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This book explores an event described by the Times as 'one of the
greatest and most sensational political conspiracies of modern
times'. On 21 July 1905, just after the Friday Prayer at the Yildiz
Hamidiye Mosque in Istanbul, a car bomb exploded and left 26 dead
with another 58 wounded. Sultan Abdulhamid II, the target of the
attack, remained unscathed. The Ottoman police soon discovered that
Armenian revolutionaries were behind the plot and several people
were arrested and convicted, among them the Belgian anarchist
Edward Joris. His incarceration sparked international reaction and
created a diplomatic conflict. The assassination attempt failed,
the events faded from memory, and the plot became a footnote in
early twentieth-century history. This book rediscovers the
conspiracy as a transnational moment in late Ottoman history,
opening a window on key themes in modern history, such as
international law, terrorism, Orientalism, diplomacy, anarchism,
imperialism, nationalism, mass media and humanitarianism. It
provides an original look on the many trans- and international
links between the Ottoman Empire, Europe and the rest of the world
at the start of the twentieth century. cdscds
This book explores an event described by the Times as 'one of the
greatest and most sensational political conspiracies of modern
times'. On 21 July 1905, just after the Friday Prayer at the Yildiz
Hamidiye Mosque in Istanbul, a car bomb exploded and left 26 dead
with another 58 wounded. Sultan Abdulhamid II, the target of the
attack, remained unscathed. The Ottoman police soon discovered that
Armenian revolutionaries were behind the plot and several people
were arrested and convicted, among them the Belgian anarchist
Edward Joris. His incarceration sparked international reaction and
created a diplomatic conflict. The assassination attempt failed,
the events faded from memory, and the plot became a footnote in
early twentieth-century history. This book rediscovers the
conspiracy as a transnational moment in late Ottoman history,
opening a window on key themes in modern history, such as
international law, terrorism, Orientalism, diplomacy, anarchism,
imperialism, nationalism, mass media and humanitarianism. It
provides an original look on the many trans- and international
links between the Ottoman Empire, Europe and the rest of the world
at the start of the twentieth century. cdscds
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