Softcover. Istanbul, Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 143 pages. Contents: 1. B. Beckman, Explaining democratization, notes on the concept of civil society. 2. I. Sunar, Civil society and Islam 3. S.J. Al-Azm, Is Islam secularizable. 4. B. Tibi, The cultural underpinning of civil society in Islamic civilization: Islam and democracy - bridges between the civilizations. 5. S.E. Ibrahim, From Taliban to Erbakan, The case of Islam, civil society and democracy.6. G. Therborn, Beyond civil society: Democratic experiences and their relevance to the "Middle East". 7. M. Sariolghalam, Prospects for civil society in the Middle East: An analysis of cultural impediments. 8. L. Koker, National identity and state legitimacy: Contradictions of Turkey's democratic experience. 9. E. Ozdalga, Civil society and its enemies: Reflections on a debate in the light of recent developments within the Islamic student movement in Turkey. 10. E. Ozbudun, Civil society and democratic consolidation in Turkey. 11. A. Lundgren, The European Union as a democracy-promoter. 12. I. Brandell, Labour, civil society and democratization in North Africa. 13. O. Tornquist, Civil society and divisive politicisation: experiences from popular efforts at democratisation in Indonesia. Clean copy.
Softcover. Wiltshire UK, Gibb Memorial, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 109 pages with a modern double spread line map, a glossary and a biographical index. The description of his mission to the court of the Shah Tahmasp I of Persia by the Venetian Michele Membre is one of the most informative as well as one of the most individual of the few European accounts of 16th century Persia. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages, Color photos by Ara Guller. Sinan was the greatest architect of the Ottoman Golden Age of the sixteenth century when the Ottoman Empire reached its zenith of power and magnificence. His style marks the apogee of Turkish art. Under Sleyman the Magnificent and his succcessor Selmi II, Sinan designed hundreds of buildings: mosques, palaces, tombs, mausolea, hospitals, schools, caravanserai, bridges, aqueducts and baths, many of them presented and analysed in this book. In his greatest works, he adapted Byzantine and Islamic styles to produce something quite new: a centralized organization of absolute space unhindered by pillars or columns and covered by a soaring dome. An architect of genius in a dynamic new empire expanding into both Asia and Europe, he was a true man of the Renaissance. Clean, bright copy.
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