Ahmed Agayev, better known as Ahmet Agaoglu (1869-1939), has been a prominent preacher of Turkism and one of the founding fathers of the so-called Azerbaijani identity, having played also a significant role in the formation of Pan-Turkism. Agaoglu’s involvement in Pan-Turkist circles in the Ottoman Empire and then in the nationalist movement in Kemalist Turkey partly overshadowed some details of his earlier life. This paper examines one of the lesser-known episodes in his biography—his participation in the activities of the Iranian revolutionaries in Istanbul and his collaboration with their Persian organ, Sorush ( Sorūs ) in 1909-1910 in Istanbul. Ironically, positioning himself in his Persian writings in Sorush as an avid follower of Iranian nationalism, Agaoglu began soon to propound in the Ottoman press the idea of “the Turks of Iran”, actively promoting Turkism and Pan-Turkist views on the ethnic background of the South Caucasian Muslims and the population of the northwestern areas of Iran. Ahmet Agaoglu’s writings in Istanbul in 1909 and 1910 shed some light on the genesis of a modern ethnic identity, which was later labelled as “Azerbaijani”.

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从伊朗主义到泛土耳其主义：艾哈迈德·阿奥格卢传记的鲜为人知的页面

艾哈迈德·阿加耶夫（Ahmed Agayev），众所周知的艾哈迈德·阿加格鲁（Ahmet Agaoglu，1869-1939年），一直是突厥主义的杰出传教士，也是所谓阿塞拜疆身份的始祖之一，在泛突厥主义的形成中也发挥了重要作用。阿高格卢（Agaoglu）在奥斯曼帝国（Ottoman Empire）的泛突厥主义圈子以及后来在土耳其凯马斯特（Kemalist）的民族主义运动中的参与部分掩盖了他早年生活的某些细节。本文研究了他传记中鲜为人知的一集-他参与了伊朗革命者在伊斯坦布尔的活动，以及他与1909-1910年在伊斯坦布尔的波斯器官Sorush（Sorūs）的合作。具有讽刺意味的是，阿高格卢（Agaoglu）在索鲁什（Sorush）的波斯著作中将自己定位为伊朗民族主义的狂热追随者，不久便开始在奥斯曼帝国媒体上倡导“伊朗的土耳其人”的思想，积极宣传突厥主义和泛突厥主义对南方白种人穆斯林的种族背景和伊朗西北地区居民的看法。艾哈迈德·阿加格鲁（Ahmet Agaoglu）在1909年和1910年在伊斯坦布尔的著作为现代种族身份的起源提供了一些启示，该身份后来被标记为“阿塞拜疆”。