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By Amit Bein

ISBN-10: 0804773114

ISBN-13: 9780804773119

To raised comprehend the varied inheritance of Islamic hobbies in present-day Turkey, we needs to take a better examine the spiritual institution, the ulema, throughout the first 1/2 the 20 th century. in the course of the last years of the Ottoman Empire and the early a long time of the Republic of Turkey, the unfold of secularist and anti-religious rules had an important impression at the perspectives and political leanings of the ulema. This e-book explores the highbrow debates and political hobbies of the spiritual institution in this time.Bein unearths how competing visions of improvement encouraged debates approximately reforms in non secular schooling and the modernization of the medreses. He additionally explores the reactions and altering attitudes of Islamic intellectuals to the spiritual rules of the secular republic, and gives a greater knowing of the alterations within the courting among faith and kingdom. Exposing department in the spiritual institution, this ebook illuminates the ulema's long-lasting legacies nonetheless in facts in Turkey at the present time.

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They even accused their conservative peers of indirectly strengthening the hand of the enemies of religion and the ulema because their opposition to comprehensive reforms appeared to justify the stigma of backwardness and obscurantism attached to the religious establishment. As a new stalemate appeared to set i n , they therefore resolved to increase the pressure for reforms by opening the pages of reform-minded periodicals to new actors who had been all but completely silenced since 1909: the medrese students.

The fate of medrese education after the Young Turk Revolution was thus influenced by contrasting visions of reform w i t h i n the religious establishment, and in turn helped shape changing perceptions of the " r e f o r m " agenda. I n chapter Four we turn to a discussion of the remaking of medrese education after the Young Turk Revolution, the outcome of the comprehensive changes, and their long-term legacies under the republic. C H A P T E R F O U R The Remaking and Unmaking of Religious Education • Assessments of medrese education have frequently been employed as a yardstick to measure the merits and shortcomings of the late Ottoman ulema.

At any rate, in Istanbul they were the most detailed and comprehensive reform initiatives of that time. They helped elevate the public profile of the sub­ ject and served as a potential template for comprehensive changes in me­ drese education. The prolonged public discussion of the previous years helped galvanize support for the reform project both w i t h i n and without the religious establishment. The actual implementation of reforms had to await more opportune political circumstances than the destabilizing internal crises and disastrous international wars in which the Ottoman Empire became entangled from late 19 r i through early 1913.

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