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Turks Between Empires 1856 - 1914 Book Description

"Turks Between Empires offers a very rich corpus of information compiled from Russian, Ottoman, Tatar, and Azerbaijani archives, periodicals, memoirs, and other documents…

As a result, Meyer's narrative fills in many gaps, as well as on the late Ottoman/late Romanov period, "It makes a great contribution to the ever-expanding literature on Turks shaping both their own and broader Turkic identities in this era."

Middle East Studies

In the last period of the Ottoman Empire, at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, especially in the Istanbul of Committee of Union and Progress, one of the important centers of attraction of political and cultural life was the circle of Pan-Turkists and Türk Yurdu magazine. Inter-Empire Turks. Marketing Strategy for Muslim Identity on the Ottoman-Russian Borderlands (1856-1914) tells the story of this environment, placing it in a broader inter-imperial context. While examining the worlds of Yusuf Akçura, İsmail Gasprinskiy and Ahmet Ağaoğlu, who are considered among the founders of Turkish nationalism, in Tsarist Russia and the Ottoman Empire, James H. Meyer focuses on three concentric circles: In the innermost circle, there is the Turkish Homeland; In the next larger circle, there are the supporters of "usul-i cedid" who struggle for educational reform in the Russian provinces, not only with the administration but also within their own communities; The third largest circle consists of "inter-imperial Muslims", that is, merchants, pilgrims, refugees and countless Muslims who moved between empires, now living in one, now in the other.

James H. Meyer makes use of a wide range of documents, from archives to personal letters, while arguing that Akçura and his friends were an integral part of this inter-imperial community.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 336

Size: 15.5 x 23.5

First Printing Year: 2021

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language: Turkish