While researching and writing “ Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (link is external) ” (Stanford University Press, 2024), Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky’s archival fieldwork took him to 10 countries, including Turkey, Jordan, Russia, Georgia and Bulgaria. The recently released book, his first, tells the little-known story of how roughly 1 million Muslims from Russia sought refuge in the Middle East. The book, which started as an award-winning doctoral dissertation ...