The impact of sharif hussein's revolt on the nation-building processes of turks and arabs

The main purpose of this study will be to present an explanation for that question.
As I will argue, the main motive for this exaggeration could be detected in the utilization of this event as a triggering factor during the nation-building processes of both the Turks and the Arabs. The Turks generally used the reflections of this revolt during the early Republican period in order to create a Western-modern Turkish identity. The Arabs, on the other hand, used it to defend the rights of the Arabs in line with the Wilsonian selfdetermination principle, and also to reach the aim of creating a “United Arab State” inspired by the Arab nationalist ideology. Therefore, as for the implications of this event on both sides, we can argue that the revolt has served as a legitimizing factor, both sociologically and politically in the building of the national identities of both Turks and Arabs. In order to find out how it had been used in these processes I will concentrate on the elements, which belongs to national identities of both nations. As the empirical basis of the article, high school textbooks in Turkey, Syria and Jordan will be used. As a simple example of how both sides are portrayed in these books, we can mention that the Ottomans have been described as occupiers in Arabic books, while the Arabs have been portrayed as betrayers in the Turkish ones. Comparison of the textbooks will show us how the nation-building processes of Turks and Arabs affected each other.

Identity ,

nation ,

state and nation state ,

Türkler tarafından "Arap ihaneti", bir çok Arap tarafından da "Büyük Arap
İ
syanı" olarak bilinen Serif Hüseyin
syanı'nın ne "ihanet" ne de "Arap isyanı" olmadıgı
bugün konu üzerine yapılan akademik çalısmalarla ortaya konmus durumdadır.
Geçtigimiz on yıllarda kaleme alınan birçok çalısma her iki iddianın da bu isyan özelinde
geçersiz oldugunu ispatlamıs durumdadır. Türkiye, Suriye ve Ürdün ders kitaplarından
yola çıkarak bu olayın nasıl "Büyük Arap
syanı" ve "Arap ihaneti" olarak kurgulandıgını
inceleyen bu çalısma, bu sekilde mevzubahis isyanın Türk ve Arap ulus kimliklerinin
insasına nasıl katkı yaptıgını incelemektedir. Baska bir deyisle, "hain Arap" imajının
Türk uluslasmasına yaptıgı katkı ile "isyancı Arap" imajının Arap ulus insası sürecine
yaptıgı katkılar makalenin temel sorunsalıdır.

Kimlik, ,

ulus, ,

devlet ve ulus devlet ,