Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History - Hardcover

Findley, Carter Vaughn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300152604 ISBN 13: 9780300152609

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2010

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Book by Findley PhD Carter Vaughn

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"This new classic for students of Turkish studies greatly raises the standard. . . . [Findley's] handling of the delicate political atmosphere of the Republican period is very evenhanded, an extremely rare quality in books covering modern Turkey. . . . Provides much-needed information on the complexities of Turkish religious identity. Essential." R. W./i>--R. W. Zens "Choice ""

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Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity reveals the historical dynamics propelling two centuries of Ottoman and Turkish history. As mounting threats to imperial survival necessitated dynamic responses, ethnolinguistic and religious identities inspired alternative strategies for engaging with modernity. A radical, secularizing current of change competed with a conservative, Islamically committed current. Crises sharpened the differentiation of the two streams, forcing choices between them. The radical current began with the formation of reformist governmental elites and expanded with the advent of 'print capitalism', symbolized by the privately owned, Ottoman-language newspapers. The radicals engineered the 1908 Young Turk revolution, ruled empire and republic until 1950, made secularism a lasting 'belief system', and still retain powerful positions. The conservative current gained impetus from three history-making Islamic renewal movements, those of Mevlana Halid, Said Nursi, and Fethullah Gulen. Powerful under the empire, Islamic conservatives did not regain control of government until the 1980s. By then they, too, had their own influential media. Findley's reassessment of political, economic, social and cultural history reveals the dialectical interaction between radical and conservative currents of change, which alternately clashed and converged to shape late Ottoman and republican Turkish history.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0300152604
• ISBN 13: 9780300152609
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 560