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- Title
Reformcu Adanmışlık ve Siyasi Baskı Arasında Jön Türk Devrimi Döneminde Suriye'de Bir Yayıncı ve Gazetesi: Muhammed Kürd Ali ve el-Muktebes (1908-17).
- Authors
EZZERELLI, Kaïs
- Abstract
In this paper, Kaïs Ezzerelli examines the early career of the Syrian scholar Muhammad Kurd 'Ali (1876-1953) as a publicist, founder of the Arabic review and daily newspaper al-Muqtabas in the context of the Young Turk Revolution. Close to the Arab reformists in Cairo where he started his career as early as 1901, Muhammad Kurd 'Ali then moved his review in Damascus where, with the help of his brothers, he founded the first daily Arabic newspaper in December 1908. Al-Muqtabas soon became one of the most widely read and influential dailies in the region. After being confronted with the authoritarian turn of the Committee of Union and Progress (Ittihad ve Terakki) represented in Damascus by the vali Nazim Pasha, Muhammad Kurd 'Ali approached the Liberty and Entente party (Ittilaf ve Hürriyyet) and the French embassy. But during the First World War, he faced the dilemma: either to be condemned by the Young Turks' regime as it was the case for many Arab liberals or to participate in the Ottoman propaganda. Based on a close reading of al-Muqtabas, public archives and contemporary testimonies related to this family enterprise, this paper focuses on the relationships between Kurd 'Ali and his newspaper, his readers and collaborators, as well as his ties with the political powers of that time.
- Publication
Kebikeç: İnsan Bilimleri İçin Kaynak Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022, Issue 53, p323
- ISSN
1300-2864
- Publication type
Article