^#smrgDERGİ International Journal of Middle East Studies - 2 49 May

EDITORIAL FOREWORD AKRAM KHATER AND JEFFREY CULANG

ARTICLES
Historicizing Fiction

DAVID SELIM SAYERS Sociosexual Roles in Ottoman Pulp Fiction

M. BRETT WILSON The Twilight of Ottoman Sulism: Antiquity, lmmorality, and Nation in Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu's Nur Baba

AMR KAMAL Ghostly Labor: Ethnic Classism in the Levantine Prism of Jacqueline Kahanoff's Jacob's Ladder

Early Safavids and Ottomans
THOMAS A. CARLSON Safavids before Empire: Two lSth-Century Armenian Perspectives

ABDURRAHMAN ATQIL The Safavid Threat and Juristic Authority in the Ottoman Empire during the 16th Century '

Roundtable
Mediating Geography and Space

NATALIE KOCH Geopower and Geopolitics in, of. and for the Middle East

TIMUR HAMMOND ' ‘The Middle East without Space?

KAREN CULCASI Displacing Territory: Refugees in the Middle East

Mom. Am Urban Transformations in the Middle East and North Africa from a Geographical Perspective

ALI HAMDAN Thoughts from the Provinces

KYLE T. EVERED Beyond Mahan and Mackinder: Situating Geography and Critical Geopolitics in Middle East Studies

BOOK REVIEWS
History

DIANA K. DAVIS, The Arid Lands: History, Power, Knowledge (Chris Gratien)

EYAL GlNlO, The Ottoman Culture of Defeat: The Balkan Wars and Their Aftermath
(İpek K. Yosmaoglu)

UMUT UZER, An Intellectual History of Turkish Nationalism (Pmar Kemerli)

REZA ZIA EBRAHIMI, The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation (Golnar Nikpour)