Nation-Building and Turkish Modernization

Islam, Islamism, and Nationalism in Turkey

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvRasim Özgür Dönmez,Ali Yaman,Rasim Ozgur Donmez,Rasim Özgür Dönmez

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This book evaluates the Turkish nation-building process from the Ottoman Empire to today, considering the role of Islam in this process. It gives insight into what has changed and not changed in this process. The book explains to readers that the Islamisation of the country is not a coincidence. Rather, Islamism has been grown symbiotically with the secular Republican regime through the organizational power of Islamic sects and with the assistance of the West. How we live as a nation today is not a revolution of Islamists, as some scholars have remarked. Rather, it is a continuation of the Turkish nation-building process with further Islamisation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-04-15
Mått159 x 231 x 27 mm
Vikt603 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor276
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498579391

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AcknowledgementIntroductionChapter 1: The Relationship between Nation-Building, Islam, and Islamism in Turkey, Rasim Özgür DönmezChapter 2: Religion in the Dialectic of Turkish Nation-Building and the Case of Justice and Development Party, Büke KoyuncuChapter 3: Nation-Building and the Religion-State Relations in Turkey: The Presidency of Religious Affairs, Ali YamanChapter 4: Laiklik and Nation-Building: How State-Religion-Society Relations Changed in Turkey under the Justice and the Development Party, Edgar SarChapter 5: Nation-Building and Gender Regime in Turkey, Senem Kurt TopuzChapter 6: Why Afet Inan Had to Measure Skulls, Béatrice HendrichChapter 7: Towards an Islamic Patriarchal Society in Turkey?: Changing Gender Roles in the Secondary School Social Studies Textbooks, Gül Arikan AkdagChapter 8: (Re)Construction of Turkish National Identity in Urban Space: Transformation Ofistanbul’s Panorama Under Jdp Rule, Seren Selvi KorkmazConclusionAbout the authors

This welcome volume alerts to the presence of nation-building in contemporary Turkey that it juxtaposes to earlier Kemalist nation-building practices. With historical, contemporary, and comparative perspectives, the individual chapters make for a particular dense description of the ways in which the AKP under the leadership of Tayyip Erdogan has embarked on a remaking of Turkish state and society along the lines of newly interpreted Ottoman and Islamic pasts. Emerging “New Turkey” entails not only changes in the structure and function of the political system, but a remaking of memories, discourses, bodies, and spaces. The resulting complex picture provides for ample new comparisons with other countries that have recently undergone overhauls of their political systems and cultures and that have likewise embarked on renewed nation-building. It thus, more fundamentally, points to the continued presence of nationalism in the contemporary world.