Cemil Aydın
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cemil Aydın |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cemil |
| FAMILY NAME | Aydın |
| SIGNATURE | AYDIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7271-5748 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The “Winds of Change” Blew in Many Directions
In September 2023, a group of scholars gathered to discuss histories of decolonization, and particularly histories of dissent and opposition in the aftermath of political independence. This roundtable, and the broader special section of which it is part, places “decolonization's discontents” at the center of the postindependence narrative(s) to better understand the limitations of the postcolonial state and anti-colonial politics; to explore both…
Comment by Cemil Aydın
Rights in Pan-Asian, Pan-Islamic, and Pan-African Thought
This chapter focuses on the Pan-Asian, Pan-African, and Pan-Islamic notions of rights from the 1870s to the 1920s to explore why and how Asian and African intellectuals substantiated their appeals to equal rights through pan-nationalistic language about the civility of their race, religion, and culture in relation to the white and Christian populations of the European metropoles. It argues that mobilization among Pan-Islamists, Pan-Asianists, and…
Christine Philliou, Turkey
Rethinking Nationalism
This forum, curated by Michael Goebel (Freie Univ. Berlin), brings together twelve historians who draw on their own areas of specialization to rethink how we conceptualize the history of nationalism in our present moment of reactivated and often militant nationalist rhetoric
Age of Coexistence
Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism
Reviewed by: Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire by Yuka Hiruma Kishida Cemil Aydin (bio) Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire. By Yuka Hiruma Kishida. Bloomsbury, London, 2020. xvi, 266 pages. $115.00, cloth; $39.95, paper; $103.50, E-book. Earlier historiography of Japanese empire categorized Pan-Asianism as the ideological tool of Japan's exp…
The Idea of the Muslim World
As Cemil Aydin explains in this provocative history, it is a misconception to think that the world's 1.5 billion Muslims constitute a single religio-political entity. How did this mistaken belief arise, why is it so widespread, and how can its grip be loosened so that a more fruitful discussion about politics in Muslim societies can begin?
Imperial Paradoxes
This article deals with the imperial dilemmas of the globalized racial Muslim identity in the 1870s and the 1880s. While Pan-Islamic public opinion across multiple European empires singled out the Ottoman Caliphate as the voice and representative of the global Muslim community, the Ottoman Caliph-Sultan was the monarch of millions of Christian citizens of the Ottoman Empire. The article discusses the complex imperial politics of the Ottoman Calip…
Arnold J. Toynbee and Islamism in Cold War–era Turkey
This article examines the ideological worldview of Sezai Karakoç (1933–), an influential but overlooked Islamist intellectual in Republican Turkey. Through an analysis of Karakoç's writing, the article situates post–WWII era Islamist thought in Turkey in relation to politics of the Cold War competition, global intellectual trends, and decolonization movements. In this context, the article focuses on the Islamist appropriation of Arnold Toynbee's …
Islam and the European Empires in Japanese Imperial Thought
Japan was one of the most powerful empires in world politics from 1905 to 1945. The Japanese imperial elites followed the Muslim World policies of the European empires while developing their own policies towards Muslim societies of Asia. There was an important debate among Japan’s government officers and intellectuals with regard to a proper Japanese policy towards an imagined unity described as Kaikyô Sekai (‘the Muslim world’) during the era of…
Changing Modes of Political Dialogue Across the Middle East and East Asia, 1880-2010
East Asia's relationship with the Middle East today is based mainly on economics and is devoid of grand political projects of solidarity and intellectual dialogue. Countries such as China, Japan and Korea present the Middle East with a model of state-led capitalist neoliberal economic development. At the same time, the redemptive transformation of East Asia into a globally powerful region offers a trajectory of development diverging from the Midd…
Japan's Pan-Asianism and the Legitimacy of Imperial World Order, 1931-1945
