Selim Deringil’s The Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands: Turkish Memoirs and Testimonies of the Great War is an account of five memoirs written after World War I by leading Ottoman military commanders and intellectuals who spent the war years in the Arab provinces. The memoirs include those of Falih Rifki Atay, Ahmad Cemal Pasha’s deputy in the Fourth Army and head of intelligence in Damascus and Jerusalem; Hüseyin Kazım Kadri, a founder of the Young Turk movement and editor of Tanin; Naci Kaşif Kıcıman, the chief intelligence officer in Hijaz during the Great Revolt; Münevver Ayaşlı, the daughter of the Turkish head of the Ottoman tobacco monopoly who became an ardent Islamic feminist in the Republican period; and Ali Fuad Erden, the Fourth Army’s chief of staff. Deringil’s introduction, which references other works on the final days of Ottoman rule in Syria and Palestine, provides a critical framing of these narratives in the context of (some) Turkish claims that the Great Revolt constituted a “stab in the back” to the Ottoman war effort and a betrayal of the state. The memoirs contain vivid accounts of daily life in Beirut, Jerusalem, Damascus, and Medina during World War I.

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从“背后捅刀”到“良心”：Ayyam al-Atrak 的回忆

塞利姆·德林吉尔 (Selim Deringil) 的《阿拉伯土地上的奥斯曼帝国暮光之城：一战的土耳其回忆录和证词》是对第一次世界大战后奥斯曼帝国军事指挥官和知识分子在阿拉伯各省度过战争岁月所写的五部回忆录的描述。这些回忆录包括法力赫·里夫基·阿泰（Falih Rifki Atay）的回忆录，他是艾哈迈德·杰马尔帕夏在第四集团军的副手、大马士革和耶路撒冷的情报负责人；Hüseyin Kazım Kadri，青年土耳其运动的创始人和《塔宁》的编辑；Naci Kaşif Kıcıman，大起义期间汉志的首席情报官；Münevver Ayaşlı，奥斯曼帝国烟草专卖局土耳其首领的女儿，在共和时期成为一名狂热的伊斯兰女权主义者；和第四军参谋长阿里·福阿德·埃尔登。德林吉尔的介绍，引用了奥斯曼帝国在叙利亚和巴勒斯坦统治末期的其他作品，在（一些）土耳其人声称大起义是对奥斯曼帝国战争努力的“背后捅刀子”的背景下，对这些叙述提供了批判性框架对国家的背叛。这些回忆录生动地记录了第一次世界大战期间贝鲁特、耶路撒冷、大马士革和麦地那的日常生活。