Journal Name:
- İstanbul Üniversitesi Şarkiyat Mecmuası
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Abstract (2. Language):
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.
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