Selçuk Esenbel
Biographic Data
| ID | 711279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Selçuk Esenbel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Selçuk |
| FAMILY NAME | Esenbel |
| SIGNATURE | ESENBEL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bogaziçi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0132-8633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shoes and Modern Civilization Between Racism and Imperialism: The 1880 Yoshida Masaharu Mission of Meiji Japan to Qajar Iran as Global History
This paper discusses the nineteenth century Meiji Japanese self-reflection on modernity, civilization and identity that was compelled to negotiate between Racism and Imperialism. The Meiji vision of a global world was made up of a hierarchy of nations according to their level of enlightenment and civilization using the West as a benchmark. The study of Yoshida Masaharu’s travel account Kaikyō Tanken Perusha no Tabi (The Expedition to the Islamic …
Keeping a Trust-Network amidst Challenges: Turkish-Japanese Relations
The historical relations between Turkey and Japan have roots that go back to more than a century as the longest and most stable relationship that Turkey has had with an Asian country. Since the 19th century, the acceleration of communication between countries and societies due to globalization has brought the interaction between Turkey and Asian countries and societies closer. Japanese-Turkish relations stand out among them for their continued am…
East Asia and Islamic Asia: Space, time, and mobility
Our Forum envisions East Asia as part of Islamic Asia, treating it as a space where Muslim communities have forged cross-border networks across time, episodically, and where discourses about Islam have circulated and been appropriated in interconnection with Muslim-majority regions of the continent (that is, ‘Islamic’ Asia). We hold that Islam, as a constellation of religious, political, cultural, and social formations, questions the spatial and …
The Ottoman Turkish perspective of the 1889 Meiji Constitution
Japan as a Pivot for Turkey? The Japanese Perspective on the Making of a New World Order, Transcontinental Maritime Alliances, the Ukraine Crisis, and the End of Multipolarity
The paper discusses the recent rise of the Japanese “free and open Indo-Pacific” strategy of alliances and partnerships between Asia and the West in the context of Turkey’s current debate over its membership in the Western alliance of NATO versus the new Eurasianist turn toward Russia and China. The particular geographic focus of the paper is from Istanbul “between Europe and Asia,” looking at Japan’s “free and open Indo-Pacific” strategy from a …
China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II by Kelly A. Hammond
Reviewed by: China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II by Kelly A. Hammond Selçuk Esenbel (bio) China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II. By Kelly A. Hammond. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. xviii, 294 pages. $95.00, cloth; $29.95, paper, $22.99, E-book. In China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II, Kelly Hammond examines the Japanese empire's cultivation of …
Japan on the Silk Road: Encounters and perspectives of politics and culture in Eurasia
Japan on the Silk Road: Encounters and Perspectives of Politics and Culture in Eurasia
Japan on the Silk Road provides for the first time the historical background indispensable for understanding Japan's current perspectives and policies in the vast area of Eurasia across the Middle East and Central Asia. Japanese diplomats, military officers, archaeologists, and linguists traversed the Silk Road, involving Japan in the Great Game and exploring ancient civilizations.The book exposes the entanglements of pre-war Japanese Pan-Asianis…
Contesting Method and Theory Between Europe and Asia: Asian Studies in Turkey
This paper presents the content of this thematic issue of Diogenes on Asian studies in Turkey. It explains the origins of this set of papers in light of relevant scholarship, relates it to current academic work in the field, and provides a rationale for issuing a volume on Asian scholarship in Turkey
The Global Moment of Asian Studies in Turkey and the Case of Bogazici University
This paper outlines the development of Asian studies in Turkey from their early years to 2022. A particular focus is put on the development of academic programs at Bogazici University and on the international academic partnerships it entailed. The author argues that the end of the Cold War, the "rise of Asia" in public opinion, the new Asia initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the global attraction due to international employ…
Japan, Turkey and the World of Islam: The Writings of Selçuk Esenbel
Widely known for her writings on Islam with a particular focus on the transnational history of politics in Islam and Japan, this volume brings together twenty of the author's key essays thematically structured as 'Japan and Islam', 'Japanese Ottoman Relations and Japanese-Turkish Interaction', and 'Reflections on Tokugawa Japan from Turkey'. Awarded the Japan Foundation Special Prize for Japanese Studies in 2007, Selçuk Esenbel's volume will prov…
Pan-Asianism and Its Discontents
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The Legacy Of The War And The World Of Islam In Japanese Pan-Asian Discourse: Wakabayashi Han’s Kaikyō Sekai To Nihon
This chapter examines the wide hinterland of the front, in Siberia and in Northeast Asia more closely. It is of particular interest, therefore, because the Russian soldiers, who came from the theater of war, or who had been readied for a war that was already over, were the main actors. Demobilization in the hinterland 1905-06 of the front initiated a process for learning to the soldiers and for the peasants, who had to accommodate to civil life a…
A Transnational History of Revolution and Nationalism: Encounters Between Japanese Asianists, the Turkish Revolution, and the World of Islam
The leading intellectual and ideologue of the Japanese Asianist agenda of Japanese imperialism until the end of World War II, Okawa Shumei (1886-1957), was tried in the Tokyo War Crimes Trial as a war criminal but found to be mentally disturbed. The post-war memory about Okawa is an alien image-Okawa spending his days translating the Qur'an while detained in a mental hospital in solitary confinement. The clinical description of Okawa's hallucinat…
Japan's Global Claim to Asia and the World of Islam: Transnational Nationalism and World Power, 1900–1945
Journal Article Japan's Global Claim to Asia and the World of Islam: Transnational Nationalism and World Power, 1900–1945 Get access Selçuk Esenbel Selçuk Esenbel professor of history in the Department of History Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 109, Issue 4, October 2004, Pages 1140–1170, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/109.4.1140 Pub…
Even the Gods Rebel: The Peasants of Takaino and the 1871 Nakano Uprising in Japan
Even the Gods Rebel: The Peasants of Takaino and the 1871 Nakano Uprising in Japan
Afin de siècleJapanese romantic in Istanbul: The life of Yamada Torajirō and hisToruko gakan
The modern Japanese tourist visiting the Topkapi Sarai may well be struck by a display of sixteenth-century samurai armour and helmet held there. It was presented, along with a sword, to the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II in 1892 by Yamada Torajirō (1866-1957), an important pioneer in the history of Turkish-Japanese relations and the subject of this paper. Yamada, who was to remain in the imperial capital for almost twenty years, was witness to the…
Afin de siècleJapanese romantic in Istanbul: The life of Yamada Torajirō and hisToruko gakan
The modern Japanese tourist visiting the Topkapi Sarai may well be struck by a display of sixteenth-century samurai armour and helmet held there. It was presented, along with a sword, to the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II in 1892 by Yamada Torajirō (1866-1957), an important pioneer in the history of Turkish-Japanese relations and the subject of this paper. Yamada, who was to remain in the imperial capital for almost twenty years, was witness to the…
A Transnational History of Revolution and Nationalism: Encounters Between Japanese Asianists, the Turkish Revolution, and the World of Islam
The leading intellectual and ideologue of the Japanese Asianist agenda of Japanese imperialism until the end of World War II, Okawa Shumei (1886-1957), was tried in the Tokyo War Crimes Trial as a war criminal but found to be mentally disturbed. The post-war memory about Okawa is an alien image-Okawa spending his days translating the Qur'an while detained in a mental hospital in solitary confinement. The clinical description of Okawa's hallucinat…
Afin de siècleJapanese romantic in Istanbul: The life of Yamada Torajirō and hisToruko gakan
The modern Japanese tourist visiting the Topkapi Sarai may well be struck by a display of sixteenth-century samurai armour and helmet held there. It was presented, along with a sword, to the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II in 1892 by Yamada Torajirō (1866-1957), an important pioneer in the history of Turkish-Japanese relations and the subject of this paper. Yamada, who was to remain in the imperial capital for almost twenty years, was witness to the…
Even the Gods Rebel: The Peasants of Takaino and the 1871 Nakano Uprising in Japan
Even the Gods Rebel: The Peasants of Takaino and the 1871 Nakano Uprising in Japan
Japan's Global Claim to Asia and the World of Islam: Transnational Nationalism and World Power, 1900–1945
Journal Article Japan's Global Claim to Asia and the World of Islam: Transnational Nationalism and World Power, 1900–1945 Get access Selçuk Esenbel Selçuk Esenbel professor of history in the Department of History Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 109, Issue 4, October 2004, Pages 1140–1170, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/109.4.1140 Pub…
A Transnational History of Revolution and Nationalism: Encounters Between Japanese Asianists, the Turkish Revolution, and the World of Islam
The leading intellectual and ideologue of the Japanese Asianist agenda of Japanese imperialism until the end of World War II, Okawa Shumei (1886-1957), was tried in the Tokyo War Crimes Trial as a war criminal but found to be mentally disturbed. The post-war memory about Okawa is an alien image-Okawa spending his days translating the Qur'an while detained in a mental hospital in solitary confinement. The clinical description of Okawa's hallucinat…
The Legacy Of The War And The World Of Islam In Japanese Pan-Asian Discourse: Wakabayashi Han’s Kaikyō Sekai To Nihon
