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Narrated EmpiresArab Perspectives on the Late Ottoman Empire

Narrated Empires: Arab Perspectives on the Late Ottoman Empire [The chapter focusses on the Arab provinces of the late Ottoman Empire (mid-nineteenth century—WWI) and analyses Arab literati’s varying degree of identification with the political structure of which they still formed part. The chapter shows these intellectuals manoeuvring between the Scylla of a culturally hegemonic and increasingly aggressive West and the Charybdis of a weak and decaying but also often oppressive imperial administration. Although Arab patriotism was on the rise and fostered the emergence of a stronger sense of Arab national identity, loyalty towards the Empire seen as a bulwark against destabilisation and foreign influence remained the “default” position for a long time. Arab literati often stuck to an integrative Ottomanism and upheld the idea of an “Ottoman Nation” sometimes even after they had themselves felt the need to flee from persecution and/or censorship or had been long-time eye-witnesses of the ailing system. When solidarity had begun to weaken, the Young Turk revolution was able to give new substance to many Arabs’ Ottomanist hopes and nourished their belief in the possible reformation of the old structures. But these hopes faded when the new regime introduced what from an Arab perspective seemed to be attempts at enforced Turkification.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Narrated EmpiresArab Perspectives on the Late Ottoman Empire

Part of the Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe Book Series
Editors: Chovanec, Johanna; Heilo, Olof
Guth, Stephan
Narrated Empires — Feb 6, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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978-3-030-55198-8
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121 –148
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10.1007/978-3-030-55199-5_6
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Abstract

[The chapter focusses on the Arab provinces of the late Ottoman Empire (mid-nineteenth century—WWI) and analyses Arab literati’s varying degree of identification with the political structure of which they still formed part. The chapter shows these intellectuals manoeuvring between the Scylla of a culturally hegemonic and increasingly aggressive West and the Charybdis of a weak and decaying but also often oppressive imperial administration. Although Arab patriotism was on the rise and fostered the emergence of a stronger sense of Arab national identity, loyalty towards the Empire seen as a bulwark against destabilisation and foreign influence remained the “default” position for a long time. Arab literati often stuck to an integrative Ottomanism and upheld the idea of an “Ottoman Nation” sometimes even after they had themselves felt the need to flee from persecution and/or censorship or had been long-time eye-witnesses of the ailing system. When solidarity had begun to weaken, the Young Turk revolution was able to give new substance to many Arabs’ Ottomanist hopes and nourished their belief in the possible reformation of the old structures. But these hopes faded when the new regime introduced what from an Arab perspective seemed to be attempts at enforced Turkification.]

Published: Feb 6, 2021

Keywords: Ottoman-Arab relations; Nahḍah, “reform,” “progress,” “civilisation,” “modernity”; Arab literati-intellectuals; Ottomanism vs. Colonialism; Arabism vs. Ottomanism; “Decentralisation” ( lā-markaziyyah ); Arab nationalism and “Turkification”

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