{"id":1681,"date":"2005-01-05T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-05T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandbox.blog-city.com\/my_friends_the_crimean_tatars.htm"},"modified":"2005-01-05T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-05T20:51:00","slug":"my-friends-the-crimean-tatars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/2005\/01\/my-friends-the-crimean-tatars\/","title":{"rendered":"My friends, the Crimean Tatars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatankirim.net\/yayinlar\/kitapgoster.asp?kat=TR&amp;SayfaNo=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vatankirim.net\/images\/gaspiralikapak140.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>In my very first book, <em>Islam Assembled<\/em> (1986), I devoted a chapter to the (unsuccessful) efforts of the Crimean Tatar reformer, Ismail Bey Gaspirali, to convene a pan-Islamic congress in Cairo in 1907. Now that chapter has been translated into Turkish and included in a huge collected <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatankirim.net\/yayinlar\/kitapgoster.asp?kat=TR&amp;SayfaNo=2\" target=\"_blank\">volume<\/a> on Gaspirali, published in Ankara by the Association of Crimean Turks for Culture and Mutual Aid. I&#8217;m flattered to have been included. And this gives me the opportunity to note that if you&#8217;re on a campus, you can read <em>Islam Assembled<\/em> online, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyebook.org\/titlelist.online.au.19.html\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a> the History E-Book Project of the American Council of Learned Societies. (Yeah, I know. I should have stuck to that stuff.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my very first book, Islam Assembled (1986), I devoted a chapter to the (unsuccessful) efforts of the Crimean Tatar reformer, Ismail Bey Gaspirali, to convene a pan-Islamic congress in Cairo in 1907. Now that chapter has been translated into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/2005\/01\/my-friends-the-crimean-tatars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}