The Orientalist Karl Süssheim Meets the Young Turk Officer İsma'il Hakkı Bey

Two Unexplored Sources from the Last Decade in the Reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36257-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 564 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1026 g

The book consists of transcriptions and summary translations of two texts in, mostly, Ottoman Turkish, the first of which is the recently discovered second volume of the diary of the German orientalist Karl Süssheim, covering the years 1903-08 which he mostly spent in Istanbul. The second text is a printed memoir of a Young Turk officer called Isma’il Hakki, in which the latter discusses his life, political engagement and the resulting problems. Süssheim met Isma’il Hakki in Cairo in 1908 and kept in contact with him later. The texts offer a lively picture of Istanbul and Cairo in the early years of the 20th century, the repressive regime of Sultan Abdulhamid II and the heady days of the Young Turk revolution of July 1908.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schmidt, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction
The Historical Context
About the Authors
About the Texts

1 Karl Süssheim, Diary, Volume 2
Istanbul 1902–1906 I
Istanbul 1902–1906 II—Travel in Anatolia 1904
Istanbul 1902–1906 III—Back in Istanbul 1904–1906
Interlude: Germany and France (January–July 1906)
Istanbul 1902–1906 IV—Second Period in Istanbul 1906
Germany, England, France (January 1907–March 1908)
Journey to Istanbul (March 1906)
Istanbul (March–April 1908)
Journey to Cairo (April–May 1908)
Cairo (May–August 1908)

2 Ismail Hakki Bey, For the Sake of the Fatherland
Prologue
Autobiography
The Main Text
Two Digressions

3 Transcription: Karl Süssheim, Diary, Volume 2

4 Transcription: Ismail Hakki Bey, For the Sake of the Fatherland

Bibliography
Index of Proper Names

Über Autor(innen)

Jan Schmidt, Ph.D. (1992), Leiden University, is a retired lecturer in Turkish Studies. He wrote monographs and articles on Ottoman history and literature, and is the author of a four-volume catalogue of the Turkish manuscripts kept in Dutch libraries.