Aramaic: a history of the first world language

Muslim population converse with the theories of nationalism discussed in the Preface? Questions aside, the book constitutes an important contribution to the field and should fare well both with an academic readership and the general audience as it offers a thoroughly researched and highly readable account of a most complex subject. It is also published at a time when the study of Greek nationalism in general and the Greek revolution in particular has been greatly enriched by the work of a new generation of historians working with Ottoman sources, whose insights beautifully complement the issues explored in Katsikas’ Islam and Nationalism in Modern Greece, 1821–1940—identity, belonging, and the very making of Modern Greece.