Ottoman/Turkish visions of the nation, 1860-1950
By examining the critical phase in the construction of a historical imagination from 1860 to 1950, this book demonstrates how history and historical imagery were instrumental in the Turkish nation-building process. Developing a thematic approach, it conveys the encounters with medieval Islam, mediev...
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New York
Palgrave Macmillan
2013
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Table of Contents:
- The encounter with the Ottoman heritage: imperial grandeur, medieval decay, and double discourses
- The encounter with the Islamic past: Turks, Arabs and Persians
- Seljuks of rum in the Turkish national(ist) imagination from the late Ottoman empire to the republican era
- The depiction of European feudalism, the Middle Ages, and the crusades in late Ottoman and Turkish republican imagery
- From "renewal and regeneration" to "decline and collapse": the rise and fall of Tanzimat (1839-1950)
- Infusing the young spirits with the motivation to oppose and counter oppression: revolution and the French revolution