INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN-The Persian translation of the book Turkey: A Short History written by Norman Stone has actually been released in bookstores
throughout Iran.Marjan Rezaei has translated the book that has been published by Markaz Publications in 240 pages, Mehr reported.First
released in 2011, the book is a virtuoso performance by historian Norman Stone, who lived and worked in Turkey from 1997 till he died in
It is a succinct study of Turkeys relations with its instant next-door neighbors and the wider world from the 11th century to today
day.Stone deftly conducts the reader through this story, from the arrival of the Seljuks in Anatolia in the eleventh century to the
contemporary republic getting EU subscription in the twenty-first
It is a historic account of impressive percentages, featuring rapacious leaders such as Genghis Khan and Tamerlane through the glories of
Sultan Sleyman the Magnificent to Kemal Atatrk, the reforming genius and founder of modern Turkey.At its height, the Ottoman Empire was a
superpower that brought Islam to the gates of Vienna
Stone analyzes the factors for the empires long decline and shows how it gave birth to the modern Turkish Republic, where east and west,
religion and secularism, tradition, and modernity still form dynamic elements of national identity
The author brilliantly draws out the larger styles of Turkeys history, leading to a book that is a masterly exposition of the historians
craft.Norman Stone (1941-2019) was a British historian and author
At the time of his death, he was Professor of European history in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara,
having previously been a teacher at the University of Oxford, a lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and an advisor to British prime
minister Margaret Thatcher
He was a board member of the Center for Eurasian Studies.SS/ SAB
