Jennings on the social and economic history of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries.

A selection of articles by Irene Melikoff on early Turkish and Ottoman literature with a wider point of view to include cultural and historical references.

A collection of articles by Mihai Maxim on the economic and political relations of the Ottomans and Romanians in the 16th century.

This coursebook is designed for students who have completed at least one year of college study in Biblical Hebrew. A central theme is that medieval and modern Biblical Hebrew scholars have reached essentially similar conclusions, even if the medievals lacked modern terminology

The surviving versions of the Syriac translation of Ptolemy's life of Aristotle (which contains Aristotle's will), and the Syriac commentaries on Porphyry's Isagoge; the only printed edition, with extensive introduction.

A collection of articles on the perception of Turks and Turkey in various European countries during the twentieth century.

Fisher presents here ten essays on the Crimean Tatars, the Turkic people who inhabited a strategic position between the Russian and Ottoman Empires.

This collection of articles by Alan Fisher explores the changing nature of Ottoman-Russian relations from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Aryeh Shmuelevitz study of Ottoman Jewish history takes the reader across the Ottoman Empire in time and geography while questioning the historical value of each source he consults.

This work is a collection of essays by Aryeh Smuelevitz on Turkey between the years 1976 and 1982, a period of political turmoil and violence which culminated in a military coup.

A collection of essays by Sina Aksin about the later years of the Ottoman Empire and the early years of the Turkish Republic within the wider context of Europe and the Middle East.

This catalogue is a brief report of Arabic and Syriac manuscripts found at Saint Catherine's Monastery, compiled by Margaret Dunlop Gibson and her sister.

The communion of infants is different from the admission of children at, say, seven or eight. But infant communion never requires a measure of 'understanding', whereas child communion does. As yet there is no comprehensive history of infant communion.

A thorough look at the meaning of administering and receiving communion away from the place of a true celebration of the eucharist. Well-based theological reflections give rise to some very awkward questions for the rite and its practitioners.

Whereas many studies suggest or presuppose some link between Christian liturgical origins and the practices of Judaism the Jewish sources are hard to find and understand for Christian students without any background in early Judaism and its literature.

This study collates the scattered evidence in the New Testament patristic literature for its practice, and examines its spiritual and quasi-sacramental significance, including its relation to the role of the Spirit.

An homage to Anton Baumstack and his comparative liturgy. This brief study includes an intellectual biography and his method and comparative practice in regards to liturgy.

Studies in Preparation for the 1995 Dublin Consultation.

The deliberate use of the title 'President' for the celebrant of the eucharist in the modern language rites of the Church of England demonstrates a change in understanding of not only the role of the priest/bishop, but of the whole people of God in the liturgical assembly.

This booklet considers the implications of cremation, both theological and pastoral aspects. Clerical and lay points of view are presented.

A set of essays exploring the concept of inculturation in the liturgy within the wide net of the Anglican world. Consideration of African and Asian liturgies are especially prominent.

This book is a reproduction of Philoxenos Dolabani's handwritten catalog of the manuscripts contained at Dayr al-Za'faran. This work, two volumes combined under one cover, is an important resource for all interested in Syriac and Christian Arabic.

Throughout the Christian world, women have chosen to lead disciplined lives of prayer and asceticism.

Ammianus' treatment of the emotion of anger reveals as much, if not more, about his education, values, beliefs, personality, than it does about the people he writes about.

In an attempt to organize the swiftly-growing diversity in Christianity during the nineteenth century, the author compiled a learned compendium of the known religious groups of his day.

The only detailed study of the diacritical and vocalization system of Syriac. Segal examines the history and usage of the diacritical point, from before the seventh century, up to the thirteenth century, taking into account both the East and West Syriac traditions.

This volume incorporates all the articles and reviews published in volume 14 (2014) of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.

This work represents the first time that a major part of the masorah of the great Leningrad Codex, that of the Former Prophets, is being published with an English translation and commentary. Almost nine-thousand notes are transcribed and annotated with biblical references.

A long-awaited and essential tool for the study of one of the earliest texts of the Christian Apocrypha and an important text in Syriac literature, theology, and history.