The Veiling Issue Official Secularism And Popular Islam In Modern Turkey

Author : Elisabeth Ozdalga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136108747

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The Veiling Issue, Official Secularism and Popular Islam in Modern Turkey by Elisabeth Ozdalga Pdf

In the Turkish elections of December 1995, the Islamic Welfare Party became the biggest Party in parliament and for the first time in history, an Islamic party had come to power by means of free elections. The rise to power of the Turkish Islamists is a result of several decades of revivalism. In this process the veil has been a prominent symbol of the new religious puritanism, causing resentment among those who regard the bare-headed woman as the symbol of progress and emancipation. In the light of a century-long conflict between secularism and popular Islam, the present study describes the conflict over the veil as it became a burning issue in the decade following the military intervention of 1980 and remains to this day a matter of controversy. While focusing on the issue of veiling, the author also considers the wider picture of tension between official secularism and popular Islam in present-day Turkey. Although this tension is not discounted, the author argues that the fact that the Islamic movement is on the rise does not mean that it threatens the very foundations of modern Turkish society. Whereas the controversies of the nineteenth century could be described as a 'clash of civilizations' (between Islam and the West), those of today have shrunk into conflicts over certain cultural symbols that are part of the same globally-expanding technological civilization.

Author : Elisabeth Özdalga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Costume
ISBN : 8787062607

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The Veiling Issue, Official Secularism and Popular Islam in Modern Turkey by Elisabeth Özdalga Pdf

Author : Emir Kaya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Islam and politics
ISBN : 1350987972

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Secularism and State Religion in Modern Turkey by Emir Kaya Pdf

"The Diyanet, the official face of Islam in Turkey, is the 'Presidency of Religious Affairs', a governmental department established in 1924 after the break-up of the Ottoman Empire and the abolition of Caliphate. In this book, Emir Kaya offers an in-depth multidisciplinary analysis of this vital institution. Focusing on the role of the Diyanet in society, Kaya explores the balance the institution has to strike between the Muslim traditions of the Turkish population and the secular creed of the Turkish state. By examining the various laws that either bolstered or hindered the Diyanet's budgets and activities, Kaya highlights the institutional mindsets of the Diyanet membership. He also evaluates its successes and failures as a state department that must consistently operate within the context of the religiosity of Turkish society. By situating all of this within the two competing - but often complimentary - concepts of religion and secularism, Kaya offers a book that is important for those researching the interplay of Islam and the state in Turkey and beyond."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Richard Tapper
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015024812318

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Islam in Modern Turkey by Richard Tapper Pdf

A systematic account of the life, works, and accomplishments of al- Kirmani, an important Ismaili Muslim scholar and writer in the fields of philosophy and science who lived during the first half of the 11th century AD. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Yeşim Arat
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791483169

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Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy by Yeşim Arat Pdf

In Turkey, no secular party has approximated the high levels of membership and intense activism of women within the Islamist Refah (Welfare) Party. Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy examines the experiences of these women, who represented an unprecedented phenomenon within Turkish politics. Using in-depth interviews, Yeşim Arat reveals how the women of the party broadened the parameters of democratic participation and challenged preconceived notions of what Islam can entail in a secular democratic polity. The women of the party successfully mobilized large groups of allegedly apolitical women by crossing the boundaries between the social and the political, reaching them through personal networks cultivated in private spaces. The experiences of these women show the contentious relationship between liberal democracy and Islam, where liberalism that prioritizes the individual can transform, coexist, or remain in tension with Islam that prioritizes a communal identity legitimized by a sacred God.

Author : Niyazi Berkes
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Islam and state
ISBN : 1850653496

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The Development of Secularism in Turkey by Niyazi Berkes Pdf

Examining the transformation of Turkey from a traditional to a secular state, this text covers such topics as: the economic and political impact of the West; constitutional absolutism; the secularism of the Mesrutiyet; the birth of a nation under fire; and the secularism of the Kemalist regime.

Author : Barry Rubin,Ali Çarkoglu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136875397

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Religion and Politics in Turkey by Barry Rubin,Ali Çarkoglu Pdf

Over the last decade the once marginal extreme right of the Turkish ideological spectrum has grown in size as well as in influence and has effectively reshaped party competition in Turkey. Policy mandates and electoral bases of the rising extreme right rely on potentially explosive social cleavages in the country. One such confrontation is between the secularist and pro-Islamist forces, which has always been one of the centrepieces of modern Turkish politics. The rise of pro-Islamist electoral forces from a marginal to an undeniably imposing position in Turkish electoral politics has led many to worry that a deep-rooted schism has come to the forefront of Turkish politics. The frontline of this secularist vs pro-Islamist confrontation is quite widespread ranging from a debate around the ban of turban and headscarves in universities to religious education in the country, from Islamic principles in the economy to Turkish foreign policy towards the Middle Eastern countries. This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Turkish Studies.