One of the most striking aspects of the international history of the 1930s is the revival and official endorsement of a pan-Asian vision of regional world order in Japan. The pan-Asian discourse of East-West civilizational difference and comparison was influential in various intellectual circles in Asia. But during the 1920s, as a political project of Asian solidarity, it was irrelevant for Japan's foreign policy, and it did not have any internat…
Pan-Nationalism of Pan-Islamic, Pan-Asian, and Pan-African Thought
Through a study of Pan-Islamic, Pan-Asian, and Pan-African thought, this chapter traces the origins of pan-nationalism to the high age of globalization and colonial expansion, from the 1870s to the 1920s, when nationalism itself was in its formative period in relation to strong imperial visions. It argues that the transnational identity of ‘Muslim’, ‘Asian’, or ‘African’ emerged by the turn of the twentieth century due to a process of ‘geopolitic…
Globalizing the Intellectual History of the Idea of the “Muslim World”
Imperial Japan's Islamic Policies and Anti-Westernism
The disciplines of “area studies” (exploring the language, culture and religious traditions of particular geographic regions) have always been bound up with geopolitics and perceptions of national interest. Not only does academic (and popular) interest in these studies wax and wane according to their role in contemporary politics, but their basic assumptions and orientations are often strongly influenced by those interests. In Michael Penn's inte…
Competing Occidentalisms of Modern I slamist Thought
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Muslims and media
The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia
In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency and achievements of non-Western intellectuals, Aydin demonstrates that modern anti-Western discourse grew out of the legitimacy crisis of a single, Eur…
A Global Anti-Western Moment? The Russo-Japanese War, Decolonization, and Asian Modernity
The Russo-Japanese War in 1905 was interpreted throughout the world as the first victory of an Asian nation belonging to the yellow race against a major white and Christian Western empire.1 In fact, the world-historical significance of the Japanese victory over Russia was noted by a wide array of contemporary observers, writing in the immediate aftermath of the war.2 This interpretation of the Japanese military victory transformed the character o…
The politics of anti-Westernism in Asia
Imperial Japan's Islamic Policies and Anti-Westernism
The disciplines of "area studies" (exploring the language, culture and religious traditions of particular geographic regions) have always been bound up with geopolitics and perceptions of national interest. Not only does academic (and popular) interest in these studies wax and wane according to their role in contemporary politics, but their basic assumptions and orientations are often strongly influenced by those interests. In Michael Penn's inte…
Beyond Civilization
Jenseits der Zivilisation: Panislamismus, Panasiatismus und die Revolte gegen den WestenJenseits der Zivilisation: Panislamismus, Panasiatismus und die Revolte gegen den WestenDieser Aufsatz thematisiert ein zentrales Paradox, mit dem sich nichtwestliche Eliten seit dem späten 19. Jahrhundert auseinandersetzen mußten: Wie ließen sich die intellektuellen Grundlagen der eurozentrischen, imperialistischen Ordnung in Asien kritisieren, wenn doch zugl…
Between Occidentalism and the Global Left
Research Article| December 01 2006 Between Occidentalism and the Global Left: Islamist Critiques of the West in Turkey Cemil Aydin Cemil Aydin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (3): 446–461. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2006-025 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook …
Between Occidentalism and the Global Left
Research Article| December 01 2006 Between Occidentalism and the Global Left: Islamist Critiques of the West in Turkey Cemil Aydin Cemil Aydin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (3): 446–461. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2006-025 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook …
The Idea of the Muslim World
As Cemil Aydin explains in this provocative history, it is a misconception to think that the world's 1.5 billion Muslims constitute a single religio-political entity. How did this mistaken belief arise, why is it so widespread, and how can its grip be loosened so that a more fruitful discussion about politics in Muslim societies can begin?
