Envisioning Turco-Arab Co-Existence between Empire and Nationalism

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ID4757633
AuthorsAlp Yenen (0000-0002-2259-1484, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, [email protected], corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume61
Issue1
Pages72-112
Publication date2020-04-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDie Welt des Islams (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0043-2539 • E-ISSN: 1570-0607
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/15700607-00600a17
OpenAlexW3015868763
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited10

The idea of a continued Turco-Arab co-existence under the Ottoman Sultanate might appear counterfactual or marginal - if not nostalgic - from the sober vantage of knowing "the end of history". The Ottoman Empire neither survived the Great War nor made way for a multinational co-existence of Turks and Arabs. For contemporaries, however, different models of federalism and multinationalism offered solutions to save the Ottoman Empire and safeguard Turco-Arab co-existence. While the federalist ideas of Ottoman Arabs are far better known in the academic literature, in regards to Ottoman Turks, the commonplace interpretations follow the teleology of the Turkish nation-state formation. In order to correct this misperception, I will illustrate the existence of corresponding Turkish voices and visions of federalism and multinationalism. Envisioning Turco-Arab co-existence was a serious feature of policy debates, especially in the years of crisis from the Balkan Wars to the settlement of post-Ottoman nation-states in the aftermath of the First World War

Ancient history · Economic history · Empire · Federalist · Nationalism · Ottoman empire · Political science · Politics · State (computer science) · Theology · Turkish · Vision · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Turkey's Politics and Society

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