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Spies, Scandals, and Sultans - Istanbul in the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire (Paperback)
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Spies, Scandals, and Sultans - Istanbul in the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire (Paperback)
Series: New Dialogues in Philosophy
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Spies, Scandals, and Sultans is the first English translation of a
fascinating and acidly critical portrait of the Ottoman capital of
Istanbul during the days of the Sultan Abd al-Hamid. This is the
first time that the text, written by an Egyptian journalist and
politician, has been available since 1896. Originally published as
a series of newspaper articles in the mid-1890s, and then as a book
entitled Ma Hunalik, the text was ordered to be banned and burned
by the Sultan's representatives in Cairo. The ban was carried out,
but a few copies survived, one of which has been used for this
translation. The text of the Arabic original is prefaced with an
extensive introduction in which the author's life is discussed and
the highly controversial contents of the book are contextualized
and evaluated for their accuracy against other contemporary
accounts of life in the Ottoman capital. Spies, Scandals, and
Sultans presents a highly critical view of the Ottoman government
in Istanbul during the 1890s, with reference to earlier eras in
Ottoman history. It is an Egyptian perspective of the Ottoman
administration in one of its most problematic periods and is highly
critical of every aspect of life in the capital city-not least, the
elaborate spy system. Spies, Scandals, and Sultans takes on the
theme of modernization and the role of more traditional values,
including Islamic ones, in the process of setting the goals for a
modern Middle Eastern state-a process that was to come to fruition
after World War One in the creation of the modern state of Turkey.
This first English translation should arouse intense interest among
historians of the Ottoman Empire and Egypt, as well as those who
study modernization in the Middle East and the status of Islam
within both traditional and modernizing societies in the region.
Spies, Scandals, and Sultans has a great deal to say about the
processes of decline and the causes for it, and the ever increasing
role of European nations in the establishment o
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