Civilizationism-related Publications by Professor Cemil Aydin
Cemil Aydin (Ph.D. Harvard University 2002) is professor of global history at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Department of History. Click the link below to learn more about his bio and reflections on “Civilizationisms”.
Books
Cemil Aydin, Il lungo Ottocento: Una storia politica internazionale, (Translated from English by Daniele A. Gewurz. Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi. Mappe, April 2019. (This is an Italian translation of “Regions and Empires in Political History of the World, 1750-1924” in A Emerging Modern World, 1750-1870 (A History of the World, Book 4) Ed. by Jurgen Osterhammel and Sebastian Conrad (Harvard University Press, May 2018), pp: 33-277.
Cemil Aydin, The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History (Harvard University Press, March 2017)
Cemil Aydin, The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought (New York: Columbia University Press, Global and International History Series, 2007)
Edited Journal Special Issues
Cemil Aydin, Ed., Politics of “Civilizational” Narratives in Social Sciences and Humanities”: Special Issue of Istanbul University, Journal of Sociology, (Volume 38, No: 2, December 2018, pp: 209-440)
Cemil Aydin and Juliane Hammer, Ed., “Critiques of the ‘West’ in Turkey, Iran and Japan: Occidentalism, the Crisis of Global Modernity and the Politics of Nationalism,” special issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 26:3 (Fall 2006). (Editor’s Introduction: 347-352)
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
Cemil Aydin, “Rights in Pan-Asian, Pan-Islamic, and Pan-African Thought,” in The Cambridge History of Rights (Volume iv): The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Ed., by Dan Edelstein and Jennifer Pitts (Cambridge University Press, 2024) pp: 544-564.
Cemil Aydin, “Lausanne Treaty in the Contested Narratives of the World Politics: From the Clash of Civilization to Nationalism Theory?” in They All Made Peace – What Is Peace? The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and the New Imperial Order, Edited by Jonathan Conlin and Ozan Ozavci (Gingko Library and the University of Chicago Press, 2023) pp: 97-118.
Cemil Aydin, “Pan-Islamic Narratives of the Global Order, 1870-1980,” in Debating Worlds: Contested Narratives of Global Modernity and World Order, Edited by Daniel Duetney, John Ikenberry and Karoline Postel-Vinay (Oxford University Press, 2023) pp: 80-114
Cemil Aydin and Burhanettin Duran, “Arnold Toynbee in Cold War Era Islamism: Sezai Karakoç’s Civilizational Cosmopolitanism” in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 3 (Summer 2015)
Cemil Aydin and Burhanettin Duran, “Competing Occidentalisms of the Modern Islamist Thought: Necip Fazıl Kısakürek and Nurettin Topçu on Christianity, the West and Modernity” The Muslim World, Volume: 103 (October 2013), pp: 479-500.
Cemil Aydin, “Between Reverse Orientalism and the Global Left: Islamic Critiques of the West in Modern Turkey,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 26: 3 (Fall 2006): 446-461.
Cemil Aydin, “Beyond Civilization: Pan-Islamism, Pan-Asianism and the Revolt against the West,” Journal of Modern European History, 4:2 (Fall 2006): 204-223.
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