RT Article
T1 Envisioning Turco-Arab Co-Existence between Empire and Nationalism
JF Die Welt des Islams
VO 61
IS 1
SP 72
OP 112
A1 Yenen, Alp 1982-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1752675746
AB The idea of a continued Turco-Arab co-existence under the Ottoman Sultanate might appear counterfactual or marginal - if not nostalgic - from the sober vantage of knowing "the end of history". The Ottoman Empire neither survived the Great War nor made way for a multinational co-existence of Turks and Arabs. For contemporaries, however, different models of federalism and multinationalism offered solutions to save the Ottoman Empire and safeguard Turco-Arab co-existence. While the federalist ideas of Ottoman Arabs are far better known in the academic literature, in regards to Ottoman Turks, the commonplace interpretations follow the teleology of the Turkish nation-state formation. In order to correct this misperception, I will illustrate the existence of corresponding Turkish voices and visions of federalism and multinationalism. Envisioning Turco-Arab co-existence was a serious feature of policy debates, especially in the years of crisis from the Balkan Wars to the settlement of post-Ottoman nation-states in the aftermath of the First World War.
K1 Arabism
K1 Decentralism
K1 Federalism
K1 Ottomanism
K1 Turkism
K1 Young Turks
DO 10.1163/15700607-00600A17