Competing Occidentalisms of Modern I slamist Thought
Arnold J. Toynbee and Islamism in Cold War–era Turkey
This article examines the ideological worldview of Sezai Karakoç (1933–), an influential but overlooked Islamist intellectual in Republican Turkey. Through an analysis of Karakoç's writing, the article situates post–WWII era Islamist thought in Turkey in relation to politics of the Cold War competition, global intellectual trends, and decolonization movements. In this context, the article focuses on the Islamist appropriation of Arnold Toynbee's …
The Politics of Conceptualizing Islam and the West
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Muslims and media
Beyond Civilization
Jenseits der Zivilisation: Panislamismus, Panasiatismus und die Revolte gegen den WestenJenseits der Zivilisation: Panislamismus, Panasiatismus und die Revolte gegen den WestenDieser Aufsatz thematisiert ein zentrales Paradox, mit dem sich nichtwestliche Eliten seit dem späten 19. Jahrhundert auseinandersetzen mußten: Wie ließen sich die intellektuellen Grundlagen der eurozentrischen, imperialistischen Ordnung in Asien kritisieren, wenn doch zugl…
The Politics of Conceptualizing Islam and the West
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Science, Technology, and Learning in the Ottoman Empire (review)
Reviewed by: Science, Technology, and Learning in the Ottoman Empire Cemil Aydin (bio) Science, Technology, and Learning in the Ottoman Empire. By Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu. Aldershot, Hants., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xiv+338. $111.95. In the twelve essays collected in this volume, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu addresses some large questions regarding the encounter between the Islamic tradition of science and modern science and technology in Eur…
Beyond Civilization
Jenseits der Zivilisation: Panislamismus, Panasiatismus und die Revolte gegen den WestenJenseits der Zivilisation: Panislamismus, Panasiatismus und die Revolte gegen den WestenDieser Aufsatz thematisiert ein zentrales Paradox, mit dem sich nichtwestliche Eliten seit dem späten 19. Jahrhundert auseinandersetzen mußten: Wie ließen sich die intellektuellen Grundlagen der eurozentrischen, imperialistischen Ordnung in Asien kritisieren, wenn doch zugl…
Between Occidentalism and the Global Left
Research Article| December 01 2006 Between Occidentalism and the Global Left: Islamist Critiques of the West in Turkey Cemil Aydin Cemil Aydin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (3): 446–461. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2006-025 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook …
The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia
In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency and achievements of non-Western intellectuals, Aydin demonstrates that modern anti-Western discourse grew out of the legitimacy crisis of a single, Eur…
A Global Anti-Western Moment? The Russo-Japanese War, Decolonization, and Asian Modernity
The Russo-Japanese War in 1905 was interpreted throughout the world as the first victory of an Asian nation belonging to the yellow race against a major white and Christian Western empire.1 In fact, the world-historical significance of the Japanese victory over Russia was noted by a wide array of contemporary observers, writing in the immediate aftermath of the war.2 This interpretation of the Japanese military victory transformed the character o…
The politics of anti-Westernism in Asia
Imperial Japan's Islamic Policies and Anti-Westernism
The disciplines of "area studies" (exploring the language, culture and religious traditions of particular geographic regions) have always been bound up with geopolitics and perceptions of national interest. Not only does academic (and popular) interest in these studies wax and wane according to their role in contemporary politics, but their basic assumptions and orientations are often strongly influenced by those interests. In Michael Penn's inte…
Entries
Muslims and media
Pan-Nationalism of Pan-Islamic, Pan-Asian, and Pan-African Thought
Through a study of Pan-Islamic, Pan-Asian, and Pan-African thought, this chapter traces the origins of pan-nationalism to the high age of globalization and colonial expansion, from the 1870s to the 1920s, when nationalism itself was in its formative period in relation to strong imperial visions. It argues that the transnational identity of ‘Muslim’, ‘Asian’, or ‘African’ emerged by the turn of the twentieth century due to a process of ‘geopolitic…
Globalizing the Intellectual History of the Idea of the “Muslim World”
Imperial Japan's Islamic Policies and Anti-Westernism
