"Turkey and the Arabs... the Equilibrium of a New Middle East
14/08/2006
According to prominent British historian Eric Hobsbawm, it is a mistake to ignore history but an even bigger mistake to think that history repeats itself! We have been accustomed to study the history of Islam by focusing on three particular nations: the Arab nations, the Iranian nation and the Turkish nation. Marshall Hodgson, one of the founders of the world history approach at the University of Chicago, wrote a seminal three-volume book, The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, in which he divided Islamic civilization into six geo-strategic and geo-cultural realms, in which Arabs appear in one founding geo-strategic and three geo-cultural realms, while the Persians appear in two geo-strategic and three-geo cultural realms. The Turks are solely in three geo-strategic realms and no geo-cultural realms."
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