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The Feasibility of Ottomanism as a Nationalist Project: the View of Albanian Young Turk Ismail Kemal

SYSNO ASEP	0467607
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	The Feasibility of Ottomanism as a Nationalist Project: the View of Albanian Young Turk Ismail Kemal
Author(s)	Taglia, Stefano (OU-W)_{SAI, ORCID}
Source Title	Die Welt des Islams - ISSN 0043-2539 Roč. 56, 3-4 (2016), s. 336-358
Number of pages	23 s.
Publication form	Print - P
Language	eng - English
Country	DE - Germany
Keywords	nationalism ; Ottomanism ; İsmail Kemal ; Committee of Union and Progress ; Sultan Abdülhamid II ; Mehmet Sabahettin ; Albania ; Ahmet Rıza
Subject RIV	AB - History
OECD category	History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Method of publishing	Limited access
Institutional support	OU-W - RVO:68378009
UT WOS	000388960500004
EID SCOPUS	85006004701
DOI	10.1163/15700607-05634p04
Annotation	This article surveys the appeal of Ottomanism for non-dominant group members of the Young Turk organisation. It focuses on a specific reading of Ottomanism as a nationalist discourse articulated by Young Turk intellectuals in exile. The article analyses the actions, thoughts and writings of Ottoman Albanian İsmail Kemal who, in 1900, after an influential career in Ottoman officialdom, escaped to Europe and affiliated himself with the leaders of the organisation in exile. What emerges from this study is that Ottomanism was, until the Committee of Union and Progress adopted an authoritarian and pro-Turkist stance, a feasible discourse for Young Turk activists from both a dominant and non-dominant background. The article also suggests that an assessment of the role of Young Turks from a non-Muslim or non-Turkish background needs to include a consideration of a simultaneous and compatible role of such members as working for imperial reform and for the improvement and protection of their own particular community.
Workplace	Oriental Institute
Contact	Zuzana Kvapilová, kvapilova@orient.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 053 950
Year of Publishing	2017

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