Nostalgia for the empire the politics of neo-Ottomanism / M. Hakan Yavuz.
| Author/creator | Yavuz, M. Hakan |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, [2020] |
| Description | xvi, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Politics of neo-Ottomanism |
| Contents | Nostalgia, history, and identity -- The modes of Ottomanism -- The social origins of nostalgia for Ottomanism -- Sites of Ottoman memory : literature and Sufi orders -- Turgut Özal's neo-Ottomanism -- The neo-Ottomanism of the Nakșibendis and the welfary party -- Erdoğan's neo-ottomanism -- The neo-Ottoman foreign policy of the AKP -- The Balkan and Arab responses to neo-Ottomanism -- Implications of Ottoman nostalgia for twenty-first century Turkey. |
| Abstract | "This book examines the social and political origins of beleaguered and wistful expressions of nostalgia about the Ottoman Empire for various groups in the region. Rather than focus on how Ottomanism evolved, the book examines how social and political memories of the Ottoman past have been transformed in Turkish society along with reactions from the outside world. This Ottoman past, as remembered now, is grounded in contemporary conservative Islamic values. Thus, the connection between memories of the Ottoman past and these values defines Turkey's new identity. This new expression of memory portrays Turkey as a victim of the major powers, justifying its position against its imagined internal and external enemies. This book explores why Turkish society has selectively brought the Ottoman Empire back into the public mindset and for what purpose. The book traces how memory of the Ottoman period has changed in Turkish literature, mainstream history books and other cultural products from the 1940s to the 21st century. A key aspect of Turkish literature is its criticism of the Jacobin modernization of Turkey matched by its return to the Ottoman past to articulate an alternative political language. This book responds to several interrelated questions: What is neo-Ottomanism, in general, and what is the significance of various terms using Ottoman as a variant and for what purpose do they serve? Who constructed the term and for what purpose? What are the social and political origins of the current nostalgia for the Ottoman past?"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-309) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019051762 |
| ISBN | 9780197512289 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (updf) |
| ISBN | (online) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |