Papers by Jonathan Dangoor
Limiting the primary sources to scholars who have published in peer-reviewed journals in fields r... more Limiting the primary sources to scholars who have published in peer-reviewed journals in fields relevant to Holocaust and Genocide studies, and thus avoiding the journalistic and polemical accounts that dominate the narrative on this topic, this study aims to provide an analysis of the impact of the 1914 Ottoman Jihad declaration on mass violence against Ottoman Christians, specifically the Ottoman Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks. The study identifies several central issues relating to the declaration and the wider concept of Jihad in the late Ottoman Empire and concludes that, in stark contrast to the scant attention it has received, the scholarly consensus on the topic appears to be that it had a considerable impact on mass participation in these events. While the role of religious ideology can only provide part of the explanation for these events, our study traces the lack of scholarship on the Jihad declaration to the emphasis on elite ideology in the field of genocide studies. ...
Limiting the primary sources to scholars who have published in peer-reviewed journals in fields r... more Limiting the primary sources to scholars who have published in peer-reviewed journals in fields relevant to Holocaust and Genocide studies, and thus avoiding the journalistic and polemical accounts that dominate the narrative on this topic, this study aims to provide an analysis of the impact of the 1914 Ottoman Jihad declaration on mass violence against Ottoman Christians, specifically the Ottoman Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks. The study identifies several central issues relating to the declaration and the wider concept of Jihad in the late Ottoman Empire and concludes that, in stark contrast to the scant attention it has received, the scholarly consensus on the topic appears to be that it had a considerable impact on mass participation in these events. While the role of religious ideology can only provide part of the explanation for these events, our study traces the lack of scholarship on the Jihad declaration to the emphasis on elite ideology in the field of genocide studies. The study concludes that the lack of scholarly work on the Jihad declaration represents a significant lacuna in the field. Of secondary importance is our activist analysis. While the letter of the declaration explicitly targeted the Entente and its allied governments, a small number of scholars in this study either omit the countries mentioned in it or claim that it was overtly directed at Ottoman Christians. The misrepresentations provided by two of the scholars appear to form part of a pattern of unscholarly practices, such as the citation of sources, that upon inspection, do not support their claims.
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Papers by Jonathan Dangoor