Religion and Social Change in Modern Turkey by Serif Mardin

Religion and Social Change in Modern Turkey by Serif Mardin

This book collects Serif Mardin's seminal essays written throughout the span of his prolific career. Comprising some of the author's finest and most incisive writings, these essays deal with the historical background, political travails, and socioeconomic metamorphosis of Turkey during a century of modernization.

With his characteristic sophistication and breadth of vision, Mardin provides readers with a remarkably objective analysis of ideology, civil society, religion, urban life, and violence in late Ottoman and Republican Turkey.

Mardin moves easily from sociological topics on violence and class-consciousness to the history of the Ottoman Empire, and the philosophy and culture of modern Turkey within the greater Middle East. These influential pieces--collected for the first time in one volume--represent an invaluable addition to the field of Middle East studies.

"In terms of both content and treatment, Mardin's book ranks very high among the few serious books devoted to Islam in modern TurkeyIt is a definite step forward in the understanding of a subject hitherto clouded in propagandistic generalities. Bediüzzaman was the most significant Muslim thinker in twentieth-century Turkey, and the account of his case provided by Mardin is an important contribution of unusual value and sophistication to the current evaluation of religious movements in the modern Islamic world." — Hamid Algar

"This is the best work I have seen on Islam and social change in a decade." — Said Amir Arjomand

"The book offers a sympathetic account of a phenomenon of extreme importance for gaining an insight into modern Islamic movements, not only in Turkey, but also in much of the rest of the Islamic world. It is one of the few serious studies of contemporary Islamic movements." — William C. Chittick

"As the question of religious fundamentalism in Turkey has long been tabu, the author's detailed treatment of its content and context is a real contribution. By carefully placing Said Nursi and his movement in the context of the late Ottoman Empire, the author has widened our understanding of late Ottoman popular culture and intellectual history. Furthermore as his approach is firmly rooted in the sociology of religion his conclusions about a particular Turkish case has applicability to the whole range of fundamentalist movements in the twentieth-century Muslim world." — Bruce Masters

Şerif Mardin is a professor in the Department of Public Administration at Bogazigi University, Istanbul.

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ISBN 13	9780887069963
ISBN 10	0887069967
Title	Religion and Social Change in Modern Turkey
Author	Serif Mardin
Series	Suny Series In Near Eastern Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	1989-07-01
Number of pages	280
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