Bøger af Michael E. Meeker

Meeker's research is based on field work he conducted in rural Turkey in the 1960s and then in Istanbul in the 1980s. The third part is devoted to Meeker's writings on an Islamic resurgence in Turkey. The fourth and final part contains articles on political authority and interpersonal relationships in Turkey, past and present.

This book challenges the tendency of historians to neglect the relationship between conditions in the literate urban centers and those in the hinterlands. As he discusses the intersection of art and life among the Bedouins, Meeker is able to show how the place of pastoral nomadism in Near-Eastern history has a bearing on many of the problems that have concerned Orientalists.