Ottomans Imagining Japan: East, Middle East, and Non-Western Modernity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Today's "clash of civilizations" between the Islamic world and the West are in many ways rooted in 19th—century resistance to Western hegemony. This compellingly argued and carefully researched transnational study details the ways in which Japan served as a model for Ottomans in attaining "non—Western" modernity in a Western—dominated global order.