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- Title
Ein Krimtatare in Zentralasien: Ismail Gasprinskij, der Orientalismus und das Zarenreich.
- Authors
Hofmeister, Ulrich
- Abstract
This article explores the engagement of Ismail Gasprinskii (İsmail Gaspıralı), the famous Crimean Tatar activist, with the Central Asian provinces of the Tsarist Empire. Based on an analysis of Gasprinkii’s Russian writings, it argues that the dichotomy between Orient and Occident as proposed by Edward Said does not suffice to describe Crimea’s ambivalent position in the Russian Empire. Even though Gasprinskii was himself deemed an alien and an Oriental by Russian nationalists, he held markedly ‘Orientalist’ views and described the population of Turkestan, Bukhara and Khiva as backward and ignorant. However, departing from conventional Orientalist discourse, Gasprinskii presented the alleged backwardness of Central Asia as part of not only the general backwardness of Russia’s Muslim societies, but also of the need of reform in Russia generally.
- Subjects
RUSSIA; GASPRINSKI, Ismail Bey, 1851-1914; CRIMEAN Tatars; ACTIVISTS; RUSSIAN historiography; ASIANISTS; STEREOTYPES; MUSLIMS
- Publication
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2017, Vol 28, Issue 1, p114
- ISSN
1016-765X
- Publication type
Article