Turks Across Empires
Journal: Oxford University Press eBooks
Year: 2014

Abstract This book traces the paths of Muslim community activists from Russia who followed a wave of revolutions unfolding in Russia (1905), Iran (1906), and the Ottoman Empire (1908). Centered on the lives and careers of İsmail Gasprinskii, Yusuf Akçura, and Ahmet Ağaoğlu, this book tells a wide-ranging story about the late imperial era in the Russian-Ottoman borderlands. Honing in on bigger developments taking place in the region from the end of the Crimean War until the beginning of World War