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Kurdish Identity, Islamism, and Ottomanism
The Making of a Nation in Kurdish Journalistic Discourse (1898-1914)
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2021
Summary
A major common misconception in scholarship on Kurdish journalistic discourses is that Kurdish intellectuals of the late Ottoman period cannot be portrayed as Kurdish nationalists. This theory prevails because of the belief that they not only endorsed and promoted Pan-Islamism and Ottoman nationalism instead of Kurdish ethnic nationalism, but also because they allegedly eschewed political demands and instead concerned themselves with ethno-cultural issues to articulate forms of “Kurdism” rather than “Kurdish nationalism.”
Refuting this underlying misconstruction of the nexus between Pan-Islamism, Ottomanism, and Kurdish nationalism, this book argues, based on empirical findings, that the Kurdish periodicals of the late Ottoman period served as a communicative space in which Kurdish intellectuals negotiated and disseminated an unmistakable form of Kurdish nationalism. It claims that hegemonic Ottomanist and Pan-Islamist political thought were used in pragmatic ways in the service of burgeoning Kurdish nationalism, but were rejected altogether when they were no longer useful to fostering Kurdish nationalism.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-1259-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-1260-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
236
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Dedication No access
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Pronunciation Key for the Kurdish Alphabet No access
Chapter 1 Religion, Nationalism, and Power No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter 2 The Journal Kurdistan No access Pages 21 - 92
Chapter 3 The Journal Kürd Teavün ve Terakkî Gazetesî (KTTG) and Its Ottomanist Rhetoric No access Pages 93 - 144
Chapter 4 The Journal Rojî Kurd No access Pages 145 - 216
