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Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History Paperback – August 30, 2011

by Carter Vaughn Findley (Author)

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A comprehensive panorama of the religious and secular forces that shaped Ottoman and Turkish history over two centuries

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 currents, 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 Gülen. 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.

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544 pages
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English
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Yale University Press
Publication date

August 30, 2011
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6 x 1.25 x 9 inches
ISBN-10

0300152612
ISBN-13

978-0300152616
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Carter Vaughn Findley is a Humanities Distinguished Professor at Ohio State University and an honorary member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences. His book The Turks in World History won the 2006 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize for Middle Eastern Studies.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press; Illustrated edition (August 30, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300152612
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300152616
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.19 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.25 x 9 inches

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Ernest Haberkern

The Origins of Modern Turkey

Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2012

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Professor Findley outlines the process within the Ottoman Empire that led to modern Turkey. It was a complex process that began long before Mustafa Kemal's seizures of power in 1923. The usual picture of a backward, Muslim empire suddenly transformed by WWI into a modern nation state by one man is countered by the more complex, and interesting, picture presented in this book..

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mark olgun

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Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2013

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this is a great book, I enjoyed every page of it...Especially the section on how Turkey rose from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire under Kemal Ataturk, and the heroics of Turkish women during WWI..

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david sorenson

A solid contribution to the understanding of modern Turkey

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2013

Carter Findley is one of the best scholars of Turkey in the U.S., and this is his masterpiece. Findley understands well how the dynamics of Turkish history formed modern Turkey, and his challenging of the "sick man of Europe" orientalist vision of Turkey is particularly thoughtful. If you have time for only one book to gain a insightful understanding of Turkey to the present, this should be it.

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Rumi Fan

An imperative source for understanding late Ottoman and early Turkish republic history

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2014

This is a very informative and persuasive piece of writing. Findley provides a pretty impressive historical narrative but with all of the elements of social history as well. This is not an easy thing to do. A very brilliant piece of historical writing.

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Great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2020

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Great informative book - used for MA level history to provide a background in the topic. Very useful for someone who had no information on this previously.

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