The Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands: Turkish Memoirs and Testimonies of the Great War - Paperback

by Selim Deringil (Editor)

This book provides an annotated translation of memoirs of Ottoman eye-witness actors of the Great War in the Arab lands. It reflects on numerous crises of the Middle East today such as the ambiguous Arab-Turkish relations, the Arab-Israeli confrontation, and the struggle for the holy places of Islam.

Author Biography

Currently at the Lebanese American University, Selim Deringil was a professor at the Bosphorus University and a visiting professor in the United States, France, Japan and Hungary. His numerous publications include The Well Protected Domains and Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire, both of which won the Turkish Studies Association Koprulu Prize.