Muslims in Modern Turkey by Sena Karasipahi
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 East? Muslims in Modern Turkey is the first book to analyse 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, Ysmet Ozel, Ylhan Kutluer, Ersin Nazif Gurdooan 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.
'An outstanding study of secularism in Turkey since World War II' - Professor Erik JZurcher, Chair of Turkish Studies, University of Leiden and Director, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam ' a fine analysis of Turkey's re-sacralisation' Fuad Ali, The Muslim World Book Review 'a crucial contribution to an understanding of contemporary Islamic political thinking.' Alarab Online 'an important contribution' Journal of Islamic Studies
Sena Karasipahi is Assistant Professor in the International Studies Department at Texas A&M University. She received her Ph.D. from the Turkish Studies Department at the University of Leiden.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780767703 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780767706 |
| Title | Muslims in Modern Turkey |
| Author | Sena Karasipahi |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2014-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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