The Veiling Issue Official Secularism And Popular Islam In Modern Turkey
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| Author | : Elisabeth Ozdalga |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 120 |
| Release | : 2013-01-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1136108742 |
In the Turkish elections of December 1995, the Islamic Welfare Party became the biggest Party in parliament and for the first time in history, an Islamic party had come to power by means of free elections. The rise to power of the Turkish Islamists is a result of several decades of revivalism. In this process the veil has been a prominent symbol of the new religious puritanism, causing resentment among those who regard the bare-headed woman as the symbol of progress and emancipation. In the light of a century-long conflict between secularism and popular Islam, the present study describes the conflict over the veil as it became a burning issue in the decade following the military intervention of 1980 and remains to this day a matter of controversy. While focusing on the issue of veiling, the author also considers the wider picture of tension between official secularism and popular Islam in present-day Turkey. Although this tension is not discounted, the author argues that the fact that the Islamic movement is on the rise does not mean that it threatens the very foundations of modern Turkish society. Whereas the controversies of the nineteenth century could be described as a 'clash of civilizations' (between Islam and the West), those of today have shrunk into conflicts over certain cultural symbols that are part of the same globally-expanding technological civilization.
| Author | : Elisabeth Özdalga |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 105 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Costume |
| ISBN | : 9788787062602 |
| Author | : Elisabeth Ozdalga |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 121 |
| Release | : 2013-01-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1136108823 |
In the Turkish elections of December 1995, the Islamic Welfare Party became the biggest Party in parliament and for the first time in history, an Islamic party had come to power by means of free elections. The rise to power of the Turkish Islamists is a result of several decades of revivalism. In this process the veil has been a prominent symbol of the new religious puritanism, causing resentment among those who regard the bare-headed woman as the symbol of progress and emancipation. In the light of a century-long conflict between secularism and popular Islam, the present study describes the conflict over the veil as it became a burning issue in the decade following the military intervention of 1980 and remains to this day a matter of controversy. While focusing on the issue of veiling, the author also considers the wider picture of tension between official secularism and popular Islam in present-day Turkey. Although this tension is not discounted, the author argues that the fact that the Islamic movement is on the rise does not mean that it threatens the very foundations of modern Turkish society. Whereas the controversies of the nineteenth century could be described as a 'clash of civilizations' (between Islam and the West), those of today have shrunk into conflicts over certain cultural symbols that are part of the same globally-expanding technological civilization.
| Author | : Emir Kaya |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Islam and politics |
| ISBN | : 9781350987975 |
"The Diyanet, the official face of Islam in Turkey, is the 'Presidency of Religious Affairs', a governmental department established in 1924 after the break-up of the Ottoman Empire and the abolition of Caliphate. In this book, Emir Kaya offers an in-depth multidisciplinary analysis of this vital institution. Focusing on the role of the Diyanet in society, Kaya explores the balance the institution has to strike between the Muslim traditions of the Turkish population and the secular creed of the Turkish state. By examining the various laws that either bolstered or hindered the Diyanet's budgets and activities, Kaya highlights the institutional mindsets of the Diyanet membership. He also evaluates its successes and failures as a state department that must consistently operate within the context of the religiosity of Turkish society. By situating all of this within the two competing - but often complimentary - concepts of religion and secularism, Kaya offers a book that is important for those researching the interplay of Islam and the state in Turkey and beyond."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
| Author | : Niyazi Berkes |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 535 |
| Release | : 1964-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0773594507 |
| Author | : Muhammad Rashid Feroze |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 1976 |
| Genre | : Islam |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Yeşim Arat |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 2012-02-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0791483169 |
In Turkey, no secular party has approximated the high levels of membership and intense activism of women within the Islamist Refah (Welfare) Party. Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy examines the experiences of these women, who represented an unprecedented phenomenon within Turkish politics. Using in-depth interviews, Yeşim Arat reveals how the women of the party broadened the parameters of democratic participation and challenged preconceived notions of what Islam can entail in a secular democratic polity. The women of the party successfully mobilized large groups of allegedly apolitical women by crossing the boundaries between the social and the political, reaching them through personal networks cultivated in private spaces. The experiences of these women show the contentious relationship between liberal democracy and Islam, where liberalism that prioritizes the individual can transform, coexist, or remain in tension with Islam that prioritizes a communal identity legitimized by a sacred God.
| Author | : Nilüfer Göle |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Design |
| ISBN | : 9780472066308 |
A prominent Turkish sociologist examines the veiling of young university women, and the cultural cleavages between the Islamic and Western worlds
| Author | : Soner Çaǧaptay |
| Publisher | : Routledge Studies in Middle Ea |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780415384582 |
Introduction : Turkish nationalism today -- Ch. 1. From the Muslim millet to the Turkish nation : the Ottoman Legacy -- Ch. 2. Secularism, Kemalist nationalism, Turkishness, and the minorities in the 1920s -- Ch. 3. Kemalism par excellence in the 1930s : the rise of Turkish nationalism -- Chapter 4. Who is a Turk? : Kemalist citizenship policies -- Ch. 5. Defining the boundaries of Turkishness : Kemalist immigration and resettlement policies -- Ch. 6. Secularized Islam defines Turkishness : Kurds and other Muslims as Turks -- Ch. 7. Ethno-religious limits of Turkishness : Christians excluded from the nation -- Ch. 8. Jews in the 1930s : Turks or not? -- Conclusion : understanding Turkish nationalism in modern Turkey : the Kemalist legacy. Introduction: Turkish nationalism today -- Ch. 1. FRom the Muslim millet to the Turkish nation, the Ottoman Legacy -- Ch. 2. Secularism, Kemalist nationalism, Turkishness and the minorities in the 1920s -- Ch. 3. Kemalism par excellence in the 1930s, the rise of Turkish nationalism -- Chapter 4. Who is a Turk? Kemalist citizenship policies -- Ch. 5. Defining the boundaries of Turkishness, Kemalist immigration and resettlement policies -- Ch. 6. Secularized Islam defines Turkishness; Kurds and other Muslims as Turks -- Ch. 7. Ethno-religious limits of Turkishness; Christians excluded from the nation -- Ch. 8. Jews in the 1930s; Turks or not? -- Conclusion: Understanding Turkish nationalism in modern Turkey; the Kemalist legacy.
| Author | : Barry Rubin |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2013-09-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1136875328 |
Over the last decade the once marginal extreme right of the Turkish ideological spectrum has grown in size as well as in influence and has effectively reshaped party competition in Turkey. Policy mandates and electoral bases of the rising extreme right rely on potentially explosive social cleavages in the country. One such confrontation is between the secularist and pro-Islamist forces, which has always been one of the centrepieces of modern Turkish politics. The rise of pro-Islamist electoral forces from a marginal to an undeniably imposing position in Turkish electoral politics has led many to worry that a deep-rooted schism has come to the forefront of Turkish politics. The frontline of this secularist vs pro-Islamist confrontation is quite widespread ranging from a debate around the ban of turban and headscarves in universities to religious education in the country, from Islamic principles in the economy to Turkish foreign policy towards the Middle Eastern countries. This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Turkish Studies.
