The vocabulary of Muslim nationalism
1999; De Gruyter; Volume: 137; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1515/ijsl.1999.137.81
ISSN1613-3668
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
ResumoThis article is about the language of politics and religion in the Middle East. It argues that the national struggle of the Ottomans after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I was not aimed at the establishment of a Turkish state, as later Turkish historiography has claimed. A careful analysis of the terminology employed by the leadership of the national movement in its official documents during the early phase (1918-1920) shows that instead it based itself on a corporate identity that was primarily religious, that of the Ottoman Muslims. The adoption of secular Turkish nationalism as corporate political identity underlying the state was a later development, which took place after the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. The vocabulary then changed accordingly, and even where the vocabulary stayed the same, the meaning changed, as in the case of the central term milli national'
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