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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452569103321

Autore

Findley Carter V. <1941->

Titolo

Turkey, Islam, nationalism, and modernity [[electronic resource] ] : a history, 1789-2007 / / Carter Vaughn Findley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-300-15262-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 p.)

Disciplina

956.1

Soggetti

Nationalism - Turkey - History - 19th century

Nationalism - Turkey - History - 20th century

Secularism - Turkey - History - 19th century

Secularism - Turkey - History - 20th century

Islam and state - Turkey - History - 19th century

Islam and state - Turkey - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Turkey History 19th century

Turkey History 20th century

Turkey Politics and government 19th century

Turkey Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-487) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The return toward centralization -- The Tanzimat -- The reign of Abdülhamid -- Imperial demise, national struggle -- The early republic -- Turkey's widening political spectrum -- Turkey and the world.

Sommario/riassunto

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 Gülen. Powerful under the empire, Islamic conservatives did not regain control of government until the 1980's. 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.