Uncanny Beloveds and the Return of the Repressed

Abstract: In the course of Ottoman history, a long-standing alliance with the Giray house allowed for military cooperation; yet, classical Ottomans writers held a paradoxical posture toward Crimean Tatars. One current of tradition praised them as handsome and skilled warriors, but a purported betray...

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Autor principal:	Maya Petrovich
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Publicado:	Université de Provence 2018
Materias:	Keywords: Ottoman Turkish Tatars Eurasia Mongols nomadic History of Africa DT1-3415 Social sciences (General) H1-99
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ff7fc70bd42540ac99caf235993896352021-12-02T10:06:19ZUncanny Beloveds and the Return of the Repressed0997-13272105-227110.4000/remmm.11238https://doaj.org/article/ff7fc70bd42540ac99caf235993896352018-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/remmm/11238https://doaj.org/toc/0997-1327https://doaj.org/toc/2105-2271Abstract: In the course of Ottoman history, a long-standing alliance with the Giray house allowed for military cooperation; yet, classical Ottomans writers held a paradoxical posture toward Crimean Tatars. One current of tradition praised them as handsome and skilled warriors, but a purported betrayal by Tatars during the battle against Tīmūr in 1402 evolved into a recurrent motif of Ottoman historiography, justifying the ambivalence which the courtly elites felt toward Chinggisids and the northern steppe. The catastrophic period of Tatar expulsion and their resettlement in Ottoman territories in the 1850s and 1860s gradually led Ottoman writers toward a reassessment of the Crimea, projecting a new romantic image of Tatars as heroic, embattled and loyal fellow Muslims. Finally, in the twentieth century, new paradoxes arose, marking the formerly nomadic Tatars as closely related to the Black Sea and Anatolia, and yet also distinctly exotic and “Asiatic.” The study demonstrates that complex cyclical processes of fluidity and crystallization were always operative within Ottoman perceptions and their definitions of non-Ottoman peoples, including the Tatars.Maya PetrovichUniversité de ProvencearticleKeywords: OttomanTurkishTatarsEurasiaMongolsnomadicHistory of AfricaDT1-3415Social sciences (General)H1-99ENFRRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, Vol 143, p vol. 143 (2018)
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description	Abstract: In the course of Ottoman history, a long-standing alliance with the Giray house allowed for military cooperation; yet, classical Ottomans writers held a paradoxical posture toward Crimean Tatars. One current of tradition praised them as handsome and skilled warriors, but a purported betrayal by Tatars during the battle against Tīmūr in 1402 evolved into a recurrent motif of Ottoman historiography, justifying the ambivalence which the courtly elites felt toward Chinggisids and the northern steppe. The catastrophic period of Tatar expulsion and their resettlement in Ottoman territories in the 1850s and 1860s gradually led Ottoman writers toward a reassessment of the Crimea, projecting a new romantic image of Tatars as heroic, embattled and loyal fellow Muslims. Finally, in the twentieth century, new paradoxes arose, marking the formerly nomadic Tatars as closely related to the Black Sea and Anatolia, and yet also distinctly exotic and “Asiatic.” The study demonstrates that complex cyclical processes of fluidity and crystallization were always operative within Ottoman perceptions and their definitions of non-Ottoman peoples, including the Tatars.
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