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ottoman cosmopolitanism and the myth of the sectarian middle east

This late colonialism was allegedly meant to liberate the peoples of the Arab world from the tyranny of the Ottoman Muslim ‘Turk’ and from the depredations of notionally age-old sectarian hatreds. ... It introduced a new – and still unresolved – conflict between ‘Arab’..

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