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O.2 - Wiener Library Collection of Testimonies, London, 1940-1957
 
 Alfred Wiener (1885-1964), the man who planned and established the Wiener Library, was born in Potsdam Germany; by profession, he was an expert in Middle East affairs and researcher of Islam.
 
 From 1919 he served as the legal advisor for the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (Central Association ...

The institution of the Hakham Bashi was established by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II, as part of his policy of governing his exceedingly diverse subjects according to their own laws and authorities wherever possible. Religion was considered as primordial aspect of a communities 'national' identity, so the term Ethnarch has been applied to such religious leaders, especially the (Greek Orthodox) Ecumenical ...

The story of Anglo-American relations in Saudi Arabia during World War II has generally been viewed as one of discord and hegemonic rivalry, a perspective reinforced by a tendency to consider Britain's decline and the ascent of US power as inevitable. In this engaging and timely study, Matthew Fallon Hinds calls into question such assumptions and reveals a relationship that, though hard-nosed, functioned ...