Islam and Secularism in Turkey : Kemalism, Religion and the Nation State.
Title:
Islam and Secularism in Turkey : Kemalism, Religion and the Nation State.
Author:
Azak, Umut.
ISBN:
9780857713773
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (250 pages)
Series:
International Library of Twentieth Centruy History
Contents:
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Reactionary Islam: The Menemen Incident (1930) -- Reactionary rebels: deeds and words -- Restoration of authority and the specter of irtica -- The single-party regime, opposition and reactionaries -- Mobilization for secularism and resistance -- 2. Turkish Islam: The Reform of Turkish Ezan (1932-33) -- Kemalism and reform in religion -- The birth of the Turkish ezan -- Resistance to the Turkish ezan -- The pre-republican background of worship in Turkish -- 3. Turkish Islam Contested: The Ezan Debate and Secularism (1950) -- Early debates on secularism -- Debate on the Turkish ezan (1947-50) -- The ending of the Turkish ezan in May 1950 -- Kemalist secularism versus alternative secularism -- Nostalgia for the Turkish ezan after 1950 -- 4. Reactionary Islam as Violent Threat: The Malatya Incident (1952) -- Disassociating the Democratic Party from irtica -- Conservative nationalism and the Malatya Incident -- Civil Kemalism and the specter of irtica -- Irtica as a threat in everyday life -- Irtica: a contested concept -- 5. Reactionary Islam as Creeping Threat: Said Nursî and his Disciples (1959-60) -- Said Nursî, the Nurcu movement and the DP in the 1950s -- The specter of irtica: December 1959-January 1960 -- Secularism for or against Said Nursî -- The Nurcu movement in the 1960s -- 6. Turkish Islam Reappropriated: Alevism in Alliance with Kemalism (1966) -- Alevism in Turkey -- Alevis and the secular state in the 1950s and 1960s -- Alevism and Kemalist secularism in the 1960s -- A debate on Alevi-Sunni conflict in 1966 -- A magazine for Alevis: Cem -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Kemal Ataturk's Republic of Turkey was set up in 1923 as a secular state, sweeping political, social, cultural and religious reforms followed. Islam was no longer the official religion of the state, the Sultanate was abolished and all Turkish citizens were declared equal without reference to religion. But though, in Azak's phrase, 'secularism was the central tenet of Kemalism', fear of a resurgent, even fanatical, Islam, continued to haunt the state. _x000D_ _x000D_ Azak's revisionist and original study sets out the struggle between religion and secularism but shows how Ataturk laboured for an idealised 'Turkish Islam' - the 'social cement' of the nation - stripped of superstition and obscurantism and linked to modern science and positivist philosophy. 'Turkish Islam' has retained its traditional forms in the modern state and Ataturk's Mausoleum dominates the capital and continues to inspire a popular, quasi-religious devotion._x000D_ _x000D_ 'the most innovative aspect lies in the fact that [she] redefines the struggle in Turkey not as one between Islam and Secularism, but between 'good and bad' Islam. It is a remarkably mature work'. - Professor Erik-Jan Zurcher, Director of the International Institute of Social History (IISH), Amsterdam and Professor of Turkish Studies at the University of Leiden_x000D_ _x000D_ 'The first extensive scientific account on these decisive years of the formation of the modern Turkish political culture - Islam and Secularism in Turkey is the outcome of a systematic and intelligent exploration of a very wide corpus.' - Hamit Bozarslan, Assistant Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris and Co-director of IISMM (Institut d'Etudes de l'islam et des sociétés du monde musulman).
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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