Bibliograph

Arabs and Young Turks, Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918, Hasan Kayalı

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Arabs and Young Turks, Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918, Hasan Kayalı

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Arabs and Young Turks

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

44956418

Responsibility statement

Hasan Kayalı

Sub title

Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918

Summary

Arabs and Young Turks provides a detailed study of Arab politics in the late Ottoman Empire as viewed from the imperial capital in Istanbul. In an analytical narrative of the Young Turk period (1908-1918) historian Hasan Kayali discusses Arab concerns on the one hand and the policies of the Ottoman government toward the Arabs on the other. Kayali's novel use of documents from the Ottoman archives, as well as Arabic sources and Western and Central European documents, enables him to reassess conventional wisdom on this complex subject and to present an original appraisal of proto-nationalist ideologies as the longest-living Middle Eastern dynasty headed for collapse. He demonstrates the persistence and resilience of the supranational ideology of Islamism which overshadowed Arab and Turkish ethnic nationalism in this crucial transition period. Kayali's study reaches back to the nineteenth century and highlights both continuity and change in Arab-Turkish relations from the reign of Abdulhamid II to the constitutional period ushered in by the revolution of 1908. Arabs and Young Turks is essential for an understanding of contemporary issues such as Islamist politics and the continuing crises of nationalism in the Middle East--Publisher's description

Table Of Contents

Arab and Arab provinces in the evolution of the Young Turk movement -- The second constitutional experiment, 1908-1909 -- The opposition and the Arabs, 1910-1911 -- The decentralist challenge and a new "Arab policy," 1912-1913 -- A case study in centralization: the Hijaz under Young Turk rule, 1908-1914 -- The war years, 1914-1918 -- Conclusion

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