Framing Perspectives Between the Late Russian and Ottoman Empires: Trans-Imperial Mobility and the Shifts of Center and Periphery
Journal: V&R unipress eBooks
Year: 2023

This chaptere xamines the Russian background of the forebearsa nd ideologues of Pan-Turkism in the Ottoman Empire, such as Ismail Gasprinski or Yusuf Akçura.Hailing from the Turkophone areas of the tsarist empire-Crimea, the Volga-Ural region, Transcaucasia,C entral Asia or Siberia-these thinkers developed their ideasi nt he Ottoman capitalIstanbul while in constantcontact with their places of origin.Iargue that itisdue to these intellectual activists' trans-imperialmobility that their ideas dev