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They All Made Peace – What Is Peace?

The 1923 Lausanne Treaty and the New Imperial Order

Edited by Jonathan Conlin & Ozan Ozavci

28 April 2023

£50.00

History | WWI | International Relations

Hardback | Royal, 156mmx234mm

480 pages | 14 colour and b&w illustrations

978-1-914983-05-4

These essays offer a new and important interpretation not only of Middle Eastern history but of international history in the 1920s.’ Jay Winter, Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University

Long overdue, the volume represents a primer on a neglected and under-represented moment of post-imperial Ottoman history.’ Virginia H. Aksan, Professor of History Emeritus, McMaster University ................

The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne may have been the last of the post-World War One peace settlements, but it was very different from Versailles. Like its German and Austro-Hungarian allies, the defeated Ottoman Empire had initially been presented with a dictated peace in 1920. In just two years, however, the Kemalist insurgency turned defeat into victory, enabling Turkey to claim its place as the first sovereign state in the Middle East. Meanwhile those communities who had lived side-by-side with Turks inside the Ottoman Empire struggled to assert their own sovereignty, jostled between the Soviet Union and the resurgence of empire in the guise of League of Nations mandates. For 1.5m Ottoman Greeks and Balkan Muslims, ‘making peace’ involved forced population exchanges, a peace-making tool now understood as ethnic cleansing.

Chapters consider competing visions for a post- Ottoman world, situate the population exchanges relative to other peace-making efforts, and discuss economic factors behind the reallocation of Ottoman debt as well as refugee flows and oil politics. Further chapters consider Arab, Armenian, American and Iranian perspectives, as well as the long shadow cast by Lausanne over contemporary politics, both inside Turkey and out.

Jonathan Conlin is Professor of Modern History at the University of Southampton, and author of Mr Five Per Cent (2019), a biography of Calouste Gulbenkian.

Ozan Ozavci is Assistant Professor of Transimperial History at Utrecht University, and author of Dangerous Gifts (2021). He and Conlin founded The Lausanne Project in 2017.

Contributors: Aimee Genell, Erik Goldstein, Samuel Hirst, Étienne Forestier-Peyrat, Cemil Aydın, Lerna Ekme-

kçioglu, Leila Koochakzadeh, Elizabeth F. Thompson, Andrew Patrick, Sarah Shields, Mustafa Aksakal, Patrick

Schilling, Leonard V. Smith, Laura Robson, Haakon Ikonomou, Dimitris Kamouzis, Hans-Lukas Kieser, Gökhan

Çetinsaya, Julia Secklehner.

IMAGES FROM They All Made Peace – What Is Peace?

Washing Blood with Oil!

Mr. Coolidge to Moukhtar

(Dec. 5, 1927)

‘I am confident, the achievements and ideals of modern Turkey will become more widely understood.’

‘The

Apotheosis of Peace’

Drawing by the cartoonists Derso and Kélin depicting the signing ceremony of the Treaty of Lausanne.

IMAGES FROM They All Made Peace – What Is Peace?

Iznik Ceramics at the Benaki Museum

Edited by John Carswell & Mina Moraitou with Melanie Gibson

19 June 2023

£60.00

Islamic Art | Ceramics

Paperback with flaps | 240mmx290mm | 312 pages

Over 800 colour illustrations, 160 b&w drawings

978-1-914983-04-7

This publication, the fruit of meticulous examination and research, presents one of the most distinguished collections of Iznik ceramics in a sophisticated and systematic way. Enriched with elaborate section drawings and examples of pottery sherds, it will appeal not only to scholars, connoisseurs and collectors but will also become a reference book for all admirers of Iznik ceramics.

Hülya Bilgi, Director of the Sadberk Hanım Museum, Istanbul

The Benaki Museum of Islamic Art in Athens has a substantial collection of Iznik ceramics (tableware, tiles and sherds). The collection is very wide-ranging with a number of rare and important pieces, including some with Greek inscriptions, but has never been published in its entirety. John Carswell first studied the objects in the 1980s and started cataloguing them with a view to publication. The project was revived and guided to fruition by the curator of the museum, Mina Moraitou. She has contributed a chapter on Antonis Benakis and the formation of the Iznik collection as well as working on the catalogue which includes 112 objects, 59 tiles and 223 sherds. All the objects are illustrated in colour, many with line drawings.

Mina Moraitou curator of the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art since 2012. She has published a number of catalogues on different holdings in the collection.

John Carswell (1931-2023) was Professor of Fine Arts at the American University of Beirut, Director of the Smart Museum and Curator of the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago and Director of Islamic Works of Art at Sotheby’s, London. He published extensively on Turkish ceramics, as well as Islamic ceramics more generally, and on blue-and-white Chinese porcelain.

Melanie Gibson is Editor of the Gingko Art Series. She lectures widely and her publications focus on the ceramics, glass and sculpture produced in the Islamic world.

71 DISH

Iznik, c.1575

Buff coloured body, white slip, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue, viridian green and relief coral-red, with black outlines

Diameter 30.4 cm, height 5.6 cm; chipped at the rim, unglazed bottom of foot ring

Inv. no. 18, in red on the base

Printed square label EXP. D’ART MUSULMAN ALEXANDRIE 1925 No. 40

round serrated label C 25 (Alexandros Benakis collection)

rectangular, Printed Frame with blue border 6008 4509 0144 6116 (vertical)

rectangular Printed label BENAKI MUSEUM No.18

On the rim a ring of feathery leaves is reserved on a blue ground, inside single and double rings. The cavetto is plain, in the centre, inside a ring of diagonal leaves is a nautical scene with six sailingboats, rocky outcrops and linked crescents. The exterior has five blue crescents and five rosettes.

