dc.contributor.advisor | Heper, Metin | |
dc.contributor.author | Şişman, Özlem | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-08T20:19:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-01-08T20:19:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11693/18485 | |
dc.description | Ankara : The Department of Political Science, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2013. | en_US |
dc.description | Thesis (Ph. D.) -- Bilkent University, 2013. | en_US |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references leaves 254-275. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The rise of the JDP to power in Turkey in 2002 marked a beginning of a new era
in Turkey and Islamic world, in terms of enduring debate between Islam and
Democracy and that of Islam and Capitalism. One of the significant outcomes of
this politico-economic development was emergence of a neo-Islamic bourgeoisie
in modern Turkey. The aim of my dissertation is to contextualize rise of this neo-
Islamic bourgeoisie class against the backdrop of conflict and cooperation
between Islam and Capitalism in general; and political, intellectual and economic
transformations of Islamist actors over the last three decades in Turkey, in
particular.
As a case study, I will examine vision, mission and activities of a nongovernmental
Islamic business organization, İGİAD i (Financial Business Ethics
Foundation/İktisadi Girişim ve İş Ahlakı Derneği), which was an offshoot of
MÜSİAD (The Independent Industrialists‘ and Businessmen‘s Association/
Müstakil İşadamları Derneği). The reason I chose to work on İGİAD is twofold:
a) the organization has never been studied from and academic point of view; and b) it is an Islamic business organization which makes the most self-conscious
effort to reconcile capitalist business principles and Islamic ethical values.
Based on my research, I argue that neo-Islamic class found an ―opportunity
space‖ in a Weberian sense, in the last three decades in the Turkish economypolitical
context, and emerged as a result of an ongoing negotiation between selfperception
of their Islamic identity and capitalism. Overcoming the challenges,
and decreasing the ‗discursive tension‘ between Islam and capitalism, in this
process, these Islamic actors defined and redefined Islam, secularism, capitalism,
investment, banking, consumption, and luxury in such a way that both Islam and
capitalism were considered flexible enough to accommodate each other. At the
end of the process, they emerged as ―reluctant capitalists‖.
Methodologically speaking, my dissertation will integrate my analysis of
secondary and primary sources that I have been examining at Bilkent and
Harvard libraries last three years; of Islamic media (newspapers, journals, TV
channels) products; and more importantly in-depth interviews with members of
neo-Islamic bourgeoisie class in Turkey, mostly with the members İGİAD. | en_US |
dc.description.statementofresponsibility | Şişman, Özlem | en_US |
dc.format.extent | xii, 275 leaves | en_US |
dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |
dc.subject | Muslim bourgeoisie | en_US |
dc.subject | Islam | en_US |
dc.subject | Capitalism | en_US |
dc.subject.lcc | BP173.75 .S57 2013 | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Islam and economics. | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Economics--religious aspects--Islam. | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Islam and state--Turkey. | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Capitalism--Religious aspects--Islam--Turkey. | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Middle class--Turkey--Political activity. | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Businesspeople--Turkey--Political activity. | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Business and politics--Turkey. | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Trade associaitions--Turkey. | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Pressure groups--Turkey. | en_US |
dc.title | Reluctant capitalists : the rise of neo-Islamic bourgeoisie in Turkey | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | Mütereddid kapitalistler : Türkiye‘de yeni islami
burjuvazinin yükselişi | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.department | Department of Political Science and Public Administration | en_US |
dc.publisher | Bilkent University | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
dc.identifier.itemid | B135566 | |
dc.embargo.release | 2017-06-25 | |