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The concept of the Middle East has a history that does not even last one hundred and fifty years. At the same time, it is a 'political' concept in terms of its connotations. It is a concept that has not fallen off the agenda of the world; In addition to its religious history, where all the great religions emerged and all sects developed, it is a geography where all the great civilizations developed by humanity were born, developed, destroyed, and left behind a rich legacy: Sumer, Egypt, Pharaoh, Assyrian-Babylonian, Hebrew, Yemen-Hadramaut, Iran-Persia, Syria... civilization—a long list. The American historian Marshall Hodgson, in his study of Islamic civilization, where he attempted to distance himself from Eurocentrism and based on autoantic concepts, developed specifically defined concepts for this region such as 'Between the Nile and the Oxus,' 'Ecumenical Area,' 'Belt of Civilizations.' However, this region, which is called the Middle East today, is defined by a concept with a colonial background that European colonialists used to define the world by putting Europe in the center. In this article, we will examine Hodgson's concept of the 'Ecumenical field.

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