Publication

2018 - Brill, Leiden, Netherlands

Language

English

Word Count

141,000 words, Guess

Page Count

564 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC956.10154
  • LCCDR572 .S36 2018

Description

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.

Subjects

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People

Karl Süssheim (1878-1947)İsmail Hakkı Paşa (1858-1925)

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