The disciplines of “area studies” (exploring the language, culture and religious traditions of particular geographic regions) have always been bound up with geopolitics and perceptions of national interest. Not only does academic (and popular) interest in these studies wax and wane according to their role in contemporary politics, but their basic assumptions and orientations are often strongly influenced by those interests. In Michael Penn's inte…
Competing Occidentalisms of Modern I slamist Thought
Islam and the European Empires in Japanese Imperial Thought
Japan was one of the most powerful empires in world politics from 1905 to 1945. The Japanese imperial elites followed the Muslim World policies of the European empires while developing their own policies towards Muslim societies of Asia. There was an important debate among Japan’s government officers and intellectuals with regard to a proper Japanese policy towards an imagined unity described as Kaikyô Sekai (‘the Muslim world’) during the era of…
Changing Modes of Political Dialogue Across the Middle East and East Asia, 1880-2010
East Asia's relationship with the Middle East today is based mainly on economics and is devoid of grand political projects of solidarity and intellectual dialogue. Countries such as China, Japan and Korea present the Middle East with a model of state-led capitalist neoliberal economic development. At the same time, the redemptive transformation of East Asia into a globally powerful region offers a trajectory of development diverging from the Midd…
Japan's Pan-Asianism and the Legitimacy of Imperial World Order, 1931-1945
One of the most striking aspects of the international history of the 1930s is the revival and official endorsement of a pan-Asian vision of regional world order in Japan. The pan-Asian discourse of East-West civilizational difference and comparison was influential in various intellectual circles in Asia. But during the 1920s, as a political project of Asian solidarity, it was irrelevant for Japan's foreign policy, and it did not have any internat…
Arnold J. Toynbee and Islamism in Cold War–era Turkey
This article examines the ideological worldview of Sezai Karakoç (1933–), an influential but overlooked Islamist intellectual in Republican Turkey. Through an analysis of Karakoç's writing, the article situates post–WWII era Islamist thought in Turkey in relation to politics of the Cold War competition, global intellectual trends, and decolonization movements. In this context, the article focuses on the Islamist appropriation of Arnold Toynbee's …
Imperial Paradoxes
This article deals with the imperial dilemmas of the globalized racial Muslim identity in the 1870s and the 1880s. While Pan-Islamic public opinion across multiple European empires singled out the Ottoman Caliphate as the voice and representative of the global Muslim community, the Ottoman Caliph-Sultan was the monarch of millions of Christian citizens of the Ottoman Empire. The article discusses the complex imperial politics of the Ottoman Calip…
The Idea of the Muslim World
As Cemil Aydin explains in this provocative history, it is a misconception to think that the world's 1.5 billion Muslims constitute a single religio-political entity. How did this mistaken belief arise, why is it so widespread, and how can its grip be loosened so that a more fruitful discussion about politics in Muslim societies can begin?
Age of Coexistence
Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism
Reviewed by: Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire by Yuka Hiruma Kishida Cemil Aydin (bio) Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire. By Yuka Hiruma Kishida. Bloomsbury, London, 2020. xvi, 266 pages. $115.00, cloth; $39.95, paper; $103.50, E-book. Earlier historiography of Japanese empire categorized Pan-Asianism as the ideological tool of Japan's exp…
Christine Philliou, Turkey
Rethinking Nationalism
This forum, curated by Michael Goebel (Freie Univ. Berlin), brings together twelve historians who draw on their own areas of specialization to rethink how we conceptualize the history of nationalism in our present moment of reactivated and often militant nationalist rhetoric
Rights in Pan-Asian, Pan-Islamic, and Pan-African Thought
This chapter focuses on the Pan-Asian, Pan-African, and Pan-Islamic notions of rights from the 1870s to the 1920s to explore why and how Asian and African intellectuals substantiated their appeals to equal rights through pan-nationalistic language about the civility of their race, religion, and culture in relation to the white and Christian populations of the European metropoles. It argues that mobilization among Pan-Islamists, Pan-Asianists, and…
Political science (23 works) · History (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Islamic Studies and History (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Ancient history (9 works) · Islam (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works)