Enduring Hold of Islam in Turkey (eBook)

The Revival of the Religious Orders and Rise of Erdogan

David S. Tonge (Autor)

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2024
Hurst Publishers (Verlag)
9781805263401 (ISBN)

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This is the first account in English of how Islamic religious orders dating back to Ottoman times have risen to dominate and define the future of Turkey, Europes awkward neighbour and the major power in the Eastern Mediterranean.Given its determined programme of secularising the people both under and after the Atatrk regime, Turkey is often projected as a model for the compatibility of Islam with parliamentary democracy. In this absorbing book, journalist and writer David S. Tonge reveals the limitations of that secularisation, and its progressive reversal, in what continues to be a profoundly religious country. He describes how Muslim Turks religious identity has been taken over by branches of one of Islams great religious orders, the Naqshbandis, whose profoundly anti-Western ethos was honed by British and French colonial incursions into the heartland of their faith.Tonges history offers a salutary alternative to the wishful narrative developed by Western chancelleries during the Cold War, one which viewed Turkey as a westernising democracy. The revival of both Turkish nationalism and Islam helped President Erdoans rise to power, and will shape the regime that succeeds himilluminating and understanding Turkeys realities of faith and religious politics has never been more important.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.9.2024
• Zusatzinfo: b&w
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Schlagworte: Turkey, Ottoman, Islamic history, Erdogan, Nationalism, Muslim, Islam
• ISBN-13: 9781805263401 / 9781805263401