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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793555803321

Titolo

The Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands : Turkish Memoirs and Testimonies of the Great War / / Selim Deringil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-61811-959-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 pages)

Collana

Ottoman and Turkish Studies

Disciplina

940.30917/4927

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918

World War, 1914-1918 - Turkey

World War, 1914-1918 - Middle East

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Aspects of the Ottoman Twilight -- Chapter 1. Falih Rıfkı Atay -- Chapter 2. Hüseyin Kazım Kadri -- Chapter 3. Ali Fuad Erden -- Chapter 4. Münevver Ayaşlı -- Chapter 5. Naci Kaşif Kıcıman -- Conclusion. The Atrak and the Arabs -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.