In the first reassessment of the origins of this concept, Can Erimtan argues the ‘Tulip Age’ was an important template for various political and ideological concerns of early twentieth century Turkish governments. The concept is most reflective of the 1930s Republican leadership’s attempt to disengage Turkey’s population from its Islamic culture and past, stressing the virtues of progress, modernity and secularism. It was only the death of Ataturk in 1938 that precipitated a hesitant revival of Islam in Turkey’s public life and a state-sponsored re-invigoration of research into Turkey’s Ottoman past. In this exciting reassessment Erimtan shows us that the trope of the ‘Tulip Age’ corresponds more to Turkish society’s desire to re-orientate itself to the Occident throughout the twentieth century rather than to early eighteenth-century Ottoman realities.
ISBN 1845114914 Pages 269
ISBN13 9781845114916
(What’s this?) Volumes 1
Publisher I. B. Tauris & Company Weight (grammes) 454
Imprint TAURIS I B Published in London
Format Hardback Series title Library of Ottoman Studies
Publication date 01 Mar 2008 Height (mm) 218
Library of Congress DR583 Width (mm) 147
DEWEY 956.1 Spine width (mm) 27
DEWEY edition DC22 Academic level Undergraduate
Introduction The Idea of a ‘Tulip Age’: A Paradigm and Its Meaning 1
I The Ottoman Perception of Damad Ibrahim Pasa, 1910-20 7
1 The Preamble to the ‘Tulip Age’: The Perception of Ahmed III and Damad Ibrahim, 1910-12 9
2 The Construction of the ‘Tulip Age’: Ahmed Refik and his Lale Devri, 1913-15 23
3 Calibrating the Idea of a ‘Tulip Age’: Ahmed Refik’s Publications in the Period 1915-19 59
II The Kemalist Perception of Damad Ibrahim Pasa, 1923-47 85
1 The Establishment of the Turkish Republic and the Quest for a New Historiography, 1923-30 87
2 The Subterranean Survival of the ‘Tulip Age’, 1930-38 115
3 The ‘Tulip Age’ as a Prelude to the Tanzimat: The Re-Appreciation of the Ottomans and Islam, 1940-47 141
Epilogue: The Politics of History, 1908-50 169
Bibliography 177
Notes 201
Index 257
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