The Protection Question: Central Asians and Extraterritoriality in the Late Ottoman Empire

Can, Lâle

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“…But they argued tenaciously that Muslims from British or Russian protectorates such as Afghanistan or Bukhara were not subjects of these powers and thus did not fall under the Capitulations. For this specific group of Central Asian Muslims, the Ottoman government created a new legal status, that of “protected persons” ( mahmi ) who might receive financial assistance from the Ottoman government in connection with the pilgrimage but who neither enjoyed the privileges of “foreign Muslims” ( ecanib‐i Müslimin ) under the Capitulations nor the rights of Ottoman nationals (Can, 2016, pp. 685–686, 693).…”

Section: Not On the Peripheries Alone: The Politics Of Difference Across The Empirementioning

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Bringing the imperial back in: Reconsidering governance in the late Ottoman Empire, 1839–1923 (Part II)

Kuehn

2021

History Compass

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This is the second of two connected articles that survey recent trends in the historical scholarship of Ottoman imperial governance from the beginning of the Tanzimat state building efforts in the 1830s to the end of empire in the early 1920s. In both articles, I examine how historians have answered the question of what was imperial about the ways in which the Ottoman Empire was governed during this period. Throughout this two‐part series, I argue that an approach that pays attention to the capacity to govern, as Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper put it, “different people differently” through a broad repertoire of rule balancing this politics of difference with the politics of incorporation, is more conducive to bringing out the complexities of late Ottoman governance than teleological assumptions that consider the empire during this period on a linear path towards the nation state. Part I demonstrated that starting from the 1990s, scholarship on the empire's peripheries in Transjordan, Mount Lebanon, Yemen, and Albania was instrumental in reframing the study of late Ottoman governance by taking its imperial dimensions seriously. In Part II, I will continue this line of inquiry by reviewing pioneering studies that located the politics of difference and incorporation across the empire and not just in its peripheral regions. Here, I will also discuss a body of innovative scholarship that uses the analytical lenses of governmentality, techno‐politics, and International Law to shed light on the novel material, logistical, and legal capacities developed by the Ottoman state especially during the Hamidian period. In the final section, I will turn to studies that suggest that practices of Ottoman imperial governance remained relevant for the running of some of the empire's successor states.

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Section: Not On the Peripheries Alone: The Politics Of Difference Across The Empirementioning

confidence: 99%

Bringing the imperial back in: Reconsidering governance in the late Ottoman Empire, 1839–1923 (Part II)

Kuehn

2021

History Compass

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“…Beyond Eastern Europe, the Ottomans maintained relations with Russian Muslims, also to counter Russian pressure. 15 Istanbul was a key site for cultural-political exchanges between Ottoman and Russian Muslims. 16 And Russian Muslim refugees from beyond Russian-ruled Eastern Europe, most importantly the Caucasus, also moved to the Ottoman Empire.…”

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

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Schayegh

2021

Contemporary European History

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The aim of this special issue is to study the Middle East and Eastern Europe (including south-eastern Europe) as one interwoven space and to use it as a laboratory to explore conceptual issues regarding modern (societal) transnational and (state) international history. In this introduction we wish to analyse and explain the changing relations between the various states of the Middle East and Eastern Europe, with an eye also to Russia/the Soviet Union. We will highlight two patterns: similar ethno-religious-linguistically heterogeneous populations and shared peripherality vis-à-vis Western Europe. The question of interplays and overlaps between nation-states and empires and the geographic proximity of Eastern Europe and the Middle East cut across these two patterns, constituting a broader framework. Throughout, the reader will note three generic interlocking traits. Eastern Europe and the Middle East are not internally homogeneous and fixed, nor is their relationship, which indeed is irreducibly diverse in the political as well as in the economic, social and cultural fields. This diversity is reflected in the variety of contexts and actors who appear in the articles, including statesmen, merchants, activists, journalists, thinkers, architects, and bureaucrats.We have had the privilege to build on a firm scholarly bedrock as we conceptualised this special issue, and specifically on three broad debates whose geographies interlock. First, historians of both Eastern Europe and the Middle East have been advocating for these regions to be embedded in larger trans-regional, inter-imperial and global narratives. 1 This approach overlaps with recent studies of

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The Protection Question: Central Asians and Extraterritoriality in the Late Ottoman Empire

Cited by 2 publications

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Bringing the imperial back in: Reconsidering governance in the late Ottoman Empire, 1839–1923 (Part II)

Bringing the imperial back in: Reconsidering governance in the late Ottoman Empire, 1839–1923 (Part II)

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

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