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“Feel-good Orientalism and the Question of Dignity” | A Review Essay on Emily Greble’s Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe

By Dženita Karić & Harun Buljina & Piro Rexhepi // February 2, 2023February 2, 2023

Review Essay by Dženita Karić, Harun Buljina, and Piro Rexhepi. Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe by Emily Greble. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 376 pages. $35.00 Agency: everybody has it. But the agency…

Nuvvab Madrasa: A History of Muslim Minority Education in Bulgaria, 1922-1952

By Ali Erken // December 22, 2022January 18, 2023

In the aftermath of the Ottoman defeat in the Russo-Ottoman War (1876-77) and the subsequent Congress of Berlin (1878), an autonomous Bulgarian Kingdom was established. Although initially, most of present-day Bulgaria was still under Ottoman…