Author : Iren Ozgur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139536929

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Islamic Schools in Modern Turkey by Iren Ozgur Pdf

In recent years, the Islamization of Turkish politics and public life has been the subject of much debate in Turkey and the West. This book makes an important contribution to those debates by focusing on a group of religious schools, known as Imam-Hatip schools, founded a year after the Turkish Republic, in 1924. At the outset, the main purpose of Imam-Hatip schools was to train religious functionaries. However, in the ensuing years, the curriculum, function and social status of the schools have changed dramatically. Through ethnographic and textual analysis, the book explores how Imam-Hatip school education shapes the political socialization of the schools' students, those students' attitudes and behaviours and the political and civic activities of their graduates. By mapping the schools' connections to Islamist politicians and civic leaders, the book sheds light on the significant, yet often overlooked, role that the schools and their communities play in Turkey's Islamization at the high political and grassroots levels.

Author : Ira M. Lapidus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1019 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521514309

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A History of Islamic Societies by Ira M. Lapidus Pdf

"This third edition of Ira M. Lapidus's classic A History of Islamic Societies has been substantially revised to incorporate the insights of new scholarship and updated to include historical developments in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Lapidus's history explores the beginnings and transformations of Islamic civilizations in the Middle East and details Islam's worldwide diffusion to Africa, Spain, Turkey and the Balkans, Central, South and Southeast Asia, and North America, situating Islamic societies within their global, political, and economic contexts. It accounts for the impact of European imperialism on Islamic societies and traces the development of the modern national state system and the simultaneous Islamic revival from the early nineteenth century to the present. This book is essential for readers seeking to understand Muslim peoples."--Publisher information.

Author : M. Hakan Yavuz,John L. Esposito
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815630409

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Turkish Islam and the Secular State by M. Hakan Yavuz,John L. Esposito Pdf

In the first book of its kind, M. Hakan Yavuz and John L. Esposito explore recent reformations of Islam and culture in Turkey and the successful Islamist modernist Fethullah Gülen movement. As one of the most significant religious movements to emerge in Turkey in the past fifty years, the Gülen movement combines a devotion to Islam with love for modern learning. especially modern science. This groundbreaking work focuses on and explains the nexus of complex historical and political developments that have contributed to the transformation of Islam in Tukey and to the movement's sphere of influence stretching into the Balkans and central Asia through the establishment of schools outside Turkey. The book cogently traces the origin of Gülen's ideology and his early efforts to propagate his views through educational activities. It details the various strategies employed by Gülen's followers to put his ideas into practice, both in Turkey and around the world. Contributors describe its intellectual and religious formation, its spread across Turkey and Central Asia, and its influence on citizens outside the movement, including leading Turkish politicians.

Author : Ghazi-Walid Falah,Caroline Rose Nagel
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 1572301341

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Geographies of Muslim Women by Ghazi-Walid Falah,Caroline Rose Nagel Pdf

This groundbreaking volume explores how Islamic discourse and practice intersect with gender relations and broader political and economic processes to shape women's geographies in a variety of regional contexts. Contributors represent a wide range of disciplinary subfields and perspectives--cultural geography, political geography, development studies, migration studies, and historical geography--yet they share a common focus on bringing issues of space and place to the forefront of analyses of Muslim women's experiences. Themes addressed include the intersections of gender, development and religion; mobility and migration; and discourse, representation, and the contestation of space. In the process, the book challenges many stereotypes and assumptions about the category of "Muslim woman," so often invoked in public debate in both traditional societies and the West.

Author : Artun Avcı,Onver Cetrez,Asli Kotaman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527509788

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Neo-Islamic Culture’s Influence on Recent Turkish Media by Artun Avcı,Onver Cetrez,Asli Kotaman Pdf

The volume looks at the relation between contemporary Turkish film and television discourses and religion, in relation to the traditions and rituals of Islam, the representation of Muslim women, and subsequent changes in narratives and characters. It employs differing approaches to the relationships between media and religion, concentrating on how religion has started to shape the politics of film in new cinema practices in Turkey. As such, the book represents a comprehensive resource on recent Turkish cinema and TV – a milestone at a time when numerous disciplines have shown an increasing interest in the emerging new Islamic popular culture. It will appeal to those who are interested in Turkey’s opinion about itself, scholars who work in film studies, media studies, religious studies, gender studies and the political sciences, as well as anyone with an interest in Middle Eastern studies and media.

