One of the more important processes of Middle Eastern history is that of the transformation of the Ottoman Empire into the Turkish national state. The present dissertation demonstrates how Yusuf Akcura, a significant figure in this priocess, recognized in 1904 the forces making for the emergence of a turkish nation and was the first to call for the political reconstruction of the Ottoman Empire on the basis of Turkish nationalism. Thereafter Akcura worked to arouse among the Turks of Russia and the Ottoman Empire an awareness of their national identity, developing by 1917 an ideology of Turkish nationalism which was distinguished by its definition of the Turkish nation in terms of race, its realization that the Turks must develop a national economy and its insistence on reform of all institutions of the Turkish society in accordance with a program of total Westernization. [...] / Un des plus importants dveloppements de l'histoire du Moyen-Orient est la transformation de l'Empire ottaman en Etat national turc. La presente dissertation montre comment Yusuf Akcura, une personnalite tres marquante de cette epoque, reconnut des 1904, les forces qui meneront au triomphe de la nation turque, et comment il fut le premier a reclamer la reorganisation de l'Empire sur les bases du nouveau nationalisme turc. Desormais, Akcura travaillera au reveil des ressortissants turcs de Russie, comme à celui des Turcs de la Sublime Porte, les amenant a une prise de conscience de leur identite nationale qui aboutira, en 1917, a une ideologie du nationalisme turc remarquable par sa defination de la nation turque en tant que veritable ethnie. Cette ideologie fait apprecier a tous la necessité de developper une economie nationale ainsi que de reformer les institutions de l'ancienne sociéte selon un programme de totale occidentalisation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.108930 |
| Date | January 1976 |
| Creators | Thomas, David S. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Islamic Studies.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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