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Author Findley, Carter V., 1941- author.

Title Turkey, Islam, nationalism, and modernity : a history, 1789-2007 / Carter Vaughn Findley
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 527 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
Contents Maps and illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Not on usage -- Introduction -- Return toward centralization -- Tanzimat -- Reign of Abdulhamid -- Imperial demise, national struggle -- Early republic -- Turkey's widening political spectrum -- Turkey and the world -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations used in the notes and bibliography -- Notes -- Bibliography of published sources -- Index
Summary Book Description: Publication Date: August 30, 2011. "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 streams, 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 Gulen. Powerful under the empire, Islamic conservatives did not regain control of government until the 1980s. 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-487) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject 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
HISTORY -- General.
Islam and state
Nationalism
Politics and government
Secularism
SUBJECT Turkey -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138821
Turkey -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138829
Turkey -- Politics and government -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138843
Turkey -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Subject Turkey
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010013169
ISBN 9780300152623
0300152620