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The image of the Iranian people in the Ottoman Empire's chronicles
With a foreword by Leslie Tylersmith
ISBN/EAN: 9783659253515
Umbreit-Nr.: 4060068
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 56 S.
Format in cm: 0.3 x 22 x 15
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 09.10.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
- Zusatztext
- This work examines the image of the Iranian people in the Ottoman Empire's historical chronicles and literature, as a way of looking at the construction of the Turkish or Ottoman self in terms of an Iranian other. In dealing with the image of Iranian people, this study observes that the official view of Ottoman Islam was linked with Iranian people as other when determining the construction and portraiture of a national Turkish identity. The Iranian (Acem in Ottoman and modern Turkish) was a preferred "other" rather than the "West as other" because Iranians were historically portrayed in constant hard confrontation with the Ottoman Empire from its early period to contemporary Turkey. Thus, projected in the Ottoman chronicles' discourse and modern literature of 19th and 20th century, the pejorative image of Iranian people constructs a Turkish self as one against the Acems. Briefly, this paper proposes the influence of Ottoman and modern Turkish historians' accounts on modern Turkish identity and self-perception or definition.
- Autorenportrait
- Fatih Seyhanoglu is an exiled Kurdish Journalist and Novelist originally from Turkey where he worked as a journalist, 2002-2005. Since then, Fatih has been living in the USA and holds a Master's degree in History from the CUNY Graduate Center. He has 6 previous publications. He currently lives in New York City and is a member of the Sukyo Mahikari.