Author : Matthew Cleary and Rebecca Glazier,Abdelaziz Berghout,Muhammad Mumtaz Ali,D. Jason Berggren,Eren Tatari,Steven Salaita,Ronald Lukens-Bull,Bridget Blomfield,Mandy Terc,Timothy P. Daniels,Muhammad M. Haque,Isa Blumi,Alexandra Izabela Jérôme,Mohamad Khan,Asma Barlas,Kaleem Hussain,Lisa Helps,M. A. Muqtedar Khan,Qamar-ul Huda
Publisher : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 24:2 by Matthew Cleary and Rebecca Glazier,Abdelaziz Berghout,Muhammad Mumtaz Ali,D. Jason Berggren,Eren Tatari,Steven Salaita,Ronald Lukens-Bull,Bridget Blomfield,Mandy Terc,Timothy P. Daniels,Muhammad M. Haque,Isa Blumi,Alexandra Izabela Jérôme,Mohamad Khan,Asma Barlas,Kaleem Hussain,Lisa Helps,M. A. Muqtedar Khan,Qamar-ul Huda Pdf

The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS) is a double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal that publishes a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world: anthropology, economics, history, philosophy and meta-physics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam. Submissions are subject to a blind peer review process.

Author : M. Hakan Yavuz,Assistant Professor Department of Political Science M Hakan Yavuz
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195160857

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Islamic Political Identity in Turkey by M. Hakan Yavuz,Assistant Professor Department of Political Science M Hakan Yavuz Pdf

In November of 2002, the Justice and Development Party swept to victory in the Turkish parliamentary elections. Because of the party's Islamic roots, its electoral triumph has sparked a host of questions both in Turkey and in the West: Does the party harbor a secret Islamist agenda? Will the new government seek to overturn nearly a century of secularization stemming from Kemal Ataturk's early-twentieth-century reforms? Most fundamentally, is Islam compatible with democracy?In this penetrating work, M. Hakan Yavuz seeks to answer these questions, and to provide a comprehensive analysis of Islamic political identity in Turkey. He begins in the early twentieth century, when Kemal Ataturk led Turkey through a process of rapid secularization and crushed Islamic opposition to his authoritarian rule. Yavuz argues that, since Ataturk's death in 1938, however, Turkey has been gradually moving away from his militant secularism and experiencing "a quiet Muslim reformation." Islamic political identity is not homogeneous, says Yavuz, but can be modern and progressive as well as conservative and potentially authoritarian. While the West has traditionally seen Kemalism as an engine for reform against "reactionary" political Islam, in fact the Kemalist establishment has traditionally used the "Islamic threat" as an excuse to avoid democratization and thus hold on to power. Yavuz offers an account of the "soft coup" of 1997, in which the Kemalist military-bureaucratic establishment overthrew the democratically elected coalition government, which was led by the pro-Islamic Refah party. He argues that the soft coup plunged Turkey into a renewed legitimacy crisis which can only be resolved by the liberalization of the political system. The book ends with a discussion of the most recent election and its implications for Turkey and the Muslim world.Yavuz argues that Islamic social movements can be important agents for promoting a democratic and pluralistic society, and that the Turkish example holds long term promise for the rest of the Muslim world. Based on extensive fieldwork and interviews, this work offers a sophisticated new understanding of the role of political Islam in one of the world's most strategically important countries.

Author : Kim Shively
Publisher : New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474440150

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Islam in Modern Turkey by Kim Shively Pdf

This book provides a survey of Islam in Turkey since the founding of the modern republic in 1923. It examines the secularising policies of Turkey's founders and how these policies have shaped the development of religious institutions and social expectations around religious practice up to the present day. A special emphasis is on the relationship between religion and politics, with chapters focusing on state-based religious institutions, religious education, Sufi orders and religious communities, Alevism, Islamic-oriented political parties, and the effects of economic liberalization on the practice of Islam in Turkey. Readers will also learn about the political and social developments that contributed to the rise of the current Islamist government of the Justice and Development Party. In this way, Islam in Turkey provides vital historical context for understanding both the rise of the controversial President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and current events in Turkey and the Middle East more broadly.