... and their constitution by an Islamic philoso- phy of language.9 5. For a historical overview of such measures, see Erik J. Zürcher, Turkey: A Modern His- tory (London: I. B. Tauris, 2004), 21–70. 6. Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, “Türk Edebiyatı’nda Cereyanlar,” in Edebiyat Üzerine Makale- ler, ed. Zeynep Kerman (Istanbul...

...-Union­ Turcologi- cal Congress was to discuss writing systems and orthographic and lexical questions, as well as a classification of the “kinship” of “Turkic languages” spoken in the Soviet Union (“Tiurkskie iazyki” or “Tiurko-­Tatarskie iazyki” in Russian; “Türk dilleri” or “Türk-Tatar­...

... the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homo- sexuality in American Culture. Series Q. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000. Van Gelder, Geert Jan. God’s Banquet: Food in Classical Arabic Literature.New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Vitkus, Daniel J., ed. Three Turk Plays from Early...

... a Turkish city in the long wake of the Fall of Constantinople in 1543, and irreversibly so with the catastrophic defeat of the Greek army by the Turks in its invasion of Asia Minor in 1920 in the name of H Megali Idea (the Great Idea), that tragically ludicrous dream, spawned in the euphoric...

.... A passage where the protagonist antihero, al- Faryaq, describes the tension between Turks and Arabs in Alexandria reveals the precise social and politi- cal context from which the novel’s ambivalence emerges—the marginal- ization of both Arabic and Arabs in the Ottoman Empire within the relative...

... and writing, and of education? FAK: It sounds a bit radical when you put it this way, but yes, I believe the problem appears to be Christianity. I would also think of it, for instance, as poor translation, in the sense I described. About Turks: unfortunately, I am conservative or reactionary...

...-language quotations are from this edition and are cited as Istanbul. Modifications in the English are based on my reading of the Turk- ish edition, İstanbul Hatıralar ve Şehir (İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2006). Citation of these modifications, as well as any direct quotations from that edition...

... that are the oldest known examples of Turkic writing, relating the origins of Turks. As he does so, however, Kıvılcımlı does not demur at the disquiet- ing affinities between his metaphoric use of the term and the mythic dis- course on the origin of language in circulation. Instead, he affirms the rela- tion...

... site’’ of Western civilization, in a land once inhabited by mythological gods and goddesses but now under the imperial rule of the Ottoman Empire. If the Turks had not yet been ‘‘enlightened’’ by the emergent romantic taste in Western Europe and were unable to appreciate the ‘‘Grecian gran...

... boundary 2 / Summer 2014 of Confluence in the Writings of Mahmud al-Mas’adi­ (2006); “The Novelization of Islamic Literatures: The Intersections of Western, Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and Turk- ish Traditions,” a special issue of Comparative Critical Studies (vol. 4, no. 3, 2007); two books...

... University Press, 1999. Matar, Nabil. Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery.NewYork: Columbia University Press, 1999. Maxwell, William J. New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism...

.... The same about non-­Western literature. If you don’t know about it, don’t say anything about it. The example Jameson gave from Lu Xun was not even a good example. But of course there are many national allegories. The Turk- ish writer Tanpinar, for example: his Time Regulation Institute is a perfect...

...,” more affectionately referred to as Pakis, often to the accompaniment of kicks to the head—West Indians, Cypriots, Turks, newly visible Gulf Arabs with veiled harems in tow, real Arabs, “Blacks,” and every other ethnic and racial designation imaginable, but no “Muslims,” conceived...

... found in cases where non-Westerners sought to go beyond or correct the limitations of World-history but remain bounded. Laura Usmanova's fine essay “Between Russia and Japan: How Russian Turkic Immigrants Helped Japan Make Its ‘Islamic Image’ ” (chapter 9) describes how Russian Turks who began migrating...

... kind of war wants to have drones in their arsenal. People think they are good weapons that are pre- cise and very effective against the enemy. I think we will see more US allies using drones. The Turks are using them currently along the Syrian border and are very proud of the fact that they designed...

... of the Translator .” Translated by Zohn Harry . In vol. 1 of Selected Writings: Walter Benjamin , edited by Bullock Marcus Jennings Michael W. , 253 – 63 . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Bıyıklıoğlu Tevfik . 1959 . Atatürk Anadolu’da (1919–1921) . Ankara : Türk Tarih...

... predicament, the Turkish elites behaved almost like a colonizing force, ordering the masses around and interpreting this as “the white Turk’s burden.” From 1923, the founding year, until 1946, there was a single-­party regime, which extracted surplus from a predominantly peasant society to create...

... of the young Turks of the Cuban Com- munist Party, became, in his influential films and novels, one of the sharpest portraitists of the inner contradictions and dangers of the revolutionary pro- cess. If he had remained in Cuba, he would...

..., as will the per- haps even older Celts, but can there be any doubt about the unsuitability of the Turks? This third type of politics, a politics of long memory, arrogates onto itself the right to determine who is a European, who is entitled to be called a European, bypassing the rules and regulations...

... Inmigración9 In other words, national spaces are becoming fragmented: Turks in Berlin, Moors in Madrid, Algerians in Paris, Pakistanis in London, Mexicans in Los AngelesWhat is the real map of national identities? 10...