TY  - BOOK
AU  - Minawi,Mostafa
TI  - Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman imperialists and the end of empire 
SN  - 9781503634046
AV  - DR727.A73 M56 2023
U1  - 305.892/7049618 23/eng/20220802
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Arabs
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Istanbul
KW  - History
KW  - Ethnicity
KW  - Istanbul (Turkey)
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - 1878-1909
KW  - Mehmed V, 1909-1918
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-291) and index
N2  - ""Losing Istanbul" offers an intimate history of empire, following the rise and fall of a generation of Arab-Ottoman imperialists living in Istanbul. Mostafa Minawi shows how these men and women negotiated their loyalties and guarded their privileges through a microhistorical study of the changing social, political, and cultural currents between 1878 and the First World War. He narrates lives lived in these turbulent times--the joys and fears, triumphs and losses, pride and prejudices--while focusing on the complex dynamics of ethnicity and race in an increasingly Turco-centric imperial capital. Drawing on archival records, newspaper articles, travelogues, personal letters, diaries, photos, and interviews, Minawi shows how the loyalties of these imperialists were questioned and their ethnic identification weaponized. As the once diverse empire comes to an end, they are forced to give up their home in the imperial capital. An alternative history of the last four decades of the Ottoman Empire, "Losing Istanbul" frames global pivotal events through the experiences of Arab-Ottoman imperial loyalists who called Istanbul home, on the eve of a vanishing imperial world order"--
ER  -