
Arab-Ottoman Imperialists at the End of Empire
Ottoman History Podcast
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The Importance of Identifying People in the Ottoman Context
I borrow and with some danger I've adopted this idea of a multicultural Canadian way of trying to identify people which is very problematic. In the Ottoman context in the late 19th century we almost never identify Turkish Ottomans, we say Arab Ottomans or room Ottoman for non-Muslims. The Turks, because we assume that Turkish is Ottoman anyway, do not need to be identified as such. But I wanted to make the point of identifying all of these elements, onswers including the Turkish, onswer as a Turkish Ottoman and an Arab Ottoman so it will keep it in the focus of the reader right through. As the book progresses from the 1880s into World War I that becomes incredibly
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