...Nergis Ertürk This article offers a critical overview of the Turkish Republican language reforms, contextualizing the reforms as part of a discourse of phonocentrism—a programmatic identification of the diglossia of Ottoman Turkish and its writing system as an “inadequacy” and a problem—which...

... new evidence from a little-known diary by the nineteen-year-old Cavafy. It then examines the overlooked context of Alexandria's late Ottoman cosmopolitanism and shows its decisive contribution to the city's modern culture, including Cavafy's own diasporic ethnic group, the Egyptian Greeks. Finally...

... the cause of freedom in other countries, as did Byron in aiding the Greek struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire. Translated and annotated by Jon Eugene von Kowallis © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Translator's notes: I would like to express my gratitude to the Chiang...

...David Fieni Examining the work of Ernest Renan in relation to thinkers confessing Arab and Islamic affiliations in the Ottoman fin de siècle allows us to understand how Orientalist scholarship has used decadence as the figure through which its positivist scientific claims were redistributed...

... transformation in language. Moving from Kıvılcımlı's language, suffused with idioms, slang, West Thracian dialectal phonations, colloquialisms, gallicisms, Turkish neologisms, and Arabic and Persian loanwords in the preface to the equivalential chains of Western, Ottoman, and new Turkish words in the translation...

...Robert J. C. Young Abstract The complex relations between the Soviet Union and the Soviet states of the Caucasus that were formerly parts of the Ottoman and Persian empires offer examples of complex cultural and political relations of antagonism and appropriation that go beyond simple binaries...

... of the Azerbaijani delegate Dadash Buniatzade’s speech into Rus- sian: discovering that the translator Musazade omitted portions critical of Ottoman and German imperialism in Transcaucasia, other delegates protested, demanding a complete translation. Efendiyev includes and translates the untranslated sections...

... academic journal. An internationally renowned scholar of the modern Ottoman history, in 1982 Temimi founded the Arabic Committee for Ottoman Studies, the first ever profes- sional academic organization focus on the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire, and went on to establish a second periodical...

..., and to restore to Turkey the glory and power of the Ottoman Empire. According to Buck-Morss,­ the present title was inspired by a state- ment of Davutoğlu’s in a 1994 essay, where he countered Jürgen Haber- mas’s notion of modernity as an unfinished project by arguing “from within Western...

... aftermath of the Allies’ defeat of the Ottomans in World War I, which would reestablish the former borders of the Byzantine Empire. Like virtually every excursion we undertook that year, what hap- pened on this winter journey turned out almost from the beginning to be far from what we had expected...

... grammatology behind all cultures of notation, which enables us, examiners, to deem all forms of notation on the same plane and call them “writing” in advance, and then go on to think 3. Benjamin C. Fortna, “Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic,” Comparative Studies...

... was filtered through the threat of the Ottoman Empire. When Thomas Jefferson acquired his Qurʾan translation, it was not to acknowledge the enslaved African Muslims and their descendants who worked in the former British colony, possibly even on his own plantation, but to manage nascent American diplomacy...

... borders, while avoiding the chauvinist equation of the West with the human community. Their impossibly vast subject takes them often enough to Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The Ottoman Empire, Imperial Russia, and the United States are given important supporting roles in the drama. Grafton and Bell look...

..., but beyond that surface, other—historical—forces can be felt. To see what this is all about, we have to go back to the years when the Repub- lic of Turkey rose from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. The Republic of Turkey was founded after a successful war against Greece (1919–22), supported...

... that an important step on the way to New Turkey was for the new generation to learn Ottoman Turkish as a means to mend the rupture with the past.4 We can link this particular claim to another dimension of the New Turkey discourse. In this dimension, which we might describe as restorationist-conservative, New Turkey...

... in Atatürk’s Turkey . Istanbul : ISIS . Karaca Emin . 2011 . Nâzım Hikmet Şiirinde Gizli Tarih . Istanbul : Destek Yayınevi . Khalid Adeeb . 2011 . “ Central Asia between the Ottoman and Soviet Worlds .” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 12 , no. 2 : 451 – 76...

... adulthood, in late Victorian Liverpool and London as well as late Ottoman Istanbul, had British nationality through his father, and finally, spent much of his working life as a clerk in the Ministry of Public Works in colonial Alexandria—it seems uncontroversial enough to say that he was a subject...

... on display at the Antikos Bazar in the Czech village of Terezín, where Jacques ends up, are all remnants of the past: What was the meaning of the festive white lace tablecloth hanging over the back of the ottoman, and the armchair with its worn bro- cade cover? What secret lay behind the three brass...

... and the Be- loved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Arjouni, Jakob. Idiots: Five Fairy Tales and Other Stories. Trans. from original German by Anthea Bell. New York: Other Press, 2005. Bailey, David A., Ian Baucom, and Sonia Boyce, eds. Shades...

... the ingrained categories of Eastern cultural nationalism and Western infatuation with elite socialist dis- sident cultures alike. In addition, it thematically foregrounds periods of colo- nization in the region’s history (the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires) that have been officially treated as distinct from...