Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Date

2026

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Department

History

Committee Chair

Beverly Tsacoyianis

Committee Member

Andrei Znamenski

Committee Member

Andrew Daily

Abstract

The goal of this thesis is to study how Islam’s association with the Arab world shaped Kemalism and altered the nation building project of the early Turkish Republic. This thesis is concerned with how religion and ethnicity factored into Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s worldview and how his philosophies, in turn, infused anti-Arab sentiment into modern Turkish nationalism. This study is also interested in contemporary Western responses to Türkiye’s attempts at Westernization. To study these questions, this thesis will utilize Kemalist writings from the 1920s and 1930s (the period in which Atatürk ruled the country) primarily taken from the (mostly) French language magazine La Turquie Kemaliste, as well as government documents recorded by American and British diplomats working in the early republican period.

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Library Comment

Dissertation or thesis originally submitted to ProQuest/Clarivate.

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