Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History - Softcover

Findley, Carter Vaughn

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9780300152616: Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History

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ISBN 10: 0300152612 ISBN 13: 9780300152616

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2011

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Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity reveals the historical dynamics propelling two centuries of Ottoman and Turkish history. As mounting threats to imperial survival necessitated dynamic responses, ethnolinguistic and religious identities inspired alternative strategies for engaging with modernity. A radical, secularizing current of change competed with a conservative, Islamically committed current. Crises sharpened the differentiation of the two currents, forcing choices between them. The radical current began with the formation of reformist governmental elites and expanded with the advent of "print capitalism," symbolized by the privately owned, Ottoman-language newspapers. The radicals engineered the 1908 Young Turk revolution, ruled empire and republic until 1950, made secularism a lasting "belief system," and still retain powerful positions. The conservative current gained impetus from three history-making Islamic renewal movements, those of Mevlana Halid, Said Nursi, and Fethullah Gulen. Powerful under the empire, Islamic conservatives did not regain control of government until the 1980s. By then they, too, had their own influential media. Findley's reassessment of political, economic, social, and cultural history reveals the dialectical interaction between radical and conservative currents of change, which alternately clashed and converged to shape late Ottoman and republican Turkish history.

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[ Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History, 1789-2007 By ( Author ) Aug-2011 Paperback

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"The author has managed to cover more than 200 years of Turkey''s history in considerable detail. This is indeed a significant work and makes an important contribution to the existing literature on the subject."--Sabri Sayari, Sabanci University, Istanbul --Sabri Sayari

"This is a most welcome, lucid, erudite and up-to-date original book which challenges successfully the old stereotyped accounts of the the two century old Ottoman and Turkish endeavors at modernization and presents a true picture of Islam and nationalism in this process of transformation. It should become at once an indispensable reading for everybody eager to understand the unknown dimensions of Turkish modernist saga."--Kemal H. Karpat, University of Wisconsin-Madison--Kemal H. Karpat

"This work is original and convincing in its erudition and is very well and generously documented. The writing is lively, the style accessible."--Virginia Aksan, author of "Ottoman Wars 1700-1870: An Empire Besieged
"--Virginia Aksan

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