@article{ref1,
title="Prime Minister 'Abd al-Mu.sin al-Sa'd.n's Suicide Note : Life and Death of a Turkish-Speaking Iraqi Nationalist",
journal="Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Mediterranee",
year="2020",
author="Schlaepfer, A.",
volume="",
number="148",
pages="87-110",
abstract="More than a decade after the withdrawal of Ottoman administration from the Empire's Iraqi provinces, in November 1929, Iraqi Prime Minister, 'Abd al-Mu.sin al-Sa'd.n committed suicide by shooting himself to the heart, leaving a note in Ottoman Turkish to his son 'Al.. This article explores the dynamics for a &quot;Hashemite memory of state&quot; under the monarchy of Fay.al, centered on a supposedly homogenous and immemorial Arabness. In particular, I ask whether there could have existed, in the shadow of official memory, a multiplicity of marginal memories. A close reading of the Prime Minister's political and personal trajectory-between his Ottoman Turkish socio-political background and the mounting tensions with Southern Iraqi Shi'ite leadership-exposes complex issues of identity politics behind claims of Arabness. The legacy of the Turkish language: Amnesia or indifference. © 2020 Editions Edisud. All rights reserved.<p /><p>Language: fr</p>",
language="fr",
issn="0997-1327",
doi="10.4000/REMMM.15195",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/REMMM.15195"
}