Ottomanism at its Final Gasp: Memoirs of the Ottomans on Duty in Arab Provinces during World War I
This paper aims to expose the ways in which the leading Committee of Union and Progress (the CUP) officials in the Arab lands during the First World War have internalized, questioned, and interpreted the conditions of their mission. It is based on the memoirs of Falih Rıfkı, aide-de-camp of Commande...
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| description | This paper aims to expose the ways in which the leading Committee of Union and Progress (the CUP) officials in the Arab lands during the First World War have internalized, questioned, and interpreted the conditions of their mission. It is based on the memoirs of Falih Rıfkı, aide-de-camp of Commander-in-Chief Cemal Pasha, the writer of the second memoir, and Halide Edip, an ardent defender of the social and educational reforms of the CUP government. Both written after the war, these memoirs reflect not only nostalgia and regret but also the complicated relationship between Turkish officials and Arabs on the dusk of their break up as citizens of the Ottoman State. The paper also questions the orthodox argument that the Turkist and anti-Arabic ideology of the CUP government in general and Cemal Pasha’s crusade against Arab nationalists during the war caused the emergence of Arab nationalism. By contemplating on the memoirs of the CUP members in the Arab lands, it argues that both Falih Rıfkı, Cemal Pasha, and Halide Edip tried to understand the region and its people in order to create a mutual future for the Turks and Arabs in the Ottoman Empire. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a402aa88a886497c96e6ccb64d2194cc2023-06-06T15:13:06ZengSakarya UniversityTürkiye Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Dergisi2147-75232630-56312020-06-017113716810.26513/tocd.63167328Ottomanism at its Final Gasp: Memoirs of the Ottomans on Duty in Arab Provinces during World War ICan Eyüp Çekiç0NEVŞEHİR HACI BEKTAŞ VELİ ÜNİVERSİTESİThis paper aims to expose the ways in which the leading Committee of Union and Progress (the CUP) officials in the Arab lands during the First World War have internalized, questioned, and interpreted the conditions of their mission. It is based on the memoirs of Falih Rıfkı, aide-de-camp of Commander-in-Chief Cemal Pasha, the writer of the second memoir, and Halide Edip, an ardent defender of the social and educational reforms of the CUP government. Both written after the war, these memoirs reflect not only nostalgia and regret but also the complicated relationship between Turkish officials and Arabs on the dusk of their break up as citizens of the Ottoman State. The paper also questions the orthodox argument that the Turkist and anti-Arabic ideology of the CUP government in general and Cemal Pasha’s crusade against Arab nationalists during the war caused the emergence of Arab nationalism. By contemplating on the memoirs of the CUP members in the Arab lands, it argues that both Falih Rıfkı, Cemal Pasha, and Halide Edip tried to understand the region and its people in order to create a mutual future for the Turks and Arabs in the Ottoman Empire.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1104796falih rıfkıcemal paşahalide edipittihat ve terakki cemiyetibirinci dünya savaşıfalih rıfkıcemal pashahalide edipthe committee of union and progressthe first world war |
| spellingShingle | Can Eyüp Çekiç Ottomanism at its Final Gasp: Memoirs of the Ottomans on Duty in Arab Provinces during World War I Türkiye Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Dergisi falih rıfkı cemal paşa halide edip ittihat ve terakki cemiyeti birinci dünya savaşı falih rıfkı cemal pasha halide edip the committee of union and progress the first world war |
| title | Ottomanism at its Final Gasp: Memoirs of the Ottomans on Duty in Arab Provinces during World War I |
| title_full | Ottomanism at its Final Gasp: Memoirs of the Ottomans on Duty in Arab Provinces during World War I |
| title_fullStr | Ottomanism at its Final Gasp: Memoirs of the Ottomans on Duty in Arab Provinces during World War I |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ottomanism at its Final Gasp: Memoirs of the Ottomans on Duty in Arab Provinces during World War I |
| title_short | Ottomanism at its Final Gasp: Memoirs of the Ottomans on Duty in Arab Provinces during World War I |
| title_sort | ottomanism at its final gasp memoirs of the ottomans on duty in arab provinces during world war i |
| topic | falih rıfkı cemal paşa halide edip ittihat ve terakki cemiyeti birinci dünya savaşı falih rıfkı cemal pasha halide edip the committee of union and progress the first world war |
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