Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies write by Philipp Wirtz. This book was released on 2017-03-16. Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The period between the 1880s and the 1920s was a time of momentous changes in the Ottoman Empire. It was also an age of literary experiments, of which autobiography forms a part. This book analyses Turkish autobiographical narratives describing the part of their authors’ lives that was spent while the Ottoman Empire still existed. The texts studied in this book were written in the cultural context of the Turkish Republic, which went to great lengths to disassociate itself from the empire and its legacy. This process has only been criticised and partially reversed in very recent times, the resurging interest in autobiographical texts dealing with the "old days" by the Turkish reading public being part of a wider, renewed regard for Ottoman legacies. Among the analysed texts are autobiographies by writers, journalists, soldiers and politicians, including classics like Halide Edip Adıvar and Şevket Süreyya Aydemir, but also texts by authors virtually unknown to Western readers, such as Ahmed Emin Yalman. While the official Turkish republican discourse went towards a dismissal of the imperial past, autobiographical narratives offer a more balanced picture. From the earliest memories and personal origins of the authors, to the conflict and violence that overshadowed private lives in the last years of the Ottoman Empire, this book aims at showing examples of how the authors painted what one of them called "images of a past world."
Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies
Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies write by Philipp Wirtz. This book was released on 2017-03-16. Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The period between the 1880s and the 1920s was a time of momentous changes in the Ottoman Empire. It was also an age of literary experiments, of which autobiography forms a part. This book analyses Turkish autobiographical narratives describing the part of their authors’ lives that was spent while the Ottoman Empire still existed. The texts studied in this book were written in the cultural context of the Turkish Republic, which went to great lengths to disassociate itself from the empire and its legacy. This process has only been criticised and partially reversed in very recent times, the resurging interest in autobiographical texts dealing with the "old days" by the Turkish reading public being part of a wider, renewed regard for Ottoman legacies. Among the analysed texts are autobiographies by writers, journalists, soldiers and politicians, including classics like Halide Edip Adıvar and Şevket Süreyya Aydemir, but also texts by authors virtually unknown to Western readers, such as Ahmed Emin Yalman. While the official Turkish republican discourse went towards a dismissal of the imperial past, autobiographical narratives offer a more balanced picture. From the earliest memories and personal origins of the authors, to the conflict and violence that overshadowed private lives in the last years of the Ottoman Empire, this book aims at showing examples of how the authors painted what one of them called "images of a past world."
'Image of a Past World'
'Image of a Past World' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 'Image of a Past World' write by Philipp Wirtz. This book was released on 2013. 'Image of a Past World' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands
The Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands write by Selim Deringil. This book was released on 2019-06-03. The Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Great War is still seen as a mostly European war. The Middle Eastern theater is, at best, considered a sideshow written from the western perspective. This book fills an important gap in the literature by giving an insight through annotated translations from five Ottoman memoirs, previously not available in English, of actors who witnessed the last few years of Turkish presence in the Arab lands. It provides the historical background to many of the crises in the Middle East today, such as the Arab–Israeli confrontation, the conflict-ridden emergence of Syria and Lebanon, the struggle over the holy places of Islam in the Hejaz, and the mutual prejudices of Arabs and Turks about each other.
Late Ottoman Society
Late Ottoman Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Late Ottoman Society write by Elisabeth Özdalga. This book was released on 2005. Late Ottoman Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together a fascinating set of essays dealing with intellectual developments in late Ottoman society. Under the impact of European expansionism and modernization, the Ottoman Empire underwent profound transformations. Through the chapters the reader will make the acquaintance of outstanding personalities such as the Ottoman historian Ahmed Cevdet, the radical atheist Abdullah Cevdet, and the nationalist/socialist Ziya Gökalp; intellectual movements like the Westerners (Garpçilar), part of the larger Young Turk opposition; ideologies like Pan-Islamism, constitutionalism and liberalism; religious institutions like the state mufti; educational institutions like the Mülkiye(School of Public Administrations) and the Christian community schools and printing and publishing activities, including the women's magazine Hanimlara mahsus gazette(The Ladies' Own Gazette).
