Hasan Kayali 
Arabs and Young Turks [EPUB ebook] 
Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918

Arabs and Young Turks provides a detailed study of Arab politics in the late Ottoman Empire as viewed from the imperial capital in Istanbul. In an analytical narrative of the Young Turk period (1908-1918) historian Hasan Kayali discusses Arab concerns on the one hand and the policies of the Ottoman government toward the Arabs on the other. Kayali’s novel use of documents from the Ottoman archives, as well as Arabic sources and Western and Central European documents, enables him to reassess conventional wisdom on this complex subject and to present an original appraisal of proto-nationalist ideologies as the longest-living Middle Eastern dynasty headed for collapse. He demonstrates the persistence and resilience of the supranational ideology of Islamism which overshadowed Arab and Turkish ethnic nationalism in this crucial transition period. Kayali’s study reaches back to the nineteenth century and highlights both continuity and change in Arab-Turkish relations from the reign of Abdulhamid II to the constitutional period ushered in by the revolution of 1908.


Arabs and Young Turks is essential for an understanding of contemporary issues such as Islamist politics and the continuing crises of nationalism in the Middle East.



Arabs and Young Turks provides a detailed study of Arab politics in the late Ottoman Empire as viewed from the imperial capital in Istanbul. In an analytical narrative of the Young Turk period (1908-1918) historian Hasan Kayali discusses Arab conce

Table of Content

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTE ON SOURCES

NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION


Introduction


I

Arabs and Arab Provinces in the Evolution of the Young Turk Movement

Tanzimat Centralization, Arabs, and Ottomanism

The Constitution, Parliament, and Arab Representation

The Hamidian Era: Continuity and Change

The Young Turk Opposition and the Arabs

Conclusion


2

The Second Constitutional Experiment, 1908-1909 

Crisis of Authority in the Capital and the Provinces 

The 1908 Revolution and the CUP in the Arab Provinces 

The 1908 Elections 

The Arab Parliamentary Contingent in the First Legislative Year 

The Counterrevolution 

Reform and Centralization 


3

The Opposition and the Arabs, 1910-1909 

‘Turkification’ 

Parliament: Arabs in Opposition Parties and Issues of Arab Concern 

Unrest in the Arab Provinces 

Conclusion 


4

The Decentralist Challenge and a New ‘Arab Policy, ‘ 1912-1913 

The 1912 Elections 

The CUP’s Broken Fortunes and Arabs 

The CUP Comeback 

Conclusion: Islamist Reinterpretation of Ottomanism 


5

A Case Study in Centralization: The Hijaz under Young Turk Rule, 1908-1914 

The Young Turk Revolution and the Hijaz 

The Grand Sharifate of Husayn Ibn ‘Ali 

Extension of Ottoman Influence in the Hijaz 

Sharif Husayn’s Campaigns 

Sharif Husayn’s Struggle to Maintain His Authority 

Conclusion 


6

The War Years, 1914-1918

The Elections of 1914 and the Eclipse of the Reform Movement

The Hijaz on the Eve of War

The Arab Provinces and the Early Period of the War

The Sharif Husayn-Istanbul Correspondence

Syria under Cemal Pasha’s Governorship

The Arab Uprising and Istanbul’s Response

War, Politics, and Ideology

The End of the Empire and Turkish-Arab Relations


Conclusion


NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

About the author

Hasan Kayali is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.