This article examines an important attempt at the political engineering undertaken in Syria during the Great War. It focuses on the experience of the Arabs exiled to Anatolia by Cemal Pasha to redesign Syrian society in line with the Committee of Union and Progress’ idea of empire, which imagined an authoritarian regime. The members of the Arabist parties were removed from Syria to eliminate their contemporaneous and future resistance to the emerging despotic regime. The article sets out to analyze what the exiles experienced in Anatolia using their memoirs in Arabic and the Ottoman documents describing their conditions in Anatolia, and to what extent the aims could be realized. It argues that the purpose was to put a politics of “normalization” into practice by depoliticizing the Arab notable families through “relocation” to Anatolia, although the resistance of the exiles and varying attitudes in Ottoman bureaucracy significantly differentiated outcomes. It also uncovers many untold stories with regard to the daily life of the exiles and adds much to our knowledge on the experience of Arab exiles in Anatolia. It is the first serious examination of the experiences of the Arab exiles using their own texts and narrative.

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从“显赫的叙利亚人”到“普通的安纳托利亚人”：“正常化”的政治与第一次世界大战期间的流亡经历

本文检视一战期间在叙利亚进行的政治工程的一次重要尝试。它侧重于被杰马尔帕夏流放到安纳托利亚的阿拉伯人的经历，以根据联盟与进步委员会的帝国理念重新设计叙利亚社会，该理念设想了一个专制政权。阿拉伯政党的成员被逐出叙利亚，以消除他们同时期和未来对新兴专制政权的抵抗。本文着手分析流亡者在安纳托利亚的经历，使用他们的阿拉伯语回忆录和描述他们在安纳托利亚状况的奥斯曼文件，以及在何种程度上可以实现目标。它认为，其目的是通过“搬迁”到安纳托利亚，使阿拉伯著名家庭非政治化，从而将“正常化”政治付诸实践，尽管流亡者的抵抗和奥斯曼官僚机构的不同态度使结果显着不同。它还揭示了许多关于流亡者日常生活的不为人知的故事，并增加了我们对安纳托利亚阿拉伯流亡者经历的了解。这是第一次使用他们自己的文本和叙述对阿拉伯流亡者的经历进行认真的考察。