From the abode of Islam to the Turkish vatan : the making of a national homeland in Turkey / Behlul Ozkan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Özkan, Behlül, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Turkish.

Nationalism--Turkey--History.

Nationalism.

Turkey--Boundaries--History.

Turkey.

Turkey--Foreign relations.

Turkey--History--20th century.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How does a people move from tribal and religiously based understandings of society to a concept of the modern nation-state? This book examines the complex and pivotal case of Turkey. Tracing the shifting valences of vatan (Arabic for "birthplace" or "homeland") from the Ottoman period-when it signified a certain territorial integrity and imperial ideology-through its acquisition of religious undertones and its evolution alongside the concept of millet (nation), Behlül Özkan engages readers in the fascinating ontology of Turkey's protean imagining of its nationhood and the construction of a modern national-territorial consciousness.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Searching For A New Legitimacy: Ottoman Patriotism And Imperial Vatan

2. From Imperial To National Vatan

3. From Geography To Vatan

4. Vatan And Turkey's Foreign Policy

Conclusion

Notes

Illustration Credits

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613681171

9781280770401

1280770406

9780300183511

0300183518

OCLC:

801411034