THE ISSUE OF CULTURAL IDENTITY IN SALAMA MOUSSA AND CEVAT ŞAKIR KABAAĞAÇLI'S ESSAYS

Year 2006, Issue: 9, 1 - 8, 19.12.2011

Bedrettin Aytaç

Abstract

The role of the ancient cultures in their own cultural identities is one of the
major issues in the essays of Salama Moussa and Cevat §akir Kabaagagh, the
Egyptian and the Turkish writers.
Egyptian writer Salama Moussa, in his essays concerning this issue,
underlines the significance of the pharaonic past of Egypt, regards the ancient
Egypt as the basis of the civilization and argues that the pharaonic culture must be
adopted as the main element of the Egyptian cultural identity.
On the other hand, Cevat $akir Kabaaga^li, the Turkish writer, emphasizes the
role of the ancient Anatolian culture in the contemporary Turkish identity. He
argues that the origins of the ancient Greek civilization emerged in Anatolia. And
he also expresses that many cultural elements of the ancient Anatolian
civilizations surviving in the time being in Turkey. 

Keywords

CULTURAL, IDENTITY, SALAMA

References

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• See Rahmi Er, Modern Mısır Romanı (1914-1944), Ankara 1997, p.38-39.
• For Salama Moussa, see Brugman, J, Ibid, p.392-402.
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• See Salama Moussa, MısrAsl al-Hadara , Cairo 1947, p. 22.
• See Ibid, p. 103.
• See Ibid, p.27,61.
• See Ibid, p.63.
• See Ibid, p. 128.
• See Ibid, p. 150-152.
• See Ibid, p.7-9.
• See Salama Moussa, Muhtarat Salama Moussa,Maktaba al-Maaref, Beirut 1980, p. 110.
• Misr Asl al-Hadara, p. 13.
• See Mustafa Özcaıı, Halikamas Balıkçısı'nın Hikâye ve Romanları Üzerinde Bir Araştırma (Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis), Selçuk Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, Konya 1985, p.7-14.
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• Halikarnas Balıkçısı Bütün Eserleri 6 Düşün Yazıları (Yayıma Hazırlayan :Azra Erhat) Bilgi Yayınevi, Mayıs 2002 p.72.
• Ibid, p.44.
• Ibid,p.66, Hey Koca Yurt, p.286.
• See Hey Koca Yurt, p. 108-110.
• Merhaba Anadolu, p. 155-156.
• Hey Koca Yurt, p. 188,189.
• See Düşün Yazıları, p. 40,41.
• Ibid, 55,56.
• See Ibid, 55-61.