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Islam and Competing Nationalisms in the Middle East, 1876-1926

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Authors:
  1. Kamal Soleimani

    1. New York, USA

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Part of the book series: The Modern Muslim World (MMUS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Kamal Soleimani
    Pages 1-17
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  3. Religious (Islamic) Thought, Nationalism, and the Politics of Caliphate

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Nationalism and Religious Thought

      • Kamal Soleimani
      Pages 21-48
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    3. The Politics of the Khilafa, Old and New

      • Kamal Soleimani
      Pages 49-69
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  4. Official Nationalism and Islamic Identity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. Ottoman/Turkish “Official Nationalism”

      • Kamal Soleimani
      Pages 73-92
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    3. Abdülhamid II’s Pan-Islamism/Nationalism

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      Pages 93-154
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  6. Back Matter

    Pages 285-312
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About this book

Opposing a binary perspective that consolidates ethnicity, religion, and nationalism into separate spheres, this book demonstrates that neither nationalism nor religion can be studied in isolation in the Middle East. Religious interpretation, like other systems of meaning-production, is affected by its historical and political contexts, and the processes of interpretation and religious translation bleed into the institutional discourses and processes of nation-building. This book calls into question the foundational epistemologies of the nation-state by centering on the pivotal and intimate role Islam played in the emergence of the nation-state, showing the entanglements and reciprocities of nationalism and religious thought as they played out in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Middle East.

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“In contrast to theories of nationalism that downplay the significance of religion in the emergence of nationalist movements, Kamal argues that religion and nationalism have been closely intertwined in ways that had been obscured by the discourse of elites at the center of power, whose perspectives have, in turn, shaped subsequent scholarship. This book demonstrates a sophisticated knowledge of the theoretical literature on nationalism and makes an original contribution to this literature by challenging the Eurocentric assumption that nationalism is inevitably or even centrally linked to secularism. Soleimani develops the theoretically original idea of the ‘nationalist utterance’ as an Austinian performative, suggesting how nationalisms have legitimized themselves by taking on conventional rhetorical forms modeled on Western nationalisms even when the goals and structures oflocal nationalisms are quite different  . . .  an important contribution.” (Katherine Ewing, Professor of Religion, Columbia University, USA)

Authors and Affiliations

  • New York, USA

    Kamal Soleimani

About the author

Kamal Soleimani is a historian of the Modern Middle East and Islamic world. His research interests include Islamic political history and Arab , Kurdish, Persian and Turkish nationalism. He received his PhD from Columbia University in New York, USA. He has taught at Turkish and US universities.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Islam and Competing Nationalisms in the Middle East, 1876-1926

  • Authors: Kamal Soleimani

  • Series Title: The Modern Muslim World

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59940-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-60129-2Published: 26 May 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95621-0Published: 27 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59940-7Published: 15 June 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2945-6134

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-6142

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 312

  • Topics: History of the Middle East, Middle Eastern Politics, Islam, Religion and Society, Ethnicity Studies

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