State, Faith, and Nation in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Lands

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

Av Frederick F. Anscombe, University of London) Anscombe, Frederick F. (Birkbeck, Frederick F Anscombe

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Current standard narratives of Ottoman, Balkan, and Middle East history overemphasise the role of nationalism in the transformation of the region. Challenging these accounts, this book argues that religious affiliation was in fact the most influential shaper of communal identity in the Ottoman era, that religion moulded the relationship between state and society, and that it continues to do so today in lands once occupied by the Ottomans. The book examines the major transformations of the past 250 years to illustrate this argument, traversing the nineteenth century, the early decades of post-Ottoman independence, and the recent past. In this way, the book affords unusual insights not only into the historical patterns of political development but also into the forces shaping contemporary crises, from the dissolution of Yugoslavia to the rise of political Islam.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-02-17
Mått152 x 228 x 18 mm
Vikt460 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor339
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107615236

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Introduction; 1. State, faith, nation, and the Ottoman Empire; 2. The pre-modern Islamic state and military modernization; 3. The breaking of the pre-modern Islamic state; 4. The reconstructed Muslim state; 5. End of empire; 6. The post-Ottoman Balkans; 7. Post-Ottoman Turkey; 8. The post-Ottoman Arab lands; 9. The contemporary Balkans; 10. Contemporary Turkey; 11. Contemporary Arab countries; Conclusion. State, faith, and nation.

'A readable accounting of the transformations taking place over the last 250 years in the Balkans and the Middle East. Anscombe's book offers an unusual synthesis of scholarship covering regions rarely considered together. His reinterpretation of the rise of modernity after the fall of the Ottoman Empire argues that religious affiliation was the primary historical force behind these developments. His attempt to account from the traumatic relationship religious people had with the modern state uniquely ties events such as the collapse of Yugoslavia to the rise of political Islam. Summing up: highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' I. Blumi, Choice