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Losing istanbuL Lo s i n g i s ta n b u L Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire o Mostafa Minawi stanford university Press stanford, California Stanford University Press stanford, California © 2023 by Mostafa Minawi. all rights reserved. no part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of stanford university Press. Printed in the united states of america on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data names: Minawi, Mostafa, 1974- author. title: Losing istanbul : arab-ottoman imperialists and the end of empire / Mostafa Minawi. Description: stanford, California : stanford university Press, 2022. | includes bibliographical references and index. identifiers: LCCN 2022012268 (print) | LCCN 2022012269 (ebook) | ISBN 9781503633162 (cloth) | ISBN 9781503634046 (paperback) | ISBN 9781503634053 (ebook) subjects: LCSH: arabs—turkey—istanbul—History. | Ethnicity— turkey—istanbul—History. | istanbul (turkey)—Ethnic relations— History. | turkey—History—1878-1909. | turkey—History—Mehmed V, 1909-1918. Classification: LCC DR727.A73 M56 2022 (print) | LCC DR727.A73 (ebook) | DDC 305.892/7049618—dc23/eng/20220802 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022012268 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022012269 Cover design: Rob Ehle Cover photo: nimet Hanım, wife of shafiq al-Mu’ayyad azmzade, on her wedding day, 1901. source: Marmara university, taha toros archive. typeset by newgen in adobe Caslon Pro 10.25/15 To the memory of my great-grandmother and great-grandfather Teté Bader Doghan (Doğan) and Jiddo ‘Abd al-Ghani [a.k.a. ‘Abed] ‘Uthman (Osman). They survived the famine and Seferberlik of World War I, the end of Ottoman rule and French colonialism in Beirut, British colonialism and exile from Palestine, a number of wars in Lebanon, and the heartache of futures imagined and lost. ContEnts List of Illustrations ix Preface: Processing Times of Transition xi Acknowledgments xv Note on Transliteration xix Introduction 1 1 from Meydan, Damascus, to tashwiqiyyeh, istanbul 24 2 a Career in Empire 55 3 an ottoman imperialist’s global social space 82 4 Coming to terms with Arap 108 5 Racializing self, Racializing other 130 6 The beginning of the End 155 7 Things fall apart 178 8 The aftermath 207 Notes 219 Bibliography 267 Index 293 iLLustRations istanbul at the turn of the twentieth century figure 1 sadik al-Mu’ayyad azmzade, late nineteenth century figure 2 shafiq al-Mu’ayyad azmzade, late nineteenth century figure 3 ottoman bank signature and information card figure 4 Esma azmzade at home, early twentieth century figure 5 nimet Hanım, wife of shafiq al-Mu’ayyad azmzade, on her wedding day, 1901 figure 6 gilas (left), sadik’s younger son; bilal, sadik’s evlatlık; and Jelal, sadik’s older son, 1903 figure 7 front cover of Le Petit Journal’s Supplément du Dimanche, november 25, 1895, featuring sadik on the left figure 8 back cover of Le Petit Journal’s Supplément du Dimanche, november 25, 1895, headlined “an attack on a Mosque by armenians” figure 9 st. Mary Magdalene church in Jerusalem, with the Dome of the Rock in the background, ca. 1940s
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