Kurdish Identity, Islamism, and Ottomanism: The Making of a Nation in Kurdish Journalistic Discourse (1898–1914)

Deniz Ekici

Informasi Umum

Kode

21.21.1995

Klasifikasi

070.4 - Journalism

Jenis

Buku - Elektronik (E-Book)

Subjek

Journalism

No. Rak

Dilihat

173 kali

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Abstraksi

This book proposes to explore the construction of Kurdish nationalism in Kurdish journalistic discourse from the late Ottoman Empire by interrogating these underlying misconceptions. Contrary to the prevailing view in the literature, which portrays the corpora of the Kurdish press of the period as primarily Pan-Islamist or Ottomanist cultural publications, this book argues, based on empirical findings, that the Kurdish press of the late Ottoman period served as a communicative space in which Kurdish intellectuals negotiated, imagined, and disseminated an unmistakable form of Kurdish nationalism. Hegemonic Ottomanist and Pan-Islamist political thought were used in pragmatic ways in the service of burgeoning Kurdish nationalism, but were rejected altogether when they were no longer useful to fostering Kurdish nationalism.