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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780114803321

Autore

Karpat Kemal H

Titolo

The politicization of Islam : reconstructing identity, state, faith, and community in the late Ottoman state / / Kemal H. Karpat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-19-771539-7

1-280-47353-3

0-19-535049-9

1-4337-0022-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (544 pages)

Collana

Studies in Middle Eastern history

Disciplina

320.54/09561/09034

Soggetti

Islam and state - Turkey

Panislamism

Turkey History 1878-1909

Turkey History Mehmed V, 1909-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-508) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Note on Pronunciation; Introduction; 1 Islamic Revivalism: Popular Roots of Islamism (Pan-Islamism); 2 The Precursors of Pan-Islamism: Peripheral Islam and the Caliphal Center; 3 Russia, Islam, and Modernism: The Legacy of the Past; 4 The New Middle Classes and the Naksbandia; 5 Knowledge, Press, and the Popularization of Islamism; 6 The War of 1877-1878 and Diverging Perceptions of Islam and Europe; 7 The Making of a Modern Muslim Ruler: Abdulhamid II; 8 The Sultan's Advisers and the Integration of Arabs and Immigrants; 9 Ottoman-European Relations and Islamism

10 Continuity of Form, Change in Substance: Dynasty, State, and Islamism; 11 The Harameyin, the Caliphate, and the British Search for an Arab Caliph; 12 The Caliphate and Ottoman Foreign Policy in Africa; 13 Formation of Modern Nationhood: Turkism and Pan-Islamism in Russia and the Ottoman Empire; 14 The Reconstruction of State, Community-Nation, and Identity; 15 Ottomanism, Fatherland, and the "Turkishness" of the State; 16 Turkishness of the Community: From Religious to Ethnic-National Identity; 17 The Turkist Thinkers: Ziya



Gökalp, Yusuf Akçura, Fuat Köprülü; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyzes the transformation of the Ottoman Empire over the 19th and 20th centuries. It focuses on Muslim revivalist-fundamentalist movements which were contained by the Ottoman government's Islamist ideology and whose ideas fuelled a new kind of nationalist-religious ideology.