Turks Across Empires - Marketing Muslim Identity in Russian Ottoman Borderlands, 1856 1914

Tells the story of the pan-Turkists, a group of Muslim activists who became involved in a wave of revolutions taking place in Russia (1905), Iran (1906) and the Ottoman Empire (1908), demonstrating how theirs is part of a larger history of trans-imperial Muslims, the Russian-Ottoman borderlands, and the late imperial age.

List of contents

• Introduction: Identity Freelancers


• 1: Trans-Imperial People


• 2: Insider Muslims


• 3: Activists and the Ulema after 1905


• 4: The Great Muslim Teacher Wars


• 5: The Politics of Naming


• 6: Istanbul and the Pan-Turkic Scene


• Conclusions: Turkic Worlds


• Bibliography

About the author

James Meyer is a historian of the Turkic World, working especially on the Middle East and Russia. Employing sources written in Turkish, Russian, Ottoman Turkish, and the Arabic-script versions of Turkic languages spoken in Russia and the former USSR, he addresses issues such as human mobility, communications, and cross-cultural interactions in late imperial Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and Turkey.

Summary

Tells the story of the pan-Turkists, a group of Muslim activists who became involved in a wave of revolutions taking place in Russia (1905), Iran (1906) and the Ottoman Empire (1908), demonstrating how theirs is part of a larger history of trans-imperial Muslims, the Russian-Ottoman borderlands, and the late imperial age.

Additional text

the book does a very good job in bringing the complexities of Russia's Muslim intellectual life of the late imperial period close to a readership broadly interested in the modernization of Russia's peripheries and in Russian-Ottoman relations ... Meyer convincingly demonstrates that since the 1870s Muslim communities in inner Russia perceived the state as a threat, especially in view of the administrative attempts at taking control over Muslim schools.

Product details

• Authors: James H. Meyer, James H. (Associate Professor of Islamic Wo Meyer, James H. (Associate Professor of Islamic World History Meyer, Meyer James H.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780198847052
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884705-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Oxford Studies in Modern European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Russia, European History, Ottoman Empire, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Asian History, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, HISTORY / Russia / Imperial