Although dishes depicting European ships and sailing vessels were largely seventeenth-century products designed to stimulate trade with visiting sailors during the period of Iznik’s slow decline, this dish must be an earlier example of the same type. Donated by Emmanuel Benakis. From the collection of Alexandros Benakis, acquired in Alexandria from L. Antonian in 1919. Previously in the Octave Homberg collection.144

Migeon, Exposition d’art musulman, catalogue, no. 38, Migeon, Exposition d’art musulman, album, pl. 36b, Devonshire, ‘Some Moslem Objects in the Benachi Collection’, pl. H

Hatzidakis, ’Benaki Museum–Short Description’, 6, Athens, Benaki Museum, Pottery of Asia Minor, cover Korre-Zographou, The Ceramics of Greece 59, fig. 98, Greek Commercial Shipping, fig. 183.

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JUG

Iznik, c.1570

Buff coloured body, white slip, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue, viridian green and relief red, with black outlines

Diameter of body 15 cm, height 24.4 cm; chipped at the rim, unglazed bottom of foot ring

Inv. no. 11154 in red on a label

rectangular PerForated label with Printed rame 185 (Damianos Kyriazis collection)

rectangular label 11154

The body is painted with eleven ships with striped lateen sails, rocky outcrops and leafy motifs. At the base of the neck between single and double rings is a chain band and a ring of diagonal leaves; on the lower body between two rings there is a band of interlocking design with a single ring on the foot. On the neck there are four sailing ships similar to those on the body, and at the rim an interlocking chevron band between single and double rings. The back of the handle has horizontal strokes with vertical stripes on the sides.

Donated by Damianos Kyriazis in 1950.

Unpublished.

6 JUG

Iznik, c. 1550

Buff coloured body, white slip, decorated in underglaze

cobalt blue and turquoise

Diameter of body, 13.6 cm, height 18.6 cm; cracked and chipped rim, restored handle, unglazed base Inv. no. 44, in red on the base

Printed square label

EXP. D’ART MUSULMAN ALEXANDRIE 1925 No. 105

round serrated label C 33 (Alexandros Benakis collection)

On the body there are seven diamond-shaped panels reserved on a blue ground with inner turquoise diamonds and a white flower at the centre. The panels are linked by turquoise discs, and above and below there are half-panels of similar design. On the cobalt blue ground, the diamonds are echoed with darker blue outlines.

On the lower body there is an interlocking ring between double rings and a single ring on the outer foot. At the junction of the neck and body there is a ring of V-shaped motifs between double rings with a band of turquoise scallops below. The neck is decorated in a similar manner to the body and the rim with an undulating band on a blue ground.

Donated by Emmanuel Benakis. From the collection of Alexandros Benakis, acquired in Alexandria from J. Zirpdji in 1920.

Migeon, Exposition d’art musulman catalogue, no. 110, Athens, Benaki Museum, Pottery of Asia Minor, pl. 19.

DISH

Iznik, c. 1550

Buff coloured body, white slip, decorated in underglaze dark cobalt blue and turquoise

Diameter 37.8cm, height 7.2 cm; cracked and chipped rim, unglazed foot ring, patch of glaze missing at the centre of the base, perhaps the mark of a kiln spur Inv. no. 3, in red and black on the base

Inside on the slightly foliate rim there are nineteen cartouches (two smaller than the rest) with sprays of spotted daisies reserved on the blue ground, separated by turquoise borders with tiny crescents and ticks on the margins. In the cavetto are eight motifs resembling bursting pomegranates, interspersed with smaller flowers and groups of trefoils with tendrils at the centre, and twin leaves at the rim. In the centre inside double rings, reserved on a rich dark blue ground, is a single large flower with white feathery petals and blue and turquoise stamens, curving upwards from a cluster of pointed turquoise leaves. It is surrounded by stems of lily-like flowers and daisies. Half-way along the exterior rim a foliated line is painted; on the body, between pairs of concentric rings, there is an undulating stem bearing flowers and leaves, the ground decorated with pairs of spots. A single ring is painted on the outside of the foot.

The floral cartouches on the rim are very similar to those on the Benaki hanging ornament (No. 7) associated with the British Museum lamp dated 956/1549.105

Bought in Paris through Raymond Koechlin in 1926.

Athens, Benaki Museum, Pottery of Asia Minor, pl. 5, Philon, Islamic Art, 47, no. 240.

THE ARAB CHRIST

Towards an Arab Christian Theology of Conviviality

Mouchir Basile Aoun

Translated by Sarah Patey

£50.00 | October 2022 | 978-1-914983-02-3

Religion, Theology | Royal Hardback, 153x234mm | 400 pp

Part of the Interfaith Series edited by Joshua Ralston.

‘In this compelling text, Mouchir Basile Aoun highlights the challenges of re-thinking a contextual Christian theology of conviviality in times of sheer devastation. In a sober assessment of the current realities of Lebanon and the broader Arab World, he ponders the increasingly arduous task of developing a life-and-hope-affirming theology.’

Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

THE MOULIDS OF EGYPT

Egyptian Saint’s Day Festivals

J. W. McPherson

New Foreword by Valerie

J. Hoffman

Edited and annotated by Russell McGuirk

£50.00 | November 2022| 978-1-914983-10-8

History, Islam, Anthropology | Royal Hardback, 153x234mm

47 colour and b/w images, 22 maps | 352 pp

‘An invaluable work…a superb first-hand glimpse of the life of Egypt’

Lawrence Durrell

‘A contribution to our knowledge of Egyptian life, a worthy supplement to the immortal writings of Lane ... McPherson has paid to the people of Egypt the debt.’

From the 1941 foreword by E. E. Evans-Pritchard

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