BOOKS - Islam in Modern Turkey (The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys)
Islam in Modern Turkey (The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys) - Kim Shively February 16, 2021 PDF  BOOKS
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Islam in Modern Turkey (The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys)
Author: Kim Shively
Year: February 16, 2021
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 12 MB
Language: English

This book provides a survey of Islam in Turkey since the founding of the modern republic in 1923. It examines the secularising policies of Turkey's founders and how these policies have shaped the development of religious institutions and social expectations around religious practice up to the present day. A special emphasis is on the relationship between religion and politics, with chapters focusing on state-based religious institutions, religious education, Sufi orders and religious communities, Alevism, Islamic-oriented political parties, and the effects of economic liberalization on the practice of Islam in Turkey. Readers will also learn about the political and social developments that contributed to the rise of the current Islamist government of the Justice and Development Party. In this way, Islam in Turkey provides vital historical context for understanding both the rise of the controversial President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and current events in Turkey and the Middle East more broadly.

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