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A Note on Transliteration
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Published:August 2023
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transliteration becomes something of a political question when the period under consideration is the transition from the Ottoman Empire to new local states in the 1920s. Should I transliterate in Latin characters Ottoman words that are of Arabic origin occurring in a document in October 1918 in an ex-Ottoman Arabic-speaking city, let’s say Damascus, according to an Arabic transliteration system or according to the way we transliterate Ottoman using the modern Turkish alphabet and pronunciation? Is the Muslim judge of Damascus already a qadi or still a kadı in October 1918?
In this book, my choice was the following: I strove to transliterate enough Ottoman words denoting imperial offices in the modern Turkish alphabet and pronunciation to preserve a feeling of the difference between imperial and Arab local contexts, but I went with the Arabic when the actors were clearly thinking in the Arabic language and the context was not Ottoman. When the reference was to Ottoman government-affiliated Turkish-speaking individuals and offices I used the modern Turkish transliteration (for instance, Abbas Hilmi II, Abdülhamid) but I use Arabic transliteration in the case of individuals associated with the Ottoman government who wanted to be remembered as Arabs even if they also spoke Turkish at home (for instance, ‘Ali Haydar). I use the term “Turkey” in this book since the 1920s government accepted this English term, but, of course, I did my research in contemporary Türkiye.
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