On 17 May 1919 in Paris, three Indian Muslim leaders met the United States’ president, Woodrow Wilson, to make a case for the preservation of the Ottoman caliphate in Istanbul, and for the national self-determination of Anatolia as a homeland for Turkish Muslims. The ..
Cemil Aydin
Cemil Aydin (Ph.D. Harvard University, 2002) is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His recent research deals with global intellectual history and international history of Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian thought. Cemil Aydin’s publications include his book on the Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia (Columbia University Press, 2007), “Regionen und Reiche in der Politischen Geschichte des Langen 19 Jahrhunderts, 1750-1924 (Region and Empire in the Political History of the Long 19th Century” in Geschichte Der Welt, 1750-1870: Wege Zur Modernen Welt (A History of the World, 1750-1870)“ (Beck Publishers/Harvard, July 2016) pp: 35-253, and The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History (Harvard University Press, Spring 2017).