Virkama, A. (2017) Invisible Islam: Muslim student migrants’ everyday practices in French secular universities, 90-108

Virkama, A. (2017) Invisible Islam: Muslim student migrants’ everyday practices in French secular universities, 90-108

8 April 2022

Chapter review Reviewed by: Alaa Dean Alzalam  Introduction The following paper critically reviews Virkama’s (2017) Invisible Islam: Muslim student migrants’ everyday practices in French secular universities. The chapter is taken from Aune and Stevenson’s compilation: Religion and Higher Education in Europe and North America (2017). The selected chapter has been chosen for its relevance to…

Adanir’s (2006) Semi-autonomous provincial forces in the Balkans and Anatolia

Adanir’s (2006) Semi-autonomous provincial forces in the Balkans and Anatolia

7 March 2022

Reviewed by: Alaa Dean Alzalam  The aim of this essay is to critically review Fikret Adanir’s (2006) chapter on Ottoman history which focuses on the ‘semi-autonomous provincial forces in the Balkans and Anatolia’. The critical review will be structured accordingly: introduction, discussion and conclusion. Firstly, the Introduction highlights Adanir’s overarching thesis, that the rise of…