Non-Ottomans of Hamidian Istanbul Exiles and Expatriates

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Künye:

Yazarlar:

Dr. Ayşe Ebru AKCASU

Ekle

Danışmanlar:

Ekle

Yayın Yılı:

2017

Yayın Yeri:

London

Seviye:

DOKTORA

Kurum:

University Of London

Bölüm:

Languages And Cultures Of The Near And Middle East

İçerik Dosyası:

Web adresi:

http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/26671/1/4460_Akcasu.pdf

Operatör:

Şafak Varol

Güncelleyen:

Yağız Fatih Nazlıer

Özet:

The Hamidian vision of an Ottoman nation revealed itself in the liminal stage of the
territorial foreigner, existing between migration and legal assimilation. The national
identity synthesis inherited by the State promoted naturalization. This thesis begins with historiographical problems associated with ‘foreigners’ in the Ottoman context (e.g. conflation of sentimental and legal foreigners, and domestic foreignizations). The study then traces the legal evolution of an Ottoman ‘individual,’ challenges ‘exclusivist’ interpretations of the Nationality Law, and evaluates the rationalizing framework’sutility for a national ideology that was expansionist by design. Istanbul is introduced as a lens through which one can observe the manners in which the polycentric State engaged with polynymity, wherein an analogy is discerned for the State’s interaction with citizens, i.e. all were granted social existence, but the State asserted ultimate ownership. The in/visibility of the Great Power foreigner in the city is argued to be relational to his/her home-state marginality. In this context, following an overview of visible foreigners whose versions of the city have become fundamental components of the intertext, this thesis contributes to recent scholarship focusing on nation-negating outcasts seeking alternative belongings through the example of a Great Power female convert who migrated to Istanbul. The final core topic engages with those who have become the decisive examples in debates surrounding the subordination of the Dar-ulIslam to Ottoman exclusivism. It is argued in this section that the ‘foreigner’ attribute
that was designated to non-Ottoman Muslims did not deny eventual belonging.
Preventing the proliferation of foreigners was the State’s priority, but it equally sought naturalization over exclusion. This thesis concludes with the argument that the Hamidian regime created a nation but refused to seal it. The act of sealing the nation would have necessitated a transfer of sovereignty. On the other hand, so long as the nation remained unsealed, it could also grow. The Hamidian regime was expansionist and accepted members from Dar-ul-Harb and Dar-ul-Islam, both, for an Ottoman nation-under-formation.

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