About the Author

A. Holly Shissler is Assistant Professor in the Center of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago.

Reviews

.".". a very interesting book ... It manages to place the life story of Ahmet Agaoglu in the Imperial twilight of the Russians and Ottomans ... The attempt to trace the intellectual influences Agaoglu underwent ... in the Caucasus and then in St. Petersburg and Paris is particularly successful."" -- Erik J Zürcher, University of Leiden ""Shissler ... is a brilliant thinker and scholar ... her scholarly and analytic abilities are the very highest ... her book ... I am sure will be very well received."" -- Nikki Keddie, UCLA