L'empire ottoman et le pan-islamisme dans la Russie turcophone

Dans le dernier quart du XIXe siècle, les empires multi-ethniques étendus sur d'immenses territoires se virent obligés d'avoir recours à une politique de défense face à la force désintégratrice des courants nationalistes ; et, dans cette lutte, ils employèrent certaines des méthodes de leurs adversaires. Ce que Benedict Anderson appelle « le nationalisme officiel » exigeait l'intégration et l'assimilation des peuples conquis par des systèmes d'éducation et d'endoctrinement. Ce qu'on dénomma « russification », « ottomanisme », ou encore « Kaiserreicher Nationalismus » en Autriche relevait de ce mobile qu'Anderson décrit comme « un effort pour étendre la peau tendue de l'Etat-nation sur le corps immense d'un empire ». Comme la Révolution française qui entama le processus de transformation des « paysans en Français » (selon la formule d'Eugen Weber), les pouvoirs impériaux tentèrent de créer un « proto-citoyen » ou citoyen avant la lettre

Shiny Things and Sovereign Legalities: Expropriation of Dynastic Property in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic

This article probes the legal expropriation of dynastic property in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic. Focused on the period from Abdülhamid II's deposal in 1909 to the decade immediately following the abolition of the caliphate in 1924, it takes parliamentary debates as entry points for exploring how this legislative process redefined the sovereign's relationship with property. Although this process was initially limited only to Yıldız Palace, the debates that surrounded it heuristically helped to shape a new understanding of public ownership of property that was put to use in other contexts in the years to come, most notably during and after World War I and the Armenian genocide, before establishing itself as the foundation of a new ownership regime with the republican appropriation and reuse of property two decades later

Humbling Turkishness: Undoing the Strategies of Exclusion and Inclusion of Turkish Modernity

Kurds make up about a fifth of Turkey's population. Turkey has taken steps – albeit slowly and reluctantly – towards increased recognition of Kurdish cultural and linguistic rights. However, within Turkey there is also a steeply rising tide of Turkish nationalism, prejudice and intolerance towards Kurds, and increasing anti‐Kurdish sentiment. This article brings studies of Kurdishness and Turkishness into a single conversation and traces the relationship between Turkish modernity, Orientalized Kurdishness and the construction of Turkishness as the efendi (master) identity. It does this by drawing attention to “strategies of exclusion and inclusion” in the construction of official Turkish history, and relates these to the way in which the tense borders between Kurds and Turks are maintained and currently reproduced. It also presents a normative argument in favour of “humbling Turkishness” and “solidarity trading zones

The Changing Waves of Migration from the Balkans to Turkey: A Historical Account

Ahmet İçduygu and Deniz Sert tell the history of migration from the Balkans to Turkey from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. They relate this history to nation-building, but also to economic conditions and specific Turkish concerns, such as the perceived need for immigration to compensate for a declining population at that time. They also demonstrate that after 1990, ethnic migration decreased and irregular labour migration became more important

Barbarians at the British Museum: Anglo-Saxon Art, Race and Religion

A critical historiographical overview of art historical approaches to early medieval material culture, with a focus on the British Museum collections and their connections to religion

19. Yüzyıl Osmanlı imparatorluğu'nda resmi müzik.

Donated by Klaus KreiserReprinted from : Defter 22 (Sonbahar 1994)

The Struggle against shiism in hamidian Iraq: a study in Ottoman counter-propaganda.

Donated by Klaus KreiserReprinted from : Die Welt des Islams XXX (1990)

Legitimacy structures in the Ottoman State: the reign of Abdülhamid II (1876-1909).

Donated by Klaus KreiserReprinted from : J. Middle East Stud. 23, 1991

L'empire ottoman et le panislamisme dans la Russie turcophone

Deringil Selim. L'empire ottoman et le panislamisme dans la Russie turcophone. In: CEMOTI, n°16, 1993. Istanbul - Oulan Bator: autonomisation, mouvements identitaires et construction du politique. pp. 207-216