This chapter examines the wide hinterland of the front, in Siberia and in Northeast Asia more closely. It is of particular interest, therefore, because the Russian soldiers, who came from the theater of war, or who had been readied for a war that was already over, were the main actors. Demobilization in the hinterland 1905-06 of the front initiated a process for learning to the soldiers and for the peasants, who had to accommodate to civil life a…
Pan-Asianism and Its Discontents
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Japan, Turkey and the World of Islam: The Writings of Selçuk Esenbel
Widely known for her writings on Islam with a particular focus on the transnational history of politics in Islam and Japan, this volume brings together twenty of the author's key essays thematically structured as 'Japan and Islam', 'Japanese Ottoman Relations and Japanese-Turkish Interaction', and 'Reflections on Tokugawa Japan from Turkey'. Awarded the Japan Foundation Special Prize for Japanese Studies in 2007, Selçuk Esenbel's volume will prov…
Japan on the Silk Road: Encounters and Perspectives of Politics and Culture in Eurasia
Japan on the Silk Road provides for the first time the historical background indispensable for understanding Japan's current perspectives and policies in the vast area of Eurasia across the Middle East and Central Asia. Japanese diplomats, military officers, archaeologists, and linguists traversed the Silk Road, involving Japan in the Great Game and exploring ancient civilizations.The book exposes the entanglements of pre-war Japanese Pan-Asianis…
Contesting Method and Theory Between Europe and Asia: Asian Studies in Turkey
This paper presents the content of this thematic issue of Diogenes on Asian studies in Turkey. It explains the origins of this set of papers in light of relevant scholarship, relates it to current academic work in the field, and provides a rationale for issuing a volume on Asian scholarship in Turkey
The Global Moment of Asian Studies in Turkey and the Case of Bogazici University
This paper outlines the development of Asian studies in Turkey from their early years to 2022. A particular focus is put on the development of academic programs at Bogazici University and on the international academic partnerships it entailed. The author argues that the end of the Cold War, the "rise of Asia" in public opinion, the new Asia initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the global attraction due to international employ…
Japan on the Silk Road: Encounters and perspectives of politics and culture in Eurasia
China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II by Kelly A. Hammond
Reviewed by: China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II by Kelly A. Hammond Selçuk Esenbel (bio) China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II. By Kelly A. Hammond. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. xviii, 294 pages. $95.00, cloth; $29.95, paper, $22.99, E-book. In China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II, Kelly Hammond examines the Japanese empire's cultivation of …
Japan as a Pivot for Turkey? The Japanese Perspective on the Making of a New World Order, Transcontinental Maritime Alliances, the Ukraine Crisis, and the End of Multipolarity
The paper discusses the recent rise of the Japanese “free and open Indo-Pacific” strategy of alliances and partnerships between Asia and the West in the context of Turkey’s current debate over its membership in the Western alliance of NATO versus the new Eurasianist turn toward Russia and China. The particular geographic focus of the paper is from Istanbul “between Europe and Asia,” looking at Japan’s “free and open Indo-Pacific” strategy from a …
Shoes and Modern Civilization Between Racism and Imperialism: The 1880 Yoshida Masaharu Mission of Meiji Japan to Qajar Iran as Global History
This paper discusses the nineteenth century Meiji Japanese self-reflection on modernity, civilization and identity that was compelled to negotiate between Racism and Imperialism. The Meiji vision of a global world was made up of a hierarchy of nations according to their level of enlightenment and civilization using the West as a benchmark. The study of Yoshida Masaharu’s travel account Kaikyō Tanken Perusha no Tabi (The Expedition to the Islamic …
Keeping a Trust-Network amidst Challenges: Turkish-Japanese Relations
The historical relations between Turkey and Japan have roots that go back to more than a century as the longest and most stable relationship that Turkey has had with an Asian country. Since the 19th century, the acceleration of communication between countries and societies due to globalization has brought the interaction between Turkey and Asian countries and societies closer. Japanese-Turkish relations stand out among them for their continued am…
East Asia and Islamic Asia: Space, time, and mobility
Our Forum envisions East Asia as part of Islamic Asia, treating it as a space where Muslim communities have forged cross-border networks across time, episodically, and where discourses about Islam have circulated and been appropriated in interconnection with Muslim-majority regions of the continent (that is, ‘Islamic’ Asia). We hold that Islam, as a constellation of religious, political, cultural, and social formations, questions the spatial and …
The Ottoman Turkish perspective of the 1889 Meiji Constitution
Political science (16 works) · History (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Japanese History and Culture (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Ancient history (9 works) · China (8 works) · Islam (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Geography (6 works)