Turks Across Empires: Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands, 1856-1914

by James H. Meyer

Book Overview

Turks Across Empires tells the story of the pan-Turkists, Muslim activists from Russia who gained international notoriety during the Young Turk era of Ottoman history. Yusuf Akcura, Ismail Gasprinskii and Ahmet Agaoglu are today remembered as the forefathers of Turkish nationalism, but in the decade preceding the First World War they were known among bureaucrats, journalists and government officials in Russia and Europe as dangerous Muslim radicals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019884705X
• ISBN13: 9780198847052
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"