By Sena Karasipahi
ISBN-10: 1845117832
ISBN-13: 9781845117832
Sleek Turkey is the location of a strong Islamic revival, with a robust highbrow elite devoted to the overthrow of secular modernism. Why have smooth Muslim intellectuals became opposed to the beliefs of Kemalism on which the trendy Turkish geographical region is based? What does this demonstrate in regards to the way forward for Turkey? And how are Islamic intellectuals in Turkey plagued by advancements within the center East?Muslims in glossy Turkey is the 1st publication to investigate this phenomenon, tracing the evolution of Muslim highbrow concept from the Nineteen Eighties to the current day. It specializes in six best Muslim thinkers--Ali Bulac, Rasim Ozdenoren, Ismet Ozel, Ilhan Kutluer, Ersin Nazif Gurdogan and Abdurrahman Dilipak--who belong to a unmarried university and percentage a unique knowing of Islam. They act as public intellectuals, who goal to reform and enlighten society through teaching them and elevating their know-how of Islamic values, arguing no longer for the compatibility of Islam and eu values however the primary superiority of Islam over secular democracy. Sena Karasipahi locations the Turkish adventure in its broader overseas context and indicates how Turkish Islamic intellectuals are plagued by the sooner Muslim intellectuals and revivalists within the Arab global and in Turkey. This very important examine makes connections with the Islamic revival method during the modern heart East in addition to with related events in Turkey’s personal earlier, making this an important contribution to an figuring out of latest Islamic political pondering.
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66 In fact, the Ottoman and Turkish intellectuals between 1860– 1960 are state-oriented and bureaucratic in nature that sets them apart from the West. However from mid-1960s onwards real leftist and Marxist intellectuals emerged, who contested Kemalist ideology. Nevertheless they spoke a different language and hence it was a debate within the elite. So there was not large public support. 69 Moreover, we can observe the occurrence of a ‘technological intelligentsia’70 as a result of the advance of capitalism during the 1960s and thereafter.
Whereas modernity entails a revolt against all that is traditional, on the basis of instrumental and secular values, its antithesis (whether called ‘postmodernism’ or something else) suggests a further revolt yet involving multiple local struggles in a world no longer dominated by all-encompassing belief systems. 26 Alvin Gouldner identified this new type of intellectuals as the ‘New Class’, which is characterized with its unique ‘language behaviour’ and ‘culture of critical discourse’:27 The New Class is a new class: it is neither identical to the old working class nor to the old moneyed class; while sharing elements of both, it also has characteristics possessed by neither.
What kinds of media do the intellectuals use? 40 INTELLECTUALS AND THEIR DISCOURSES Subsequently, I will give an historical account of the Turkish intellectuals’ evolution, followed by the presentation of biographies of the leading Muslim intellectuals in contemporary Turkey. Then, I will investigate the worldviews and arguments of Islamist intellectuals with reference to their understanding and interpretations of both secular and religious issues. Special emphasis will be given to their ideas and critiques on secular values, which are offsprings of modernity, such as democracy, laicism and secularism, human rights, capitalism, Marxism, liberalism, civil societies and technology.
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