The Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands - (Ottoman and Turkish Studies) Annotated by Selim Deringil (Paperback)

About the Book

This book provides an annotated translation of memoirs of Ottoman eye-witness actors of the Great War in the Arab lands. It reflects on numerous crises of the Middle East today such as the ambiguous Arab-Turkish relations, the Arab-Israeli confrontation, and the struggle for the holy places of Islam.

Book Synopsis

This book provides an annotated translation of memoirs of Ottoman eye-witness actors of the Great War in the Arab lands. It reflects on numerous crises of the Middle East today such as the ambiguous Arab-Turkish relations, the Arab-Israeli confrontation, and the struggle for the holy places of Islam.

Review Quotes

"The Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands presents five interesting memoirs of exceptional characters and comes in a perfect time where academia and research has been interested more often in the contemporary of Arab-Turkish relation and history. The chosen memoirs represent the post-Ottoman history which was published during the early stages of the Kemalist Republic of Turkey. Although the personality of Jamal Pasha has been central to all pages of all memoirs, they covered other issues, most importantly, the Ottoman military and rule in the Arab lands, executions of the Arab nationalists, politics of governing the Arabs, minorities, and military. ... [It is] a good source for researchers of the history of the Ottomans in the Arab peninsula, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, history of Turkish-Arab relation and studies of collective memories and literature, and the personality of the owners of memories as well as Jamal and Fahreddin Pashas."

-Mohammed Alrmizan, Bosphorus Review of Books

About the Author

Currently at the Lebanese American University, Selim Deringil was a professor at the Bosphorus University and a visiting professor in the United States, France, Japan and Hungary. His numerous publications include The Well Protected Domains and Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire, both of which won the Turkish Studies Association Koprulu Prize.