HIS 2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Habib Bourguiba, Reza Shah, Turkish Nationalism
17 Apr 2020
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Faysal tries to kingdom, driven out by french, then given iraq. Massive population exchange between turks and greeks after rebellion. Massive shunning of ottomanism, things that came before. Replaced with turkish nationalism and identity - being called a turk was a slur in empire. Westernized turkey: reformism, republicanism, secularism, nationalism, populism, etatism - secularism prolly the biggest. Secularism: abolished the caliphate, replaced shariah with swiss code, outlaws fez - adopting. Europeanism, using turkish language and not arabic for prayer, moved from arabic script to latin script. After war gb was in iran to protect oil and protect from russian bolsheviks. Borrowed ideas from kemal, westernizes iran, sees tribes as threat to centralization. Keeps some holy law, but religion is outside the judicial system, makes new civil code based on outside islam - looks at persian empire symbols pre islam. Joint british soviet in iran, after war the us replaces britain as it s the new powerful empire.
