Arabs and Young Turks

  Acknowledgments
  Note on Sources
  Note on Transliteration
  Map

 collapse sectionIntroduction
 Notes
 collapse section1. Arabs and Arab Provinces in the Evolution of the Young Turk Movement
 Tanzimat Centralization, Arabs, and Ottomanism
 The Constitution, Parliament, and Arab Representation
 The Hamidian Era: Continuity and Change
 collapse sectionThe Young Turk Opposition and the Arabs
 The First Phase (1878–1895)
 The Second Phase (1895–1908)
 Conclusion
 Notes
 collapse section2. The Second Constitutional Experiment, 1908–1909
 Crisis of Authority in the Capital and the Provinces
 The 1908 Revolution and the CUP in the Arab Provinces
 The 1908 Elections
 The Arab Parliamentary Contingent in the First Legislative Year
 The Counterrevolution
 Reform and Centralization
 Notes
 collapse section3. The Opposition and the Arabs, 1910 –1911
 “Turkification”
 collapse section Parliament: Arabs in Opposition Parties and Issues of Arab Concern
 The Lynch Concession
 Jewish Settlement
 Libyan War
 Unrest in the Arab Provinces
 Conclusion
 Notes
 collapse section4. The Decentralist Challenge and a New “Arab Policy,” 1912–1913
 The 1912 Elections
 collapse sectionThe CUP’s Broken Fortunes and Arabs
 Arab Dissidence and the Egyptian Factor
 The Reform Movement in the Arab Provinces
 collapse sectionThe CUP Comeback
 The Suppression of the Reform Movement
 Compromise
 Conclusion: Islamist Reinterpretation of Ottomanism
 Notes
 collapse section5. A Case Study in Centralization: The Hijaz under Young Turk Rule, 1908–1914
 The Young Turk Revolution and the Hijaz
 collapse sectionThe Grand Sharifate of Husayn Ibn ‘Ali
 Circumstances of Husayn’s Appointment
 Husayn in Mecca: Quest for Authority
 collapse sectionExtension of Ottoman Influence in the Hijaz
 Reform
 The Railway Projects
 Medina: An Ottoman Outpost in the Hijaz
 Sharif Husayn’s Campaigns
 Sharif Husayn’s Struggle to Maintain His Authority
 Conclusion
 Notes
 collapse section6. The War Years, 1914–1918
 The Elections of 1914 and the Eclipse of the Reform Movement
 The Hijaz on the Eve of War
 The Arab Provinces and the Early Period of the War
 The Sharif Husayn–İstanbul Correspondence
 Syria under Cemal Pasha’s Governorship
 The Arab Uprising and İstanbul’s Response
 War, Politics, and Ideology
 The End of the Empire and Turkish-Arab Relations
 Notes
 collapse sectionConclusion
 Notes

 collapse sectionBibliography
 Archival Sources
 Newspapers
 Parliamentary Proceedings
 Secondary Sources

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