Muslims in Modern Turkey: Kemalism, Modernism and the Revolt of the Islamic Intellectuals
Publishing Details
Muslims in Modern Turkey: Kemalism, Modernism and the Revolt of the Islamic Intellectuals
By (Author) Sena Karasipahi
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
I.B. Tauris
28th February 2014
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Social groups: religious groups and communities
305.55208829709561
Physical Properties
256
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
363g
Description
Modern Turkey is the site of a powerful Islamic revival, with a strong intellectual elite dedicated to the overthrow of secular modernism. Why have modern Muslim intellectuals turned against the ideals of Kemalism on which the modern Turkish nation-state is founded What does this reveal about the future of Turkey And how are Islamic intellectuals in Turkey affected by developments in the Middle EastMuslims in Modern Turkey is the first book to analyze this phenomenon, tracing the evolution of Muslim intellectual thought from the 1980s to the present day. It focuses on six leading Muslim thinkers - Ali Bulac, Rasim Ozdenoren, Ismet Ozel, Ilhan Kutluer, Ersin Nazif Gurdogan and Abdurrahman Dilipak - who belong to a single school and share a novel understanding of Islam.They act as public intellectuals, who aim to reform and enlighten society by educating them and raising their awareness of Islamic values, arguing not for the compatibility of Islam and European values but the fundamental superiority of Islam over secular democracy. Sena Karasipahi places the Turkish experience in its broader international context and shows how Turkish Islamic intellectuals are affected by the earlier Muslim intellectuals and revivalists in the Arab world and in Turkey. This important study makes connections with the Islamic revival process throughout the contemporary Middle East as well as with comparable movements in Turkey's own past, making this a crucial contribution to an understanding of contemporary Islamic political thinking.
Reviews
'An outstanding study of secularism in Turkey since World War II' - Professor Erik J. Zurcher, Chair of Turkish Studies, University of Leiden and Director, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Author Bio
Sena Karasipahi is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Texas A & M University, USA. She received her PhD from the Turkish Studies department at the University of Leiden.
