نقد و بررسی کتاب
New Book Pan-Turkism: Iran and Azarbaijan
pan-Turkism book
by: Kaveh Farrokh
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce readers to a new book entitled “Pan-Turkism: Iran and Azarbaijan” by Mohammad-Reza Mohseni (with the foreword by Dr. Houshang Tale):
[Click Book Jacket to Enlarge] For information on obtaining this text, kindly consult Mohammad-Reza Mohseni’s site by clicking here…
The book begins with a concise and informative overview of the philosophies of pan-Turkism. The author outlines how pan-Turkist philosophers engage in the following processes:
- Re-writing history, including the falsification of books in translations.
- Appropriation of the historiography and cultural figures of non-Turkic peoples.
It must be noted however that the originators of pan-Turkism were not of Turkish nationality. These were almost wholly of European origins, dating to the 19th century.