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A Muslim Dualism? Inter-Imperial History and Austria-Hungary in Ottoman Thought, 1867–1921

Part of: Eastern European–Middle Eastern Relations: Continuities and Changes from the Time of Empires to the Cold War

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Historians often look for genealogies of nationalism in Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman imperial history. In this article, I use an inter-imperial framework to argue that the formative period of contemporary Eastern Mediterranean-European regionalism was the last five decades of these two empires. The diplomatic, economic and cultural relations between the two middle powers compose an alternative history to national narratives. I show that dualism (‘independence’ within empire) was an attractive imperial reform model for Ottoman Muslim intellectuals. I describe first a forgotten Egyptian-Ottoman dualist vision, and then I analyse the more well-known Arab-Turkish dualist plans up to 1921.

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Contemporary European History , Volume 30 , Special Issue 4: European-Middle Eastern Relations: Continuities and Changes from the Time of Empires to the Cold War , November 2021 , pp. 478 - 496
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78 Sadrazam ve Harbiye Nazırı Mahmut Şevket Paşa'nın Günlüğü (Istanbul: Arba, 1988), 7–8.

79 Ibid., 53, 93.

80 Ibid., 184.

81 Kayalı, Young Turks, 137.

82 Yenen, ‘Envisioning’, 89–90.

83 Tauber, The Emergence, 221; I slightly modified his translation.

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