Remaking of a Modern Islamic Turkey

Author

Ayҫa Korkutan, The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkFollow

Date of Degree

5-2019

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

M.A.

Program

Middle Eastern Studies

Advisor

Samira Haj

Subject Categories

Political History

Keywords

Koselleck, collective memory, politics, populism, Ottoman Empire, Sultan Abdülhamid II

Abstract

This thesis engages the work of Reinhart Koselleck and in particular his notion of historical time(s) in an effort to understand how the scholarly and popular historiography with regard to Turkey’s Ottoman past have changed since the foundation of the Republic. Focusing especially on the present representations of Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876-1909), a contentious figure who is increasingly recognized to be the face of the Ottoman Empire, it attempts to provide fragments from the newly emerging narrative of history which reimagines contemporary Turkey as a nation in a continuous dialogue with its Islamic past and possible futures.

Recommended Citation

Korkutan, Ayҫa, "Remaking of a Modern Islamic Turkey" (2019). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/3110