Language:
Turkish
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Osmanli Arastirmalari
Angaben zur Quelle:
54 (2019) 307-348
Keywords:
Textbooks
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History Study and teaching
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Turkey History
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Study and teaching
;
Eretz Israel History 1517-1917, Ottoman period
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Study and teaching
Abstract:
This study examines the treatment of Ottoman history in the Israeli Hebrewtextbooks for history used from 1948 to 2014. Relating the foundation period, all thebooks rely on the ghaza thesis. The Ottoman Empire of the classical age is appreciated forits centralist administration, efficient army, and tolerance toward non-Muslims. However,all the books accept the decline paradigm, and, because of the increased focus of thebooks of the 1990s and after on the “period of decline,” the Ottoman image they projectis a more negative one. The books relate a story of deterioration in all respects followingthe sixteenth century. The Ottoman government is criticized for its violent suppressionof the Balkan revolts. Most Tanzimat-era reforms are considered to have been ineffectual.The Abdulhamid government is criticized for its oppressive rule, and the Young Turksfor their ethnocentric policies. The wars in Gallipoli and Palestine are generally toldfrom a British perspective. The older books’ narrative of the developments concerningthe Armenians is closer to Turkey’s official theses than that of the more recent books.Keywords: Israel, Ottoman Empire, history textbooks, ghaza thesis, decline paradigm.
Note:
In Turkish with an English abstract.
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