Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History, 1789-2007

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 Glen. Powerful under the empire, Islamic conservatives did not regain control of government until the 1980s. By then they, too, had their own influential media.

Product Info

ISBN: 0300152604

ISBN-13: 9780300152609

Publisher: Yale University Press

Year: 2010

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

Seller Info

RemnantBooks

Address: P.O. Box 862 Powhatan, Virginia

Website: https://www.remnantbooks.org

Country: United States