Relocating the Arabs in Turkish Historiography

The first two decades of the twenty-first century witnessed remarkable publications in Turkish intellectual life decoding and deconstructing the official interpretation of Turkey's history. Many books with a revisionist perspective have been published examining the different periods of Ottoman history. The last decade of the Ottoman period and early Republican history have naturally been the focus of the greatest proportion of historical works as they are the most disputed periods of the nationalist narrative and remain hotly debated among Turkish intellectuals with different worldviews and political tendencies. In this regard, many revisionist publications and challenging studies on the Turkish, Greek, Armenian, and Arab components of the Ottoman Empire have appeared in Turkish criticizing the established judgements of public memory. Another, mostly neglected, result of this intellectual atmosphere is the translation of the primary sources of late Ottoman history published in non-Turkish languages and presenting the perspectives of non-Turkish actors to Turkish readers

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