The vocabulary of Muslim nationalism

Bibliographic Data

ID4179843
AuthorsErik Zürcher (0000-0002-4087-3952, corresponding author), Erik Jan Zurcher
Year1999
Volume137
Issue1
Publication date1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ijsl.1999.137.81
OpenAlexW2089705251
LanguageEN
Citations received13

This article is about the language of politics and religion in the Middle East. It argues that the national struggle of the Ottomans after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I was not aimed at the establishment of a Turkish state, as later Turkish historiography has claimed. A careful analysis of the terminology employed by the leadership of the national movement in its official documents during the early phase (1918-1920) shows that instead it based itself on a corporate identity that was primarily religious, that of the Ottoman Muslims. The adoption of secular Turkish nationalism as corporate political identity underlying the state was a later development, which took place after the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. The vocabulary then changed accordingly, and even where the vocabulary stayed the same, the meaning changed, as in the case of the central term milli national

Linguistics · Nationalism · Political science · Sociology · Vocabulary · Gender Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society

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