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- Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State: Evolving Identities, Competing Loyalties, and Shifting Boundaries
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Middle Eastern Studies
summary
Kurdish nationalism remains one of the most critical and explosive problems of the Middle East. Despite its importance, the topic remains on the margins of Middle East Studies. Bringing the study of Kurdish nationalism into the mainstream of Middle East scholarship, Hakan Özogálu examines the issue in the context of the Ottoman Empire. Using a wealth of primary sources, including Ottoman and British archives, Ottoman Parliamentary minutes, memoirs, and interviews, he focuses on revealing the social, political, and historical forces behind the emergence and development of Kurdish nationalism. Contrary to the assumption that nationalist movements contribute to the collapse of empires, the book argues that Kurdish leaders remained loyal to the Ottoman state, and only after it became certain that the empire would not recover did Kurdish nationalism emerge and clash with the Kemalist brand of Turkish nationalism.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Illustrations
- pp. xv-xvi
- 1. Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- Bibliography
- pp. 159-178
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791485569
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
62365183
Pages
202
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No