Turkish islam and national identity

Middle East Report

Volumn , Issue 199, 1996, Pages 10-15

  Zubaida, Sami ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISLAM; NATIONAL IDENTITY; POLITICAL SYSTEM;

TURKEY;

EID: 0030458775     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3012885     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. See Richard Tapper and Nancy Tapper, "'Thank God We're Secular!' Aspects of Fundamentalism in a Turkish Town," in Lionel Caplan, ed., Studies in Religious Fundamentalism (London: Macmillan, 1987), 51-78: and Michael E.Meeker, "Oral culture, media culture, and Islamic resurgence in Turkey," in E. P. Archetti, ed., Exploring the Written: Anthropology and the Multiplicity of Writing (Scandinavian University Press) 31-62.
2. See Richard Tapper and Nancy Tapper, "'Thank God We're Secular!' Aspects of Fundamentalism in a Turkish Town," in Lionel Caplan, ed., Studies in Religious Fundamentalism (London: Macmillan, 1987), 51-78: and Michael E.Meeker, "Oral culture, media culture, and Islamic resurgence in Turkey," in E. P. Archetti, ed., Exploring the Written: Anthropology and the Multiplicity of Writing (Scandinavian University Press) 31-62.
3. Ferhat Kentel, "L'Islam, carrefour des identités sociales et culturelles en Turquie: Le cas de Parti de la Prospérité," Cahiers d'études sur la Méditeranée Orientale et le monde turcoiranien (CEMOTI) 19 (Jan-Juin 1995), 211-227.
4. Ibid., 218.
5. This episode was widely reported, in particular in Cumhuriyet April 20, 1994, and Turkish Daily News, April 28, 1994.
6. This episode was widely reported, in particular in Cumhuriyet April 20, 1994, and Turkish Daily News, April 28, 1994.
7. Turkish Daily News, May 3, 1994, quoting Cumhuriyet.
8. Turkish Daily News, May 3, 1994, quoting Cumhuriyet.
9. Strictly speaking this is not a Sufi order. Members of the Nurcu movement are the followers of Said Nursi (1873-1960) who maintained a Muslim opposition to Kemalist secular reforms and developed novel modern ideas of Islam. See Serif Mardin, Religion and Social Change in Modern Turkey: The Case of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (New York: State University of New York Press, 1989).
10. Rusen Çakir, Ayet ve Slogan: Turkiye'de Islami Olusumlar (Istanbul: Metis, 1990/93).
11. Foundations are, of course, a feature of all Muslim societies. Modern governments in many countries, including Turkey, took over the administration of awqaf, and incorporated them usually into ministries of religious affairs.
12. This account of vakiflar is drawn from Faruk Bilici, "Sociabilité et expression politique islamistes en Turquie: Les nouveaux vakifs," Revue francaise de science politique 43:3 (June 1993), 412-434.
13. Ibid., 425.
14. They include Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer, Barrington Moore, Deleuze, Lyotard, Illich, as well as modern Iranian and Arab Islamists, including Shari'ati and Al-Ahmand. Ali Bulaç, Din ve Modernizm (Istanbul: Beyan, 1992).
15. For accounts of these intellectuals and their ideas, see: Michael E. Meeker, "The New Muslim Intellectuals in the Republic of Turkey," in Richard Tapper, ed., Islam in Modern Turkey (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1991), and Binnaz Toprak, "Islamist Intellectuals: Revolt against Industry and Technology" in M. Heper, A. Oncu and H. Kramer, eds., Turkey and the West: Changing Political and Cultural Identities (London: I.B.Tauris, 1993).
16. For accounts of these intellectuals and their ideas, see: Michael E. Meeker, "The New Muslim Intellectuals in the Republic of Turkey," in Richard Tapper, ed., Islam in Modern Turkey (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1991), and Binnaz Toprak, "Islamist Intellectuals: Revolt against Industry and Technology" in M. Heper, A. Oncu and H. Kramer, eds., Turkey and the West: Changing Political and Cultural Identities (London: I.B.Tauris, 1993).
17. See Nulifer Göle, "Laicité, modernisme et islamisme en Turquie," CEMOTI 19 (1995.).