Zeki Velidi Togan
Zeki Velidi Togan | |
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Әхмәтзәки Вәлиди Туған | |
Born | Əxmətzəki Wəlidi December 10, 1890 |
Died | July 26, 1970 | (aged 79)
Nationality | Bashkir |
Citizenship | Russian Empire, USSR, Turkey (later) |
Occupation | Historian |
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Zeki Velidi Togan (
Biography
He was born in Kuzyanovo (Bashkir: Көҙән) village of Sterlitamaksky Uyezd, Ufa Governorate (in present-day Ishimbaysky District, Bashkortostan).
From 1912 to 1915 Velidi taught in the
In 1918 and 1919 Velidi's Bashkir troops first fought under Ataman
From February 1919 to June 1920, he was chairman of the Bashrevkom (Bashkir Revolutionary Committee). He attended the Congress of the Peoples of the East held in Baku in September 1920, where he became involved in drawing up the statutes of ERK, a Muslim Socialist organisation. However, feeling the Bolsheviks had broken their promises, he became more critical of them when he moved to Central Asia.
In
In 1923 Validi emigrated, after discovering original manuscripts of Ahmad ibn Fadlan in Iran.
From 1925 Velidi lived in
Views
Velidi was a
References
- ^ Censorship and History: 1914-1945: Historiography in the Service of Dictatorships, Antoon De Baets, The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 4: 1800-1945, ed. Stuart Macintyre, Juan Maiguashca and Attila Pók (Oxford University Press, 2011), 138, 147.
- ^ Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective: Notions of Literature Across Times and Cultures, Vol.1, ed. Anders Pettersson, (Gmbh & Co., 2006), 299.
- ^ a b "Togan, Ahmed Zeki Validov | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
- S2CID 162270663, retrieved 18 Dec 2005
- ^ Bergne, Paul (2007). The Birth of Tajikistan: National Identity and the Origins of the Republic. I.B. Tauris. pp. 95–96.
Perhaps the main listening post outside India maintained by the British after the 1917 revolution, for keeping an eye on events in Soviet Central Asia, was the Consulate-General in Meshed. The mixed feelings about the Basmachestvo harboured by officials in this and other offices is illustrated by correspondence in April 1923 arising from the appearance in Meshed of a delegation claiming to represent Enver Pasha's lieutenant and successor Sami Bey of the so-called "Turkestan Nationalist Committee" (Enver had been killed in August 1922). The leading members of this group, Ahmad Zaki Walidi and Abdul Qadir (described rather improbably as a "Cossack"), approached the Consulate-General hoping to attract British support for the Basmachi. Describing Sami Bey as a leading figure in the Turkestan pan-Islamist movement, Major D. Thompson, the Military Attaché, expressed anxiety lest, not content with exporting Islamic revolution to Russia, he might also wish to take it to India.
- ISBN 0905838572.
- ISBN 978-90-04-32433-6.
- ^ Late Ottoman and Early Republican Turkish Historical Writing, Cemal Kadafar and Hakan T. Karateke, The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 4: 1800-1945, 574.
- ISBN 9780253328694.
- ISBN 978-1-60781-465-8.
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Zeki Velidi similarly did much to transform the parameters of Jadid discourse in this direction. In a series of essays he wrote for a Kokand journal Yurt (Homeland), he laid out the Turkist case in all its clarity. Turkestan was the first land inhabited by Turks to accept Islam and was one of the centers of Islamic civilization during its heyday. But the Turks, in spite of their political and demographic superiority, became "imprisoned in the civilization of the Iranians." Turkic intellectuals wrote in Arabic or Persian and neglected their own language. The literature produced at the courts of Bukhara, Ferghana, and Khiva had not a smidgeon of Turkic element in it, but was a pale imitation of Persian culture, and even the everyday speech of the cities had become intermixed with Persian vocabulary. All of that needed to be reversed: a search for "our own national spiritual wealth" was necessary and possible in the new order.
Further reading
- Paksoy, Hasan (June 1995), "Basmachi Movement from Within: Account of Zeki Velidi Togan", Nationalities Papers, 23 (2): 373–399, S2CID 162270663, retrieved 18 Dec 2005.
- Paksoy, Hasan (1992), "Z. V. Togan: The Origins of the Kazaks and the ôzbeks", Central Asian Survey, 11 (3): 83–100, , retrieved 18 Dec 2005.
- Z.V.Togan. MEMOIRES: Struggle for National and Cultural Independence of the Turkistan and other Moslem Eastern Turks
- Copeaux, Etienne (1993), « Le mouvement prométhéen », Cahiers d'études sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde Turco-iranien (CEMOTI), 16: 9-45. https://www.persee.fr/doc/cemot_0764-9878_1993_num_16_1_1050
- Zeki Velidi Togan MEMOIRS: National Existence and Cultural Struggles of Turkistan and other Moslem Eastern Turks, 510 Pp.
- Zeki Velidi Togan MEMOIRS: National Existence and Cultural Struggles of Turkistan and other Moslem Eastern Turks---full text translated from the original
- Zaur Gasimov, « Transfer and Asymmetry », European Journal of Turkish Studies [Online], 24 | 2017, Online since 8 November 2017, connection on 17 November 2017. URL : http://ejts.revues.org/5432